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Hey, maybe I want to get on a small bus that couldn't make it over a pothole.

Excellent video critique. One of the thing that might not be know to many of your European viewers is that California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed into law that an edict that all electric vehicles sold in the state, beginning in 2027, will be required to have bidirectional charging capability. This is so these cars can act as storage batteries for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) or vehicle-to-home (V2H) scenarios. Tesla has famously avoided bidirectional charging, with Musk stating as far back as 2015 that it would "damage the batteries." But in subsequent years Telsa began manufacturing many of their standard range Model 3s and Model Ys to run on lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells, which is exactly the same chemistry found in solar battery storage installations. So, bidirectional charging shouldn't have any ill effect on these EVs: basically debunking an old Musk urban myth. So, for the Cybercab to be sold in California - and we all know that won't happen before 2027 - it's going to have to include some sort of cable charging interface. I don't know if there is such a thing as bidirectional induction charging. But if there is, it's certainly going to be more complex, more expensive and less efficient than what is being used now.

5 gets you 25 the shovel-faced, creepy cretins next 'genius' offering will be the RoboHEARSE.....

The problem it solves (or was meant to solve) is Tesla's crashing stock price. Elon himself said if they don't have FSD Tesla is worthless. This was a delaying tactic to hold off the wolves and he hopes time (and a boatload of GPUs from Nvdia) will find a solution to the hole he has dug for himself.

LOL spillage..

The "safety" angle of self-driving is coming from a USA background, where it is well known the driving standards are very poor compared with other 1st world nations. In the "Land of the Free" a driving licence is like a God-given right, so they are handed out like confetti. In some states the test is just once round a car park. There is a TH-cam genre on how shocked Americans are on encountering the UK driving test.

Musk want you to run a fleet of Robotaxis - ie run a taxi company. Yeah, like everyone wants to run a taxi company. There is a reason why people who run taxi companies tend to be very hard-bitten types and often a bit shady too.

To understand the Robotaxi, you need to understand that Musk has phobia and vendetta against public transport. He is on a mission to destroy it. In the presentation he showed a clip of thousands of people on the London Underground, and Robotaxi is supposed to replace this. Now just imagine each one of those people in a Robotaxi on the (already very busy) street above, and you see what BS his ideas are.

Citroen: traction ctrl off - ok. Also Citroen: wow buddy we are going over 50kmh, let me put that traction ctrl on for you pal.

All good points. Thanks.

Oh, I‘m talking to my Citroën C1. I tell her that she is a good girl and that I love her. No knobs on the steering wheel, no touch screen, no A/C, no electric windows no nothing etc. But small, unsafe, not enough power… really? I own an old iPhone to play with and this car to drive with. I’m old fashioned… 😊

Meh, more SUV's, I wish they'd make some cars.

What's nuts is the robocar would probably sell a tonne with that design! But it's total lunacy for a taxi design (which should be like the new VW van).

steal-lantis the "s" at the begining and end is for SHIT

Supreme Tesla Hater, Top Tier

This guy really hates Elon. Some people just get fixated on hate and that's all they see. Got here because of auto play. Thanks TH-cam

The biggest issue this solves is the need to spend 20-40k on a car + all the liabilities of owning a car (insurance, getting sued, going to jail from a DUI).

The power grid can’t manage the EVs we already have let alone millions more. Electricity still has to be made renewable is not going to cut it there will need to be many more nuclear plants to produce the energy needed and those take ages to build there will be blackouts caused by this push for EVs. They actually do heaps of damage to planet being built and when it comes to disposal even more the induction charging is going to be causing fires everywhere they are a load of S#!t but people keep falling for the snake oil.

GFY

You are funny 😂

Honestly thought it was a weird move to remove the sensors from the car i feel much saver if the car sees more than i do when its driving with autopilot Still i don't trust it on european city streets. But i like the car (model 3) its fast its affordable second hand and its fun to drive

Cleantechnica had an article A New Era in Transportation that addresses many benefits as well as potential drawbacks. More congestion was predicted, but cost went down dramatically for many, especially low-mileage owners and 2nd cars, and all regular taxis would be replaced by robocabs since they would be 3x or something cheaper. Its a good read.

I think it's an option... not everything has to absolutely solve something. i definently get your position. however, id say, what you folks across the pond i guess "mock mercilessly", to that i'd just say "like a balloon to a blimp pimp". we would actually consider that a point of pride. i dont see whats wrong with being excited about, and supporting potential innovation. trying through a collective of concepts and ideas to maybe better humanity in our time. I personally would love to be able to divert my attention elsewhere as I'm transported around. i do enjoy driving but it can be a pain. I believe with the technology where it is today and advances in ai, that eventually it would be safer to be transported by fully autonomous vehicles. I'm not opposed to the combination of technologies to achieve this goal. your fog example does, at first glance, speak to the benefit of infrared as opposed to vision based tech. As I'm sure there are many instances of the opposite. as for the stock pump... your saying the guy that once wrote on social media that the stock price was out of control and to high, put on an event just to pump the stock price. even though anyone involved in this company knows that when they drop news or have an event the stock price goes down. anyways as an investor in the company I do appreciate counter points

Ah the automotive world and bad ideas. An iconic duo. I'm still not quite clear why a circular knob is better than a stick on an automatic. Because I have to look to see where the knob is when I put it into reverse or drive.., but on a stick, I can feel without looking what position I am in. At least car makers have been backing away from touch-sensitive buttons on steering wheels. Wow was that stupid.

Why do you call him Elmo? That’s insulting to Elmo, Elon is enough of a joke his name should be a worse insult

This may be the dumbest video I saw this week but it also was quite entertaining.

For wireless charging, A big resonant coil will be way more efficient than a phone charging coil. it will be at around 90% efficiency. I just do hope that Elon asked to correct questions and correct insights before having this designed.

Most of Stellantis sales come from selling bulk amounts of cars to leasing companies and through the commercial vehicles. They gonna last at least 100.000 km and then scrapped. They don't care about quality

The Robotaxi is all about compression through shared hyperutilization, meaning why own a car when you could pay $100-250/month instead of $400-800 per month in owning a car . We have more than about 1 billion vehicles on the roads globally that are drastically underutilized. A Robotaxi fleet of 100 million vehicles at 5-10x usage compared to the current ownership model of driving 1-2 hours per day means that there will be 80-90% less vehicles on the roads over the next one to two vehicle cycles (15 year average vehicle lifespan). Electric battery technologies are in their absolute infancy. There are tested battery chemistries that have shown gains of upwards of 20x of current battery chemistries in production today. These efficient chemistries will likely become commercially available in the next 10 years and improve over the next 10 years after that. Combine reduced battery weight, mileage gains with better chemistry, additional automation (Optimus robot), and AI integration and we will more than half the cost of a vehicle in the next 10 to 15 years, yet again. The numbers Musk states will be crushed over time. A $30K Tesla that lasts 1 million miles costs $0.03 per mile, future vehicles will go 2-5 million miles or be more efficient and could weigh close to half of what they are today. Charging per mile is currently upwards of $0.05. Let's just assume another $0.02 in overhead/cleaning/AI and we are at $0.10 per mile in base costs, and be further reduced as renewables and nuclear energy half charging costs over the next 20 years.

90% of cars and taxi is 2 people or less. taxi is expensive as you have a driver salary to include in the price. most taxi,s are combustion engine. hard profile tyres give you massive range. per mile will be very cheap.

Common sense would be to simply strip down a model 3 and use that. What sane person would try to sell you a 2 seater as a Taxi

I’ve never seen someone contort themselves so much to place their head so far between their ass cheeks. What a 🤡

For us introverts the great advantage would be there is no danger of having to talk to a human driver 😂

Dunno why you felt the need to point out how he speaks as your first point

America captured a building sized rocket. No other nation did that 😂 also what problem does robo taxi solve? Use time, the time doing nothing will be cut down. This is a fixed cost in every vehicle. One vehicle does 5x the work of a non autonomous system. So the cost is 80% cheaper. I'd get in a self driving car when the data crossover happens. I'm not a fan boy, but I am a fan of math, and ultimately, all I care about is numbers. Elon Musk doesn't have similar positions as me on important topics. But that doesn't stop the objective view of reality.

The RoboVan is quite cool. It looks like an enlarged Daft Punk helmet that is able to move around. Does it sample music while driving? I’m curious. BROMPTON folding bikes are now available with 20 inch wheels! That’s an innovation! Easy to use, safe, affordable. Oh yes: only one seat! Damned… 😅 I’m looking forward to your next video. It’s fun to listen to you… 😊 See you »»» Martin

I think Peugeot had a good 75 and 91 line up as well. Renault had a good 75, 91 not so much.

The robo taxi seems pointless with only 2 seats, If I'm going out with friends, we car share; this means we'd need 2 cartaxi things instead of just one car.

Those same tyres are branded as 'Westlake' Zuper Ecos in the UK, and they seem pretty decent from what I've seen. In fact, that's the brand that Hubnut put on Desmond, their Perodua recently. Hopefully they perform well for you.

Determination. ❤

As touring riders, we see this straight away. Strange experience in Paris when I drove there from Switzerland in 2017. I didn't see a single C5 tourer in Paris in four days. I assume that the reason is the length of the car and it is suboptimal for city traffic and the underground car parks there. How do you see that? CX5, epoch-making model! Regards, Rolf

I installed them three years ago, but they are of little to no use. Best, Rolf

agree with you. Freedom, mostly relaxing to drive, the practical application of transporting people and luggage, closed, quiet capsule in which no one talks to anyone stupid or noise doesn't make you cough on you, complete flexibility. cheers from Switzerland, Rolf

Been using GT Radial for quite some time, and they are not bad, for budget tires. Do 40-50k in the rear and 60-70k in the front (yes, i wear tires quicker in the rear than in the front on the c5 x7) Have a look at GT Radial. It have good reviews

It‘s nice to see you again. And Ian on your channel. With your new tyres I wish you « bonne route et bonne chance ». See you next time »»» Martin

A-ha! Objection! Somebody went with XL tyres and that's *not* what the car came from factory, you literally went for more sportyer feel. 😊 I had non-XL and they would bend in "semi-hard" cornering (at least at the front). I do like XL more myself, but then again I'm on normal springs. Just some information I just happened to know of, chears!

I have never had good results with cheap tyres. They usually either have soft compound which grips well and wears poorly or they are rock hard and give poor wet grip. For a good Midrange tyre I like Falkens.

Really shocked you went for cheap tyres. I suspect its your rear suspension / tie rods re why you only got 10k on your last set.

Thanks for your videos, I always enjoy them. I also have a passion for my c5, which is in great condition.