Exactly. I imagine the average EV owner spends less time refueling in a typical year than a gas car owner. It’s like asking someone how long it takes their phone to charge. Does anyone even know? it happens overnight, why should they care? When people realize it’s the same use-case for an electric car, it will be…

I mean even when we include enivronmental impacts of EV materials it is still better than ICE and Diesel vehicles. Not to mention battery recycling is far ahead of pretty much any other recycling since it can actually be profitable to the recycler. (Tesla uses old vehicle battery cells in their Power Walls for…

Not good enough for you, maybe.  But 18 minutes is perfectly fine for me.  Particularly when you consider that, unlike gas cars, you’ll almost never have to leave home without a full charge.

Yup, my NMS Passat TDI had a 800 + mile tank range, with a 16 gallon tank...

Current generation E-GMP platform (Ioniq 5, Kia EV6) is up to 80% in 18 minutes. I would say that’s already about time-parity with stopping at an interstate rest area to fuel up, re-park the car, use the restroom, and the occasional burger grabbed from McDonalds.

I’d rather see lowriders cruise up and down Santa Clara all the time (which doesn’t even have that much traffic these days) than dealing with sideshows.

Oh, well done.

I’m going to assume that the car showed around 60476km on the odo. 60476km= ~37788mi and 60448-37788 = 22668. Someone didn’t fix the odo display after it was taken to the US on a previous trip.

The fact that the Maverick is the most exciting thing to happen to trucks in the last several years is very sad. My father-in-law loves it but to me it looks like somebody took a Ridgeline and reduced everything by 10% but gave it a very efficient hybrid drivetrain. Somehow the Ridgeline looks better... but the…

Maybe if grids fucking installed peak load batteries and also encouraged people to install batteries in their home, they wouldn’t have to... deal with peak loading and having so much excess power generation in the rest of the day.

I always though the 2008 Malibu interior was pretty snazzy at the time. 

US propaganda has turned even your average 1969 Charger guy into a virulent anti-China xenophobe. Sad!

I keep checking. I definitely want to transition at least one of my cars to electric. My wife has elderly family in rural Arkansas and we drive there from North Texas regularly to check on them. It’s about 270 miles one way and not much in between. I work from home, so I hardly drive at all and when I do it is to the…

That’s a great option provided you have no desire to travel outside the battery range, otherwise, what do you do without the appropriate infrastructure?

Somewhere a Millennial is bitching about GenZ having it too easy

I don’t understand why no one had found the money trail leading back to Oshkosh that explains why these outdated, hideous pieces of shit are even in the running. There is no other possible explanation for the USPS trying to build a new from the ground up solution that isn’t needed.

Plus, the Amazon trucks are going to…

Multipronged approach

My 1992 Dodge Caravan, Old XF and F-Type all have the nozzles on the wipers, so this isn’t a new invention. What does appear to be new and quite nice is the amount of nozzles, which should helped with all that baked on goodness.

I would argue salespeople actually detract from the experience. They actively make things worse through incompetence.

The last gen Econolines (‘92-newer) were never available with a manual transmission. The chassis was never set up for it - the engine was already off-center towards the passenger side (take a look at the passenger footwell vs the driver) and there really isn’t room for a shifter and clutch pedal.