[theluckycountry]

Nearly One-Third Of EV Charging Attempts Fail, Report Finds
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') newly released report by ChargerHelp! shows that while 64% of Americans now live within two miles of an electric vehicle charging station, nearly one-third of charging attempts fail. Despite charging infrastructure showing 98.7% to 99% uptime rates, only 71% of charging attempts actually succeed, according to the 2025 EV Charging Reliability Report.

[theluckycountry]

I've got it covered! I charge at home.

That right pops, and you just stick near home and you'll be alright.



I wish 90% of people had gone Battcar, I'd have the mountain roads all to myself then.

[theluckycountry]

As I pointed out elsewhere, if you are sitting back relying on FSD to do all the driving for you, your reflexes are not up to speed, your brain is not up to speed with the simple inputs to the cars controls that could save you from a nasty accident.

NHTSA Probing Tesla Full Self-Driving After Reports Of Red-Light Runs, Collisions
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')eports include Teslas running red lights and making lane changes against oncoming traffic. The agency is reviewing 58 cases, including 14 crashes and 23 injuries. Six involved vehicles driving through red lights and colliding at intersections; four crashes caused injuries.

A driver in Houston told NHTSA that FSD “is not recognizing traffic signals. This results in the vehicle proceeding through red lights, and stopping at green lights.” The complaint added: “Tesla doesn’t want to fix it, or even acknowledge the problem, even though they’ve done a test drive with me and seen the issue with their own eyes.”

[careinke]

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NHTSA Probing Tesla Full Self-Driving After Reports Of Red-Light Runs, Collisions
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'R')eports include Teslas running red lights and making lane changes against oncoming traffic. The agency is reviewing 58 cases, including 14 crashes and 23 injuries. Six involved vehicles driving through red lights and colliding at intersections; four crashes caused injuries.

A driver in Houston told NHTSA that FSD “is not recognizing traffic signals. This results in the vehicle proceeding through red lights, and stopping at green lights.” The complaint added: “Tesla doesn’t want to fix it, or even acknowledge the problem, even though they’ve done a test drive with me and seen the issue with their own eyes.”

[theluckycountry]

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OMG I was hoping you would post this.
OK, here are the FUD parts. This is obviously a Hit piece on Tesla intended to scare people into selling Tesla stock, and drive the price down.

[careinke]

As I was watching my Seahawks kick the Jaguars A$$ this morning, the commercials caught my attention. Quite a few of them were for Electric Vehicles, none from Tesla they sell as many as they make, worldwide. So not much need for TESLA to buy advertising right now.

I don't watch a lot of MSM TV, so the commercials were new for me. The FORD commercial was particularly interesting, it was pushing Hands Free Driving on Highways. Starts with two women in the front seat talking while driving down the freeway. The passenger was using her hands a lot during the conversation and it was obvious the driver wanted to use her hands too. So the driver pushed the "HANDS FREE" button on her screen, turned towards the passenger, and resumed the conversation. A lot of shots showed her not paying attention to the road while NOT touching the steering wheel. The announcer did say it was for use on highways, but did not warn it was NOT for use off the highway. Left me wondering if Ford neglected to run this commercial through their legal department.

Now TESLA has had an operational version of this technology for years (It will probably be removed soon during version 14), but you were required to touch the steering wheel or be watching the road. Basically, cruise control with rudimentary collision avoidance.

Jeep touted their electric jeep with an impressive 700 Horse Power motors. I'm going to have to find a You Tube runoff between it and the Cybertruck.

Most of the other manufacturers showed bad inattentive HUMAN drivers being saved by their collision avoidance system's in their electric vehicles. I did see you can buy electric cars through Costco with a healthy rebate.

My Hypothesis is, the other vehicle manufactures are dumping their EV's because they can't make them profitable. But that will change soon.

PEACE is coming

[theluckycountry]

World Slowly Waking Up To Menace of Lithium Battery Fires, Experts Say

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n Jan. 28, 2025, an Air Busan plane was destroyed by fire on the runway in Busan, South Korea. Preliminary findings indicated that a power bank stored in an overhead cabin likely went up in flames shortly before take-off. All 170 passengers and six crew members were evacuated, with three seriously injured and 24 having sustained minor injuries.

[theluckycountry]

GM Takes $1.6 Billion Hit As It Scales Back EV Operations
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')eneral Motors said on Oct. 14 that it will bear a $1.6 billion loss to scale back its electric vehicle (EV) operations, citing weaker expected demand ...The decision was made after the expiration of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit on Sept. 30

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', ' ')I did see you can buy electric cars through Costco with a healthy rebate.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', ' ')I did see you can buy electric cars through Costco with a healthy rebate.

[theluckycountry]

Costco, the poor people's store. They built 3 up in Brisbane, all in areas full of povo types.
The Premier aussie review site: https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/costco-qld
Poor reviews to say the least. Aldi is the same, I avoid all such stores as they are just full of crap.

[theluckycountry]

Tesla Drops After Q3 Profit Slides, Earnings Miss
Watch sales tank even further now the Biden Bubble incentives are gone. That was the last big pump for these Segways.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.').. but while revenue was good, profitability was not: operating income decreased 40% YoY to $1.6B despite a 7% jump in deliveries and the highest auto revenue in nearly two years - resulting in only 5.8% operating margin. Tesla took a notable hit here to the bottom line, and talked about a laundry list including tariffs, new models, lower regulatory credits and increased R&D costs:

[theluckycountry]

Used EVs Are Ruining Tesla
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')or Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) and other popular electric vehicle (EV) makers, the primary competition is not with one another. It is the used versions of their own cars. One analysis showed that a Ford Mustang Mach-E, which sold for $55,000 new, sold for only $33,000 when it reached its first birthday. It had less than 10,000 miles on its odometer and not a single scratch. Some people who track the car industry say it is awash in used Teslas, which causes the company the same problem.

...The effects of the cannibalization have not hurt Tesla’s stock price. While it did drop when Musk broke off relations with President Trump in March, the share price is up almost 70% over the past year, while the S&P 500 is only 15% higher.

Musk has managed to offset lackluster sales by promoting the idea that Tesla is more than just a car company. It has evolved into a robotics, AI, and fully self-driving car business. As long as the market is willing to accept that, the used car challenge will not matter much.

[careinke]

untry,

Weird, none of the chargers you put up in the earlier posts were TESLA chargers.

Just installed the FSD 14.1.3 (supervised) and took it for a short midnight drive. IT'S AMAZING.

Drove FSD out of my 600ft driveway with NO problems,(ROW-B has never been able to do it), continued about 8 miles and had it park in the parking lot of IGA. Most of the trip was in Standard Mode, but I did put it in Sloth mode when it went through Home which has three different speed limits. It never went over the speed limit, just as advertised.

Returning to our place was uneventful except for the slowdown when two racoons crossed the road, and the rabbit in the driveway.

I gotta say, it's an order of magnitude smarter/better than Version 13. I felt VERY safe in this version, it's like ROW-B is sentient. Can't wait to do some more tests tomorrow.

Oh, you can put different "skins" on your vehicle, next drive I'm putting the TRON motorcycle skin on. That should freak my wife out. LOL


Peace

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'E')lon time is getting shorter. FSD 14 is dropping this Monday. I'm very excited to try it out, only two days later than promised. Supposedly ROW-Bs compute will increase by 10X and resolution will be down to leaf size in realtime.

My criticisms of Version 13, was pretty much the same as every owner who used FSD Supervised. The rumor is most have been addressed in this version. Here is the list in order of my annoyance:

1. She sucks at parking to the point she will give up and ask you to take over, or sometimes take up two spaces.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')color=#FF0000]This is fixed, she parks much better than me (and every other human I have seen).[/color]

[theluckycountry]

The Green Mirage: The Hidden Costs Behind the Electric Car Hype
https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... _hype.html
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')Governments are now pushing to eliminate gasoline and diesel cars by 2035 in favor of EVs. But once you factor in the energy and pollution costs of mining and manufacturing, the carbon footprint of an EV is worse than that of a diesel vehicle. Even after production, most EVs run on electricity generated from fossil fuels. Despite decades of subsidies, wind provides less than 5% of global energy and solar just 1%. According to a European Commission study, the total “well-to-plug” efficiency of electric energy — after accounting for production and distribution losses—is only 37%. The electric dream, then, is profoundly inefficient.

Marketing, Not Miracles

The first illusion came with the “hybrid.” These cars are still gasoline-powered; the tiny battery is charged by the engine itself. A hybrid that gets 55 mpg is no cleaner than a conventional car achieving the same mileage. A planet full of hybrids would remain 100% addicted to oil. The reality of EV production should end the myth. A single Tesla Model Y battery demands massive resources — about 12 tons of lithium ore, 5 tons of cobalt minerals, 3 tons of nickel ore, and 12 tons of copper ore. Roughly 250 tons of soil must be moved to yield small amounts of these metals. Each battery also requires hundreds of pounds of aluminum, steel, plastic, and graphite.

The giant Caterpillar machines used in this mining can burn hundreds of gallons of diesel every 12 hours. Once complete, we get a so-called “zero-emission” car — built with materials largely sourced from China or Africa, often mined by child labor. Tesla battery packs cost $5,000–$20,000 and last about ten years. It takes roughly seven years for an EV to reach “net-zero” carbon parity with a gasoline car — by which time the battery’s life is nearly over, and the cycle begins again.

[theluckycountry]

Related:
Atlanta At The Center Of Nationwide Boom In Rental Application Fraud
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..Fraud carries legal risks but is rarely prosecuted; landlords usually focus on evictions. Some scammers pay rent for a few months before defaulting, forcing landlords to absorb losses and write off bad debt. Others never pay at all—like one Atlanta tenant who said, “Basically, the entire building was filled with people who got in fraudulently.” To combat the issue, many landlords now use verification software. As fraudsters adopt AI tools to fake documents, detection firms are responding in kind. “We fight fire with fire,” said Kyle Nelson of Snappt.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'R')elated:
Atlanta At The Center Of Nationwide Boom In Rental Application Fraud

[AgentR11]

From above article quoted...
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ') A hybrid that gets 55 mpg is no cleaner than a conventional car achieving the same mileage.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'F')rom above article quoted...
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ') A hybrid that gets 55 mpg is no cleaner than a conventional car achieving the same mileage.