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Assuming someone in the Bay Area has basic driving skills is your first mistake…

I test drove a GT, it’s a bit lower and firmer than the standard one and takes the floaty feeling out of the rear end. Its better but not something you couldn’t do to any car with a $500 spring kit. The GTPE is on a whole different level from all the other MachEs and MYs, it’s handling is...

Yeah I’m hoping Ford gets their act together and does an OTA on the thermal throttling. There’s no reason a GTPE with all that power should be falling on its face after 5 seconds or at highway speeds over 80. I know electric motors don’t perform as well at high speeds, but 80mph isn’t exactly...

Tesla fans quote that stupid moose test to death like it’s the end-all be-all of handling metrics. Being able to swerve slightly better in one very specific emergency situation does not mean it’s a better handling car from a chassis dynamic perspective. It also failed the “moose test” because...

The MachE AWD LR has the exact same 0-60 time (4.8s) as an MYLR, and most reviewers agree the chassis on the MME is better balanced and it’s the better handing car. So not sure what you mean about it being “much faster”

This is not universally true, there are tons of Ford dealers that sell MME at MSRP and also allow X-Plan. I have a MYP and MachE Premium AWD LR on order, with tax incentives the MME is over $14k less. Even going more apple to apples and comparing it an MYLR it’s still $10k cheaper. Hyundai and...

I highly, highly doubt that Tesla have 4-6 MOS of the old processors just sitting around and will just be randomly peppering in Ryzens randomly until the end of Q2. That would be a complete nightmare from a demand/production planning and servicing perspective, and Tesla is all about making...

Who goes to the gas station twice a week? I’m not saying EVs aren’t more convenient for commuting distances, but people need to stop acting like gas stations are a big deal. 5 minutes of fueling every 400-600 miles of driving, the horror!

Let’s not pretend that is in any way what the average gas station experience is like. That’s like showing a burning Tesla after a crash and going “look, battery cars are dangerous!”. Context and frequency matters. People are also terrible at math thinking that saving 10-20 cents on gas is worth...

There are tons of nice ICE vehicles out there, and the ability to travel huge distances to anywhere in the US without worrying about charging infrastructure or adding hours to your trip for charging is valuable. Tesla is great, but let’s not pretend they (and EVs) are the only good cars out...

Not denying that it's an antiquated and overly complicated/heavy way to cool the car, and also especially stupid to throttle a performance car in less than its 1/4 mile time. My point has always been that that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't an effective cooling system for the electric motors...

Im not saying it’s the same, I’m saying that using rubber hoses instead of rigid plastic pipes (which is the biggest difference between the Tesla products and the MachE’s cooling systems that for some reason Tesla fanatics have lost their *sugar* over after watching Monroe’s videos) isn’t some...

Only bad part about the Hyundai and Kia EVs is their dealership are really bad with ADM, so even though MSRP may be lower they will likely not be cheaper. There are a ton of Ford dealers that don’t charge ADM, I never found a single Hyundai/Kia dealer that didn’t when we were looking for a new...

Lithium Iron are non-flammable, just not as energy dense and can’t support the same c-rate.

I don’t know wtf you’re even talking about. I’m not debating the fact that it throttles power is dumb, just stating that fact that it’s a software imposed limit and not hardware. Theres nothing special about the heat generation of an EV that coolant hoses can’t handle. And if you’re comparing a...

Or claiming a top speed that requires a special brake/tire package that doesn’t exist yet?

you mean like charging $10k for beta software?

No, I have a background in electrical engineering and know what they’re doing with their initial roll-out of a brand new vehicle platform. With OTA they can slowly unlock more capacity and back off the nannying as they incrementally analyze warranty claim rates for motor and battery issues...

No one has confirmed that it’s due to a weakness in the cooling system. ICE engines run at double the temperatures of EV motors all day, every day with those cooling systems. Ford is being stupidly overkill with a lot of the software based battery degradation protections that are ruining the...

That’s only as it’s currently written and there’s no guarantee they won’t revise it. I’m betting it will stay the same (congress knows people are lining up to buy EVs after the 1st and don’t want to burn voters), but it’s far from a sure thing.

You’re assuming complex=problematic. I watched all of Monroe’s videos on the MachE, there’s nothing he mentioned about it not working as well. Just that it’s needlessly heavy (by 20lbs or so) and harder to install with more potential points of failure than are necessary for a static and low...

I’ve yet to see a Tesla ever meet it’s EPA range in real world driving. If you look at any of the tests done by magazines or review sites I think the closest any Tesla ever gets to their EPA range rating is -5 or 10 miles. All the other manufacturers are pretty conservative (the new Mercedes...

Cold weather 100% has a significant impact on your range, that’s just a matter of chemistry. Whether or not you realized it last year is a different story, but the fact that your range has been reducing progressively as the average temperature has also been dropping isn’t coincidence.

MYP no tow OD: 11/11 EDD: 2/14-3/14 (yesterday it was 1/11-2/8) I’m actually kind of glad it got bumped. More time to see what the tax credit situation is looking like and also more likely it will be made in Austin and/or have more of the new upgrades seen on the Shanghai built models.

I think the Model Y just looks like a Prius that’s been made smooth by vacuum sealing it inside a plastic bag. It’s not a very exciting looking or attractive car at all, imo. Not bad looking, but definitely pretty boring. Cars engineered for low drag coefficient all end up looking more or less...

I'm in the same boat. I know a lot of people on here are for some reason convinced the MachE is not anywhere in the same league as the MY, but it still has the federal tax credit and is quite similar to the MYLR if you don't plan on using superchargers and don't care as much about the...

I wouldn’t get too hung up on the Rivians be large or hard to park. They’re similar in size to a Tacoma and those don’t require much skill to park. I’ve been daily driving an F-350 dually w/o 360 cameras for 4 years. If I can park in a Trader Joe’s parking lot in that beast, even the worst...

A lot of people aren’t aware there were two versions with similar but different language and incentives. The Senate version did not proceed, but the House did. But is now in the Senate. It’s easy to see why some people lose track.