The Chinese showed the world / the West how to highly effectively and efficiently beat a viral epidemic (from wherever it may have originated...) and they’re continuing to show us how to extremely effectively and efficiently get back to business - fighting back as if on a war footing against three huge crises…

What a wealthy celebrity does or says would be more or less irrelevant if the US government, State Department, federal agencies et al had ensured long ago(post-Katrina for example) that all of the necessary personnel could be deployed, sufficient funds released and all essential medical equipment supplied or rapidly…

Brilliant anti-elitist, pro-Chinese endeavour. The first thing I’d do with it: a DIY paint job makeover. Maybe two colors: doors: gun metal - the rest black matt. Or desert camouflage all over. 80%-90% of car trips are under 10 miles - so it’ll make a great “Primary Use” or “Most Frequent Use” vehicle(not a “second…

Once we have EV powerpacks combining solid state sodium ion or lithium ion with ultra-energy-dense supercapacitors things will really take off - including eVTOLs.

One added irony is the constant bogus claim by Formula E’s German participants and co-founders VW that the race series will accelerate the transition of EV tech-advances into consumer vehicles. Duh ! Tesla aren’t involved in Formula E. Neither is LG Chem. Neither are Hyundai-Kia(Kona, Niro, Soul). Neither is GM who…

Standard supercynical and opportunistic press release designed to generate/perpetuate anti-EV sentiment. A sulky sting in the tail. Carmakers - especially Germany’s Benzin-Im-Blut Brigade - are clearly still appalled by the fact that EV campaigners have finally forced them to get real and bite the EV bullet. We’ve had…

Marie Antoinette strikes again:

Zur Hoelle mit Lambo - I’d be interested and impressed if VW’s *budget* brand Skoda had produced a lowish-cost, reasonably long-range(220 miles+ EPA) EV - aka Wagen fur das Volk - a year or two after Dieselgate. An electric version of the Kia Soul kinda-lookalike the Skoda Yeti would have sold like hot cakes..which is…

I’m normally fully in favour of freedom of expression and limitless choice - but we really don’t want our streets to be plagued by an absurd cacophony of synthetic car noise and a million automotive ‘ring-tones’.

Only the VW Group can be so SLOW moving such a fast car to showrooms, streets and driveways. Dead snail’s pace.

Wakey wakey please Jalopnik: the NiMH-powered Solectria Sunrise(4-seater) archieved 373 miles on a single charge in America’s 1996(!!) Tour de Sol - at near-normal highway speeds.

70,000 euros - “entry level”?! You’re all having a major laugh fest.

For its time and size it was and is an EV with major perennial pros and cons: as with any EV in a “two car” home context: the EV serves as the “Most Frequent Use” vehicle or “Primary Use” vehicle(not a “second car”!) and is used for 80%+ of all journeys - crucially meaning that the ICE car(the real “second car”) is…

So Ford aren’t..er..ever-so sensibly “playing it safe” like BMW - to quote Jalopnik’s apologia piece from yesterday ?

Reality check: BMW and VW are dragging their feet and faking it for as long as they can get away with it - same as it ever was. As for VW “jumping in at the deep end” Ha! Jalopnik’s having a major laugh here - or he’s somehow directly/indirectly payrolled by the German Car Giants - the Greatest Pretenders of them all.

And think Ford e-Ka too. And compare+contrast with the similat Smart-like GM(-Wuling) Baojun E100 now available to buy brand-spanking new for just $5800 after incentives(er, only in China obviously).

Boy - all of these anti-EV BS “studies” had been trotted out and totally demolished dozens of times already 20+ years ago

GM just need to increase the Bolt’s size a little - 6-8 inches longer, 2-3 inches higher and 2-3 inches wider. And perhaps subtley add a little SUV hunkiness. Maybe call it something like the Bolt MaxX.

As you say: “VW is either lying or being silly”. Or disingenous. But obviously “silly” they ain’t. Apparently, don’t ya know, gazilliions of very silly people would far, far, far prefer an electric b!@0dy dune buggy than an e-Beetle. Quite a few sehr sehr silly people have posted up Youtube vids of their sehr silly…

Carmakers also sell EVs at high, inflated prices in order to keep a lid on demand/sales. Same as it ever was.