But they provide facial recognition of familiar people. What kind of doublespeak is this?

Did salesforce swoop in and save them or something?

Better equipment too.. Alpitronic makes a beast of a unit.

This is going to be like gas for the convenience store -- a loss leader to get people into the brick and mortar.

Generally, hybrids and PHEVs wouldn't be utilizing level 3 chargers.

Toyota held back because they put all their chips into hydrogen and failed miserably. Set themselves back a decade.

You understand you can track the tag without making it sound an audible alert, right?

I think you're sorely underestimating the amount of people that type 'Facebook' in their address bar to reach fb.

It certainly got close to that. If you haven't watched, definitely check it out. Pretty amazing show.

in an alternate future where the Russians beat us to the moon and Apollo never ended, we did this in 1973..

If they (BYD, Nio, etc.) get into our market -- which they're currently artificially limited from competing in (because, you know, free markets!), they're going eat our lunch.

And we will deserve it. Soundly.

I am ashamed of where we are headed on so many fronts.

Let's be clear -- the thing that solved this was actively heating/cooling the battery packs. The failure of the leaf batteries was due to being passive.

Battery failure is between 1-3%.. akin to engine failure. They are finding LFP packs retain their health for far longer than thought as well.

Big oil told you wrong.

This entire story both sucks and blows.