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Apr 25th, 2024, 16:27 | #1271 | |
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From what I can see the paying yo charge your EV is over complicated with app’s etc etc instead of just pulling up, plug in, pay by debit card Charger reliability will always be an issue but if there was a bigger network so you had more choice in a local area it wouldn’t be a problem. Once again a result of too much, too quick without thought to the infrastructure including petrol which could have a bank of chargers. There’s still much work to be done before this becomes user friendly TT
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Apr 25th, 2024, 17:58 | #1272 |
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Par for the course with technology unfortunately, there's often an initial explosion of competing, incompatible standards in a nascent market. Look at phone/smartphone chargers/carkits, early home computers, the first commercial electricity distribution networks and the early railway companies for a start.
It's a shame we continue to repeat those mistakes but it will get there in a few years. Manufactures will soon enough realise that significant market growth depends on consumer acceptance, and likely governments will get involved at some stage too, as with Apple and the EU recently.
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Apr 25th, 2024, 18:31 | #1273 | |
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Same with Tesla really, not a totally new thing. But that's not a slant on him - taking a good idea and making a commercial success of it is a great skill.
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Apr 25th, 2024, 18:57 | #1274 | |
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Apr 25th, 2024, 19:29 | #1275 | |
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The return and reuse of main stages is innovative, nobody else thought of it as important but it's turned a gentleman's club of companies charging hundreds of millions into a much wider field charging a fraction. Early entrants like Tesla rarely survive in the long run but the well runs ones often make a lot of cash out of technology licences before they get taken over, I haven't read much on Tesla though to know how prolific they've been with patents. I think the two companies say a lot about Musk, I'm just not sure what though! one is heavily invested but largely left to run itself to much success and the other swings back and forth in fortune through constant fiddling with the product line and social media meddling.
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Apr 26th, 2024, 13:23 | #1276 |
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I saw an interesting piece in USA Today this lunchtime.
Tesla apparently have yet to publish official sales figures for its Cybertruck however, since it has been the subject of an official recall notice, affected numbers have to be reported to the US Gov. Which in this case constitutes all units they've shipped so far. That number is just shy of 4000 in total, since late November 2023. By comparison, Ford shipped 7.7k of its electric F-150 Lightning pickups in the 3 months of Q1 2024, whilst Rivian shipped 13.5k units in that same period. Ford had orders for more but also hit a QA issue, which in their case led to a shipment pause in that period rather than a recall. I think the accolade for innovation and/or disruption in this particular market thus really has to go to Rivian right now, especially as a new entrant to vehicle manufacturing. It will be interesting to see what the likes of Ford and GM do about it.
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