Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:12:05 +0000
We’ve now taken a long road trip with Tesla FSD Beta 10.69. Here’s our report on how it performed. Background — What Is Tesla FSD Beta? There are three different levels of driver automation that Tesla drivers have/can get. Every Tesla car has advanced Autosteer and Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC). Autosteer will keep you perfectly […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:10:44 +0000
Increasing numbers of electric vehicles bring new problems. As New Zealand heads towards an EV market share of 20% (or as any country does), what should one do when travelling and staying at AirBNBs and motels? This question was recently asked on the NZ Electric Vehicles Facebook page. How do we manage charging at holiday […]
Credit to Author: Jacek Fior| Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 02:34:47 +0000
Our crew of EV journeymen from Poland have gone to the far north, to the farthest point west in Europe, and to the farthest point south in Europe on EV journeys — in a Nissan LEAF, a Porsche Taycan, and a Volkswagen ID.4. This year, they are going to Europe’s most eastern point (not counting […]
Credit to Author: Jacek Fior| Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:00:23 +0000
It’s been over a year since the last EV trip to the outskirts of Europe by the journalist team of WysokieNapięcie.pl (unchangingly, the #1 analytical site for energy and technology news in Poland). That was when they were travelling to the southernmost point of continental Europe — Punta Marroqui — in a Volkswagen ID.4. Regular […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2022 01:44:56 +0000
By David Morgan, Plug-In NCW Newsletter We just completed a 5-week, 8,300-mile family road trip to the Canadian Maritimes and back again. Although we’ve been driving electric cars since 2014 and have logged almost 200,000 EV miles, including several multi-day road trips in our 2018 Bolt EV, this trip was unlike any we’d done before. […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 03:55:08 +0000
There are still new service stations being built around me in my home town of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Every time a see one going up, I think, “I hope that the business lasts long enough to repay the costs.” I don’t visit a servo any more. When I first got my Tesla, I used to […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:51:37 +0000
Caravan park owners and managers are being told to prepare for a big influx of electric vehicles, especially when big SUVs arrive that can pull a van. The concern is that the cost of installing infrastructure and the supply of electricity might be too big a burden for some parks to bear. On our trips […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:21:30 +0000
How many countries could you visit in 24 hours? How many could you visit in an electric car? That’s what the company “What Car?” wanted to find out. Actually, the people at What Car? wanted to do more than figure out their limit — they wanted to set a new world record. Did they succeed? […]
Credit to Author: Iqtidar Ali| Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:01:52 +0000
Even 5 years back, no one would’ve imagined an electric vehicle reaching anywhere near the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest (Mount Qomolangma in Chinese). But the ever-expanding network of Tesla Superchargers has made it possible. A Tesla Model X and a Tesla Model Y have reached the Mt. Everest Base Camp. The incredible journey was […]
