You are a small thinker who has not driven an EV. The acceleration is nothing like a IC. It’s torquey, insistent and smooth.

Riding an IC bus is a horrible experience in torture as it jerks with every shift and fills your ears with unwanted noise. An electric bus is smooth like a light rail train. Smooth, confident…

Gee, great argument. “If everyone went EV right now.”
Since that’s not how it’s going to happen, your predicted problems aren’t going to happen unless people don’t plan for them.

People will adopt EVs relatively slowly in proportion to the installed base of vehicles, and the infrastructure to accommodate them will…

Charging infrastructure is a minor point issue once there is a market to support it. And most people will never drive cross country. For a lot of people, charging infrastructure will be in their house. Apartments are starting to install them, and in cities, charging can be installed anywhere high energy power lines…

Charging infrastructure is a minor point issue once there is a market to support it. And most people will never drive cross country. For a lot of people, charging infrastructure will be in their house. Apartments are starting to install them, and in cities, charging can be installed anywhere high energy power lines…

Lithium is old tech that will be phased out. There seems to be a lot of activity in work on graphene batteries, superconductors and hybrids of the two, and one company is supposedly shipping.

Sampling of current work on future batteries:
Graphene: https://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-batteries
This company is either…

Foresters seem like SUVs. They are stretched up.

Foresters seem like SUVs. They are stretched up.

Is that still a thing? Or only on the turbo cars?

I have never met anyone IRL who had the blown HG problem, and most I’ve read about involved turbo models. I live where 1/5 of all cars seem to be Subarus.

My wife bought an Outback when we lived in Los Angeles. I think it secretly whispered in our ears to move to the Northwest, where it would be home. And now we live in Washington where every road in our area looks straight out of Subaru commercial.

You people with your Euromobiles.

I think if they’re getting better highway mileage, it has to do with gear ratios. Someone else mentioned that if they have the hybrid system set up right, electric torque boost might kick in to prevent downshifts. The highway cycle in EPA testing has slowdowns and accelerations in the profile, so it’s also likely the…

I think if they’re getting better highway mileage, it has to do with gear ratios. Someone else mentioned that if they have the hybrid system set up right, electric torque boost might kick in to prevent downshifts. The highway cycle in EPA testing has slowdowns and accelerations in the profile, so it’s also likely the…

Big cannons seems largely in character with attempting to turn the clock back on everything else.

I don’t think a weapon like this is designed for peer warfare. It’s an asymmetric warfare weapon to be used where an enemy can’t fight back at a distance.

Big cannons seems largely in character with attempting to turn the clock back on everything else.

I don’t think a weapon like this is designed for peer warfare. It’s an asymmetric warfare weapon to be used where an enemy can’t fight back at a distance.

It’s probably best for work trucks in urban-suburban areas, not farmers hauling cattle to a distribution center.

Brand loyalty is kind of a suckers game. No reason to be loyal to Ford if they stopped making what you want. I liked GM, but they didn’t bring the Astra VXR hot hatch to the US. So I bought a Focus ST. I like it, but Ford won’t be making hatchbacks anymore. So I’m moving on.

Brand loyalty is kind of a capitalist fake…

Declining sales: potential harbinger for long overdue recession.

Aren’t Ford’s CUVs based on cars? So the Fiesta survives as the Ecosport, the Focus as the Escape, etc? What about the Focus RS? That’s arguably a CUV :)

I’ve got a Focus ST. It most likely won’t be replaced by another Ford, though I love the car even…

This is why. And batteries are only getting lighter, more powerful and cheaper. Tesla’s engines have two moving parts, the Ford engine has at least 116 moving parts. Plus the extra transmission parts, supercharger, etc.

That Tesla is 1100 pounds heavier. 

Most car batteries are made up of little 3.7 volt 18650 batteries. So are e-bike batteries. They’re around 3 x 3/4 of an inch and cylindrical. And they wire them together to make massive batteries.

Ford just has to find places to stuff them. It can be where the gas tank used to be. Plus the floor of the car. Plus the…

Imagine how much fun Miatas will be when they finally poke their heads above 200 horsepower. Which really makes me feel like, we know they’ll get there eventually, so why is Mazda wasting our time? And really, 200 hp is still kind of weak in an NA car.

Mazda is just arbitrarily picking a horsepower number to achieve…