Yeah. I don’t mind paying taxes when it is spent on useful things. We have an awesome transit system, the roads are in excellent shape, and our healthcare system (which does have its faults) is great. Dad had an emergency intestine operation a few years ago which would have cost well over $100k had we been in the USA.…

To be fair, they’re spent rather well in Vancouver. Our transit system is awesome, and our roads are in excellent condition. Both directly funded from gas taxes...

It’s about as “normal” as a car can be. It has seats, wheels and doors. It goes forwards and backwards. It’s quite comfortable, burns very little fuel and I love it. And it complements my ‘01 S2000 very well.

Absolutely. That can easily be an entire set of brake pads on a minivan.

Yup. The automotive landscape is _really_ different, here in Vancouver — fuel is $1.47/L, and people _take notice_.

Vancouver’s been running trolley busses since 1948! Tons of CNG busses, too.

Done well, they’re incredibly reliable - it’s really infrequent to have any delay with ours (Vancouver), and even a re-route due to an accident is no big deal - they’ll go a few km on battery power.

Toyota, too. We see a lot of 2012-2015s (so far) with completely failed clear coat due to tree sap.

What? Installer here: There’s literally no such thing as a remote starter which doesn’t have a brake kill. There are, however, moronic installers who have no idea what they’re doing, installing them half-assedly.

You realize that all of this money, paid by the rich, is directly going to be funding things like road repair so that the poor don’t have to pay for it, don’t you? That money isn’t simply evaporating.

Okay, then don’t use it. Simple as that.

Not sure why you’re even asking the question - it’s like a rotten pair of shoes with no tread left and a massive tear in the toe. Scrap it and don’t look back.

Just to throw some context on that: in BC, where fuel isn’t nearly as subsidized, fuel costs $1.399/L CAD right now. That’s $5.29 CAD /gallon.

Too bad you got a FWD one. The AWD one, with its’ torque vectoring, _really_ wakes that car up. They truly are fun to drive!

Enjoy having to change the control arm bushings, wheel bearings and engine mounts almost immediately after the warranty expires. They’re also surprisingly poor handling compared to just about everything else. And the rear seat doesn’t fold flat into the floor.

Interesting...

Exactly. Now consider that 1000v isn’t a normal distribution voltage - it would require a (commercially) weird transformer. The next standard voltage used in commercial buildings is 2.3kV. Even if we go up to 2.3kV, things aren’t any prettier! You’ve solved the building transformer problem (not really: see *), but how…

My question is: using what?! If this thing has a 500kWh battery in it, and we’re assuming it can charge 400kWh worth of charge in 30 minutes, that’s 800kW worth of electricity which would need to be delivered, assuming zero losses due to efficiency. Sanely, you could assume a ~94% conversion efficiency - that’s ~850kW.

8 hours is a typical shift, but far more time is spent delivering on foot than driving. They don’t actually cover much distance.

Why? Mail trucks don’t actually travel very far in a day. 30 miles is pretty typical. Being able to charge between the hours of ~5pm and ~6am is guaranteed, making charging off of level 2 chargers easy. Charging can be staged if input power to the depot is a problem. And because it’s so entirely stop-start, an…