They’ll buy a new car regardless of it being EV or ICE.

But if it’s an EV then they’re seeding the used car market; that means displacing and replacing polluting ICE with EV, which ends up being a net gain after 7 years.

No, it means that’s how far it’s driven before it’s sold.

That seems silly; assuming a 200m range then the threshold is between 140 to 340 charge cycles. Obviously someone who drives 10m a day will only need to charge once every 20 or so days. 140 charge cycles means they will keep their car for 7 years. 340 charge cycles means they keep their car for 18 years.

Why is it a…

That seems silly; assuming a 200m range then the threshold is between 140 to 340 charge cycles. Obviously someone who drives 10m a day will only need to charge once every 20 or so days. 140 charge cycles means they will keep their car for 7 years. 340 charge cycles means they keep their car for 18 years.

Why is it a…

That seems silly; assuming a 200m range then the threshold is between 140 to 340 charge cycles. Obviously someone who drives 10m a day will only need to charge once every 20 or so days. 140 charge cycles means they will keep their car for 7 years. 340 charge cycles means they keep their car for 18 years.

Why is it a…

This disagrees with you:

That they could net an extra $27k if you got the V60 Polestar PHEV with AWD?

Volvo definitely has a design language going on, but they do seem to tweak the appearance for every model. The question is if that is sufficient to keep the cars unique. For example:
XC40 and XC60 have the tallest, most square grilles
XC40 has a protruding bumper and y-shaped DRL
V60 and S60 have the most t-shaped DRL…

Except the Fit (I owned one) came with 15" wheels

What’s wrong with a Cargo Van?

Some of us actually have LCD only gauges. The only solution then is to vary the backlight; high during the day, low at dusk/night, unless your headlights are on and then it is high again.

But to address headlights being on during the daytime... I guess you just can’t tell unless you look at the headlight indicator.

You could conceivably wear the lab coat over greasy coveralls, over a business suit. Throw in some welding goggles and I think we have David covered!

The definition of ‘afford’ has to be brought up though. You can lease a Corvette for $599 each, over a 39 month period, with $7k down. If, however, your priorities are to invest the money into your kids (this guy did not for sure!), a 2015 Ford Transit Connect can be had for $15k, and if you put $3k down the monthly…

The problem is they wreck themselves if we go down. Who is going to purchase Chinese goods if we don’t? Tanking the dollar means, comparatively, Chinese goods become too expensive to purchase, and the whole Chinese economy goes south then.

Everything is a stop gap, you realize, towards the future? Because the future is also VR/AR virtual presence, eliminating the need to commute to work, automation, eliminating a lot of jobs, distributed workforce, making the commute a 4 minute shuttle ride, universal mass transit, eliminating the need for a car for…

It depends on where you live and what incentives you can get. Federal tax credits for the PHEV erases some of the price difference, for example. Also, at least in the California Bay Area, you can use the carpool lanes with a PHEV for at least 3 years, though many of the carpool lanes are being re-purposed for toll…

Innocent until proven guilty, maybe?

Next they need to adapt their concept estate:

Considering that a 7" HDMI LCD for backset rests costs $24 in packs of 10, I can imagine affixing one to each A-pillar, in each doorwell, and in each foot area, to give you a cheap 3D glass cockpit:

So I owned the Ford Freestyle, which in terms of platform was very similar to the Flex, and later I learned that the new Explorer shared the same platform. In that sense, I thought the Freestyle, Flex, and Explorer were all functionally the same car (3 rows, height of 68" etc). So in getting rid of the Flex, they’re…