Recent content by Tâm

There are evils and bad people in the world but that doesn't mean the capitalist system doesn't know how to work with them. If Tesla NACS goes extinction, remember there are other charging networks who love to take over, especially now it's SAE J3400 for the public and it is not monopolized by...

Rivian, GM, Ford, Mercedes... All announced building their very own charging network. Charging stations (or even the perception that they will own one) enhance their values.

My favorite feature is range. Lucid has the longest EV range in the US. If I want more, it has to come from China with 648-mile, 150kWh NIO ET7: https://www.electrifying.com/blog/article/nio-shows-off-ultra-long-range-battery-with-650-mile-trip-on-single-charge

As expected in Tesla's firing and hiring history. It repeats itself: The Director of Charging North America Max De Zegher, who was fired with other 500 Supercharger employees, is now re-hired after 2 weeks: I don't agree with destroying the whole Supercharger department in the first place...

What's that popping-up white disc on top of the front roof?

Multiple Lucid owners have different home chargers, and they work with Lucid fine, although you might need to configure them correctly. For example, with Tesla brand, you need to make sure you "commission" it as "all" and not just "Tesla." I guess you mean that the Chargepoint Schedule Feature...

Loss is expected in a new company. To get profits you need sales with a higher price than cost. To get sales you need brand recognition. Getting people to know a brand can be expensive. Once people know your brand, lower price might be a motivational factor for sales. Offering low price at...

I think your Lucid comes with a VIN. When you look it up, it would tell you what year model it is no matter when it is sold. Some manufacturer would sell a current year car at the end of the year as next year model but its VIN would tell you so. I bought my Lucid near Christmas of 2022 and I...

Yes. Layoff can be a tool to demonstrate which one is the boss. Rebecca Finucci pushed back, so collective punishment was deployed, and her whole department was gone. Maybe, but I think it's more about personality conflicts. He doesn't like Rebecca Finucci talking back to him instead of...

I didn't get this article until now: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-may-rehire-some-laid-off-supercharger-staff-report-2024-5 It's a well known secret of layoffs and rehires. It teaches workers who is the boss. Also, in a layoff, some workers might lose some benefits such as incentive...

Yes. Lucid says 2025: https://lucidmotors.com/stories/lucid-adopt-nacs

There have been reports that the Ford adapter does not work on Bolt and Rivian: That is expected because Rivian and Bolt were not registered by their own companies at the time when the video was made. It's not the adapter. It's the registration. Registration must be done either by the car...

Agreed. The adapter does not have the processing power to filter out ineligible cars that are not on the contract list. Agreed. True, but there's more than that. Tesla is adding other companies in batches: Ford and Rivian now and GM next. A slow rollout can solve the problem of being...

Although I don't agree with the Supercharger layoff but I don't expect it has much effects to non-Tesla such as Lucid. I suspect EV charging is not a very profitable business just like gas stations and movie theaters that rely on pop corn and soda sales. Thus, it's a blinking target in a...

True. Tesla is not a very good educator. Their own customers have not received an announcement of welcoming non-Tesla. It doesn't have a Public Relations. Its physical signs say "Tesla only." You can't blame Tesla owners for doing what the physical sign instructs them to do: "Tesla only."