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The newer 3/Y already addresses both suspension and noise. Not the refreshed 3, the one prior.

Seems like the responses ignore that fact that it’s not illegal to have a monopoly. It’s illegal to unfairly use your monopoly to prevent competition. That’s what this is about.

SoftBank made a ton of stupid investments like WeWork and was bleeding money. They needed to cash out their ARM investment to recoup major losses.

You do know that lidar has resolution and a vacuum doesn't need high resolution for its needs vs a car?

It's suicide to have a one-direction patent sharing agreement. The whole idea of patents these days is defensive patents to avoid mutual destruction. That's why patent trolls (companies that buy and hold patents, but don't actual make anything) are so bad for the industry.

The CCS-1 connector is designed by committee and objectively worse than NACS. NACS is smaller (cheaper to make and less heavy to use), require smaller wires, can support higher wattage. Also, the significant majority of EVs in North America already have NACS and the significant majority of chargers also has NACS. Superchargers are slowly rolling out Magic Dock so that CCS-1 EVs can use Superchargers. I get the hate on Tesla (or more specifically Elon), but NACS is simply better for everyone.

Tesla did not force Ford to adopt NACS. The announcement is from Ford, not Tesla. Tesla is already opening up Superchargers using Magic Dock for existing CCS-1 EVs. Ford sees the benefit of NACS and simplifying the experience for their customers to the largest charging network. Looks like a win-win to me.

CCS type-1 (North America) and CCS type-2 (Europe) are NOT compatible. And China has their own standard.

They wonder why they have to obey humans

Several big issues with swap stations:

- charging allows for parallel charging while a swap station would allow for 1 vehicle to be swapped, so you could have a line of cars waiting to swap that would take just long or longer than charging

- swap stations need full size battery packs that could otherwise be used to sell another BEV

- battery degradation would upset folks who had a battery with 100% range only to be swapped for a used battery with 80% range

- unless they carry different form factor battery packs, they are limiting their vehicles to same size packs basically forever, so forget about larger packs or smaller packs depending on vehicle size

Their bz4x shows har far behind they are (not to mention wheels that fall off)

Does that include however big their teams are who have been working on an EV and AR glasses for a long time?

AMZN is completely propped up by AWS and AWS growth is slowing.