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Tesla Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors) is an energy + technology company originally from California and currently headquartered in Austin, Texas.
They produce electric vehicles (with a heavy focus on autonomy), batteries, and energy/solar products for the grid.
Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.
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It's not actually that over the top, Tesla beats the Ford Pinto in percentage of fire-based deaths, a car most well known for catching fire.
To my knowledge you can't, at least without a level of rewriting the car's code that you'll effectively be writing the whole car from scratch. Just buy a different brand, literally any other brand of electric car.
The moment you need any replacement parts you're giving Musk money. Tesla does not provide repair parts to repair shops. I work at a repair shop, ask me how I know. If you call them and request a part they will tell you to bring the car to them and then hang up on you, so, hope your car never needs maintenance because it isn't getting any outside of a Tesla shop.
Even if we could get parts we still refuse service on Teslas at my shop because they're such a liability risk.
Is that because they are the largest share of EVs? I hate Musk and Tesla too but EVs in general have fire risks that ICE cars don't have due to the batteries. I think a more fair comparison would be Tesla vs. Other EVs rather than Tesla vs. all cars. EVs are worse than ICE cars if they catch fire because the giant lithium battery bank right under the passenger compartment and this is kind of true for any EV and not just Tesla.
You may be correct. Unfortunately all I can find are statistics about electric cars vs gas car fires. It is a known fact however that several Model S EV's have caught fire while just sitting there parked, I haven't heard of that from any other manufacturer but I haven't heard all news there is to hear.
Why can't we have EVs with a similar electromechanical complexity to golf carts? We don't need fancy internet enabled tech, just the bare minimum controls and safety systems required to operate a car.
I think they definitely could, you just won't get one from Tesla because that doesn't match their brand image.
The Slate trucks seemed like something that was pursuing this idea.