Four things:

This is easily the most interesting Jalopnik article of the year.

Honesty. I don’t think honesty is too much to ask. This Stepford setup and insistence that “everything is perfect” is deceitful. They’d be far better off acknowledging their actual issues, and understanding something about the global car market, outside Vietnam.

Vingroup has businesses all over Vietnam. You might buy groceries at VinMart and clothing at VinPlaza.

Guys who made six figures right out of high school, blew it all on toys, put it up their nose, and/or got some one night stand knocked up.

What if you could sell extra power from your EV back to the grid to make money when electricity is at a premium value and benefit the grid as a whole in the process?

people who are really worried about crazy gas prices probably aren’t able to afford a new car anyways, so it’s a moot question of ice vs electric.

From a $/kJ perspective, electricity at $0.11/kWh (a typical midwestern rate after all the fees, taxes, etc) is exactly the same as gas at $4.03/gal. The unit of kJ (kilojoules) is a unit of energy.

I’ve had six EVs and one PHEV. At no point have I ever wanted or needed L3 charging speeds at home. The Taycan has a 19.2 KW AC charger option, which virtually no one gets because there is just so little need to have faster L2 charging at home, and very few public AC chargers that support that charging speed. Our new…

Dunno I live in Silicon Valley and been at places where every other person has a Tesla and God do they talk about them all the time. And I’ve never heard of any of those people having or wanting a level 3 charger.

You start with a fallacy as no one is doing L3 charging at home, that is known as DC Fast Charging. L2 is fine for charging at home which ads about 30-40 miles an hour to the car. Generally, people drive about 40 miles a day so that would be an hour or hour and half of charging.

Just wait until he moves that goalpost.

I’m not sure in what world average people want level 3 charging at home. I mean sure it’s better than level 2 but the whole use case of EVs is to charge the vehicle during the night and for that Level 2 is far more than enough for anything short of the new Hummer.

5 minutes to charge from 0 to 500 miles of range is insane and will not happen without, like, new physics, or directly tapping 12 kV transmission lines.

“Go ahead and reply about how irrational you feel that is,”

“Are there enough to quell my mental apprehension about the lack of charging stations overall? Abso-fucking-lutely not.”

“Put your order in now for a Ford F-150 Lightning then. They start at $40k”

Do you have a dryer?

Is your daily driving enough that you’d actually need to install a charger? We have an EV and PHEV and we have been managing fine for like 95% of the time just juggling a 110 connection.

I mean, yeah, it is nice to have a level 2, but if I remember the stats correctly, nearly half of commutes are like 35 miles or less.…

81% of Americans live in single family homes (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1042111/single-family-vs-multifamily-homes-usa/). Literally the majority of Americans can charge at home. Also, it doesn’t cost “thousands” to install a charger. I bought my charger for $300 and installation cost about $400.