Yeah, but like I said, the diminished capacities were due to poor design of thermal management systems for the most part. I still think leasing an EV is the way to go for the next 5 years so, by then longevity issues should be a non-issue for the most part.

Li-Ion batteries will improve, but only so much. Just as NiMH batteries before them, and NiCad before them and lead acid before them. Next up, maybe Magnesium-ion, aluminum ion, graphene batteries, or something unannounced. It looks like they might be overcoming the major materials obstacles.

They already do last 8 years. Hell, most of them are warrantied for 8 to 10. They will last longer than that. How well they hold their capacity depends how well their thermal management and charging methods were handled.

Sure, I live north of DC. Come take it for a spin.

I’m sure that happens in a lot of places, but I’m pretty sure Portland is an outlier in that sense. It’s Portland fer crissakes! Seriously, though, valid point but it also makes my point. If EVs are legitimately and in serious volume replace IC cars, range and infrastructure will have to be beefed up so that the…

We agree on most things, but this is just wrong. Where did you even get this notion? I’m happy to be proven wrong. I just read complete historical accounts of the 2008 and 2012 elections, from primary to general election. There are multiple chapters about choosing the running mate, but the…

It’s the face you make when someone accidentally drops a sexual innuendo in a super-serious office meeting and you want to laugh but you look around the room and realize you might be the only one who picked up on it... From here on out can we just call that the Stacy Dash?

I’m 100% sure she did not get the joke.

I assumed that the silence was because she is so irrelevant that 90% of the crowd probably didn’t get the joke? You have to know that she’s been saying dumb shit to even get that he’s trolling. Somehow I don’t think most of the people in that room keep up with what Dionne is saying on Fox News.

This is what bugs me about “weaponized” Keynesism economics. The right hates government workers, except police and military (which oddly are the two most intrusive, violent, no education required government jobs). Some kind of massive civilian worker corps to rebuild infrastructure is a no-brainer. We need the…

I was up on the North Slope of Alaska a few years ago in an office of British Petroleum. There was a chart on the wall showing their oil and gas reserves. It was shocking. There’s enough natural gas up there to power all our cars for a hundred years or more. So far there’s no way to get it to the lower 48 or incentive…

I wouldn’t. Honestly, it’s just a pipe dream. It’s not *really* my car to be honest. It’s my grandfather’s. The money just isn’t there.

LOL

Bout 2 hours on most review sites if i remember. It had overheating problems that’s why im waiting for the next gen before i purchase one

Right?!? While I’d protest if this article was written about almost any other man, I’m kind of OK with being nasty about Hitler.

You don’t need to defend Hitler, this isn’t the hill to die on.

Proof that dogs are so saintly they don’t care if you’re literally Hitler. They like you anyway.

The sole sad thing about dingle dick’s death was that he took his dog Blondi with him on that last day.

The car was very much not moving when the ICE kicked on, all on its own.