That electric Acura coming out next year is a rebadged GM suv. That said, the specs are impressive if it actually delivers on the promise.

Supercruise gives you hands off driving on a lot of roads. GM claims that will be expanded to ‘95% of all paved roads including rural roads’ this year.

Funny enough I own an industrial automation contracting company right in the middle of a large Canadian city. I have 400KM days. I don’t know what ‘studies’ you are talking about but trades guys don’t work 10km from the shop. We go all over the city and sometimes out of it, we run back and forth to suppliers. We haul…

100 miles of range is an embarrassment. Ford should be ashamed of producing this vehicle. And they wonder why ‘trades people won’t buy this electric van so they must not be interested in electric vans’. Trades people drive a LOT further than this in a day, and we tow trailers. Range needs to be 3x your daily norm so…

I wonder if there is a RV exception. I bet there is. The old folks vote and would lose their shit if they could not longer register the bus they live in.

Stainless is a great idea in theory. In practice you get a 2mm dent in a A pillar or hood and you can’t exactly bondo it and paint over it. The panel is garbage. Insurance will be a small fortune. Delorian owners discovered this the hard way.

The Chevy van.

This all comes down to optimization. You can focus the turbine design on steady state cruising power and downsize the engine considerably. You can taxi and climb on electric assist power. You can even replenish your battery on descent using regen instead of relying on the flaps.

Math is hard.

19.2kW? Really? Chevy, your new truck charges at 250kW.

Nice reporting. The TEST FLIGHT was 8 minutes not the battery range. Maybe get that right before publishing it?

Whatever, it’s funny if you were a game of thrones fan. Recognize the joke instead of getting all bent up out of shape over it.

While that asshole was obviously going 2x + the speed limit, this is the perfect formula 1 style failure. Engine mass detaches from the car, drivers walks away. That is impressive as hell.

Seriously? User programmable I/O for aftermarket toys. What’s GM trying to do, sell me a vehicle that I actually want?

Ever driven a EV with a manual transmission? The shop I used to work for tinkered with some DIY EV stuff. And I can confirm that shifting a electric motor is the most entirely unsatisfying thing you will ever do. We shift a gas motor to get it into a power sweet spot. But a well designed electric motor has basically…

It won’t be long until everyone is disconnecting the data connection in these cars and hacking them. As a bonus, the car company no longer has the ability to sell your location data to advertisers and whoever else is willing to pay for it.

The fact that a boring and economical to drive grocery getter can eat a lambo stoplight to stoplight is nothing short of stunning. Even the most die hard diesel huffing rednecks are having a hard time arguing with the insane performance of a modern EV.

Have you seen all the repeater hacks to ping your keyless fob from 100' away inside your house so punks can drive off with your vehicle? It’s a $35 box from china. I’ll take that physical ignition key thank you very much.

I see a truck hauling a dirt bike. Who cares if the tailgate is down? Like seriously, is this a problem? I’d rather have the ability to use smaller parking spots in the city. All these fools buying giant truck beds so they can haul something tailgate down 8x per year are burning 25% more fuel for the privilege, and…

Electric trucks have been allowed an extra 2000lbs of GVW. So even at 4000lbs less cargo an electric truck will demolish a diesel truck with the most important number of all. Cost of operation/lbs of cargo delivered. When you are saving $300-$500 per tank of fuel, who cares if you can only deliver 95% of the cargo…