It’s not the Escape’s fault. Manufacturers have been escaping(no pun intended) regulations for years by making everything be qualified as an SUV by meeting the minimum qualifications for what a SUV is, and one of them is approach angles and weight. Unfortunately having a 4x4 setup ISN’T one of those qualifications. Loo…

886 kWh is not the same as 886, 000 Watts. A kWh is a unit of energy while a Watt is a unit of power. Power is the rate at which energy is used. So a kWh is energy used if a 1000 W device was running for one hour. This works out to 3,600,000 Joules of energy. So, 886 kWh would be 3,189,600,000 J. That may sound like a…

The batteries are not junk, they just lose range. It’s not like your car is bricked after 8-10 years. It’s early in the game, folks. 

I mean, your first mistake was trying to drive your playstation 2.

“Ford may be reluctant to cannibalize their own F-150 ICE sales numbers with a good electric F-150"

I would buy this car if it came in full EV form. I’m not buying any more cars with an internal combustion engine, PHEV or no.

My dude...

Maybe bi-directional charge would help.

We’ll just have the batteries charge each other.

1. Cadillac Lyriq

Second gear: Aptera isn’t wrong about the Tesla plug being more elegant than J1772 and CCS. A CCS cable and connector is about the size of a gas nozzle, but much heavier and less flexible. This is because the wires inside are liquid-cooled due to the massive amount of DC current being pumped through them.

Tesla’s V2…

2nd gear: We have an industry governing body that decides the standards to solve issues just like this. That body is the SAE.

Tesla was part of the SAE group that developed the combo CCS J1772 DC fast charging connector. Tesla uses it in Europe for that matter.

So no, they should get on board with everyone else in…

“He was doing it way worse than me!” Wasn’t a valid defense in 3rd grade, and it still isn’t.

Ford’s cost to build the Mach-E increased by $25,000 or increased to $25,000? It has to be the latter.

That’s 98 and 131 kWh USABLE, that’s the net number. If Ford is using a 10% battery buffer in Lightning, like they do in Mustang Mach-E, the total capacities are ~108 and ~145 kWh. Check out the other slides from that presentation for the clarification. 

Efficiency is a ratio of energy out of a system to energy into a system. For example, the loss across a powertrain. Without a dyno and other equipment, this cannot be measured.

Economy is a measure of how far a vehicle goes on a given energy. This is the proper term.

The two are not the same. For example: a big truck…

I’ve been driving a 115 mile rated BEV for 5 years.

If there is a group that is willing to be compliant with overreaching rules for “our safety” it should be TSA employees. 

Yeah, I’m sure that is part of it; but I think the bigger part is that the rate drivers are actually held accountable for when they hit pedestrians, cyclists, other cars, buildings, etc is just plain old laughably low.

That’s because you’re a peon and not rich and well connected.