Big surprise there. Brits, Jags, and anything electrical... they just don't mix. F'n junk. "Why do Brits drink warm beer?" "... Lucas Electronics". (No offense Turv )
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I watched half of that video, and basically they have turned an iphone into a car and hope you will drive your phone around. Electric vehicles will work...In cramped cities where you only need to drive 5 miles to work. I cannot imagine this thing on the BQE in a traffic jam during rush hour when you have only 1/2 your juice left. You run out of power on a major NYC artery in this piece of shit? Will not be a pleasant day.
In fairness, how often do you run out of gas and don't plan to refill accordingly? Sure the 137 mi range is the pits, but I rarely push my gas tank to empty. There really isn't much that will go wrong w/an electric, so the risk of being stranded for a reason other than an empty battery are much lower. Am looking at Ceres Power rather seriously ATM $CPWHF
Another thing, and I don't know if it was mentioned yet in this thread as I kinda just breezed through it... but along with all of TSLA's physical innovations like the drive-train etc... they own about a quadrillion (squared) bits of data. All those cars out there are collecting a digital manifestation of every imaginable scenario and beaming it back to the mother-ship. TSLA's database is literally a goldmine as AI and autonomous vehicle development presses on. The lead they have there is unmatched by any competitor. Its impossible to assign a value to that, but its worth a lot.
About the only thing that is going to strand an EV is running out of juice. And monitoring battery power is easy. All kinds of gremlins strand tens of thousand of ICE vehicles every day. Which is why the Japanese have been and now the Germans are really into Hybrids.