Actually you can’t give accessory loads like A/C and heaters in percentage without specifying the driving speed (and making some assumptions of the differential between cabin and outside temperature). These loads vary by time, while your other usage varies largely based on miles, so what ties them together is the…

We’ve been leasing a Nissan Leaf for $99 a month for the last 2 years. So this credit definitely helps middle class people at least.

Every law in every state says that bikes have as much right to car travel lanes as cars when there aren’t bike lanes, and most laws prohibit biking on sidewalks.

Except almost all cyclists are motorists.

Packaging constraints, and the exponentially increased requirement for battery capacity to drive longer range. The closest idea to that concept was the Volt which in later form has had nearly a 50 mile BEV only range, but that tried to use the engine only as a generator more than to drive the car, at least most of the…

On the rotor itself, I’m bothered exactly ZERO amount since the pads will remove it within the 1st brake press.

However, the rust on the area between wheel and the rotor irks me to no end. There’s no reason for that area to rust on a mid to high end vehicles. 

That’s not a CHAdeMO, that’s an IEC 62196 Type 2 connector, which you will not find in the US.

Nobody buys EVs anymore for the cost savings — much like how people don’t buy trucks to tow shit around in them.

I get overly-angry every time I see them including “gas savings” as lowering the price of the car. THAT’S NOT THIS WORKS! THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS!

This is my first winter with an electric car (15 leaf).

This is for level 3 chargers and those use commercial/industrial grade grid connections - not connection used for residential connections.

NO NO NO I HAVE A 500 MILES COMMUTE AND NEVER STAY ANYWHERE MORE THAN 3 MINUTES EV HAVE NO FUTURE AND THERE’S NOT ENOUGH LITHIUM CANCEL EV TESLA PANEL GAPS

Donald Trump does lie constantly, consistently, at every opportunity.

Yay, bigger numbers! That means it’s better than cars that have smaller numbers!

Is there like a Worst Comment of The Day that I can nominate the above for? 

Been there. Done that.

This is what people without BEVs will never understand. People think we’re all nuts, but they don’t realize that 90% of the time we are saving SO much time never having to get gas. I was having to stop to get gas on the way to work once a week. Now that I have a BEV I never lose any time. I plug it in at work and come…

I know the Spark EV fits every definition of “compliance car”, but have you actually driven one? It’s actually BETTER than the gas Spark, is more efficient than a similar/same year Leaf, and is way more fun to drive. I’m willing to bet that if GM had kept making them alongside the Bolt and sold them in all 50 states…

EVs are especially susceptible as well.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6b00830

This is a study done by Ford on the EV I own, a Focus Electric. Indeed, manufacturing emissions are higher than the ICE version.

However, in use, my Focus produces 3000 lbs less CO2 per year than the ICE focus (even when charging off the Michigan grid). So the difference…