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2 Dec
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Leading Paris taxi company G7 has suspended the use of Tesla Model 3 cars in its fleet after a fatal accident involving one of the vehicles over the weekend.
G7 Deputy Chief Executive Yann Ricordel said an off-duty taxi driver was taking his family to a restaurant when the accident happened on Saturday evening.
The accident killed one person, two sources said on Tuesday. Twenty others were wounded, one of the persons close to the investigation said, adding that three were in serious condition.
According to French media reports, the car hit a cyclist and three pedestrians before crashing into a van, and seven people were seriously injured.
G7 said it would suspend the use of 37 Tesla Model 3 cars in its fleet until a police investigation into the case is completed.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ricordel cited Tesla as saying on Monday that an initial inquiry had ruled out a technical dysfunction of the vehicle. The G7 executive said the driver had tried to brake but the car instead accelerated. It was unclear if the car was operating in Autopilot mode.
Jerome Coumet, mayor of Paris’ 13th arrondissement, said on Twitter, “The first elements of the investigation indicated that the accelerator would have gotten stuck.”
VW is preparing a software update for its ID. series electric cars that increases peak charging speed from 125kW to 135kW on the largest 77kWh battery.
The 3.0 software also includes improvements to navigation, voice control, and driver assistance.
While 10kW might sound like a minor improvement (only 8%), it actually cuts charge time from 38 minutes to 29 minutes for a 5–80% charge. The reason for this is a significant shift in charge curve and a slower taper.
Rivian Confirms R1S Customer Deliveries Are Underway
Rivian announces a new $5 billion electric vehicle factory in Georgia
Tesla tells customers it will not honor retroactive Full Self-Driving pricing
Tesla is communicating to customers who have ordered now-discontinued variants of vehicles that it will not honor retroactive pricing of the Full Self-Driving suite to when they reserved their vehicle.
In February, Teslarati reported that Tesla would not produce the Model Y Long Range Rear-Wheel-Drive variant. CEO Elon Musk later stated that the reason was that Tesla has “too much product complexity already.” However, Tesla had originally planned to honor the price of the FSD suite when customers had reserved their vehicles. For example, if the FSD suite was priced at $7,000 at the time of the reservation, Tesla would only charge the customer $7,000, despite its current $10,000 price tag. This was confirmed by Tesla employees in February.
Tesla officially eliminated the Model Y Long Range RWD earlier this month, finally communicating to reservation holders that it had no plans to produce the vehicle. Tesla advised Model Y LR RWD reservation holders to revise their orders by choosing a vehicle that it currently produces and pay the additional price, as Tesla’s vehicle prices have increased since then.
“We’re contacting you regarding your Model Y order [VIN] placed on March 15, 2019. We’d like to help you update your configuration, as we do not build the configuration you originally selected. We’re excited to support you through the process and deliver your reconfigured Model Y at your earliest convenience,” Tesla wrote in an email on December 8th to one Model Y reservation holder, who agreed to pay the additional cost of the vehicle but requested a retroactive FSD pricing as a small discount for having to choose a new vehicle over two-and-a-half years after placing the order.
“I tried to update the design, but the price jumped $20,000! And full-self-driving is now $10K, when I first reserved it, it was less than half that price. Can TESLA honor my original price for FSD since I’m an early adopter?” the reservation holder asked.
However, the reservation holder, who asked to remain anonymous, was told by Tesla staff that the company would not be honoring any old pricing.
odysseus2000 wrote:Rivian makes an all time daily low.
Seems the just announced plans for a new factory near Atlanta have not been received well although it could be any of many other reasons.
Regards,
Tesla Removes Roadster Pricing, No Longer Takes Reservations
With just one prototype shown almost five years ago and now an ongoing pandemic, how does this bode for the Roadster?
Tesla says it has put 2017 battery packs in brand new 2021 cars in strange warning
Tesla has been adding a strange new warning about putting battery packs as old as 2017 in brand new 2021 Model 3 vehicles for sale.
With just a few weeks before the end of the year, Tesla is in the middle of a delivery wave to get the inventory as low as possible.
CEO Elon Musk has told employees that they don’t have to go all out as they usually do this quarter, but the automaker is still trying to reduce inventory to improve its financials.
This includes selling demo and test drive vehicles.
Tesla sells those vehicles as new in its inventory, where they started to show up over the last few days.
Several people have been pointing out a very strange warning that Tesla has been adding to some of those Model 3 “demo” vehicles:
“This vehicle was built with a battery pack manufactured as early as 2017. While this pack was brand new when the vehicle was built, the cells have reduced capacity due to their age and you can expect up to 12% reduction in range from current production specifications.”
We were able to find several of those Model 3 sold in “new inventory” as demo vehicles on Tesla’s website:
The warning appears on Model 3 vehicles that are listed as 2021 model year and have just over 1,000 miles on the odometer – presumably for test drives.
It’s a strange situation that is hard to explain.
Tesla makes it sound like they had old battery packs dating back to 2017 that they decided to install in new 2021 vehicles.
It’s hard to know why without Tesla disclosing it, but the automaker doesn’t accept questions from the press anymore.
Chinese battery cell manufacturer Gotion High-Tech has signed a supply agreement with a major publicly traded US automaker to supply it with LFP cells. Gotion is not disclosing the name of the customer, but there are suggestions it could be Tesla.
The supply agreement covers the years 2023 to 2028 and includes a total volume of at least 200 GWh. Gotion will produce LFP batteries in China and export them to the customer. The partners also plan to localize the production and supply of LFP batteries in the US, as well as jointly explore the possibility of establishing a joint venture in the future.
SalvorHardin wrote:Elon Musk was recently interviewed by the satirical website "The Babylon Bee". This might be of interest to some who read this thread. Please note that the interview is not a spoof, it is real.
There's quite a bit in the interview about Musk's recent Twitter argument with "Senator Karen" aka Elizabeth Warren, who called Musk a freeloader after it was revealed that he is due to pay $11 billion in tax.
Anyway, the entire interview is now on YouTube (link below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGnw1sHh9M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babylon_Bee
China anger after space station forced to move to avoid Elon Musk Starlink satellites
China said its space station deployed prevention collision avoidance control measures in July and October to avoid colliding with Starlink satellites in a recent report submitted by Beijing to the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space earlier this month.
“China wishes to request the secretary general of the United Nations to circulate the above-mentioned information to all states parties to the Outer Space Treaty,” the report submitted by its permanent mission in Vienna read.
It added that state parties must “bear international responsibility” for national activities carried out by both government and non-governmental bodies in space.
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