When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
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'Merica!
Me in a parking lot with pickups and SUV's with model names like Mt. Vesuvius or Leviathan XL.
Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger
The encounter between a Rivian driver and uninformed Tesla owner highlights 'a need for better education and communication within the EV community,' the Rivian driver says.
People laughing at both drivers in this case.Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger
The encounter between a Rivian driver and uninformed Tesla owner highlights 'a need for better education and communication within the EV community,' the Rivian driver says.www.pcmag.com
1. The Tesla driver is an idiot Karen living under a rock.
2. The Rivian driver purchased a NACS to J1772 adapter and thought he could fast charge with it.
Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger
The encounter between a Rivian driver and uninformed Tesla owner highlights 'a need for better education and communication within the EV community,' the Rivian driver says.
There’s no legal protection for those signs. If a non-Tesla parks there, what’s the cops going to do? The most that could be done is for the property owner to tow the offending vehicle. Either way, I would have told the Tesla owner that I’ll wait for the cops with him.
But, if it requires you to take up 2 spots, that does seem like a problem. And I’m surprised that Tesla opened their chargers up without resolution of that.
This happens all the time, not just to Tesla chargers. Usually the same people that "roll coal", also find it funny to park an ICE vehicle in a charger location. People also find it funny to unhook chargers and key EV's because....I don't know...maybe they hate Elon or love the gas industry. Keep in mind that 99% of the people are not ********, it's the 1%.
In this case, it was legit, in most it's not.
To the parking ICE vehicles in charging spots, maybe there needs to be legal protections for these spots. In this case, those signs are put up by Tesla. Maybe we need state laws to put up legal signs similar to handicapped parking. Ultimately, these spots are a business and having ICE cars park there does hurt business. You can’t count on the property owner to care enough to remove the cars via towing. But a $50-$100 fine might make a point.
Probably more closely related to shopping centers where there are signs designating spots for patrons of a specific business. Only recourse would likely be towing the vehicle, not a ticket from law enforcement.
Handicap spots are protected under state law, which is why you can get a ticket.
Agree with your point though that I doubt Hyvee or a gas station would care enough to tow a vehicle from an EV spot.
Hy-Vee does it the right way. They usually put the chargers(tesla ones) far away from the stores, so no one has an urge to park in those spots. If you take those spots in an ICE vehicle, you're truly being a douche.
As far as Tesla chargers and vehicles taking up two spots. Yes, this is an issue but all new Tesla chargers have the longer cables, which support charging from either side (think Costco gas pumps).
That’s what I am saying, should EV charging spots be reserved under state law? Is parking an ICE vehicle there a form of theft for preventing the charger from making money?
To be clear, I think Iowa nice comes into play here. I've never seen a non EV parked in one of these spots. I think you're actually more likely to see an EV parked in one of these spots and not charging, which is the absolute worse. I haven't seen that in Iowa either.
A friend of mine works in an office building and the Tesla owners working there would hang out together like they are part of a club. It has gotten a bit better as more people started owning Teslas/EVs but it was really annoying for a while.
Depends on the system and the intended application. There's a healthy mix of GPS guidance, machine vision and lidar and how the system works depends largely on the crop that's involved. A row crop tractor doing work in a wide open field needs a very different solution than a sprayer running up and down an orchard for example. Guss sprayers are a vary cool piece of autonomous equipment that you use an xbox controller to get on and off the trailer then you fill it up with water and chemicals and turn it loose in your orchard.
If that accelerator pedal getting wedged is part of the stop sell on cybertruck, that’s certainly not an ota fix.
arstechnica.com
Cybertruck owners allege pedal problem as Tesla suspends deliveries
Owners will have to wait until April 20 for deliveries to resume.
arstechnica.com
This is a good idea from Rivian. It's unfortunate that companies like Electrify America have made this a necessity. Imagine Google having to rate gas pumps.
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SOFTWARE SPOTLIGHT - Rivian Stories
Rivian drivers can now see how reliable a fast charger is based on real-world charging experiences, with industry-first charging scores now available in every R1T and R1S via our latest over-the-air update. Our trip planner also uses data from our connected fleet to route drivers to the most...
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A lot regulations around gas pumps for obvious reasons, it will be interesting to see if charging stations can clean up their own act.This is a good idea from Rivian. It's unfortunate that companies like Electrify America have made this a necessity. Imagine Google having to rate gas pumps.
SOFTWARE SPOTLIGHT - Rivian Stories
Rivian drivers can now see how reliable a fast charger is based on real-world charging experiences, with industry-first charging scores now available in every R1T and R1S via our latest over-the-air update. Our trip planner also uses data from our connected fleet to route drivers to the most...
Google has announced new features in its Maps app designed to help electric-car drivers find a charge. The updates include a tool to help drivers find nearby chargers with real-time information about availability and charging speed, the ability to find charging stops on longer road trips and more detailed instructions about how to find chargers within parking lots and garages. - Washington Post
