Exactly. Smaller batteries, less weight, less materials, less cost, faster charging times. The reason why I can’t stand a lot of EV’s is because they just make the battery bigger to get more range instead of making the car more efficient. To me that is just extremely lazy engineering and those EV’s deserve the hate…

Current generation E-GMP platform (Ioniq 5, Kia EV6) is up to 80% in 18 minutes. I would say that’s already about time-parity with stopping at an interstate rest area to fuel up, re-park the car, use the restroom, and the occasional burger grabbed from McDonalds.

Silly me!

That was another cool prototype, the VW XL1 Sport

Lotus’ entire 2010 concept car lineup. But especially the Elan concept

Alfa Romeo Duettottanta Concept

It is a bit criminal that the 2007 Mazda Furai so briefly graced our roads and racetracks, partly thanks to its destruction by fire during filming of a Top Gear segment...

Volkswagen Golf GTE Sport Concept

There are plenty...

Give it a Squareback-like long roof and hatch and it would be awesome.

Does it count as dead if it was never alive?

Ahem... For today’s what if I offer up the BEST option. Datsun 240Z updated and modern with a fully electric drivetrain.

This please.

VW should bring back the Bug as a RWD short range commuter car. They could price it inexpensively due to using less batteries and could call it the “Lightning Bug”

If Honda were to bring out an Element EV, I think that’d sell like hotcakes.  At least around here.  In fact - it’s really an un-developed sector on the whole:  EV Adventure vehicles.  Not SUVs, per se.  Not off-roaders.  But something practical and roomy, with decent range and the ability to throw all manner of dirty…

the world needs a sporty, affordable (<$35k?) 2 seater EV. .

What does it say that I read the title as:

The real answer is always GTI.

I paid under $24K for a $30K MSRP Sport manual in the depths of Dieselgate in early 2017. Sport was basically your car plus a couple more goodies standard. No 2drs by then, sadly, so I am jealous - you have my ideal GTI spec.

A new one would be about 35k I believe