They are costly to service, maintain and expensive parts if needed.
With electricity so expensive, where is the gain over petrol, etc?
Especially when it takes up to 6 hours to charge.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 17^th, 2026 at 5:04pm:

Sell out to Communism.  Traitor.

"Tesla is rated as safest EV" says Elon.
Meh!
WHOMPY WHEELS: The Complete Collection: Volumes 1-3
by Keef Wivaneff (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition
See all formats and editions
In 2016, Elon Musk called my NHTSA complaints "fraudulent" on Twitter. It took eight years, but the federal investigation he dismissed eventually confirmed 426 real suspension failures — not the 40 he claimed were fake.

This is the complete story, all three volumes in one book.

Volume 1 tells you how it started: the salvage-yard pattern I noticed years before anyone else was looking, the Federal Court case Tesla brought against me, and the whistleblower files a court order later forced me to delete.

Volume 2 is the hard evidence, laid out defect by defect: phantom braking that drops a car's speed by 20mph for nothing, brakes that don't work when they're actually needed, tire wear owners aren't told to watch for, door handles tied to real deaths, and the suspension recall — the third attempt at the same fix — that finally arrived in 2026.

Volume 3 goes further than either of the first two. I'm a bit special! Read on to find out why in the first chapter. I trace the exact suspension part through Tesla's own internal service bulletins, years of paperwork admitting the problem before any regulator caught up. I dig into why Tesla's automatic braking still can't reliably stop for something crossing its path. I document a software bug — a car that drives forward when the driver selects reverse — reported by owners on three continents for eight straight years. And I go back to the Federal Court case itself, using Tesla's own words, still sitting on their own website, to explain why a company would fight that hard to bury a leak it never actually needed to survive.

Every claim in all three volumes is sourced. Every document is real — NHTSA complaint numbers, official investigation reports, Tesla's own service bulletins, court records, and photographs.

Do the Chinese EVs take Double AA batteries?

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 17^th, 2026 at 7:11pm:


Yeah - I'll have to pay that. 

WHOMPY WHEELS: The Complete Collection: Volumes 1-3
by Keef Wivaneff (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition
See all formats and editions
In 2016, Elon Musk called my NHTSA complaints "fraudulent" on Twitter. It took eight years, but the federal investigation he dismissed eventually confirmed 426 real suspension failures — not the 40 he claimed were fake.

This is the complete story, all three volumes in one book.

Volume 1 tells you how it started: the salvage-yard pattern I noticed years before anyone else was looking, the Federal Court case Tesla brought against me, and the whistleblower files a court order later forced me to delete.

Volume 2 is the hard evidence, laid out defect by defect: phantom braking that drops a car's speed by 20mph for nothing, brakes that don't work when they're actually needed, tire wear owners aren't told to watch for, door handles tied to real deaths, and the suspension recall — the third attempt at the same fix — that finally arrived in 2026.

Volume 3 goes further than either of the first two. I'm a bit special! Read on to find out why in the first chapter. I trace the exact suspension part through Tesla's own internal service bulletins, years of paperwork admitting the problem before any regulator caught up. I dig into why Tesla's automatic braking still can't reliably stop for something crossing its path. I document a software bug — a car that drives forward when the driver selects reverse — reported by owners on three continents for eight straight years. And I go back to the Federal Court case itself, using Tesla's own words, still sitting on their own website, to explain why a company would fight that hard to bury a leak it never actually needed to survive.

Every claim in all three volumes is sourced. Every document is real — NHTSA complaint numbers, official investigation reports, Tesla's own service bulletins, court records, and photographs.

Gnads wrote on Sep 18^th, 2026 at 2:50pm:


This is where solar batteries come in. By storing excess solar energy generated during the day, a solar battery allows you to use your own renewable electricity at night or during cloudy periods. As energy prices rise and feed-in tariffs fall, more Australians are considering battery storage as a way to maximise the value of their solar systems.