The specs are fine, but it needs to be priced accordingly.  Something like this should be less than 20k after tax credits.

Even with higher speed limits, I find it hard to justify driving much faster than 75 mph in my truck.  Anything over 70 and the fuel economy starts to drop fast.

In the US cellulostic ethanol is starting to come on line. I wish there were more stations that sold E85 in New York, I get a noticeable improvement in performance when I run it in my F150, even the 11-14's were rated higher from the factory when running E85.

Honestly, I’d wish they would just offer E0 and E85 in more…

I’ll leave the Prius exhaust huffing to you, chief.

To have some more fun and look at worst case scenarios for BEVs, lets take a look at cold weather degradation. When the ambient temperatures drop into the low 20's, AAA’s testing showed an average range (efficiency) degredation of 41%. So if we use that data and apply it to a worst case where peaking plants must…

I’d like to amend my previous statement on CO2 difference between fuels, there is a substantial difference in CO2 per Million BTUs for natural gas (53.07 KG CO2/million BTU) and for distillate (73.16), however, as I stated before, depending on time of year and location a peaking plant might run on distillate or it…

The amount of CO2 difference is fairly negligible between fuels, the primary difference is particulate emissions. Also bear in mind that many peaking units will use distillate as well (diesel) particularly in winter months in metro areas as the natural gas pipelines are limited in throughput and home heating takes…

A Prius stopped wont run the ICE. Also you are talking a small closed environment vs the entire atmosphere. You’re worried about passenger car and heavy truck emissions, yet you fail to look at emissions by legacy power plants that will continue to remain online and also aren’t taking into account NOx levels of even…

I’m not at all trying to say all or nothing. I’m saying that expecting a complete shift to BEVs is unrealistic and not without consequence, nor as clean as people want it to be, in fact in a mass switch the CO2 emissions would likely be greater than just utilizing diesel engines with NOx catalysts and particulate…

No, it’s not, it’s only the second largest automotive market in the world, ahead of even all of Europe. It also only has a population that is 9X greater than Canada. Canadian generation mix is an exception, not a rule.

You are fortunate in Canada to have so much hydro available relative to population size. Unfortunately hydro potential is largely maxed out in much of the US. Having excess hydro capability is great because it is a zero emission source that can load follow.

Unfortunately for much of the rest of the world, a mass…

You are fortunate in Canada to have so much hydro available relative to population size. Unfortunately hydro is largely maxed out in US.

Last I checked, my car doesnt run on coal. It also has emissions controls equipment that drastically reduces unburnt hydrocarbons, particulate matter, and NOx, unlike coal furnaces used in London in the 50s. So saying cars and trucks spew toxic gasses into the air is a bit of an exaggeration.. they emit CO2, but not…

What energy source is going to be primarily utilized in a mass shift to EVs when everyone and there mother starts asking their EV to charge for some time between 6PM and 6AM further exacerbating load spikes on the grid? The answer is simple cycle gas turbines, it is plain misinformation that we will magically get all…

That, or maybe they recognize that EVs wont magically solve climate change, but merely shift the production of emissions somewhere else.

I dont care that the Challenger and Charger are 12 years old now, I think they are still good competent vehicles that I’d rather drive and own then many other vehicles on the road. For its size and power, the Charger achieves excellent fuel economy with the V6 and 8 speed (rentals I get usually are around 33 mpg…

Yes, you can and do buy cellulostic ethanol - it started coming more into production around 2015. However, concervatively, even corn based E85 offers 34% lower lifecycle CO2 emissions. But to answer your question, yes cellulostic ethanol production is online, however, economic viability is another issue at this time…

So what Mazda is saying is our diesel Golf (post fix) emits about the same lifecycle CO2 emissions as an EV..... about what I suspected from the beginning. Cool I'll stick with our 50 MPG hatchback that we got for 15 grand and 17k miles.

I really like it. I do think that the Aviator is still the best looking car in class though

Nah, ya’ll salty ass motherfuckers have made it damn near impossible to have civil conversation on this website. Can’t even talk about areas that need improvement or physical limitations of technology on any EV let alone a Tesla.