Not sure I’d go that far. Remember most pickups just go to and from work with the occasional trip to the home store or helping a friend move. I can easily see the “mid-size” market (Ridgeline, Ranger, Colorado, Tacoma) being an ideal starting point. Most are not heavy tow platforms, they’re commuter cars with beds,…

Industrial facilities too are perfect for this, only downside will be making sure there are enough places they can be plugged up to charge on the shifts they’re not being used. Toss in a few fast chargers near the snack bar and my facility would rarely need gas powered trucks.

But you have increased their pay by 66% and potentially moved some families above the poverty line, which is a HUGE deal for those people and the economy as a whole as that $13 billion would go back into the economy. Currently much of it goes to share-holders and likely stays in some investment portfolio, which again…

They are also one of the only countries researching and building new nuclear plants. Besides, the US wouldn’t have much room to talk if it weren’t for all the cheap natural gas, which is where a lot of our new electrical generation capacity is coming from today.

If you keep the car plugged in then the preconditioning he talked about happens on AC power and doesn’t sap the battery, so you end keeping the car plugged in all the time. If it gets especially cold where he’s at there are also heaters to protect the batteries which will also suck battery life if the car is not…

So your complaint is that they aren’t using the cars as smartly as they could be to minimize the cold weather losses, and that’s true, but that only introduces more variables and complexity which is not what you want in a study. It also doesn’t compare the ICE and EV vehicles on the same plane, which is always the…

The LEAF does have heaters to keep the batteries from getting too cold, just no method for keeping them from getting too hot. However the heaters are typically not for preconditioning, just for preventing damage and so only kick in when absolutely necessary as far as I’ve read.

Any more I think they keep beating that horse just because it gets people like us to reply.

Unless the tech changes on one side dramatically I agree. Regen is often limited by the batteries ability to take charge fast enough, especially with low temps or higher states of charge. An ultra-cap allows maximum regen, most of which goes right back into the next acceleration while protecting the batteries from…

Commercial electrical is typically 3 phase (your house is single phase) and often 460 volts or higher, which means DC fast chargers are basically just giant AC-DC transformers with a voltage regulator built in. They can easily handle the kind of load you are talking about.

Not unobtanium, but they are expensive because both the cost of manufacture still has to come down, and the technology and therefore R&D costs are still high.

There is the early adopter cost, my LEAF is having battery degradation problems, and replacement batteries are as much as the car costs, but hoping a used Bolt or one of theses in two or three years.

Batteries are still very expensive, even Tesla can’t get profitable at that price yet and they have the best battery costs if not the best car production costs. It does seem to compete well though if you don’t need to be seen in a Tesla.

Is the DC fast charging port standard or is it an “option” like everyone but Tesla seems to do?

It’s the same in my antique cars. The Desoto has a 6.7L V8 making 300+ hp but also drum brakes at all four corners so most of the space I leave in front of me is so you don’t find out what my bumper tastes like, not because I can’t go fast enough to keep up. Yet most driver’s assume it’s there for them to merge into…

Financially you are absolutely correct, the problem is they have become gigantic, and that’s turning people away. Saw the new Ranger and I swear it’s as big as a 90's F150. They want a truck for those home-improvement, light towing duties, but realize they also have to park it at work every day too.

I want electric cars to be honest. I’m tired of them selling what they could be. All the impossible stats that the future cars *will* have in a year or two or three. The range estimates and pricing that are shadier than Chevy’s reliability claims. Fine print only pisses people off when they find out their $40k car is…

Oh you don’t need to know much about automatic transmissions to know they would be horribly inefficient, or that they are technically mechanically simpler than a conventional auto, or how advantageous a CVT can be, but every transmission does ultimately the same thing and they all make trade-offs for different…

They are kind of apples and oranges, though they did the same thing. The fact that the turboglide died out in favor of the “conventional” automatic that is still the same basic design to this day probably tells you which was better overall.

The Federal government hasn’t been irrelivant to people’s lives since before the civil war when it barely existed, those days are over and will never return. Hell, the problem now is that people should care, and have all the information they need to make informed decisions and most of the time don’t. We actively go…