If the plan is to just make EVs and hope they sell to EV skeptical people, then yes, it’s going to fail. Once you’ve satiated the EV curious, the early adopters, etc. you have to start courting the skeptical and that’s a WHOLE different thing. Almost like deprogramming a cult member. Also, the ramp up in EV sales they…

...I only bought my truck BECAUSE it was an EV, first pickup I’ve ever personally owned. Family owned a LOT while I was growing up, every model of Sierra Denali since they started making them. Guess I’m the sliver of overlap. I wanted an EV, I have a family that hauls a lot of stuff, an open bed is nice to have when…

We’d have normally heard about an E63 at this point of the new E-Class lifecycle...but it feels like AMG was caught off guard with the reaction to the C63 E Performance. I’d almost bet money this WAS the E63 E Performance before the reaction to the C63. Before that release I would have said the chance the next E63 was…

Counterpoint: They were grossly too expensive to being with, so I just see it as $50k of depreciation and $20-30k margin grab taken off. I can’t imagine the margins on just upping the output of an electric motor through software. You could get an almost mechanically identical Audi RS etron GT for $150k (which was also…

But he’s focusing on damage. And they don’t sprinkle the money they pay in registration, tax, and fuel over the damaged road like road salt and it’s magically repaired. That requires years of road closures, construction, etc. that wouldn’t be necessary if there weren’t trucks that weigh orders of magnitude more than…

Just to point out, Kyle from Out of Spec got 318 miles out a Hummer EV in the same temps...on REAL off road MT tires (not the all-seasons cut to look like all-terrain Goodyear made for Telsa). And I’ve made a couple 305 mile round-trips to see family the past couple weeks in the high 30s, low 40s where I end up with…

...whew boy, imagine if we had vehicles with 18 wheels that weighed 35,000-80,000lbs...what a nightmare for road damage...the horror if such a vehicle existed.

Good thing my kid acts like their skin is on fire if you try and buckle them in with a jacket on.

Just popping in to say Supercruise is awesome and anyone that doesn’t think so hasn’t tried it.

...we’re talking way less than 1kW in a state where the majority of electricity is nuclear. As opposed to the DC fast chargers these people were lined up for that use 50-350kW. ICE vehicles waste more energy via losses than EVs use in total warming up on a cold morning.

I know Kia and Hyundai still currently offer it, BMW does, Ford did the with the Lightning, and Edition 1 Hummer EVs as well.

Which is another advantage to home charging, even if you park outside.  Your EV can use grid power to keep the pack temp above freezing and in cars with a heat pump and heat scavenging, you’ll get instant heat in the cabin as its using heat stored in the pack to augment interior climate.

The REAL perplexing thing is when car companies offer you the choice of free public charging for a set period of time, a certain kWh total, etc. or a free home charger and installation when you have the ability to home charge.  I don’t know if dealerships just aren’t explaining it well enough but the typical life of…

Car companies spend a lot of time on something 99% of their customers won’t use once. Just make a good EV, not this EQ drivel.

Well, every other slide show on here is a regurgitation of comments listing why your “yums” are “yucky”.

I miss Jalopnik before it became the Hater’s Ball of car websites.

Hummer EV owner here. Just did a 305 mile round trip, 75mph most of the way from VA to NC and back, some sections with a grade of 6% for miles. Ended up back home with 9% battery, so somewhere between 330 and 340 if I had run it to 0%. Lifetime efficiency is 1.7mi/kW over 6300 miles, mostly interstate and highway,…

But, man. If you can get a charger that delivers what it says, it’s magical. Especially if it charges by the minute instead of kW. $11 charge.  17%-80% in a Hummer EV, 135.6kWh delivered in 37 minutes for an average of 220kW over the entire session. Peaked at 344kW, stayed above 300 into 40%, was still close to 200kW…

I don’t think a single ID.4 owner in Asheville, NC has a home charger.  I was passing through on a Sunday trying to get enough charge to get to the next station and home and it was a steady stream of them “charging for the week” up to 100%.

People get all bent out of shape over it being “everything wrong with EVs” but that’s like getting mad at a Huracan for being everything wrong with cars. It’s a recreational/lifestyle vehicle. It isn’t meant to replace a Honda Civic or Corolla for economical transportation. I don’t think GM even planned on making…