Exactly this. Economies of scale aren’t magic. They work when a sizeable portion of the expense is the fixed-cost infrastructure needed to make a thing.

If your costs are supply driven instead of initial-infrastructure driven, economies of scale work exactly the opposite way that everybody who was wrong about BEVs needed them to.

The only correct way to do spoke and hub is with the residential at the center and the work on the rim.

Hydrogen/battery hybrids are the only answer we know how to make right now.

The dream: Progressive/bohemian utopia where everybody lives in a little East Villages upstairs from a subway stop.

“SUVs and Trucks are just as efficient if you look at the data!” - Moron who ignores that most of the remaining non SUVs on the road are performance vehicles because nobody was buying the efficient small cars.

This is awful when we have an economy built around lower-income people and the working class needing to commute 50 miles a day by car.

Edit: Fuck, this article is from a zillion years ago! And I already told this story in a comment way back then! DELETED!

The F30 steering was fine.

I made a simple, factual statement. It’s about larger capacity EV batteries and doesn’t apply at all to smaller ones that you’ve brought into this discussion.

How did I have to scroll this far to find these?

This is basically confirmation of what I’m saying.... If you can charge enough for your usage overnight you’re fine.

Those drivers will be fine with existing battery capacities.

And in that case you don’t need a bigger battery either.

Otherwise the number of true owners is generally correct unless the owner moved to a new state which can sometimes show as a new owner depending on the state, however it usually says something about “moved to a new location”

“because 3-4 people owned it before I did!”

or exit the roadway.

No, but...

Higher speeds means you are forcing more unskilled, easily distracted drivers and less safe vehicles to travel at speeds they cannot handle well.

logical reasons mount against higher speeds on highway