There is also weather to think of. Walking a couple miles in mild spring fall weather sure.  Walking a few miles in the south in August when its 100° and humid AF or up north in a horrid blizzard no thank you.

EVs are not here to save the planet

Something that always seems to get missed in these whiny articles about the joys of urban living.

Um, I sort am in struggling to figure out how that you paying someone else to drive to your place, pick you up, drive you where you need to go is better for the planet than you having your own car. I mean I can understand your wallet, but the fact is that this additional wear and tear on someone else’s car means they…

I don’t mind crossovers, just not crossovers in namesake. GM has SOOO many great names from over the years, just dig one of those out of storage.

“directly related to the upcoming Corvette EV sedan and Corvette EV crossover currently in development”

Where would people get this idea???

I’m not going to stan for Elon, everything you say might be true, but there’s no doubt that Tesla’s manufacturing costs are significantly lower than legacy carriers, they have no pensions to support, they use about 1 human to every 3 at the more traditional manufacturers, significantly driving down labor costs. I did…

No more than New York’s 26 congresspeople or California’s 52.

Care to enlighten us on how may Representatives they have versus those New England States?

per capita, a voter in Wyoming or the Dakotas has ~7x the voting power of a voter in California when it comes to electing presidents, 1.5x the voting power in the house and 78.5x in the senate

The alternator can’t output the voltage or amps needed to charge the EV battery. Most hybrids have the electric motor sitting inbetween the engine and transmission (or in the trans) but the E-ray has the electric motor completely separate from the ICE power train.

In spirited driving, I suspect the EV battery can be…

“At the moment, Wyoming has all of 330 EVs registered in the entire state.”

Hybrid systems usually use the electric motor, not the alternator. The difference here seems to be that in most hybrids, the ICE will spin the electric motor to generate the electricity (when not in power mode or regen mode), whereas the E-Ray will use regen exclusively to recharge the battery.

what I was trying to get at is, unlike a lot of hybrids where the motor sits between the gas engine and the transmission, the E-Ray’s motor never spins up the gasoline engine, nor does it add torque to the rear wheels in any way.

I’m not saying this as a marketing professional, and I don’t know everything that goes into making the marketing materials, and so I’m not 100% sure how they made this image. But, based on my work at a major automaker about 10 years ago, I think a LOT of press pictures that get flack for looking unrealistic are not…

Exactly. $100k is an easier proposition to stomach than European counterparts. That’s not even considering the value for performance of the E-Ray. For the sake of comparison, the CT5V Blackwing can easily crest over $100k and that’s and that’s a way older school car than the E-Ray. And they seem to be selling well. I…

A lot more people have $100k to spend than $200k to spend. I know that sounds ridiculous, but we live in a world where there are 6-figure Jeeps and pickups are routinely 80k+. The Corvette was never a truly cheap car, but for what you’re getting, 100k is relatively affordable and is in a comparable market with other…

$100k is a helluva lot more affordable than a $250k-$300k European hybrid supercar, and decidedly upper middle class. Notice I type ‘the masses’ in quotation and was even self aware enough to say ‘in theory’.

Zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds...just stupefying performance...it boggles my mind that a not terribly expensive car (OK, the dealers will probably bone the buyers) is capable of such feats.