Planting 100 trees around your offices is just beautification.

We just had our first kid, I have a Dodge Magnum we use for family trips, and while two car seats would fit fine, on our last trip (even with the extra room of a wagon) it was a tight squeeze to get all the baby stuff and all our stuff in the back for a week long trip. Normally I could fold down the back seat but that…

Surprised I have to come this far down to find this thread.

Wow, sensitive much? There are enough people on this site to hate everything equally, even people like you hating people hating on Apple.  It’s the internet there’s plenty of hate to go around without you adding more.

I’m no expert either, but while I think the overall amount of electronics is probably not dramatically different (assuming the same capabilities). However EVs have high voltage/high amperage electrics for the motors instead of the engine/transmission computers that a normal car does. There’s no reason they should be…

I don’t buy that, there’s too much money in those batteries. The economy will eventually be there for companies to offer aftermarket replacements or refurbish used batteries, or how about a battery subscription service?

The whole thing from the crossover crazy to the coming EV’s are all a creation of the industry itself

Yes, it looks like continuous duty loads are to be upsized by 25% as most electrical equipment is not designed for 100% duty cycle operation. Since a car charger could be operating at capacity for hours many electricians would count it.

Do you mean how do you get “Normal” people to buy EVs? You don’t, they’re not there yet. Tesla offers the closes thing to an ICE replacement (in part due to their supercharger network), and they’re still expensive, quirky, and limited compared to an equivalently priced ICE vehicle.

Low power L2's that can charge 15mi/hr are wired to code with the same wiring as a 20A 120v circuit that your microwave or dishwasher should be on.

Well I don’t know about the other 418 but that’s because it’s the only way I could ever afford to buy it. This thing costs almost as much as my first house and more than probably all the cars I’ve ever owned combined.

You got a bad deal. I’d have asked for the $2K and PICTURES from his trip next spring. It sounds like those could easily be as good as the money! After all look how much enjoyment we got from your adventure.

Companies doing it now are for image, but ultimately it will be real money trying to pay to charge everyone’s EVs, so while I could see it happening, it will happen because some other company contracts for your company parking lot to sell you charging time at work.  Which in my experience most EV owners will complain…

Neutral: I’ve had a 2013 LEAF for about three years now, I tell everyone that I will definitely own another EV, it just won’t be a Nissan. I have 2 antiques and a “normal” ICE as well as the wife’s car, but probably 90% of my driving is in the LEAF, it’s just stupid convenient for anything within its…

By that metric your phone and computer would faster and more secure if you just didn’t connect them to the internet, used a long complex randomly generated password that was changed daily and also used 2 factor authentication with a secure encrypted key, but I’m guessing you don’t actually do that. Instead people…

No, I think that’s just one of the excuses people use to justify not shopping for one. The real reason they’re not more popular is price and availability. Tax credits aside it’s still easily over $36K to get into even a basic EV with 200+ miles range, and there’s technically only three options (3, Bolt, LEAF+) as the…

Neutral: Cost is definitely king in making most current EVs sell better, but economies of scale are just not there yet, and for most companies the return on investment for the R&D. So how do you sell an expensive car to someone? Sell to someone who’s willing to pay more for the right benefit, and sports car buyers are…

My thought immediately went to why such traditional cold weather gear? They all have laser guns so how do they not just have smart clothing that can keep them warm with some sort of tiny super battery.

They technically only build three cars, and while old “shitty” is a bit far. You are hard pressed to get a V8 powered GT car for anything like what you can get a Charger and 300. Maybe they’ve just taken over the spot vacated by the old Crown Vic, but that car still has it’s strengths and following even today.

The small RPM range means you really need lots of ratios to get from a stop to 70+ mph highway speeds. The 6 speed manual would probably need even taller gears to make it run at highway speeds which would just destroy acceleration, not to mention feeling like you had to shift all the time to keep the engine in a happy…