The problem with the PHEV format is that the car has to perform exactly as a consumer expect a gas car to perform it to when the battery is “drained.” But when that happens, you (1) are lugging around a couple hundred pounds of extra dead weight, and (2) using a relatively less efficient transmission format than a gas…

What’s so hard about plugging in your PHEV when it is parked in your garage overnight? It takes 5 seconds! Not a burden at all, so I think using the word “tethered” is a little weird. 

Actually, charging only to 80-85% makes road trips FASTER for EVs. It takes way longer to get from 80-100% charge, and you’re better off just getting back on the road and stopping again later. Plus the lines at chargers are reduced when people stop hogging a charger for and extra 30 minutes just for 15% of a charge. 

Great minds; I have a Gen 2 Volt an an Ioniq 5 too. Ioniq 5 is the day-to-day family car, the Volt is for business trips for me (I ride a bike to the office). Ironically the Ioniq 5 charges so fast and charging is so good in CA that it, not the Volt, is our primary family road trip car now. The Volt is great for a…

You don’t have to plug it in every day, but you should. The good part of the PHEV is that road-tripping is way easier; it just become like any other hybrid once the battery is “drained.” You are correct that a BEV would be totally fine for 90% of their driving, but if you only have one car and you road trip once a…

The Gen 2 Volt was a way bigger improvement than most people think. 50-60 miles easy depending on speeds (I just say 50 miles with fast highway driving), 40-42 MPGs easy at freeway speeds, plus it runs on regular not premium.

I have a second Gen Volt. It’s the best car I’ve ever owned, possibly better at its intended function than my new Ioniq 5.

This articles reads like an AI article. 

This is a good decision and the only reason you think it isn’t is because he’s rich. He was massively mentally ill, and in his serious condition, did not appreciate the consequences of his actions His wife doesn’t want him incarcerated. He flatly is not criminally responsible for his actions in that state. If he gets…

CARBON TAX NOW.

Musk’s focus on white European countries is weird because the countries facing the biggest real threat of population are east Asian countries, like Korea and Japan.

A bicycle and a car sharing a road that fast is by itself a lack of infrastructure. We need protected bike lanes.

Driving drunk means you have a reckless disregard for an ultra-hazardous activity that likely will cause a death. If you drink and then drive a car, and you hit someone like this, it is attempted murder.

That’s attempted murder, period. Like the old adage says, if you want to murder someone, do it with your car. You’ll be out in 5 years max.

Mild hybrids are barely hybrids, although they certainly help in stop and go city driving.

Also, Canada and Mexico are part of the Americas!

Doing that would mean it no longer qualified for $7,500 in federal tax rebates. Saving $3,000 in costs would mean Tesla is still leaving $4,500 on the table, and moving to China wouldn’t lower costs by $8,000.

“It’s been a long time since American cars were built in the U.S. by American automakers.”

What fucking disgrace. Interviewing this man should result in a permanent ban from normal society. Might as well credulously interview Jim Jones or Pol Pot.

China is building a lot of new coal plants, but the amount of time they are actually RUNNING is decreasing. New coal plants is basically just a Communist jobs program. It’s a huge waste of money, but it doesn’t show an increase in the use of coal to generate electricity. Building a plant doesn’t shovel coal into the…