The Ultium platform is a dedicated, ground-up, EV only platform, so that doesn’t track for the Equinox EV.

There are other advantages to FWD besides cost and packaging savings (which don’t really matter in EVs, as you pointed out.)

Well, at this point any business can claim that even having to provide healthcare coverage violates their religious freedom since their holy text doesn’t have any proverbs, passages, books, etc, on healthcare.

Probably gonna stuff a hellcat into it and send it off into the wild. 

And yet...I have an EV as my only car and have regularly made road trips. Does it take a little longer due to charging? Yes. But it’s fine and doable, and road trips aren’t my primary use.

I think what the person was commenting about was they weren’t seeing any big gas-station style “price” signs along the highway, so therefore there wasn’t any EV charging that they were aware of.

Amortizing a common platform across more units and sharing factory space is the value. As long as Porsche products aren’t generally in the same market segments that VW/Audi sell to, it’s a win-win for both companies. 

Most EV drivers will tell ya that 1-2 hours on a L2 is almost worthless. I mean, it’s not nothing, but it’s close to nothing. Fast chargers capped at, say, 50kW, will probably be the sweet spot for Ikea. Slower than 305kW fast chargers, but fast enough to charge most EVs in about an hour, give or take.

Porsche has collaborated with VW pretty much since they split off as cousins of each other after WWII. An IPO wouldn’t really change much from an engineering and technology-sharing standpoint, it just moves numbers around in the accounting books.

With malls declining, pretty soon it WILL be the Mall of America. Errr..the Mall of Sweden at that point.

Exactly. Saw a comment once “I’ve never seen these charging stations along highways.”

EVs don’t fit all use cases, at least not yet. However, they fit my use cases, and I have been driving EVs for the majority of the last decade, regardless of whatever new argument EV critics have conjured up.

The main thing that kills the Bz4x for me, style-wise, is those stupid unpainted little pieces on the front fenders. 

Well, yeah, there’s no need to run a driveshaft down the center of the car. It’s just as easy (engineering wise, anyways) to make it RWD vs FWD. Maybe even easier since you don’t have to deal with the mechanics of powering the front wheels which are also in charge of steering.

Knowing Toyota, it’ll be equipped with a 5", 16-color, 640x480 resolution screen, with touch sensitivity so bad you’ll think you’re going to break the damn thing before it registers a touch.

$1,000 isn’t even close to enough to pay for the extra time one would spend on public transit vs. a privately owned vehicle. Even gridlocked rush hour traffic is going to move faster than most public transportation arteries, plus there’s the bonus of going door-to-door in your own car, instead of having to cover that…

“only” managed to get $550M so far. That’s still a pretty good amount of VC for something like this to at least maybe get a POC up and running.

You know what’s good about this, though? EVs have become mainstream enough that cross-town rivals can start bagging on each other.

I think the government already has a process which captures CO2 from the atmosphere and refines it into fuel. It’s apparently very energy intensive, but if aircraft carriers (and their nuclear reactors) can use it to make jet fuel at sea, it reduces the amount of pollution created by having support vessels bring fuel…

Not true! ^^That Guy^^ Knows! /s