For new owners: is it worth it?

[BadgerGreg]

I can now emphatically say yes, the car was worth the wait and trouble.

Absolutely love the car.

I'm glad your drama is over and that you finally have your car!

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[agoldman]

Something is clearly wrong with yours. Many of us are experiencing a modestly stiffer/bumpier ride than other common vehicles (like an Escape in my case), but only modestly (i.e. still in the normal range). You're describing something drastically wrong with your specific car.

There is nothing wrong with the car, it's just a characteristic of having such a extraordinarily heavy battery load to contend with. The cars dynamics have been tuned around that. That will vary from EV Brand to another, but it's not suspension design as usual like for a regular car. It does take some getting used to and many won't ever like it.

 

[dbsb3233]

There is nothing wrong with the car, it's just a characteristic of having such a extraordinarily heavy battery load to contend with. The cars dynamics have been tuned around that. That will vary from EV Brand to another, but it's not suspension design as usual like for a regular car. It does take some getting used to and many won't ever like it.

There's nothing wrong with the suspension in the rest of our cars. But if* he's accurate in his descriptions of his, there's clearly something wrong with it. He's describing things that are like 10x worse than the rest of us are.

* That's the crucial if, of course.

 

[Maric]

I’m coming from years of driving an Audi Q5 With a very cush ride and I don’t feel the MachE ride is significantly different.

 

[FCCinAZ]

Elon has batteries/cars that will provide 500 mile range within two years. Lithium batteries are 90+% recyclable. 'Maybe' there will be a better storage solution because of science and progress, but we're still in the infancy of EV, even though they've been around 15 years.

I don’t care how many miles Elon gets, I can’t believe that we are going to trade drilling dead dinosaurs to strip mining chemicals for our energy solutions. They’re equally harmful and antiquated thinking.

 

[mountp]

No. It is a blue bar that shows randomly on the nav on ipc

I have this problem too. Is there a fix?

 

[timbop]

I don’t care how many miles Elon gets, I can’t believe that we are going to trade drilling dead dinosaurs to strip mining chemicals for our energy solutions. They’re equally harmful and antiquated thinking.

Nice try. No, they are not "equally harmful". Presumably you want to stop ALL mining of materials including iron and copper?

 

[FCCinAZ]

Nice try. No, they are not "equally harmful". Presumably you want to stop ALL mining of materials including iron and copper?

Ah, the dreaded binary choice. You’re right Timbop, stop all mining, let’s wear loin cloths, and forage for grubs. For an instant, think what the scale of lithium, cobalt and boron mining would be like if every car made used them in their battery cells. I’m sure that they’re following strict EPA guidelines in China and Afghanistan where most of this stuff comes from. My point, like so many others that are lost on you, is that replacing one environmentally harmful process with another is only an incremental improvement rather than a true advancement.

 

[milepost1]

I have this problem too. Is there a fix?

no. I found in manual it says it is information. So i asked tech support what information is it trying to tell me. they said they didnt know it was not in the manual.

 

[milepost1]

Ah, the dreaded binary choice. You’re right Timbop, stop all mining, let’s wear loin cloths, and forage for grubs. For an instant, think what the scale of lithium, cobalt and boron mining would be like if every car made used them in their battery cells. I’m sure that they’re following strict EPA guidelines in China and Afghanistan where most of this stuff comes from. My point, like so many others that are lost on you, is that replacing one environmentally harmful process with another is only an incremental improvement rather than a true advancement.

i want to pick who wears the loin clothes! I actually didnt buy the car to save the world. I think less fumes from burning carbon is better, i like cleaner air. Almost everything man does affect the planet negatively since the dawn of man. Even when we were in loin clothes we were bad for planet. Even then we hunted things to extinction.

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