No not quite, at least five years ago the model 3 was far superior to competing electric cars and a very comparative price. The whole vibe around it was a bit of a deterrent, not as much as it is now mind you. It was just a better car with better performance and more range, not to mention the one board integration with the supercharger network. The whole Elon aura played a role differently over time.
I'm actually in the middle of reading it.. I'm still struggling to follow it all, know in which variation I am at a point and see where it is going. But it is sure entertaining
I think you missed the point, I perceived the question (which I'm asking myself too) how do these differ? What makes one more fun or better than the other?
It's the second one, and ICE typically uses energy that is otherwise wasted when it isn't cold outside. Mind you it has the effect that it takes longer to warm up an ICE car because you need to warm up the engine etc. before the habitacle gets warm where you cet there very quickly with an EV.
Yes but once the car is warm, it doesn't consume that much to keep température unless you open the doors, at least on my 2019 Tesla 3.
I found that pavement conditions, how much snow and ice is stuck to the car etc. have a bigger influence on range than temperature once the car is warmed up.
The trips I did during or just after a snowstorn always required some careful management of charge and keeping a good buffer.
I'm surprised since I've never had any problems at -40C and it happened several times. I Neve had to supercharge the car under these conditions however.
I've had an EV since 2019 and did a few longer trips, including outside teh normal charging networks and I only had to wait fun line twice. It IS annoying when it happens, especially when I was in the middle of nowhere and the charger was being used by a pluggable hybrid
From my experience, having an EV for daily driving actually changes the electrical consumption less than the months where the pool motor is on. Which makes sense since the pool motor runs all the time (even if it's dual speed).
One thing to mind is that infrastructure project's financing and cost allocation is different in Europe vs North America. All countries and jurisdictions counts things differently. Are stations part of the cost, what about roads and paths leading to them, getting right of way, buying land etc. some of these costs are often incurred by local governments and municipalities and aren't considered part of the infrastructure project while other projects will include them as part of their costs.
The Milan project is fantastic, but it's difficult to have more than a ballpark comparison based on general numbers such as these.
That isn't so simple. The issue is a lot of the tracks are one way so you aren't able to return the train sets in the suburbs during peak hours. This means that every frequency you add means an extra train set that you need to buy, maintain and store somewhere on the island during the day.
I was using their black 2.0 and while it's exceptional and has a certain unnatural feel to it under the right lighting, it doesn't achieve the same effect as Vanta black. This sounds like a good improvement.
Do mind that it's often more cost effective to take the train and you have more rental options. I've taken the train from WDC to NYC at times because there were better rental options there when travelling further north.
Oh god every time someone start numbering sub-directories I want to scream. This feels soooooo like the old days. I hate it because then anything like ordering in alphabetical orders doesn't work. I'm looking for the documentation subdirectory, I know it's starts with "D" it's easy if I can order them in alphabetical order. But nooooo. Don't force me to remember decimal codes unless your name is Dewey and it's going to be the same thing every where, all the time.
Also it's the same people who'll create a slew of empty sub directories so it's difficult to get a feel of what is the current state.TO be fair I think part of the problem is they try to apply that to everywhere at any level without logic. Number the directories for all customers... so now we assign the next number to the next customer we get, so to find a customer you need to known in which order they were added and it just makes no sense.. but people will usually support it because it "looks more organized".
You point out one of the key things about making public transport work well as an alternative: frequency and reliability . And I don't mean reliability in the sense that it doesn't break down, I mean in the sense that you can rely that the service will be offered, no matter when.
Now the funny part is that it's probably a lot easier to make a self driving train, airplane or bus on a controlled, dedicated lane than a self driving car to increase frequency and extend running hours.
In my experience over the last fours years, 1 and three are a thing of the past. I'd even say that the second is less of a problem as they added many service centers closeby. But I am not in the US. The two last ones are an increasing annoyance.
Depends on what you're buying. Existing models like the S or 3 have much shorter delays, upcoming models like the Cybertruck are worse. I had a 3 delivered in about two weeks.
Dark sky protection is definitely a thing and tourism worthy. I've known of this one I regularly visited for at least the last 15 years https://en.cieletoilemontmegantic.org
I remember and learned a little forth because of that console you could get with PowerPC Macs back in the day. I think I remember there was a key combination to boot in that embedded forth interpreter. It was pretty cool