Dunno. I’m pleased to see more EVs. I need a tow vehicle though, so a truck/large SUV EV/PHEV that can tow. If Tesla can deliver a 500 mile range Cybertruck, I might be interested despite its ugliness. If RAM puts a range extender in a 400 mile range EV pickup, which it suggests it might be doing, I might be all in on…

so, for example, me?   I have a 19 foot trailer I take everywhere, including to a ski resort last week, where I did in fact not use my A/C.  

between Austin and Carlsbad it’s also possible to find yourself short of a gas station if you’re not careful.  

It is an idea that seems both awful and genius at the same time.  I wonder if any examples exist today.  

On one hand, I don’t care for it. On the other, it’s the only truck promising a 500 mile range option. If they deliver, and that as you know with Musk is a very, very big if, I might be on board. I can stomach a lot of ugly for a respectable range because if I buy a truck at all, it’s to tow. The only other one that…

I remember as a kid my parents looking at these on the lot, but they were out of our range and we bought a conversion van instead.

That said, I have seriously thought about buying one of these to renovate, and IMO, if there were an RV that could handle an EV conversion, this seems like one of the better candidates.

Tha…

I liked these when they were sold for a year or two: 

I could see this being blocked on anti-trust grounds, but we’ll see. My experience with Frontier is that it is somewhat better than the others, but YMMV.
I will say this: when you add normal things like a carry-on and/or a checked bag, you are now in the same price band as Delta and the other major airlines and I…

That’s all well and good, but for my limited energy dollars (and limited dollars for buying a car), I chose the most bang for the buck: installing solar PV on my roof.
This also does not factor in the significant environmental costs of fracking, which is used with particularly high frequency for NG production, at…

I’m not going to quibble over 20 - 25K, I just know that both numbers are out there. But the number of EVs on the road is not a factor in this number. It’s the emissions from building the thing.
And the only other factor is going to be access to renewable power sources to plug the thing into.

Yes, this is another irony of BEVs—a great use case is city driving, except for charging infrastructure, which ruins it.

The charging speed problem is one that’s getting closer to being solved though.... the 800v charging capability on the new Hyundai and Kia vehicles that claim 80% charge in 18 minutes is pretty…

1) It’s more expensive and I don’t have the money.

Easier to buy an EV when your driving radius is usually shorter and your public transportation options are pretty good in most places, among other things.   I’m not belittling Norway here, but I am saying that the US government needs to step it up if they are going to get better EV/PHEV adoption in the US.   Also, um,…

They actually believe this at Tesla because they argue that it is safer than manual driving. The flaw in this argument is: the data is lacking and if you scare people off a new tech, they won’t touch it for a very, very long time, as witnessed by the example in the article. Note that a New Yorker article described a…

Yeah, some are stupid, but a lot of these I don’t have a problem with. My dad, who drives a lot of the year in Wyoming, has a large front end guard on his truck. Since I’ve had the pleasure of having an elk step out in front of me while traveling on a dark mountain pass, I’m not going to begrudge someone that.
And the…

I love the Spark, but it’s not great on highways, and the US has some of those.

That’s not going to play out like you think it will in suburban sprawl land, as much as I wish it would. We just got a $1T infrastructure bill passed. That means we are $9T in arrears. Americans are going to pick big car over a little big bigger taxes.

The only problem with that is that I hate Google, and well, all the FAANG companies with equal fervor.  

I buy Apple accessories when they are in the discount bin--I do this by keeping my iPhone for 4 - 6 years.  Honestly, the fact that Apple supports them that long is a point in their favor. 

I paid ~$13K for an rPod instead of $50K for this...that’s the difference.  I have done about $2k of mods over the years and it will go to about 80% of the places people will take this thing.  That’s quite acceptable to me.