I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that last point...looking like an inbred Panamera did this car no favors.

Brakes, maybe. I’m not so sure they’ll bother with suspensions. Why bother modifying the suspension to improve handling when torque vectoring will just do all the work for you? And since rebuilding battery pack requires ripping almost the whole car apart, that’s a much taller order than say, an engine swap. Could be a…

Also, last time I checked, well over 90% of of cars that are currently being made have engines in them. Where’s this alternate version of earth where gas-powered vehicles currently make up only a “small amount” of those produced? And in the future, why would car makers build a lot more cars than they currently do just…

Or we could offer to retrain blacksmiths and leatherworkers, or even better find them jobs in other industries since many of their skills are transferrable outside of making buggy whips and horseshoes.

They’ll sell aftermarket motors, rims, and bodywork. That’s about it.

First Gear:

Problem is, they’ll still need a lot of range if anyone is going to enjoy some “spirited driving” in these things for any length of time.

Given how terrible actual software engineers are at making usable programs, trying to turn a bunch of ME's into CSE's certainly couldn't make things worse. 

Honestly, if there’s something that a cop will get fired over, it’ll be something like needlessly destroying their own equipment. They’re messing with the department’s money. Can’t have that. That’s way more serious than killing an unarmed person, and/or using those same vehicles to mow down protesters angry that you…

Well, they are armed...

They destroyed police/city equipment; surely that’s serious enough to get fired over. This isn’t trivial stuff like harassing people minding their own business, or killing unarmed people.

You can bet that racing and destroying 2 cop cars is the kind of thing that’ll make them unemployable as cops anywhere ever again. Not killing unarmed people, not mowing down protesters with their cars, but destroying their (er, the city’s) cars in a crash where no one else was harmed - that’s what’ll lead to them…

Same thing with “States Rights”.

No one can be more anal about micromanaging than the FIA. 

Tesla wouldn’t compete because they’d have to use someone else’s batteries.

“Hey, I know how to make electric car racing more exciting: let’s artificially limit access to the capacity that the batteries already have every time we have to bring out a safety car. That way, instead of safety cars leading to a bunched up pack and close racing, no one can race each other without fear of running…

Unfortunately we’ll never get it.

To be fair, cars that sound this awesome are in a very tiny minority of cars built anyway. But I’m going to hate having to listen to horribly synced fake engine noises from bros in their Tesla Roadsters trying to make their cars sound more exciting than they are.

You sure they have a history degree, or even a degree at all?

You sure it’s only 10 kts? Giant container ships are usually pretty speedy for freighters. Its top speed should be closer to 20 kts. They usually operate at below their maximum speed for fuel economy reasons, but they’re capable of it. Of course, accelerating up to that speed probably requires a ton of room...