Comments by "geemy" (@geemy9675) on "I Hate it But I Love it - Diehard Petrolhead Drives a Tesla for The First Time in His Life" video.

  1. to be fair, in an EV , being logged in and able to plug and charge is a must. just compare it to the house you're going to waste to go to a car dealership and negotiate a fair price, and opt out of all the dumb options they will try to upsell you. creating an account for your car is ok compared to creating accounts for all sorts of dumb things online. keep in mind you can provide an anonymous email if you want and dont even need to enter a real name in a Tesla account. there is actually not much privacy you're giving away. Tesla wants to collect your driving info anonymously but they don't really want your personal info. of course if you opt in for Tesla insurance then you will need actual information and Tesla will watch how you drive.
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  2. @EvenTheDogAgrees  Tesla superchargers are designed for plug and charge. they were designed for Tesla first and creating an account requires: -an email that can be anonymous -a payment method, similarly to paying with your credit card creating an account that lets you plug and charge sounds reasonable, and when they extend Tesla superchargers to other brands, they didnt want to adapt the way the chargers work but instead let people that want to opt in adapt. you may not like it, I think it's fair and I'm much more concerned that it took 12 years to start opening their charging network.
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  3. having a 15 in screen would make sense if you had access to every feature controlled by a button in a traditional car with a single touch on the screen. why should technology make things more complicated? It's ok for driver preferences to be adjusted inside a sub menu and then stored forever like seat/steering wheel/mirrors position or automatic headlights/wipers if they work perfectly and you never need to adjust them but that's not the case
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  4. I think lots of your beeps and car not wanting to slide are related to not being in the appropriate mode. tesla are designed for safety first so if your trying to push it to its limits in default mode it wont even let you get there. Of you want to drive it like that you probably need to put it in track mode and play with front/rear power split. that car wont beep in that mode. if you're not ready to take a little time looking for options the car is not going to give the driving pleasure you're looking for. then there is the problem that a M3P with summer tires with its awd will need a lot lf speed to break traction. this is actually not that different to a. 911 that has loads of grip and will just keep cornering as fast as you want without getting playful intil you take it to insane speeds.I'm not compqring the cars but the amount of grip and how it can get in the way of fun unless you are ready to take it to the limits, Hich can get dangerous on this kind of roads. what you actually want to drive is maybe a M3P with driving aids disabled as much as possible, and slighlty LESS gripy tires to make it more playful ar less insane speeds. the car is not going to beep in track mode and will let you have a pretty good amount of drift angle. its also probably quite different from cars you are used to drive. a bmw m3 xdrive that weighs the same will probably give you the same issues. the biggest difference in terms of how easily it will let you play with rhe car is it it will let you go in sport mode more easily and in a lore traditional way, and disable esp with a couple knobs/buttons. Also with the way most evs report range, you cant just drive calmly in city or highway for 100km read the reported range, then go on a twisty road and trash the car for 10km, reqd the reported range, and deduct that range went down 5-6x as fast, because range will go back up once you start driving it "normally" the range drop is not the range you loat but the projected range loss if you keep driving it the same intil battery is depleted. you should look at battery percentage lost per mile, or look at tesla efficiency graph with accurate Wh/mile or Wh/km. the range meter is just a hint about projected range assuming conditions stay the same. my experience with daily driving a small ev is that wven though trashing the car does impact range, it does way less than it does in a gas car. Also my ev being. a 111hp fiat 500e with small 15in/185 wheels, only 50% weight on the front, and all weather tires, it will spin the tires anytime you apply more than 50% throttle, it'a alao very easy to reach the limit of the grip in corners. plus the fact you can turn the key and floor it right away makes it a very fun car for short drives
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  5. each tesla supercharger uptime is 99.97% (like one day of downtime every 10 years) what is the likelihood you end up on a non functioning charger? what's the probability that that next charger is down too?
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  6. ​ @FairyLiquid69 it's not about profit it's about reliability. tesla superchargers are usually cheaper, alao they are not Tesla only. they are open to any CCS2 fast charging car in Europe and in the process of opening in US with NACS or adapter
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  7. ​ @jmbpinto73 like for many standards that are not universal, they often started as different options before there was a standard and unfortunately, eventually settled for different standards in different regions and then it's too late to change to a universal standard without a major eehaul. this happened in many sectors power grid voltage and frequency, outlets, left/right driving, driving signs, logic would want a single standard but market has its own logic
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  8. ​ @sheldonlamey7010 the roads are definitely in Holland 😂
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