Add the environmental affects of tires too - all that weight eats tires faster. 

Actually I’m curious how multilevel parking garages will deal with the weight increase. I’m sure they are designed with an expected average vehicle weight, plus a safety margin. If the weight of all the cars goes up 25%, that will directly eat into the safety margin.

I’d add that these are low end daily drivers—a person’s only car. They cannot just not afford the cost, but the transportation the car provides for the weeks or more that it would take to do the conversion. All that for less functionality. Even using salvage batteries (which could be different depending on what…

You’re not wrong about the Mach-E crate motor, but the prices I’ve seen mentioned on this site for various crate motors seem kinda spendy. I think the average worker is getting junk yard motors (or re-manufactured if they feel like throwing some cash around) for their project cars.  

Exactly. Who on earth is going to spend 2/3 the cost of a purpose built EV to convert a daily driver the end result of which will be 2/3 the usefulness of either the ICE DD or an actual EV.

Let’s count the reasons why this is a bad take:

Yeah, my NA Miata is keeping its ICE. $10/gallon for synthetic fuel will be inconvenient but not world-ending when it gets 35mpg and needs about 5 fillups per year.

Solid list Jason. We ran into the Wienermobile last year and my kids got wiener whistles. I can confirm that they are, in fact, loud as shit.

I tried to find data on this but could not, and as someone whose job involves math, I cannot let this stand. If the average is $45K, that does not at all imply that half the vehicles sold cost more than that. If the MEDIAN were $45K, then yes. But it is extremely ease to construct a data set where 9 of 10 values is…

PHEV Crossovers (which are more common and more efficient than their SUV forebears anyway) are the actual answer, whether anyone likes it or not. And the RAV4 Prime was doing well before the shortage. 

Consider how dumb the average person is.

This time, it’s just a failing administration grasping at straws to increase its approval rating.

Except people are paying all their fees to the state DMV and their relevant road tax and fuel tax as well as insurance to drive their imported cars on the road

Nah. If you’re vaccinated, it’s endemic like the flu. Keeping things shut down for vaccine holdouts is dumb. Get your booster, MAYBE get a test if you’re really worried and enjoy the holiday. 

Sincere question: How is something somewhat better than an immediate 10 percent raise and an $8,500 ratification bonus, plus 5 percent raises in 2023 and 2025, a big loss?

as Tesla hasn’t found any less demand even though Tesla buyers haven’t been eligible for the current tax credit in a while.

Your way is far to simple and creates no class or political divides.  Therefore it is DOA.

In retrospect, the non-UAW BEV makers should have reframed this as a selling point.

I’m also in this camp. Anything cheap enough to ask for as a gift I can just buy for myself any old day. Christmas gifts just force me to *not* buy things for a month and a half so everyone can feel good about handing everyone else fifty bucks or whatever. It’s sort of farcical really. All I really want to do on…

You’ve gone full Tracy, never go full Tracy.