Exactly, it’s an argument I’ve made a few times. I understand the economics aren’t there right now in the new car market, but getting people in EVs is the best way to convince them they want one, and for a lot of the US the easiest way to do that would be as “second vehicles”. My wife has a Jetta and will still take…

Isn’t the point of these articles to show how people are embracing EVs? Didn’t know it needed to meet some arbitrary bar you’ve set for what EV life needs to be. Why does EV life need to be all or nothing anyway?

An aftermarket version of the EV transmissions GM/Chrysler used for their quickly killed hybrid trucks would be similar to what you want. Problem is for it to work well I think it would require a fairly competent person to program it to the vehicle. A nitrus like “boost” button might seem simple enough but I’d bet…

Batteries. Remember that the energy density of batteries is much lower than that of gas. Most current EVs use all the under-body area they can for batteries. Trucks may have more under-body area, but they also have larger energy requirements.

Scale isn’t the problem, it’s thermodynamics that don’t work here. What are you making hydrogen from? How do you use less energy making hydrogen than you get from the hydrogen? How does that hydrogen then power the ship?

No PC has ever died on me because of the CPU.

Well considering he did it in 7 months given the sheer amount of work means he had his shop working on it practically full time. So I’m guessing it was either a shop project because they were slow with customer vehicles, or someone wanted it and then the job fell through.

While part of me definitely agrees that I would love to see one restored, besides the whole “it’s his money” thing, I wonder how “rotted out hulk” it was. If there’s not much but a ragged shell and you need to build new everything then it’s both cheaper to do what he did, and not a huge loss since there wasn’t much…

Short takes:

Dad wanted a Beetle with the diesel in the early 2000's, so when they came to visit me we went to see if the local VW dealer, who is much bigger than anything near them, had one to test drive.

I guess that’s where this doesn’t make sense for me. What I’m trying to tell you is an EV that could get you to your parents (300 ish miles) on a charge and the ability to charge while you spend time with your folks would be more convenient than a gas car based on what you’ve said, especially when you add in that…

The part this ignores (and it ignores a lot) is that most were full time taxi drivers or delivery personnel who were fired or put out of business because Uber and Lyft used investor money to supplement ride shares and “disrupt the industry”. If you were a taxi driver who got laid off you went where the work went. Or…

But the question wasn’t about if current EVs make sense from a cost/use standpoint, it was what range would you need to have to make an EV make sense. No one is really cross shopping a model X and a Toyota Sienna.

Ha! As a dad who when through that recently, the only thing not realistic is your scenario. The preagnant wife will need to stop far more frequently for bathroom breaks as she gets closer to her due date. After the infant is born you are going to have to stop and sit in a parking lot for oh, 40 or so minutes every…

But “rolling light-ups” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Except I’ve also been told that attorneys are also all trained pathological liars, so now I don’t know who to believe!

I didn’t know that the LV1/2 chargers could feed DC to the car. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised, they’re basically just fancy extension cords, but that is interesting, it means the onboard charger will accept just about anything for input. Wonder what the voltage is?

Yea, something seems off about that. Usually smart meters are something the utility pushes on you because they want time-of-use billing.

Probably in CA where he is now, but that is not typical across the country.  $25K is the low end in my neck of the woods.  Most of the tax break is gone for Chevy, and most states don’t offer any other discounts.

I’m going to guess that like the vans they get messy because a lot of them are purchased for commercial and fleet use and would skew the info.