Comments by "" (@Green__one) on "Doug DeMuro"
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SRS Emergency disable: on most vehicles, when you crash first responders disconnect the 12v battery to disable any airbags that haven't yet gone off so as to be able to work safely. In the original roadster, there was no 12v battery, there was only the high voltage battery with a constantly running DC-DC converter. as a result, this emergency disable switch was put in for first responders to be able to disable the airbags without disconnecting a several hundred volt cable.
The noise from the battery "No modern electric vehicle does this", my 2014 model S does...
gear selector: The original roadsters had the 2 speed transmission, the later ones did not as it was found that it provided no benefit, but was a big point of failure with the extremely high torques electric motors put out. Pro tip, any time you hear a company talking about making a multi-speed transmission in an EV, it's proof that they don't have the faintest clue how EVs work, and should be avoided at all costs.
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I've been eyeing this one for a while, all the way through development. I really want to like it, that said, I'm disappointed that the better middle row seats aren't coming to North America, apparently we're not allowed to swivel over here, only slide (I used to have a Mitsubishi delica, and those middle row sliding, swiveling seats were amazing!) But realistically, my next vehicle is going to have a minimum of 300 mile range, and all wheel drive, The EV9 makes you choose between those two, so unfortunately, it's not going to be my pick.
I do like where Hyundai and Kia are going right now though, and I certainly don't hesitate to recommend them to people looking for an EV, just doesn't quite get there for my use case.
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Stick to car reviews Doug, you're lousy with financial planning. Sure, in this particular case the stock market went up. But you had no way of knowing ahead of time which way it would go, nor by how much. Interest rates are to some extent tied to the market. If the bank thought they could make more money reliably in the stock market, they wouldn't be willing to loan you the money at that low an interest rate.
This is exactly the same logic as borrowing to invest, there are people who advocate that too, but it greatly increases your risk, and can cause you to be in a world of trouble if things don't go well. Imagine that you invested the money, lost the money, and then had to make the car payments. Now you have more car than you can afford, and possibly more debt than the car is now worth.
Your safety stats are also greatly exaggerated. Sure new cars are safer, but statistically it's not as much as you seem to make it out to be. Improvements in this area have been incremental, not revolutionary.
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Ford has done a lot right here, overall I really like it. A few little niggles:
1) range, it's "ok", but not exceptional. The big battery version should be the standard, and there should be a bigger one above that.
2) Bluecruise - take one look at the map of roads it works on. Supercruise is useless as a driver assistance feature due to the geofencing, bluecruise has somehow managed to be even more useless by having only half the roads that supercruise does. As long as they insist on geofencing it will never become a useful feature.
Number 1 I could just about live with assuming I got the big battery one, number 2 is a real issue for me. I hate Tesla with an intense passion, but I've been driving on autopilot since 2015, it is really sad that nobody has managed to come even remotely close to that over 5 years later. The first EV that has a decent range and can match 2015 autopilot (I'd even accept the neutered 2021 version even though it's not as good as it was in 2015) will get my business. I'll never buy another Tesla, but I sure hope my Model S survives long enough that someone else releases a decent driver assist package.
And Doug, quit with garbage about how Rivian won't make it to market this year. Nobody credible is saying that. They are the furthest along of any EV pickup with a fully built factory with pre-production vehicles already rolling off the line. Their prototypes have thousands upon thousands of real world public road miles on them. I can't say who will be the most successful truck, but who will be first to market is obvious by now. I don't know why you keep repeating that BS every chance you get, you seem to really not like them, but I have no idea why.
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@RC-fp1tl they very much intentionally lie, see ”full self-driving” they have admitted to regulators that the car cannot, and most importantly, never will be able to, drive by itself without a fully attentive driver behind the wheel. But it's not a one-off either. Review Elon's original presentation at the D event when they showed off autopilot and started taking money for the feature. The cars sold at that time still cannot to this day do even a single one of the things he promised in that presentation.
As for my delivery, I bought from Tesla's pre-owned stock off their website, their store employees didn't know the car I found even existed, and in fact told me such a configuration could not exist. When they finally assumed it did, I was not allowed to see the car, or even pictures of it before purchase having to buy a used car without so much as a description of it's condition. It then took over 3 months for delivery, of a used car sitting on their lot, all of which time there was no communication at all and nobody could tell me where the car was, out when it would be delivered. They also flat out lied to me many times about where it was as I found out later. When it finally did arrive I was given 3 hours notice to pull together the full purchase price and drop everything in the middle of the work day for delivery.
The worst part is that the whole ownership experience has been that way or worse ever since.
Best car ever made. By the slimiest, sleaziest, company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I love my Model S, but I will never buy another Tesla as long as I live.
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@Voltaic Example: $50,000 Model S, $30,000 Model 3 the 300 mile 2012 model S, for that matter Tesla is the only EV manufacturer who's EVs consistently can't meet their EPA rated range, seems they tested them "differently" than everyone else. The original Autopilot cars still not being able to do even a single one of the things claimed at the original reveal event, the Model 3 being several years late, the new roadster being well delayed, the Model S plaid being super delayed, "full self driving" that can't drive itself, and don't even get me started on how they won't honour their warranties, remove features and functionality through mandatory software updates, 85kWh pack only being 81kWh and a whole host of other issues.
Tesla marketing is 100% lies.
I drive a Model S, it's the best car ever built, by the slimiest, sleaziest company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I love my car, but I will never again make the mistake of buying anything from Tesla.
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