LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Tesla is working to appease some European leasing companies after the automaker’s repeated retail price cuts tanked their fleets’ value and its slow service and expensive repairs alienated their corporate customers....
slow service and expensive repairs alienated their corporate customers.
I see statements like this often, especially about Tesla, but I've never seen or heard reviewers mention it as a problem compared to other cars.
Originally low maintenance cost was pushed as a huge advantage for electric cars, because an EV has fewer components that are likely to break.
But particularly Tesla has been criticized for often very expensive repairs, but also other EV's where a new battery that may be harmed driving over something, can cost as much as a new car. Where on an ICE car it would be a minor repair.
Wow that's an outright horror story!! If this is common I don't see how that won't hurt Tesla sales over time.
Tesla probably still has a decent reputation, because they were by far the best electric cars not too many years ago. But I doubt anyone experiencing anything close to what you describe, would buy a Tesla again. It's pretty often you hear both about the long wait even for simple repairs, but also very expensive repair cost. The creeks and rattles are also often heard complaints, latest with the Cyber Truck, which one reviewer called worse than any truck he had ever tried. Still he gave it a decent review, as being innovative and fun. Which I guess would is fine if you buy it as a toy.
Yes it's a common problem with reviewers that they depend on makers to allow them free and early access to review products, if they lose their privileges they are finished as reviewers.
This is not just for cars, mostly everything in reviews is corrupted by dependencies if not outright bribes.
Funny thing is I once saw a review of a USB microscope, that was very critical to the product. Yet the review caused sales to shoot through the roof, because although the criticism was true, the product was very cheap, and the problems could be worked around. So even bad reviews can be good, if the price is right and the basic functions work.
Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia's plan is, and it is not self-evident that it is a smart use of resources. In this video I discuss whether we might be seeing a return to the fragmented command structures...
This was very informative and interesting to me, Anders Puck Nielsen explains why the "tactical significant results" Russia has achieved at Kharkiv may not mean as much as we might think.
Important knowledge for us that are not savvy in military expressions.
But the part afterwords is even more interesting IMO, about how Russia might not even have a strategy to win this war.
So I thought this would be interesting to others too.
-Enjoy.
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I am very unsure that planet picture is real, I don't think they can get that kind of detail even with James Webb telescope. It's also not described below the picture what the actual source is.
Seems extremely misleading to include that picture claiming to "look" at James Webb images.
The insect glue, produced from edible oils, was inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey. A key advantage of physical pesticides over toxic pesticides is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger...
Yes that headline is extremely moronic, I don't get how you are downvoted for pointing out the headline is factually wrong??
Just because the insects aren't killed by the toxicity of chemicals, they are captured by them in the form of glue, which is also a strong chemical device, and remains potentially harmful.
This is a pretty gutsy move by Estonia if they do that. Estonia is a small country with most of its border towards Russia. They have little chance to defend themselves if Russia is stupid enough to decide to invade.
Obviously being a NATO member is the best protection there is for Estonia, but does chapter 5 still work, if Estonia sends personel officially to Ukraine to participate in the defense of Ukraine, even if it isn't on the front?
I hope we will see this happen soon, I am pretty sure that if Estonia does it, other countries will follow. That's the way it's been with everything else. If one country takes the lead others follow.
A decline is ALWAYS relative to something, otherwise it wouldn't make sense. So what is it really that you mean?
Intel used to be the undisputed leader both on CPU design and production process. Those positions are both lost, Intel also always used to have huge profits, but has had deficits lately, that used to be absolutely unheard of. They have lost both their economic and technological lead and they have lost marketshare, So how is that not a decline by every measure?
Shame reddit didn’t have the same amount of people jump ship like when everyone left Digg
For me that would mostly be schadenfreude, people use all kinds of social media I am not at all involved with, and I've stopped caring about it.
The way Reddit is run is all about monetization and stock value now, I seriously doubt they can do anything to attract me again. But it's better that certain people stay over there IMO.
I've contributed to "Fedihosting Foundation .world group" and I'm considering monthly contribution, as I do use it on a daily basis.
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Overall heavy losses for the Russians, and 2 aircraft and 1 helicopter, and allegedly one of the special equipment was an S400 missile system, which is a very expensive multi vehicle piece of equipment, that can also act as command center for 8 divisions. These are not easy for Russia to replace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-400_missile_system
Yes and in 2019 Musk's claims went even further, when he claimed it was stupid to buy anything but Tesla, because next year (2020) You would be able to make money on it as a RoboTaxi. As I recall it was $200,000.- you should be able to make on a Tesla per year!!! Why he sold them then is a bit strange?
He also claimed that instead of losing value, a Tesla would increase as much as five times in value in a year, because FSD was worth that much.
How this man hasn't been jailed for fraud years ago is beyond me, I could understand if USA was a corrupt country for the rich...
oh... Never mind.
No it was not, we have testimony from employees that FSD wasn't even close to what Musk claimed. And it can't even do it today.
Just because you can flip a switch that says FSD doesn't mean it works.
That's like saying a car with cruise control can self drive. Although FSD is more sophisticated, it still can't.
The Tesla cannot self drive by any reasonable meaning of the term.
Tesla also calls it assisted self driving now. And that's obviously not because it works now, which even now 8 years later it doesn't.
Musk also said more safely than a human being. I've seen videos with FSD creating numerous dangerous situations on a single trip, that required quick intervention to avoid collisions. Driving in narrow roads it would suddenly turn into opposite traffic (potentially lethal), not minding right of way in crosses (also potentially lethal), and even turning straight towards parked cars, when the lane it was in was unobstructed!!
Another video I saw, it crossed at a very clear red light!! That's a very potentially lethal situation.
There is no way it can be reasonably argued that Tesla has working full self driving.
it completes 90% of the trips
You know 90% isn't even close to being half finished. The next 9% are probably more difficult, and the last percent the most difficult. There's a reason the hard parts are finished last.
I don’t see anyone claiming they have “working full self driving”
The whole thread is about Musk claiming in 2019 that Tesla has FSD working NOW, that could drive the car from a parking lot on the other side of the country (USA) and pick you up in a parking lot where you are. AND that it could drive more safely than a human being.
I am not interested in the slightest whether it's 50% or 90% there now, the fact is the claim was made first in 2016, that Tesla would have it ready NEXT YEAR, and in 2019 he claimed it was ready NOW! And it's STILL not ready!!
So what is it about Musks claims being false you don't understand?
I don’t see anyone claiming they have “working full self driving”.
That's decidedly false, because you yourself wrote:
Yes with Starlink which the military threatened they might nationalize if Musk sabotaged Ukraine access again.
I honestly don't think Musk's value as a military contractor is very high, and probably (hopefully) not enough to protect him from criminal liability.
Oh boy you are tiresome, I wrote the thread, not the post.
But still the context of "the coming year" Musk claimed Tesla had that NOW in 2019, and it would
be made available to consumers in the coming year being 2020. It's from the exact same presentation.
Nothing you quote contradicts anything I wrote. It's just different parts of the same thing, which of course requires background knowledge you evidently don't have.
Mercedes Calls their version of fully autonomous driving: Drive Pilot but you show a comparison to a way more basic Driving Assistant, which is nowhere close!
This comparison shows that Tesla FSD in reality is merely a drive assist.
If you mean Chili write Chili or Chilli, Chile is a country. Also why did AP feel they needed to change it, when the other spellings are equally correct, and more common.
That's moronic.
Chile as a spice is also near impossible to search for, you will get exclusively results that are spelled chilli or chili. So why opt for a spelling that in every way is worse?
without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
You are misinformed, chances are you are about average at detecting sarcasm. Everybody think they are good at it, but you probably couldn't detect sarcasm on something you agree on nearly as easily as you think.
If you love the color blue, how do you decide between:
1 I love the color blue, it's so pretty. (true statement)
2 I love the color blue, it's so pretty. (Sarcasm)
Even if it's between 2 people who know each other, sarcasm is far from always detected. Even between married people the sarcasm detector isn't 100%.
Research has been done on that, and although I don't recall the numbers, what I do recall is, that people detect sarcasm way less than we expect.
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...
Vegan leather is not as durable as a normal plastic made for covers. It's generally made of Mycelium (mylo) the specific Xiaomi vegan leather is made in part of apple peel.
The term Vegan leather is reserved for "sustainable" materials, which means it can be made of reused plastic. But that's still not as strong as the high end plastic materials that was originally used for premium phones.
If I knew for sure the vegan option for the phone was made of high quality PU, I would have chosen that.
Exclusive: Tesla doing damage-control, discounts for European fleet buyers ( www.reuters.com )
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Tesla is working to appease some European leasing companies after the automaker’s repeated retail price cuts tanked their fleets’ value and its slow service and expensive repairs alienated their corporate customers....
Russia's Kharkiv offensive – what is the plan? ( www.youtube.com )
Russia has launched an offensive into the Kharkiv region, and it has created a lot of alarmist news reports. In reality it is difficult to see what Russia's plan is, and it is not self-evident that it is a smart use of resources. In this video I discuss whether we might be seeing a return to the fragmented command structures...
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ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t ( www.vox.com )
Sticky trick: new glue spray kills plant pests without chemicals ( www.theguardian.com )
The insect glue, produced from edible oils, was inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey. A key advantage of physical pesticides over toxic pesticides is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger...
Estonia ‘seriously’ discussing sending troops to ‘rear’ jobs in Ukraine, official says ( breakingdefense.com )
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The decline of Intel.. ( www.arktrek.shop )
New Teslas might lose Steam ( www.theverge.com )
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ ( www.theverge.com )
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The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 17.05.24 ( lemmy.world )
Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 17.05.24 (орієнтовно)...
Twitter is officially X.com now ( www.theverge.com )
Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester ( apnews.com )
Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch ( www.theverge.com )
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Trump brushes off Haley primary voters: ‘Those voters are all coming to me’ ( thehill.com )
Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves ( arstechnica.com )
Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chile consumption and had a heart defect, autopsy says ( apnews.com )
Florida teen says she was denied entry to prom for wearing a suit ( www.nbcnews.com )
4 months durability for an $800 phone!
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...