900 miles

My response is that the problem isn’t an “EV” problem...it’s a “cars are too big and heavy across the board” problem. Whether it’s a battery on a sedan or a fully-boxed-frame on an SUV, they do more damage due to weight.

We shouldn’t be advocating against EVs, we should be advocating for tighter restrictions on vehicle…

Right, but NBM343 is complaining strictly about weight of vehicle and damage it does/can inflict on the road and on pedestrians compared. It doesn’t matter if it’s a 5000lb Fiat or a 5000lb F-250 SD...they’re both going to have similar negative impacts, regardless of vehicle type.

That wasn’t your original point, that’s just what you decided to talk about instead now.

This is a non-starter for me. I need to regularly haul my camper, boat and 3 ATVs uphill through the Rockies 1200 miles each way twice a day.

Conversely, we can still put a smaller battery in the same vehicle and run an easy 200+ miles with 500+ lbs saved, aka still way way way more miles than the vast majority of folks drive in a single day.

Also, the Lucid Air GT in its current form weighs no more than a Chevy Tahoe, of which there are hundreds of…

his point, among many is that this battery is smaller and lighter than competitors. This car isnt carrying around a heavy arse load of highly flammable gasoline that makes the car more deadly for others in a crash. You obviously have some anti EV bias, might want to check it.

Yeah, that huge battery (118 kWh) is about half the size of the Hummer EV / Chevy Silverado EV battery and contains the same amount of energy as 3.5 gallons of gasoline and just knocked out 523 miles on a charge at highway speeds.  Your point?

Perhaps when 20 somethings can afford rent and food first, then maybe they’ll start buying sports cars. Till then, we’re stuck with the meagre offerings available now.

Mustang is a Pony Car, not a sports car. Different category.

The order of operations are what? Miata/BRZ - Mustang/Camaro - 718 Porsche/M4 - GTR/911 - Lambo/Ferrari.

Polestar 2's starting MSRP of $48k is spot on the average new gas car price, so I think that’s fine. Of course the bang-for-buck ratio when comparing specs against Tesla for example isn’t great.

New? BMW 4-series coupe. Yeah, the former BMW tech that hates BMW is willing to admit it. By the time I option out an Ecoboost Mustang to be as nice as the BMW, I’m within $3000 on the purchase price, and the 4-banger Mustang’s resale value is crap, the BMW has a better transmission and has a better engineered chassis…

For a turn-key track day car, a 6th gen Camaro SS 1LE is tough to beat.  A track alignment, some DOT 4 brake fluid and it’s good to go beat up on most anything else on the track.

Tesla Model 3. First, some caveats: Elon Musk deserves every bit of hate he’s getting, and many of the criticisms of the 3 and Teslas in general are real and mostly justified. But my experience with Tesla has been that, while there are a bunch of little annoying things that they do worse than every other automaker,…

I like the Aston Martin Vantage and DB 12 and DBS 770. The Valhalla is an eyesore. I like the McLaren GTS and Artura and think the 750S is an ugly cartoonish homer.

There is just something about the Continental GT that is just the perfect balance of masculinity with a Feminine touch that just sits well with me. Especially in this green oof.

Unless Tavares is carrying a shitload of quality new product in his bags as he flies across the pond, I don’t know what trip to the US to cheerlead/motivate/terrorize the troops is going to accomplish.

At every company I’ve ever worked at, the last person you’d want personally handling the nuts and bolts of the business is the CEO. That person knows the least about the actual day in, day out grind of the business of being a business. The CEO is there to attract investors and lobby for contracts, government…

I’d buy one if it was an EV, as I am post-ICE.