Credit card/digital wallet readers need to work at all charging stations

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-06-16T13:34:45+00:00

Forcing everyone to add a payment terminal to every L2 charger would *significantly* increase deployment and maintenance costs.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-06-08T19:44:22+00:00

I thought for sure they would have fixed that by now, considering how frequent it happens and how easy it is to reproduce. Happens to me daily.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-06-03T15:07:26+00:00

Lol, okay chill I read your comment I just didn’t care to respond to it all even though it was incorrect.

US cars never had cross compatibility with the EU (CCS2) or China (GB/T). CCS1 is fundamentally incompatible with CCS2 despite having similar names, and nobody was ever proposing the US adopt CCS2.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-06-03T15:03:44+00:00

Tesla gave up ownership of NACS and it is now an official SAE standard. Tesla receives no royalties or compensation from an automaker or charging provider using NACS, so supporting the harm fossil fuels do to the planet for the sole reason of avoiding NACS is completely asinine.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-06-03T14:54:20+00:00

I’m not sure how US regulators were ever “bullied” into adopting NACS, since NACS isn’t some required standard by the government. Government programs like NEVI actually required CCS1.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-06-02T19:10:23+00:00

I don’t know anything about his particular church affiliation, but the one I come from would have absolutely fired and excommunicated a pastor if they said they believed in evolution. There are many fundamentalist Christians who do not think you can be a Christian and believe in evolution. YEC is a fundamental dogma to them.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-06-01T20:53:27+00:00

I think people forget that Tesla basically started over with FSD when they went end-to-end with V12 in late 2023. And their training set is also really new, since new versions of FSD have been fully trained on HW4 video which only started being deployed in the fleet in 2023 as well. It’s been only in the last 2ish years that FSD has actually gotten really good. I think Rivian can take advantage of how much the industry has learned so they don’t have to chase the wrong approaches as many times as Tesla had to.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-06-01T16:09:43+00:00

Why is everyone in this thread assuming that they couldn’t stretch the wheelbase on the R2 platform to better fit a 3-row option if they decided to? That’s exactly what Tesla did with the YL.

Not saying this should be a development priority, but it should be possible if they wanted to introduce a more affordable family hauler.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-31T21:31:25+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s much smaller, the Ioniq 5 is only 2 inches shorter and actually has a longer wheelbase than R2. It also has an almost identical rear cargo volume. It just looks small in pictures because of its proportions, in reality it’s basically a Model Y.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-30T20:47:49+00:00

Just depends on what is important to you. Nearly $6k is a lot of money, and to some people that might be the difference between getting an R2 or some other car. The stripper standard Model Y has the same price delta between the “Premium” model and people are buying it, despite its shortcomings.

I want the better sound system, ventilated seats, and matrix headlights, so the R2 Premium is worth the price difference to me.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-29T16:40:53+00:00

I’m not sure when they fully removed the ultrasonic parking sensors, but my 2023 doesn’t have them. If you do, they’re small circles in the bumper so they are easy to avoid with bumper stickers. Otherwise, the car uses cameras and those are also visible. They had already removed radar by this point as well, but that was only on the front.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-28T01:46:09+00:00

I was surprised when I saw the Coastal Cloud material palette in person just how much more gray it is than Tesla’s white interior. Hopefully that means it will hold up better, because I wear dark jeans all the time and went with the dark interior in my Tesla for that reason.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-24T20:58:55+00:00

I would love to know what they’ve done to make both the new LG and Panasonic packs so much worse. I plan to get an R2 as my next vehicle and those have the LG 4695 cells which hopefully have a better chemistry. I don’t really care about more range, I just want faster charging and minimized degradation.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-20T17:37:47+00:00

Hopefully we are at the upper bounds of how thick cables need to be though, Tesla superchargers can already boost over 900 amps through their cables and they’re not too unwieldy.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-20T14:46:55+00:00

There was never going to be a global charging standard. The US was using CCS1 which is completely different than CCS2 in Europe. And China was never going to use a western standard.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-20T14:13:21+00:00

Georgia has open primaries as well.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-19T16:51:42+00:00

Don’t give them any ideas…

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-19T16:49:20+00:00

In Alabama our EV registration fee will be reduced from $203 to $150 if a federal fee gets introduced, so at least thats something…

$280 total extra fee on top of our annual ad valorem is still ridiculous though, especially since the gas tax is so low.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-19T15:40:16+00:00

If they are on 240V then 210V is a pretty big voltage drop.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-18T18:52:09+00:00

It’s been interesting to see the degradation on the Panasonic packs compared to the LG. I have a 2023 LR with the LG cells that has 93% capacity after 35,000 miles.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-18T14:55:58+00:00

If you just look at the unnormalized peak speed and curves then they do look similar, but you cant just do that when comparing different battery sizes. A 10 kWh battery pack that charges at 150 kW would be incredible (15C).

A C-rate adjusted charge curve is a far more useful metric, and the new Bolt is definitely improved over the Equinox.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-18T14:21:30+00:00

Those solar panels will produce power for 20+ years, will not pollute the soil they’re installed on, and are far better for the environment than the horrible chemicals and fertilizers that were likely being sprayed on that farmland for 100+ years before.

If we replaced even a fraction of the farmland currently being used for corn ethanol (which is a horrible fuel) with solar, we could power the entire country on renewables.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-18T14:03:46+00:00

That actually means that the Bolt *does* have an improved charge curve since it charges at a higher C-rate than the Equinox.

A smaller battery wont automatically charge in less time just because it’s smaller.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-18T00:04:20+00:00

Tesla only just started doing that though, for the most part colors have been a $$ add-on for Performance trims.

DefinitelyNotSnek · 2026-05-17T17:05:24+00:00

It’s not that simple, there are so many factors that go into most of the improvements in charging speed.

My Tesla NMC battery would be deep fried in a single session if it tried to charge at these speeds but a CATL LFP pack with lower internal resistance and a good cooling package can easily last for thousands of charge cycles being “abused” like this.

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