“The car side — we’re just going to be merely better than anybody else. That’s the easy part for a car guy like me.” This is the attitude they’ve managed to cultivate from the beginning. Fuck ‘em. Why the hell are you going to be better than everyone else? There’s never been any explanation for it. The smugness is…

“We are very fast”? Who runs their marketing dept? I’m guessing either a 6 year old or a very non-native English speaker

My i3 travels 100 miles on approximately 23 kWh of energy. At my normal electric rate of $0.08/kWh, it costs me $1.84 at my current average 4.3mi/kWh.

Well, when your definition of liberal is such an absurd strawman, it makes it hard to find a party. I’m going to guess you describe yourself as a libertarian?

GM is sourcing much of the vehicle from LG, including batteries and most of the electronic bits. LG themselves have been building out battery production capacities...they just aren’t as vocal about it as Tesla is.

That’s right, because a dealership isn’t going to do anything except pass along services from the OEM. Because a franchise should invest nothing in order to make the customers experience better, or in order to retain customers, unless the OEM pays them to do so.

It isn’t Kerbeck’s fault — this is totally on the OEM. Most car companies have a loaner program or at least something to provide for a rental. Kerbeck isn’t going to do this out of their own pocket!

I work down the street from Kerbeck. I assume I will see more of this car than you will.

The only thing that resembles “Microbus” with this is calling it a “Microbus”. It looks like a Kia Soul. Secondly- I’d be a tad suspect about an Electric car made by a company that can’t even make reliable electric power windows.

On the sliding scale between state-run communism and unregulated capitalism, they’re a good deal closer to the latter than the former. Your description of a cronyist oligarchy sounds more like Russia than China.

the two neighboring communist countries

Stay tuned.

Doesn’t every car manufacturer have a variable architecture? Vaporware fam. With every tech blogger fawning over this, I hope the automotive press rips this thing the new one it deserves.

That’s a really weird comparison.

Hydrogen is just fundamentally a stupid fuel for transportation. The energy density is too low. In order to carry enough hydrogen in a small enough space, you have to supercool it into a liquid. Then you have to put it into a very strong, carbon-fiber tank. In order to actually keep the fuel, you have to keep the tank…

Hydrogen just costs too much, and will for at least half a century.

5th gear: hydrogen is just a bad choice as a transportation fuel. It won’t account for much of the market, as the drawbacks are just too severe.