Pressing the throttle to brake less is exactly why Iāve never been a fan of one pedal drive. Itās everyone following a dumb Tesla design. Polestarās blended brake is 100% the way to go.
I know thereās OPD fans out there, but if we want adoption of EVs, expecting every random person to simply...
It seems like thereās a lot of motor failures given how reliable electric motors generally are. Iām wondering if their inductive heating tactic (which I assume is to then warm a battery heating circuit?) during charging is way too aggressive and theyāre just needlessly nuking these.
The number of rear end incidents feels like itās taking off. IMO itās not the brake light design, itās that people need to chill out or gtf off their phones while driving. Just dodged one the other day where the car behind me continued to leave almost zero gap at every light, then they were...
This sounds like you potentially had a drive failure, strangely in the front; Iāve heard of some rears failing due to the clutch system that engages the rear motor. My guess is the drive stalk error in your case was only a symptom of a much larger failure, well beyond what is being experienced...
Besides the āwhereās your ___ā is being a tired phrase, you definitely overpaid. Even the GT3, with its real dry sump system in contrast, still follows the normal āpull plug, drain, refillā process.
Nice, our setups are very similar, Iām actually even picking up AT dark wheels shortly. I also have the tire rack but removed it because I havenāt been carrying extra wheels and figured I might just use the truck bed anyway. Iāll have to see how that works out with all the other junk I carry.
Itās under the front passenger seat, which IMO is kind of nuts. I get that design is difficult, but I would have taken less frunk storage and had it up front, assuming easier access than both what gen1 and 2 have.
Iāve definitely torn apart my fair share of cars and despite the inconvenience of...
Iām going to go out on a limb there and say that the trolling wasnāt referring to your shock and amusement at no battery failures in 25 years, but the bit about reaching out to Guinness. Amazingly enough, you added it a second time in this mildly confusing response.
I cant tell whether youāre...
The thing that really gets me is that the 12v isnāt easily user serviceable. Even with sudden failures, itās neither sustainable nor practical to have to get towed.
My Polestar 2 was also this way. Had a sudden 12v failure and it was dead in my garage. Figured Iād try to swap the battery...
Itās been found in other EV that regen isnāt the best for maintaining highway speed. Many people disable OPD so that they can try to use as little power input as possible or lightly coast occasionally instead of quickly cycling between power and regen.
That said, I havenāt used my R1T cruise...
WI is definitely sketchy as far as charging infra goes. I do an annual trip with friends to Road America and have found myself in interesting situations.
One being a very slow L2 charger also offered at a contractor office building. Another was that the electrical wiring in the AirBnB garage we...
Something unfortunate is that EV also happen to get an absurd amount of tech (much of it not even necessary or EV powertrain related) and we see a lot of weird quirks that need to be sorted out. I love the Rivian features but it is surprising that there's no basic cars that just have electric...
Mine hasnāt come back, and because of that, I now have a gen2 that I canāt recall the last time it needed a reset. With the latest update, Iāll see if that remains the case.
I purely think about it in terms of charge time to added driving time: āwhat do I get for a 15, 30 or 45min stop?ā
Personally Iāve felt that graphs donāt really map well to real world road trip experience.
I love the Goodyears. I never notice the road noise, the efficiency is relatively great, and they also look cool. Interested in seeing how they handle the much deeper snow that will hit at some point.
This is true in principle but do you ever actually want/have an insurance policy different than what they ask?
> This is priceless.
Technically it does have a price, which I know you know: "What the cash would have been worth if better spent elsewhere." Personally, I too think it's annoying to...