In Tennessee, the only time the State Comptroller gets involved in municipal issues, is if there is a likelihood that the city or town can’t cover its debts, or is in some manner in arrears. In that situation, the Comptroller can either designate a specific set of conditions to retain the municipal charter, which has…

So. Another crypto-bro proven to be an idiot. Color me unsurprised.

I know car restoration. I feel fairly competent at engine repair.

The real problem is the electric grid build out, and base generating capacity.  The rest of it is an engineering solution.  We as a society need to get behind enough base load generation in non-fossil fuel sources to make the vehicle thing reality.

While I totally agree with your argument that making the least reliable part of an EV a structural element of the EV is absolute crap for the consumer, note that the car your holding up as an example has only a 98 mile range with a 40 HP motor that delivers 0-60 in 13 secs. You can certainly argue that is adequate for…

This is the way to go. We just need vehicles to be designed for fast-swap processes, then switch gas stations to battery swap stations.

Better yet setup a swap that can work at home as a backup power supply while it’s in the charging station. Sell the vehicle with a spare or two that will hook into the home like a generator.

You know what else works better in China? E-bikes and E-Scooters.

An irrefutable recommendation in and of itself.

To be fair, I imagine that name could apply to most of us here at one point.

On knobbies. With enough power to wheelie right out from under you at the first attempt to ride it. No brakes. No suspension.

Brakes are for the unadventurous.

SUVs are and always will be less safe. It’s basic damn physicals.

All this arguing, and everyone is forgetting the real answer:

Yaris:

Obviously the real threat is the handful of small cars that have the temerity to be casually stopped minding their own business in such a way that the SUV is tempted to mount them.

You do of course know there are differences in energy between what it typically takes to flip a Miata or Corvette compared to these relatively low speed rollovers that are very common with high CoG vehicles though right?

I’ve seen these before, but it’s still gobsmacking how easily it goes over.