The commercial is likely geared towards parents who worry about their kids doing exactly as pictured.
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No matter how you look at it, Tesla is still in the best place of any manufacturer.
The dirty little secret is hardly anybody needs AWD. It’s just another way for the car manufacturers to blow the price up by $2-3K.
Exactly...give me 250 miles of highway range and that fits in nicely with my puny human needs of food, water, and other periodic necessaries .
The Kona is terrible. We cant use the back seats in one.
Yeah, there is no satisfying some. We have a 2020 Bolt Premier. We love the car. To date, I’ve never pushed the maximum range. The layout of current DCFC infrastructure won’t allow it. The ID Buzz that is to be another year out past this one is supposedly going to be given the mid 300 mile range with a 111kw…
Like a GTI that is nearly 3 seconds slower to 60 mph I guess. 8.5 seconds, ouch. I’ve driven my friends Bolt and and it certainly feels similar to my GTI within a certain speed range, at least in a straight line, but this thing just sounds pedestrian by comparison.
“literally be a piece of shit”.
I’ve very seriously bounced around the idea of the MINI EV. It is cheap enough that I could daily it all electric and just drive the 4Runner when I’m traveling on the weekends (which is when I want the space and the ability to head back into the mountains where a charger wouldn’t be available). An EV GTI would also…
After 200-250 miles of range, range is irrelevant. What REALLY matters is how FAST this sucker can DC Fast Charge! The Bolt (even the new one), although has a better charge curve now, is charge hardware limited to 150 Amps and can only muster a piddling 55kW?! If this can sustain +100kW DCFC charge rates past 50% SoC…
For an EV the real brakes are the electric motor. The friction brakes are only there for speeds less than 7 mph, to act as a parking brake, and in case the electric motor fails. Drums are more than capable of those those roles.
Despite the criticisms of the range, remember that, for the moment this is the longest range EV crossover/SUV you can buy for under $40k.
This is the longest range EV crossover you can buy for under $40k. How is that a fail?
They said that the AWD will have 300+ horsepower, so I’m sure the 0-60 of that will come down quite a bit
But with instant torque from the electric motors it will probably feel faster than the 8.5s number implies, at least in daily driving.
It’s also larger than the Bolt and also isn’t styled like a $20k econo-hatchback, which should give it a big advantage over the Bolt aesthetically.
Everyone always brings up short range for electric cars if they are sub 300 miles. Who is driving that far day to day?
With electrics the gap between peak power and continuous power is all about cooling. A tabless cell has the potential to create much less heat and disperse it much faster, I suspect battery overheating will be much less of an issue than on current cars. Detail dump below.
The heat produced of a cell is proportional to…
Yea and are we going to skip right over the part where they promised 520+ miles per charge? C&D managed to get 420+ miles out of a 402 mile rated Model S doing cruise control at 65mph. It will be the longest range of any electric car.
No fanboy but the Lucid Air Dream is $169k which is $30k more for a slower car from an unproven OEM. Wouldn’t buy either but the Plaid is the better option.