I still find it a bit depressing that there are auto enthusiasts who think this way, at all. I’d thought the multifaceted weirdnesses of Jalopnik—the Radwood specials, the NPCP polls, the design foci, the apparent appreciation—meant people’d evolved out of the whole “if it’s not hard, fast, and loud, it’s for the…

I think this is where we say “right your representative” or whatever to have those situations fixed. The game is definitely rigged for utilities in a lot of places--especially more conservative states--and it does consumers no favors.

Best I know, Kia EV batteroes are made by SK, not LG, and haven’t had any problems. Am I wrong?

Oh, none necessary! 

God, I hope so.

Only thing is that an i3 is more-or-less a previous-generation EV: less range than more modern EVs, even with with range-extending gas engine.

My thought about an Ioniq EV is the rear headroom. Otherwise I’m sure it’d work fine.

Yeah, that’s why I said the Niro EV and not the Kona EV. The Niro will almost certainly have enough space; I agree, the Kona, probably wouldn’t.

Yeah, their situation definitely has “EV” written all over it, like evermore people in the U.S. The Mach-E is a good suggestion, but they could probably get a Kia Niro EV for a steal since the EV6 is about a year out. If they could wait that long, I’d say get an EV6 or an Ioniq 5 for the extra convenience of rapid…

We do have a gas guzzler tax, but it hasn’t been changed since the early 1990's, and--amazingly--it only applies to cars, not light-duty trucks, which is to say...the crossovers and pickups that consitute, what is it, ~70% of all new car sales? It’s stupid little things like this that just leave me scratching my head…

I’ve definitely caught the car out a couple of times, but overall, it’s rare, and the switching mostly goes unnoticed. Even driving more aggressively on winding rural Oregon roads, I usually have to look at the dash display if I want to know what’s going on. Not sure if you’ve driven the latest Hyundai hybrids, but…

“It’s surprising that going hybrid is pretty much the only way for a consumer to make a significant change in fuel consumption.” I mean, only if you don’t get that the most effective way to improve fuel economy in an ICE-powered car is just to turn the ICE off a lot of the time.

The thing is, for let’s say even 60% of people, an EV does in fact do everything they need it to. You can now—for less money than the average new car sales price—buy a fair number of practical EVs with a range of ~200 miles. Especially where most Americans live in multiple-vehicle households, a mid-sized-ish hatchback…

I dunno why this is so often confusing to people. Of course there aren’t a lot of people in the rural areas with low population; that’s what makes them rural, unpopulated areas. 60% of the country’s population live in the immediate metro areas of just 5 cities; over 90% live in the states in which those cities are…

I just don’t know why Hyundai wouldn’t release something this futuristic-looking with a similarly “futuristic” powertrain from the outset. You know more than a few people who’d have considered this a feather in Hyundai’s cap now no longer will. Or, maybe, I am just such a person. I dunno.

Uh, it’s been about 130ish years. I grant you, they won’t outlast the wheel, but especially in the earlier days--i.e., moving from steam engines (which are a type of external combustion engine)--they were substantially more efficient and cleaner-burning than what they replaced. 

Having never so much as driven a Dart or 200, I’m curious what’s so bad about them. Reviews at the time seemed mixed, but not negative overall. They seemed—at least compared to what they were replacing—to be decent-ish cars. I mean, having heard enough from various sources about them, it’s no big thing, but I’m…

I mean, as someone who walks, e.g., to work and the grocery store, the prospect of one of these coming flying towards me is no different from those moronic lifted pickups that litter the roads. I’m going to be significantly killed by being hit by something so big and tall, no matter what’s powering it. And, as someone…

I mean, unless you live in an apartment, you can hook up for home EV charging for a couple hundred bucks. Better (albeit less exciting) acceleration, better durability, better for the environment. I love a revvy engine as much as the next person, but electrification has a lot of pros for non-performance vehicles.

Honestly, extra thought to this crowd. The only thing 99% of the people who would buy something like this care about are imposing themselves on other people via displays of excess. You tell them, “and you can drive 25 miles on electricity if you plug it in at night at home”, and you’ve already lost them.

Yes, I have a…