Probably not, but not many (if any) do it to the extent of the chinese.

Lyckily it was only a loaner I had for a little more than a week.

It’s the 75kW on a DC charger thats slow, decade old cars are getting better speeds than that and cars a couple of years old are 200kW+ on DC with some peaking at 300kW.

The 7kW AC charging is also annoying because they limit it by using single phase charging, especially if you’re in a country where 32A single phase current is not normal in residential areas. Then you’re limited to 16A which is only 3.5kW, meaning you can barely charge it in a night. There is just no good reason to do single phase charging on new cars.

I could also live with low range, as you said it’s intentional to keep battery price low. But the damn charging speed is also bad, which is arguably more important than a large battery and doesn’t impose the same price increase as a large battery.

Regarding driver assistances like TACC, I’m not sure how you could be satisfied with it’s performance at all, it is by far the worst I’ve ever tried.

He said it was under ฿1M Which is $30,000 US. I was shocked.

That’s what heavily state subsidised and controlled manufacturing will get you. Not saying it’s bad, but it is just the reason they’re so cheap compared to many other brands that are not subsidised as heavily from their government.

I’ve only tried the peugeot 208 electric version, but my God is it an absolutely shit vehicle. Terrible range, terrible charging speed (much bigger issue than the limited range), bad driver assistances. Their TACC is about the worst I’ve tried with random phantom brakes all the time and poor reaction time (both reducing and increasing speed). All in all it feels much cheaper than it actually is, which is too bad.

Except that, despite their usual MO, they did actually fix it so people didn’t need to buy new devices.

Until Tesla allows other shops to do repairs, those swastikars will never be economical even if you ignore the Nazi part

Everything on them can be fixed by a regular mechanic, and Tesla isn’t stopping it (at least not in Europe). People are getting 3rd party special shops to fix HV batteries and motors on old model S without any issues. Brakes, suspension, steering, LV electrical (windows, lights, handles etc.), AC can be fixed by anyone without issues. And aside from body parts and a few specialty components (their “octovalve” comes to mind), it’s mostly standard auto components that can be bought from 3rd party manufacturers without giving Tesla any money.

Edit: a model 3/Y door handle is around $100, of course still expensive but also far below your $1000 example, and on par with an original handle for my old ass Peugeot 308.

Hopefully they can hit some middleground so we don’t end up back in the crazy button-hell that cars used to be. Having a billion buttons is equally as bad as having none.

I’m not yucking in their yum though, I’m clarifying why I have the opinion I have, because they said they were curious. The yucking is entirely your projections, I even start the response by stating it’s my opinion and not objective truth.

Yeah I don’t think TUIs are a great way to interface with most things. It’s a needlessly outdated method and provides an unnecessary barrier to less technically inclined people, and when a GUI interface is present anyways it just kind of dumb. TUIs are slower to execute things with than GUI 99% of the time, and always less intuitive.

I hate this ridiculous nerd trope of loving TUIs, it’s getting old and over used.

I prefer adguard home, much better UI and updating it is easier…at least compared to last time I tried where i had to SSH in to the pi-hole to update it since it didn’t allow it through the web interface like adguard home does. Not a big issue, but still a little annoying compared to just doing it from the web interface.

Hopefully, the company can send out a server-side fix in short order.

The Chromecast (2nd gen) and Chromecast Audio are two of Google’s oldest devices, with both announced at the same event in September of 2015.

Yeah those are likely considered dead and abandoned by google, they will probably not give a shit about it.