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This car remains vaporware for quite some time. It also shows that they don't have the ability for over-the-air updates. Further, I expect price increases due to the battery supplier issue mentioned before. Hope for something better is nothing else than a delayed disappointment. For those who...

I just invite you to do a google image search for etron. Better do it after lunch. Naming EVs like this just shows the inner feelings about electric vehicles of the Audi guys. I mean, come on. How can a large company like this with hundreds of marketing gurus on the pay roll come up with...

I wouldn't be surprised if the Model 3 charges faster on a 120KW supercharger than the e-tron quttro on a 150 KW charger over the full 0-80% charging period. IMO, buying this e-tron is a high risk currently. Audi has no long term expertise with large batteries in terms of durability and...

After both the Audi e-tron quattro and Mercedes EQC are known, it is safe to say that the X is the best of the pack for quite some tome and safe to order IMO.

The disappointing thing is that after years of hyping the car, the result is far below the expectations. I would have expected something better than a 2015 model X from a company with that kind of money and expertise. There is no USP. No technical excellence. Except for the virtual mirrors...

The only model available first is the edition one for 86'700 USD (excl. MwSt.). The 79k € model will not be available till the end of 2019 or beginning 2020. Not true.

Now as these „Tesla killers“ materialize, it becomes more and more obvious how advanced the Model X was and still is. It don‘t think the e-tron is bad, in contrary, seems like a good model without the technical flaws of an I-pace or especially an EQC. But the car does not set a new benchmark, it...

This could indeed be a first competitor for Tesla, as it also brings some cool features like screen mirrors. Looking forward to that. This might increase pressure on Tesla to improve the X. The world needs more good EVs. The vehicle itself might be quite good. Though owners will suffer the...

Petrol-GLCs will have that dashboard too soon. It is even in the new A-class models, the low end product of Mercedes Benz.

You compare a naked automobile with a fully equiped one. Go configure your EQC when the configurator will be online in 2019 and check the number at the summary page. Mercedes Benz option prices will do the rest.

For those who waited for the EQC, it is now a good point in time to press the order button on the Model X webpage. The EQC is designed to fail, because good EVs could hurt ICE car sales, where Daimler AG earns lots of money. Compared to the GLC it is based on, the EQC is 25'000 Euros more...

Either way the car is not very efficient. Probably due to aerodynamic drawbacks. After all the hype surrounding the concept car from 2016, the EQC is the disappointment of this year.

Not often I saw such a boring launch event like the EQC one in Stockholm. That guy talked 15 out of 20 minutes about Sweden. Obviously there is not enough stuff to say about the vehicle. The car is a converted GLC. The back looks very good (as it does with the GLC), but the front looks ugly to...

400 charging points by 2020. What a joke.

This Audi production system looks quite 'slow' to me. I wonder how many motors they produce per week. The big Kuka robot at 15' seems to be way to big for the task it does.

Indeed, the A-Pillar is gigantic and for sure a disadvantage of the car. I also like the windshield, especially in the traffic light scenario. But the problem is, and that is a physical limitation due to the needed thickness of the glass, light ghosting may be disturbing at dusk.

They should replace interior lights with stronger one. Just did an aftermarket replacement, the original led lights are a joke.

... I forgot the dual wireless phone charger which S/X are lacking. Using after market accessories to add that feature makes your interior craggy and unesthetic.

To be honest, although the iPace charges slower than Model X, it is still one of the fastest charging EVs out there.

There won't be a refresh anytime soon. The interior camera and the wireless phone chargers might be added sometime in the future. Especially as there are now all set options including flat folding seats available the X is a good offer. It is a pitty though that Tesla reduced the color options...

At least it is a start. More than Tesla offers in terms of hans-free driving at this time. Hands-on systems are ridiculous. If I must have my hands on the wheels, I can steer myself anyway.

Cadillac CT6

The S is outdated and seriously needs a refresh. - no internal camera - low supercharging charging speeds - no sourround view parking camera - no gesture controls to open the lift gate - old school climate holes in dash - no matrix led light / laser light - no hands free driving system - no...

I one drove a 911 Carrera GTS back in 2015. This was very fun to drive, more fun than a S P90D, as the handling was much better, stiffer. It was glued to the track. It had funny features as the sound button which made it louder externally by adjusting something mechanically in the exhaust. As I...

Yes, obvoiously, America isn‘t first this time.

Obviously, these changed in some countries. EUR-Lex - 42010X0710(06) - EN - EUR-Lex „Devices for indirect vision other than mirror“ ‘Devices for indirect vision’ means devices to observe the traffic area adjacent to the vehicle which cannot be observed by direct vision. These can be...

Next year, Audi brings virtual side mirrors to production for their e-tron SUV: Here how the 2020 Audi E-Tron's virtual side mirrors will work That is a feature Tesla announced and showed first on their Model X prototype 2013, but it never made it to market: Tesla Wants To Put Side Mirrors In...

Getting personal if one is out of arguments if a well know strategy. Seriously, I don‘t understand how people still buy cars from these companies, independent of the drive train. I don‘t buy from a company when I get cheated, I vote with my legs. If they cheated with diesel drive trains, who...

One of the problems is, Audi is VW. Its the same company group, the same managers, the same mindset. This corporate group has zero credibility any more. They lied to regulators, they lied to customers. All the management knew it. A lot of engineers and workers knew it. Nobody, not a single...

I don't believe that press release BS for a second. If you see how hard Tesla and their CEO has to push to ramp up an EV mass production, I doubt Audi is able to do anything close to that without the leader on board. Though decisions are needed to be done to do the transformation of a company...

It does not seem as Audi will be on the market anytime soon. The boss has been arrested. E-Tron has been pushed back. You cannot push e-mobility without strong leadership. Audi has to solve other problems than the e-tron right now. Seems like Tesla and Jaguar will remain alone on the market...

Ahem, „Tesla Killer“ e-Tron is delayed even more, as Audi boss is arrested in context of diesel emmission cheating: Audi verschiebt E-Tron-Premiere wegen Rupert Stadlers Verhaftung - manager magazin online

The main problem is that the systems today cannot handle some 'obvious' situations like lane dividers, static objects and road works. If these problems are solved, we're dealing with way more sophisticated situations that often also would also cause a human driver to crash. Human drivers also...

Drivers can't do either. Almost all human drivers take risks and drive in a way that it would lead to an accident if something unexpected would be around the corner or behind the hill.

To my understanding, a nag-prevention tool would not apply "constant" torque when driving, but vary it's torque a little based on the road unevenness which causes vertical acceleration on the tool and therefore variation on the torque on the steering wheel.

I could bet on it that you guys are going to buy a german EV. Germans buy german :)

You can get sued for anything. As there is no law that requires an awareness check by the car, they probably cannot get convicted if they would not do it at all.

That may sound odd, but it could even be that the driver might legally be more safe if he used a nag-prevention tool that indicates to the logger that the hands always have been on the wheel. The statements Tesla made about the drivers in the crash cases are really disturbing. You could be...

No. Autopilot is the perfect name for the system Tesla currently has. Similar to early Aircraft autopilot implementations, it does some functions automatically, like rudder and trim adjustments according to a gyroscope based sensors (Autosteer based on line markings) or speed control based on...

There is no law that forbids hands-off.

How did you overcome the software update nagging? ;-)

You mean Elon Musk himself advertising his cars driving hands-free?

Yes we do. With this increased nagging intervall, paired with a flawful hands on detection mechanism, Autosteer is becoming a useless feature. Still worth 6000 USD? I highly doubt it.

This whole thing is not good for Tesla. They lost contact to the customers. Elon Musk really thinks this 30 sec nagging stuff is better for Tesla customers than eye surveillance. "Eyetracking rejected for being ineffective" Tesla is really on the wrong path with Autopilot currently. The...

You also risk the lives of others by speeding, yet no car manufacturer prevents that on public roads. Even worse, high speed is a feature that is advertised. You also risk the lives of others by doing phone calls while driving, yet bluetooth phone integration is a feature that is advertised and...

While it is true that reaction time increases driving hands-off, this wasn’t the reason for the accident in either the white truck crash nor the lane divider crash nor the Uber crash. The reason was people were not attentive and did not react at all (not even braking). The false-faced game that...

You confuse hands-off with not being attentive. The people died because they were playing on the phone or watching video. it is as simple as that.

Teslas move will simply lead to the point where people start ordering Autopilot Buddy or other nag-prevention tools. Autopilot with hands off capability was the reason a lot of people bought the car. They will not accept removing that feature. The flawfull hands on detection is a good indication...

Tesla is making existing cars worse over time, in order to be able to sell new ones or in this case software upgrades. For other electronics, it is called planned obsolescence. When Autopilot came out first, it was a true hands off experience, no nags at all. That is what people bought, and...