An extra point on top of the “electricity rate in your area” is whether you’re talking about public charging like this or private charging. It’s almost always cheaper to “fill up” an EV at home, but when you start talking about regular use of private stations, it easily starts to be comparable to gasoline,…

Why not? That spot has a nice bakery, Korean food, great Mexican, a wine/sandwich place, and a co-op grocery all super close, not to mention downtown Takoma Park proper, which has even more restaurants. Minus the fact that the closest decent coffee place is nearly a 10-minute walk, that is a very convenient spot to…

“Who cares if it burns fossil fuels? It’s WAY more eco-friendly to keep an old ICE car running throughout its useful lifespan than to prematurely commission the construction of a new car.”

The problem with ALL transportation options are cost. Uber isn’t making money, either. Someone’s subsidizing your mode of transportation - the only question is whom and how much.

Right, exactly. And for someone like me, who CAN’T have a charging station at home (city, street parking), this keeps a 100% electric alternative on the table without having to pay for expensive public charging.

First Gear: General Motors and Fiat-Chrysler are paying Tesla because they choose not to invest in making their vehicles more efficient. That is a conscious choice. It is obviously short-sighted, as a dollar to Tesla buys one year’s value, while a dollar invested in R&D, next-gen tech, etc., buys model years’ worth of…

What Ford is suggesting they do is potentially identical to what Hyundai-Kia was charged with and had to pay hundreds of millions in fines for. The question is simply how widespread the error and how obvious the intent. Considering they, too, are responsible for additional guidance memos being sent by EPA after their…

“Which is to say, try the taxi line at the airport. It’s almost always faster and the drivers can actually earn a living.”

NY and AZ have basically the same proportion of EVs (that chart you provided is a single month which showed anomalously high AZ EV sales), but considering the difference in weather and lack of 4WD options, that’s not really surprising. They also have roughly the same level of availability of vehicles, something which…

That was simply in response to the comment on income levels of ppl who’ve taken the credit. Of course they’re going to be “well off” - the average new car buyer is much better off than the average American household, and when half of EVs sold are sold in CA, which has a higher-than-average income, that’s going to…

This is unadulterated nonsense.

Clearly the market is still immature. Manufacturers are still only rolling out models in limited volumes in limited markets. 2020 would be more reasonable in terms of a range of choices across vehicle types, and 2025+ is when battery costs are presumed to drive cost-competitive alternatives to ICEVs.

The consumer label uses 5 test cycles, the city (FTP, based on the UDDS/LA4 cycle) and highway (HWFET) tests everyone knows about, the more aggressive US06, a cold-temp run of the FTP, and the SC03, which is run with the A/C on. These are then weighted based on some real-world driving data measured about a decade ago.…

Technically, it’s at least the second electric Mini - they leased a number of Mini-E’s back in 2009-2011 as part of the project that launched the Active-E and then i3. It also had way more regen than many EVs since - it was very one-pedaly, and I would love to see them keep it on the strong, go-karty side of things…

S is for sucks, indeed.

Only the middle part (constantish high speed between 60-80 mph) part of the US06 “high speed” test gets included in the highway score, so they basically already do this. The first/last chunks of the test are for city, and that’s where the stop/start occurs.

Exactly. It says on the freaking label that there mileage may vary, and the main thing is standardization.

I feel like there’s a conflation in this article with the WLTP, which is just a better test cycle and the real-world testing requirements (Real Driving Emissions), which are an entirely separate, supplemental test procedure designed to ensure conformity between real world and test cycle emissions.

Your example is not zipperable because it’s not a designated merge - there is no choke point. The whole point of the zipper is to alternatively merge at a designated point, whether that’s marked by cones or lane markers. That’s not possible when a lane continues onward but with a solid line marker.

We absolutely were looking into “that safety thing” - it’s just that American manufacturers were actively pushing against safety being something they should care about. Ford came out with a “safety package” in the 50s, and then because they didn’t overtake GM, they were told “safety doesn’t sell” and to get in line…