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@lemmy.worldhttps://electrek.co/2024/09/18/volkswagen-halt-us-id-4-production-100k-vehicle-recall/
Volkswagen plans to temporarily halt ID.4 production at its Chattanooga, TN, plant following a nationwide recall involving nearly 100,000 models....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6eq8ABvyYQ&feature=youtu.be
Ford CEO Jim Farley joins CNBC's Julia Boorstin for a discussion on EVs, rapidly evolving vehicle technology, and how drivers' shifting priorities are reshap...
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/porsche-recalls-all-taycan-models-globally-brake-fix
Owners of every Taycan produced since 2020 will be called to dealers to replace front brake hose
https://carbuzz.com/tesla-model-3-awd-qualifies-7500-tax-credit/
So both Rivian and Tesla have or say they are going to have range extenders for their trucks, but in both cases even if they are removable and rentable they are huge as trucks are huge. In teslas case it seems to be a permanent change though.
What about commuter cars though?
One thing we really need is cheaper in city commuters and those don't need a long range. That brings costs down and gets more people into EVs, but those will get relegated to 2nd cars in many cases.
If those commuter cars could go to a shop and get an extender added in the trunk though that would make them much more capable of longer trips as well while keeping costs down.
If the battery rental is similar or less to renting a car for the same period then people would opt to use their own car for the longer trip and all the personal comforts that provides.
The batteries would be much smaller as well for a smaller vehicle.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/19/24008426/volkswagen-audi-porsche-tesla-nacs-ev-charging-plug
The last major automaker to bend the knee to Tesla.
https://youtu.be/GFgGnhRZarY
Lars Moravy, Head of Vehicle Engineering gave Sandy a tour of the Giga Factory in Austin Texas and showed us how they build the panels for the Tesla Cybertru...
I've been following the strike and sympathy strike happening against Tesla and the similarities to what happened with Toys R Us, and I'm left wondering why the financial sector in Sweden hasn't stepped in by now?
This has spread to multiple countries now, so it's not like this is day 1 of the strike.
Do they consider themselves some sort of thermonuclear option and would rather not get involved unless necessary for some reason?
If my understanding is right, they're what forced Toys R Us to sign an agreement since they couldn't effectively do anything like payroll anymore?
It seems like the logical next step to me at this point unless I don't understand something about how the sympathy strikes work there?