My thoughts exactly. The other less-obvious thing is that it’s silent while doing it -- it doesn’t attract any unwanted attention. You can GET ON IT in traffic, without anybody ever even turning their head. 

Acceleration is fantastic. Handling is about “BMW 340i with the M-package”. Comfort is so-so, similar to a 3-series with not-as-good seats. Stereo is great. Overall though, it’s just _so_ fun to drive. It’s quirks can be easily forgotten - it’s that good. 

Really? I know that car2go has been selling all of their used gasoline smarts — a ~2014 can be had with ~70,000km in Vancouver for about $3750 CAD at retail — but I didn’t know that they ran EDs anywhere other than the totally failed ~2012 experiment in San Francisco (where they scrapped all of the cars!).
That said,…

I’ll agree about the “meh” part, from the point of view of a car enthusiast. But it’s hard to argue that they’re a lot less “meh” than they were 10 years ago. They’re ultra reliable, have a low total cost of ownership, have great resale value, and are well engineered. They know their target audience well.

Well of course they do - all manufacturers do that. Could you imagine the hell that a manufacturer would go through, if they were to refresh everything at once? ALL production lines being down for re-tooling simultaneously, very little incoming revenue, and every production engineering team getting no sleep for a year…

I don’t think so, really.

Never understood why people call the FR-S/BRZ/86 underpowered. No, it’s not fast, but for a “beginner’s daily-drivable sports car”, it really has more than plenty. Enough to have a lot of fun with, not enough to Mustang into every ditch. 

350,000W / 800V = 438A. Wow. I really want to see what the onboard BMS looks like in this car. 438A at multiple staggered voltages (necessary to ensure the cells are balanced) is no small task!

Yup. Use them all the time at work. They’re great for pinstripes / text / “small” decals.

They’re absolutely -everywhere- here, in Vancouver BC. I’ve seen five at one intersection before. 

That is true, unless fuel becomes EXPENSIVE. When gas hit $1.59/L here a few months ago, anybody with a large vehicle was hurting pretty badly. And at that point, all anybody wants is a small hatchback. 

?... Anybody who is buying a Fortwo is a definite city-dweller, and likely doesn’t need it for more than 10-20 km at most on a charge. I’m friends with a Fortwo ED owner, who only does about 5000km / year with it. It’s perfect for him. 

Unless it also drags its’ jacket pocket zippers across the back bolsters, flattens the bottom bolsters by sitting on them and dragging its “ass” over them, bombards the leather in UV and completely extreme heat, thermal cycles between -20*C and +20*C and spills coffee on the seat, I’m genuinely not convinced. 

They’re not for everybody. 

Oh, easily large enough to carry batteries. Keep in mind, a 2CV weighs 600kg. And you sure as hell aren’t going to take one for a long distance.

If you’ve wrecked any vehicle with enough severity to do the kind of damage it would take to damage the hybrid components, the vehicle is simply a write-off, and would have been if it were the gasoline-only variant also. 

A/C is electric and has been electric in the Prius since 2004, and most if not all hybrids since ~2011. This one will certainly use an electric A/C compressor.

The guy’s gotta be quite the idiot to 1) think this would ever work in the first place, and 2) actually attempt it, going way past the “beyond return” point, without 3) recognizing the consequences or doing any actual research.

“But this electric one doesn’t have enough chrome! Truck buyer want chrome!”

Compared to a “real” luxury car, I’ve always felt that the new Continental feels like a bad casino inside. Silly looking, with too much chrome and too much “new money bling” inside. It’s kinda tacky. Now? It’s definitely gimicky and tacky.