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What traditional automakers need to learn from Tesla:

The frunk is not just where you keep your chargers!
Extension cord? Doesn’t fit here. Windshield wiper fluid refill? Doesn’t fit here!
Small things I can live without of course, becoz fuck Elon.

But should give the brilliant designers that worked for him back then the credit. Hopefully they’ve left and gotten hired by less far-right companies.

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If you are wondering what vehicles are on my consideration list:

Most likely to get:
- Toyota bZ Woodland / Subaru Trailseeker (mostly for their more wagon proportions)
- Toyota bZ / Subaru Solterra (depends on the price gap between the Woodland/TS over the regular bZ/Solterra)

Considering, but gotchas:
- Hyundai Ioniq 5 / Kia EV6 (800 volt arch is nice, but given their issues that are still going on with it make it questionable for me)
- Honda Prologue / Acura ZDX (Ultium platform with CarPlay and Android Auto!, but vehicle is too large and clunky)
- Ford Mustang Mach E (Looks nice, I could maybe live with a giant tablet in the center, but those non-standard door handles!)

Pass:
- Anything Rivian (no CarPlay, no Android Auto, no effing way)
- Anything GM (same as Rivian, though there is the Honda Prologue loophole there)

Fuck, no!
- Anything Tesla (Need I say anything?)

Some aren't listed due to cost and/or form factor reasons.

🐲 There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away • NYT

「 In China, more wind turbines and solar panels were installed last year than in the rest of the world combined. And China’s clean energy boom is going global. Chinese companies are building electric vehicle and battery factories in Brazil, Thailand, Morocco, Hungary and beyond 」

nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

The New York Times · China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the FutureAv David Gelles
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And later the car said all was well.

Conclusion: enabling the air conditioning while plugged into the home solar panels is bad because the inverter and heat pump are working, even if battery charge is unaffected. Heat is being generated and moved around a vehicle which isn't moving so has no airflow.

I'll program the charger so it only supplies power 07:00-09:00 and have it slowly top up in sunlight, donating the rest of our surplus 1500W to the grid.

And we now know something else about EV use in summer: don't feed it AC electrons -even just for cooling- on hot afternoons,
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The ABRB-OBDII-car connection was pretty unreliable-but the tail of the log zig zags up and down showing the acceleration/deceleration sequences and matching speeds

Which can warm the battery up on already very hot day with the aircon doing its work
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Also notable that in summer, driving up the (beautiful) Wye Valley and then narrow country roads is more fuel efficient than a motorway variant due to its directness and lower speeds. That's even with fairly frequent slowing into and accelerating out of blind corners (B. driving, not me, obviously)
The lower consumption meant that we could drive out and back the next day without charging-even though the pub/hotel we stayed at had a charging point.

Narrow and Windy country lanes it is then, with a caveat...
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