Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

GreyGhost said:
Long and detailed video about EV brake lights (or lack thereof).

TL: DW Many vehicles with regen don't activate brake lights when using regen. Brake lights are tied to friction brakes only. EU explicitly banned brake lights with regen. They finally passed a revision that brake lights must activate above a certain deceleration which makes sense. The person behind you doesn't care if you are using friction brakes or regen to quickly stop.
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Bolt gen 1 brake lights activated with the regen-brake tab on the steering wheel (great feature, by the way) and with one-pedal driving above a certain deceleration threshold, but they didn't stay when the car was stopped unless your foot was on the brake pedal (e.g. didn't stay on in a hill-hold situation). Bolt gen 2 brake lights stay on when the car is stopped (by one-pedal-driving or by hill-hold) and this is more intuitive to other drivers - although Bolt gen 2 brake lights are the ones that they moved down to the bumper, separate from the tail lights.

Keep in mind that with any old-school manual transmission vehicle, if you were stopped on level ground in neutral without your foot on the brake pedal (common), the brake lights aren't on in that situation, either. The Bolt gen 1 lack of brake lamps when stopped by hill-holder is analogous to that.
 
Brian P said:
Bolt gen 1 brake lights activated with the regen-brake tab on the steering wheel (great feature, by the way) and with one-pedal driving above a certain deceleration threshold, but they didn't stay when the car was stopped unless your foot was on the brake pedal (e.g. didn't stay on in a hill-hold situation). Bolt gen 2 brake lights stay on when the car is stopped (by one-pedal-driving or by hill-hold) and this is more intuitive to other drivers - although Bolt gen 2 brake lights are the ones that they moved down to the bumper, separate from the tail lights.

Keep in mind that with any old-school manual transmission vehicle, if you were stopped on level ground in neutral without your foot on the brake pedal (common), the brake lights aren't on in that situation, either. The Bolt gen 1 lack of brake lamps when stopped by hill-holder is analogous to that.
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I'm mostly unconcerned with brake lights at a stop. I try to avoid situations where I am relying on brake lights to get those behind me to stop. I don't like stopping in a live lane to wait to turn left for instance and at a red light, hopefully the driver behind me sees the red light, if not I will trigger the brakes as they approach. Slowing on the other hand is where brake lights are really handy at letting others know to pay attention. There is a similar argument for engine braking on a bike but not that long ago it wasn't easy to solve. With IMU's they can probably do it easily now.

I changed the coding in my car to put the brake lights into strobing panic mode if abs comes on. If I am having a crap time stopping there is a good chance the person following me will too.

I don't think it ever made it to a production car but various concept cars over time have had chmsl vary in width with braking effort to give people a visual indication on how quickly you are slowing. Interesting but probably too variable and complicated for most people to understand. A simple brake lights on when decelerating at more than 0.1g (or some threshold that makes sense) seems like an easy solution that could be applied to all vehicles.

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Thanks to SAE in 1999, here is average deceleration rate when approaching a stop sign. Obviously this was friction brakes as hybrids were rare but rates should be similar regardless of what applies force. Braking to a stop is ~0.25g so brake lights triggering at about half that level seems reasonable and should avoid most unintentional flickering.

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Evoex said:
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Tesla Cybertruck Immediately Dies in Canadian Winter – Owner Bricks the Truck Trying to Use the Defroster, Says “In Love to Heartbroken on the Same Day”

A brand new Cybertruck owner from Canada says his truck bricked itself as he was trying to defrost it. After the truck died in less than 24 hours, the Cybertruck owner says he went from being “In love to heartbroken on the same day.”
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They furloughed the line for three days as they don't need more inventory. Not only is the waiting list gone, they can pump out way more than they can sell within a year of first deliveries. As expected, this was popular with early adopters but beyond that has few buyers.

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If they cut the price to what was initially proposed (and to a lesser extent extended the range to what was initially proposed), I think quite a few people would plug their nose and buy them as the value seems ok. I can't see that happening ever for this generation of Cyberturd.
 
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I had the misfortune of following a cybertruck at night. Wth were they thinking with rear lighting? Some lights turn off when you brake. Taillights on left, braking on right.

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On a related note, a cybertruck.hit a pothole and shattered the rear subframe. 4 months and 34k USD to repair.


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Tesla Cybertruck Frame Snaps in Half After Hitting a Pothole – $34,000 & 4 Months to Fix, but Owner Says “This is the Most Amazing Truck Ever”

A Cybertruck breaks its rear subframe after hitting a pothole. The incident cost $34,013 and took close to four months to fix. However, the Cybertruck owner says, “This is still the most amazing truck I've ever had!”
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“Still love the truck” is becoming a much mocked catchphrase because CT owners are quick to say it even when it suffers major failures that often strand and/or cost their owners fortunes to fix.
 
Brian P said:

Too big for my liking, but better than expected!

And ... batteries and vehicle final assembly are in Canada.
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I want to like it but not for 100k and stellantis has a history or making non functional electronics. My 23 pro Master has been flaky as hell randomly changing settings every start up, spare keys are not possible etc. nothing that has affected being able to use the vehicle yet but annoying.

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Brian P said:

Too big for my liking, but better than expected!

And ... batteries and vehicle final assembly are in Canada.
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drove the ice version, looks like a boat, handles like a boat, was not an enjoyable experience.
 
I don't like that monstrous single piece front clip/bumper - it just looks cheap to me, at least on the silver one. It seems to blend better on the black and red one.

One wrong curb that hooks the bumper and it looks like you'd pull off the entire front end of your car when you back up.
 
PrivatePilot said:
I don't like that monstrous single piece front clip/bumper - it just looks cheap to me, at least on the silver one. It seems to blend better on the black and red one.

One wrong curb that hooks the bumper and it looks like you'd pull off the entire front end of your car when you back up.
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"Oh no, my splitter guards".
 
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