It is weird for you to see different things in two totally different statistics? Hauptuntersuchung != Pannenstatistik.
The first checks whether it is safe to drive with this specific car on German streets. The second is about how often the ADAC had to help people whose cars broke down.
Accidents/breakdowns per 1.000 cars is obviously not the same thing as number of failed inspections. Also: All new cars in that price range have excellent stats in the statistic you mentioned.
I suppose those inspection failures are often about unused break pads. Perhaps Tesla should prompt the user to occasionally use breaks to keep them from rusting?
>> To ensure brakes remain responsive in cold and wet weather, Model 3 is equipped with brake disc wiping. When cold and wet weather is detected, this feature repeatedly applies an imperceptible amount of brake force to remove water from the surface of the brake discs.
Definitely: Some manufacturers do this for other onboard systems (e.g. exhaust gas treatment). Tesla should use the break pads occasionally instead of relying on recuperation.
your link refers to "pannen" which means breakdowns, e.g. your car dying on the highway.
OPs article refers to a report by TÜV which inspects cars every 3 (for older cars every two years) to ensure that they dont have any flaws and are compliant with regulation. This inspection is mandatory in Germany.
source: am German, but not a subject matter expert.
Compared to any car. The f-150 lighting (not that I would ever buy a pickup truck) is less expensive and higher quality than the cybertruck. Once companies that actually know how to make cars fully invest into electric, small time players like Tesla and rivian will be in trouble.
The EV-specific failure they cite first is that they're finding EV's have reduced braking performance, basically because people are relying on regenerative braking to the point where their brake pads are rusting apart.
Usually this sort of thing only happens to the handbrake, e.g. to drivers of vehicles with an automatic transmission that place a lot of faith in the performance of their transmission's parking pawl.
If this sounds weird you probably haven't driven in Germany.
I love driving there, but if there's one country where I'd buy that a substantial number of drivers are OCD enough to have trained themselves to literally never press the brake pedal, it's the Germans.
I wonder if they ever consider moving side lights into steering wheel that happened with newest revision of Model 3, so their location keeps changing if you turn steering wheel. Colleague has it and he hates it with passion, I was even surprised this could pass european homologisation since its obvious security risk.
When you say "side lights" you mean the indicators or what an American might call "blinkers"?
There does seem to be a lot of innovation for innovations sake at Tesla. Like putting in a yoke style steering wheel but not actually going the whole hog to make the turning response dynamic. Or moving critical features into the on screen menus.
It's innovation for the sake of cost cutting, nothing else. Putting buttons on a steering wheel isn't innovative in any way (or at least it hasn't been for the last 20+ years), but it is cheap.
I don't have particular interest in that. But I suppose having access to poorly executed examples of such is important to the folks that do. In the same way having access to Shein is important to folks that think the world needs more environmentally friendly fashion.
I'll keep using old car models that don't require child laborers removing several tons of material from the earth to satiate my personal environmental sanctimoniousness.
Do you have a source for your claim that cobalt/rare-earths are used in conventional cars to the same extent as electric?
And my point all up is that no new vehicles should be mined/built/purchased, at least while any old reasonably efficient one remains drivable. And that is what I have done. Pulling a bunch of lithium out of the earth isn't better than simply using what we already have made.
Are you referring to the ~4 grams of palladium/platinum in a catalytic converter? That does not seem comparable to the many kilograms of cobalt/rare-earths in an EV.
And have you recanted the statement that ICE cars use cobalt and rare-earths anywhere near as much as electrics do?
> Almost every purchase of a used car causes a new car to be built & sold.
No, the only cause of a new car being built and sold is an individual deciding that a new car is a good choice for them. Them selling their old car is a result of that same decision, not a cause. And that decision comes more and more nowadays from a misguided impression that "my old car is bad for the environment, I must buy a new environmentally friendly one to be a good person".
When you buy a used car, you are removing it from the market making it unavailable to somebody else who wants a car. That other person may buy a used car instead.
When you buy a used car, you increase demand, raising prices for used cars. This makes new cars relatively more attractive.
This article has platinum ore at 50oz/ton, or 1,400 PPM. Do you have a source for your claim that it is in fact one third of one percent of the stated value? https://technology.matthey.com/article/7/4/136-143/
Edit: I see now that it is in fact 1,400 PPM of some intermediary matte, not raw ore. Th matte/ore ratio is not stated. But that matte is nickel/copper rich, and the platinum is in some sense a impurity in the existing ore that would likely be mined for its other metals anyways.
Even still: not all ore is equal. Platinum mining is a heavily industrialized process where machines do the hard labor, cobalt is child labor camps digging.
Those rules are only there to keep new car companies from becoming competition to the existing car industry. Once you are big enough, they don't really apply.
Given there was a recall, a $1B fine, and a judgement that VW must refund customers the full cost of the car, they clearly do apply. Saying people must be imprisoned is moving the goalposts.
Elaborate? Germany issued recalls and is forcing VW to pay back full price of the car, in response to USA issuing rebates larger than what Germany originally did, and South Korea sent people to prison. It looks like everywhere punished them.
Everyone that has been convicted has been convicted to probation for some minor or major fines. People don't get the full price back but can sue* to get the car bought back at a reduced value depending on the age and kilometers driven.
* there has been some work to get something similar to a class action law suit against VW going but it's hardly the same severity or consumer protection like in the US.
Just because EU has weaker consumer protection in areas it actually matters than USA (preferring performative legislation such as GDPR, but I digress) doesn't mean the rules don't apply. They just don't apply to the severity you personally think is fit.
I wonder how biased TUV is in this report. I guess I will never know because I don't read german. It does sound odd to see Tesla at the top in a market they share with: Skoda, Logan, Citroen, Renault, Seat, Fiat, ...
You could maybe say that German cars are are built taking the German inspections into account, I doubt it's high on Tesla's list of concerns (both in terms of being a US company and market size, for now).
https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/autokatalog/marken-mod...
Ah, okay confusing. The original link is about quality issues. The individual statistics are about breakdown statistics.
So quality wise, checked by the TÜV (prerequisite for operating a vehicle in Germany) - not good.
Breakdown statistics, tracked by the ADAC (largest automotive club in Germany) - excellent.