Electric Vehicles

When a silver Rivian R3 prototype rolled on stage during the automaker’s R2 reveal event on March 7, the audience’s eyes sparkled and jaws dropped, followed by cheerful whistling and whooping. Few other EVs have triggered such enthusiastic reactions in recent memory.

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Not really surprising, but sad to see.

Who is this helping?

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Three things are no secret: 1) Elon Musk benefits more than any other individual from Tesla’s success, 2) Elon Musk has gotten extremely involved in political matters (emphasis on “extremely”), and 3) many people won’t buy Tesla products because of those first two facts.

So, the recall is more than the rear camera, there was a software/hardware combo problem that could cause the HW4 computer to short, which took out major functionality on the car without the computer.

~ USD $18,600

The EX30 was the 3rd best selling electric vehicle in Europe in January–November 2024, only behind the Tesla Model Y and Model 3, previous CleanTechnica Car of the Year winners in their debut seasons. In November, the Skoda Enyaq and Volkswagen ID.4 were also higher than the EX30, while right behind the EX30 was the Volkswagen ID.7 in 6th place. As you can see, the ID.7 came in second in the CleanTechnica Car of the Year voting in Europe. That said, it wasn’t close, as the #2 ID.7 and #3 BYD Seal combined had the same vote share as the EX30.

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