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So it looks like it made it out of committee There seems to be a good deal of marketing in the language used there, about AM radio being a lifeline etc. I think if you did a poll of drivers, you'd find those that had even turned their radios to AM in the last several years would be in the...

I looked some at EVs before I got my current car, 10 years ago. The pricing was the issue then, you paid such a premium for an EV that I couldn't make it make sense. Now I'd be charging at home, and have grid connected solar, that I'm paying less for than the average electric bill before getting...

They may instead be looking at their likely buyers. If their research shows the lower cost models will appeal mostly to younger buyers, those are the ones more likely to never even use the FM radio. About that bill to require AM radio, has there been any action on it at all in recent months...

Increasingly people are already on unlimited plans. A few months ago I switched mine from $20 plus 10 per GB to: unlimited for $35 throttled after 30 GB, because I was going over the 1.5 GB that made it make sense. Areas that have no cell reception... not a whole lot of those. I know when we...

I think once a driver starts streaming music or other audio in their car, as long as data use isn't an issue, nearly all never go back. I don't yet have a car with a streaming option, but the local radio station advertises that you can stream and keep listening at work. That would make it only a...

I don't know that we've seen final versions of the mounts. One source said they were trying to have 1 universal phone mount, but it's also been seen as having one fixed side and one adjustable, which can be an issue depending on where the charging connection and microphone are on the phone.

Do you really think Tesla is going to announce something low priced? They seem to be going the opposite direction.

At some point yes. Given populations, I'm kind of surprised Texas and Florida have had none, but like I said before, there is likely a reason. In California, the San Francisco and Sacramento area locations might as well be a different state from Los Angeles and San Diego. Texas is bigger, but...

Try https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10962 Department of Energy site that is the first hit when I search "ev sales by state" and shows matching numbers, Probably they are the ultimate source for any articles which mention state by state numbers.

Good for everyone to check out again even if they did before, now that the federal incentives are gone. Looks like in my state there is: a vehicle retirement incentive, $1350 if you've failed smog test, $1500 if you are under 225% of the poverty level, and $2k if both. A local $500 if you...

Breaking into a market that has been resistant to EVs may be more difficult though, even though "EV is the least interesting"

That at least partly tracks with population and where EVs sell, there must be a reason Texas and Florida have been left out. Maybe it's just distance, or maybe some legal/permitting issue.

Ok, Sacramento and San Francisco are about 2 hours apart, Los Angeles is over 6 hours from San Francisco. San Diego is another 3 hours. So the California ones may make some sense. There are still cities in the state that are 3+ hours from any tour site, not counting the lower population far...

They may eventually post some timelapses and other videos, but a section of the factory they worked on last week may have sat empty with nothing going on all this week. They could probably do weekly posts about progress, but that would invite people to speculate they were moving too slowly or...

We haven't seen all the details, but it's been implied, and some of the photos shared after your reply show some tabs and stuff, that it isn't as simple as removing those exposed screws on a locked truck. There would be more screws or other attachments hidden behind the closed door, hood...

BYD has been making electric busses in California, not far from me.

Yeah, they have raised 700m, and most of that has gone to things like the factory. If you figure a significant part of the price of a vehicle goes to the parts to make it and the work done actually making it, they need a significant part of that near 2b to make that theoretical 75k trucks, on...

Trying to find some info for reference relative to that, it appears argonne national labaroatory stopped tracking sales by model in 2019. They do show for 2024 over 1.5M PEVs sold, 80% being BEVs, so 150k would be a bit under 10%. PEV incudes plug in hybrids, BEV is just Battery electric...

Goes on about if it will beat Chinese trucks, but the 2 markets are not in competition at all. Chinese aren't sold in the US, and Slate wont be sold outside the US. He also stated the price as "under $30,000" which seems to me to be an overstatement on the price. It was planned at under 20k...

Was the point of that 7 seconds just that the tailgate is simple and not one of those fancy ones that costs thousands of dollars?