But what about the X√2 ?

Might as well bring the Vehicross back from the dead.

A CPO i3 is one hell of a deal, if you can live with the size. We test drove fully loaded ones with less than 15k miles for about $23k, but it just wasn’t big enough for a family of three. The seats were very roomy, but hatch could hardly fit a stroller.

Great to drive though.

Don’t forget the batteries have a factory 10 year/100k warranty to retain at least 80% capacity, though. There were issues with battery life in the 2011-2012 cars, but since they switched battery chemistries in 2013, the packs have been much more reliable. My friend has a 2013 with 80k miles, and it still has the full…

I have no real issues with the Bolt, but at that price point, I’d rather just pony up a bit extra for a well-equipped Model 3.

Sure, but 151miles of range is plenty for a commuter car. Hell, we can drive our 90mile Leaf clear across town and back on one charge, which is as far as we ever need it to go.

Not that much actually. Leafs have a neat little power monitor in the infotainment system that shows the power usage of all the ancillary electronic systems, and it’s never more than about 300W (most of that is probably the Bose audio system). Also, those are all 12V systems, and the Leaf has a conventional car…

Reading comprehension...

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Actually, I wouldn’t mind paying for a bathroom on a plane if it meant I got a bit more room and it was always perfectly clean. Have it charge per minute to keep people from camping out in there. I’ve been on flights where people spend 30min in the bathroom, with a line waiting down the aisles...

A typical level 2 charger has a 50A breaker for a 32A current draw, so that doesn’t leave a lot of overhead if you also have electric heat/stove/dryer/hot water/AC/etc.

All good, really. We bought it for my wife’s daily, and it’s a very practical family hatchback. Plenty of room for people and stuff, good handling thanks to the very low center of gravity, and plenty of guts (for a family car) thanks to the immediate torque. The biggest drawback is probably the numb steering.

That may be the case, but they really are unholy gutless wonders. My wife cares nothing for cars, but even she thought the Prius was numb. The Leaf is not at all gutless. It’s not very quick, but it feels much quicker with the torque on tap.

Yep, you definitely need 200A service. They installed a 50A circuit for it.

In 30-40F weather, we get about 75-ish miles of range. In the warmer summer months, it’s about 90miles. That said, we have a Level 2 charger in our garage, and level 2 chargers at work, so charger access isn’t an issue, and my commute is only 15miles roundtrip anyway.

My brother told me that “all Subaru drivers are douchebags and they’re just terrible cars” ...as I picked him up in my Outback ....towing a utility trailer with all of his stuff ...while I took the day off work to help him move apartments because he didn’t own a car and was too cheap to rent a Uhaul.

Naming aside, it’s still a pretty advanced system.

Proof? Consider all the of the effort of casting/post-machining conventional calipers. I’m not sure exactly how long it takes to make a brake caliper normally, but a 45 hour cycle time isn’t terrible for industrial machining. Automakers have inventory for a reason. Ford has a warehouse of calipers standing by for…

It entirely depends on what you’re printing. The part is optimized for 3D printing, and couldn’t be made any other way, so from that perspective, it’s quite cheap.

Except that metal 3D printers can stack prints on top of each, so while it might take 45 hour per print, depending on how large the build volume of the printer is, they could get a lot of calipers in the same print run by packing them into the print volume.