The Astro van is the AK47 of vehicles. Crude, out of date, made to run with sloppy build quality and surprisingly effective. There is a reason there is still a ton of them running around.

You aren’t going 500 miles with 118kWh. The chevy is going 400 miles with 200kWh. The cybertruck is estimated to be around 200kWh for 500 miles but who knows.

Get an electric van. Start and stop duty actually gets MORE range than advertised as over 90% of the braking energy is recaptured. Making a gas postal van is just idiotic.

The Brightdrop EV600 is an electric delivery van that meets or is easily modified to meet most of their specs and it is available right now. I’d imagine a van with 250 miles of electric only range and 4wd can probably handle 85% of all postal needs. Keep in mind that electric range actually improves with stop and go…

Just don’t look at all the oil consumption lawsuits. 1-2L every 1000 miles? Is that a problem?

Canada here. We had one look at the covid antibody numbers ramping up in the sewage samples taken across the country and LOL’d when we saw the mask removal ruling. Covid numbers are on the way up, not headed down.

Most Hondas/Toyotas will have little issue crossing 400,000km (250,000 miles) in a non rust area. Domestics get a bit dodgy after 300,000km (180k mi). Under no circumstances do you want to own an aging European luxury brand over 200,000km (120k mi).

THIS is $5000 in China. Yes it’s a crap box but it can do 62mph / 100kph and has air conditioning. For a 2 car family it would be the perfect second car even in North America. Crash standards will need to be met however, but don’t underestimate China.

Traction problems proves that front wheel drive and a mid battery SUCKS. Auto makers are stuck with old ways of thinking. Consumers want front wheel drive at all costs, right? Well front wheel drive was only good when the weight was over the drive tires. Add a big fat battery in the middle and with the weight transfer…

Watch this video clip, then tell me that this car wouldn’t sell out in minutes like it did in the EU.

There’s no lithium shortage. It only takes 7kg to make a tesla. Bolivia has lakes of the stuff just sitting there. As does several places. Cobalt and Nickel on the other hand. Those are in short supplies. But we’ll need all of that, and copper, and a boat load of aluminum and all the other rare earth metals used in…

GET AN OIL ANALYSIS DONE! I can not stress this enough. Manufacturers (Like BMW, I’m looking at you) are setting oil change intervals wayyyyyy too long and pretending modern cars have super long maintenance intervals. Talk to the technicians, the oil coming out is ‘like gasoline’. Don’t believe for a second that a…

Insurance generally covers a loaner car if you are hit. Is it not the same in this area?

Commuting in Vancouver BC- Beautiful ‘zipper merges’. You’ll get dirty looks if you didn’t take the 1.2 car lengths you were given. It’s magic. Everyone keeps flowing like silk, never stop, always let the guy in. It’s polite and civil.

That midgate might actually make that chevy a suitable replacement for my trades van. Not being able to get at the front of your cargo in a pickup with a canopy on it blows.

It’s not the range that ford missed the mark on, it’s rapid charging. The chevy can charge at 350kW. Find an appropriate charging station and you should be able to finish up in under a half hour with 80% battery. Nothing wrong with that when you are saving over $100.

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Grocery stores  need to team up with fast charging companies. It’s the perfect 30-45 min pit stop/get your battery up to 80-90%. Now that long range cars are crossing the 400 mile/650km threshold most users only need to charge once per week. This is great for folks who don’t have a regular parking spot with a charger.

Wow, that guy has one IMPRESSIVE carbon footprint.

If buying a motorcycle lithium battery, many have a ‘jump’ feature that is a button that resets the low voltage cutoff. Basically it just turns off power completely if your bike is sitting and the voltage sags too low from a parasitic draw or whatever. Just press the button and it has enough juice to wake up and start…