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Hopefully they get the Taycan battery and charging system. A 105 kwh usable would seriously help and the new porsche charging curve is awesome. (One of the Tacans motors would not be bad either lol).

Dallas. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

FYI the EveryAmp is on sale at Amazon for $18.22 with a coupon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3NRG8YY?m=A1N3N7U6D51TES&ref=clp_pc_a_A1Z7L16ADJNVET

Thanks. I was thinking about taking 69/59 and then over the mountains through Ouachita national forest rather than go around through Dallas and up to OK. A bit slower, but a nicer route and a less traveled road. Will see how the weather shapes up on Sunday.

I am driving from houston to northwest arkansas. The chargers north of Dallas are smaller (8 stalls or less) and spaced pretty far apart. The Denison SC is a pretty critical stop north of Dallas but only has 8 stalls. Otherwise you are relying on a little Francis energy station McAllister or you...

The Thanksgiving weekend will be the first big test of the SC network being open to non-Teslas. In the best of times, stations are jammed during the holidays, but now there will be lots of folks taking up two stalls with RIvians and Fords and GMs etc. I have to take a 550 mile road trip on...

Companies are pretty good at avoiding tariffs. We have seen this play out in Solar over the past six years. Chinese solar companies have relocated production to places like Viet Nam to avoid do an end-run around things. At my own company, I am finalizing a buildout of a manufacturing expansion...

As with all things automotive these days, China is setting the pace and the BYD Shark is rocking the truck market around the world. Toyota (which is a dominant player outside the US with the Hilux) is going to get crushed unless it responds quickly. Ram is increasingly irrelevant. Stellantis is...

As a customer and owner of a Rivian vehicle, this is nothing but great news both near term and long term. As an investor in Rivian (which I am not, ftr), this is also good news though it does underscore the point that Rivian is on pretty shaky financial footing at the moment (no surprise to...

Oh no, no, no., AI Summaries from Gemini, no, just no. I trust Rivian will have a way to turn this off. The last thing I want on navigation is another Google pay-to-play "AI" summary of restaurants and other businesses aimed at pushing me to the places that pay Google. I do not want summaries of...

If this happens (I've posted elsewhere that I do not think it will) then my crystal ball says the following: VW absorbs Rivian at a valuation of ~$5B (50% of today) VW immediately kills off Scout and the new plant in South Carolina and fires the team (which funds the entire Rivian purchase)...

Compass yellow! I’ve done this before. I eventually got killed on resale (~ an extra 10%) because it had been repainted. OTOH it looks great and you will really enjoy it.

Interesting point. Lucid market cap is $6.5B. Maybe GM needs to acquire it... (though smart money says wait another 12-18 months). Lucid's drivetrain tech would be a very useful addition to GM.

From Bloomberg: Volkswagen aims to launch vehicles in 2027 with technology fine tuned by the JV. The companies also aim to develop an all-new software-defined vehicle with more advanced technologies, which they ultimately aim to license to other automakers. The prototype shown to a small group...

Going to be a strong competitor for the Lucid Gravity I think, but not so much for the R1S.

(from 9to5 Mac May 2024): Apple no longer merely wanted to project a copy of iOS onto the infotainment screen; it wanted the iPhone to oversee the mission-critical cluster behind the steering wheel. This stuff was sacrosanct in Detroit. GM’s Wexler says the next-gen CarPlay, which GM learned...

Childish post. I explained what I meant by this above.

The EV tax credit is not going anywhere. It has been threatened too many times to count since the Bush administration put it into place nearly twenty years ago, but it has always stayed intact or expanded. Nothing will happen. The one thing that almost certainly WILL happen is that the IRS...

This is correct, as soon as you say "hey siri" the phone takes over the audio and the mic switches to the Rivian mic. This is also how I do in the Tesla, which has hands-free text integration, but the hey siri is easier. One note: since OS 18.1 Siri has a tendency to respond on screen rather...

FWIW, In looking at some of the articles on this, I found the following related to GM's decision to dump CarPlay (from 9to5 Mac May 2024): Apple no longer merely wanted to project a copy of iOS onto the infotainment screen; it wanted the iPhone to oversee the mission-critical cluster behind...