In the 5 years I've owned my Model 3 it's never needed any service. Only new tires. They are not even remotely as bad of a car as clickbait sites make them out to be. Yeah yeah Teslas aren't perfect, but no car is. Be realistic.
It being associated with Musk and his crazy rants is annoying though. Almost annoying enough to trade it in, but I don't particularly want to spend a bunch of money and getting rid of an almost like-new working car.
Tesla's lofty stock price is to some extent based on hype, and Musk being credited (far too much imo) for the company's success. If he did leave the stock price would come down to something more sensible, which at least short-term would make shareholders unhappy. But yeah leaving him in charge after what he did to Twitter must also be causing sleepless nights.
Once upon a time, it seemed like being an advocate for their constituents and a competent administrator of the country as a whole got politicians reelected. Maybe I have rose-tinted history glasses tho..
Something I realized on Mastodon years ago (well before the Twitter/X thing) is it quickly doesn't matter so much to me how many active users a platform has. A platform is good enough if there's some activity, and I like being there. Lemmy was already something I checked when I saw only a handful of new posts a day.
Anyway, that's just my perspective. I'm not too concerned about downtrends of active users.
According to the article they had to derate their ranges by 3-5% or so. Cory is talking about the range being less than half of the estimated one. I think we would’ve seen thousands of stranded Teslas around here if that were really the case. So I remain doubtful.
FWIW I suspect most of these "omg why is my range suddenly gone!" complaints with Tesla to be exactly the same as with all other EVs: Very low temperatures, or towing. You'll find plenty of people complaining about every model and make of EV because consumers expected to have the advertised range even though they're towing a trailer or are driving through a freezing mountain pass. Unfortunately EVs just don't handle this very well.
I never fully understood this Reuters range investigation. I have had a Tesla Model 3 for many years now, and it tells me I can go, say, 290 miles on a full charge. When I plan a long road trip, it figures out I need to stop at a charger after about 275 miles so I have a few percent left. So I drive the 275 miles, get to the charger with roughly that amount of % charge left, charge my car and keep on going. If I really only had 150 miles of range, there's no way I would've ever reached that charger. I've done trips like this many times now. In my experience the advertised range is more or less realistic, and this is easily provable with any car.
Is it a quality control issue? Are people being confused by the massive effect temperatures have on EV range? It doesn't seem like the major conspiracy it's made out to be. Mishandled though, probably.
What a brilliant first lap from Piastri. Aggressive, precise, clean. I hadn't paid too much attention to him this year, but it's starting to look like he has the promise of a successful F1 career.
For context: The UK and US did not ban German classical music during WW1 and WW2, and works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Brahms etc were performed and broadcast on radio.
Unsurprisingly the Nazis did censor a lot of music. Don't be like the Nazis is the lesson, I guess.
Cars are definitely easier to follow. Before the current rules drivers were constantly complaining about dirty air, overheating, etc. There were even frequent incidents where a car following would go wide because of a loss of downforce. That doesn’t really seem to happen anymore.
Phew. Finally. I was getting worried.