Only $20,000 if you want to do race car style pit stops with 1 man per corner. 

But I WANT an electric and these new vans are crap. Keep in mind the new silverado can do 640km of range. There is no reason you can’t dump  a van body on that platform and get 500km of range.

Right. AVERAGE. On an average day I don’t do 400km. But some days I DO drive 400km. I don’t need a vehicle for just average days, I need a work vehicle for ALL work days.

Oh man where is my low roof not extended electric van? Trades people go into parking garages and the high roof extended length vans are idiotic for most trades guys unless you are making a mobile shop. Especially me since I park my van in my low roof shop.

Locking down repairs. Making parts hard to get, changing out a part and having locked down software requiring a dealer visit. Near zero aftermarket parts support. No aftermarket scan tool support and making the factory diagnostic software access insanely expensive for shops. Teslsa are a fucking nightmare for…

The megacastings are well within the ‘it’s fucked’ crash zone. If you actually hit the car so hard that you fuck up the casting chances are the whole car is garbage. The castings do not go to the outer edges of the car or within the initial crush zone. 

That’s a hell of a parts car for a hot rod swap.

A lot of it is you are driving this heavy torque monster and you are used to listening to an engine to gauge speed instead of just looking at the speedo. Speed creeps up on you in a quiet fast car. Then you hammer on the brakes in the rain and oh shit this 5000lb monster doesn’t stop on a dime.

Hung like a donkey here. Minivan. However I have owned fast cars because they are fun.

Round your results, mister engineer. 99% of the people here won’t understand that.

Holy crapola, your payback on a solar array would only be a few years.

Canada here, left coast. Prices in CAD. (USD = $1.33CAD today)

EV’s are harder on tires but are drastically easier on brakes as regenerative braking does 95% of the work in most moderate driving situations. Track days? Bring an extra set of brake pads.

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.