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They’ve always have been on every car I’ve owned.

And I have the opposite. I’m on the road constantly and my nearest supercharger is 30 miles away, yet they are somehow everywhere I go otherwise. I have enough range to drive by 6 of them in any direction I go though. I’m telling you that the thought you have on EVs is completely backwards...

On a road trip I’ve yet to have a single charger not be immediately off of a highway just like any fuel station though and I’m rarely in very populated areas. That was my biggest surprise.

I'm saying that's what required for the circuit. At what location in the chain is AFCI implemented? This is the first I've heard of it if that's what it's called in the power supply assembly, unless that's what the surge protection is. EVSEs will just dump power to ground if surged. It's why...

I'm pretty sure everyone is just using GFCI because that's what's required by code for EV home charging.

Either way the onboard charger has to make a step up. Unless the process from 240 to 800 generates a lot more heat than 240 to 400, I don't think it's going to matter to owners. The much more efficient process of DC to DC is overshadowed by the fact that it's a lot more expensive to public...

Negligible in the losses for the step up most likely, but any of these cars if CCS will level 2 charge off of a standard J1772 connector. There have been cars in the past that required external charging solutions for A/C, but I don't know of any on the market now and surely not 800V ones.

It shouldn't affect home charging gear costs. The step up at the A/C level would happen from the onboard charger, not the cable connector itself.

I think it might be worth actually having a conversation with people who have road tripped EVs instead of speculation. I've never seen a type of car to have more arm chair quarterbacks than EVs, facts usually being optional.

That's a heck of a buy. I'm not in the market now, but I was watching for them to show up at my local dealer here. I should look again. I wanted to at least check it out when it came out at least for curiosity.

100%. It's also a complete misunderstanding of the use of an EV. I've said multiple times that I wanted an EV before I owned one and always cited range as a problem. It's far from a local only car. I didn't understand it properly before using one. Probably took daily driving it for two...

Regardless of Elon’s actions that’s exactly what should be happening. There’s many more options on the market now. If it didn’t happen, they’d all be flops.

Too many passes given to this camera only system. I've seen at least 10 screw ups in documented videos with RoboTaxi in the last week alone. What constitutes a safety incident? A collision? I saw a video where the car drove into oncoming traffic and eventually corrected itself. I can't...

That's the difference between 400V and 800V too. 800V cars are going to be slower on 400V because of the conversion process. The problem is the non Tesla chargers tend to not be as reliable or as maintained either.

That was by mile for my driving initially. I just blew it up for the full year. Tesla - $0.048 GTI - $0.114 (premium) F150 - $0.177

I don’t know. I know how cheap my rates are. I always wonder how much electricity some of you think a car actually takes. At $0.17 kWh running mine dead and fully charging is around $12, so figure about $25 a week for me on a busy week which was $60 a week in gas in my GTI. I traded my F150...

It would take a sustained 90-95mpg to break even cost wise with my power cost, but that’s pretty solid.

Nearly all subsidies are completely ridiculous, but there’s lots of picking and choosing here. I’m not for any of them. Nothing like shifting the cost of a product.

The tax breaks oil companies get to produce gasoline which is $300-$400 billion a year.

I’m all for sending him up there even if we subsidize it if we can get someone who isn’t a complete fool to take the reins of Tesla that isn’t going to make wild promises.