I’m friendly with someone who has a smug-sounding vanity plate on his P85+ (that was the fast one before the 4wd versions). The best part: he parks it next to his McLaren, 997 GT2, a late 60’s Ferrari and a big block ‘60-something Corvette. I think he was going for irony. Not sure.

I once parked a rental GM car (Buick, I think) with a proximity key within 30ft or so of a very powerful transmitter. Once it turned on, I could not start the car. Having suddenly found myself with some free time, I followed all the best practices in the manual and nothing worked. Back in business as soon as they shut…

I agree with everything you say but they’ve been selling the Model S for THREE years now. Nearly 100,000 of them. The just can’t get the but-it’s-a-new-company pass forever. They’re staffed with plenty of automotive veterans who presumably know how to make cars - that problems persist points to cultural and/or…

It’s relative to other vehicles within that year. You expect newer cars to be more reliable so a couple “fair” ratings can be much worse than average.

THAT explains why the guy at Staples offered to refund me THIRTY-TWO CENTS when I was unable to use their Internet kiosk to access my Staples account to retrieve a document for printing.

Overreving is easy in a manual transmission car. Just put it in the wrong gear at high engine speed. The rev limiter will not save you and the ECU will record every glorious revolution of the engine.

I wrote 10 KILOWATT/HOURS. Only Teslas can even draw 10kW.

You sure to like to latch onto and misinterpret irrelevant stuff. I picked 35 miles because it results in a nice round number of kW/h not as a range. As it happens, 35 miles RT covers 75% of all commutes though.

Those are MAXIMUM values (it says so right there) which, if you’ve ever seen a BMEP table, occur at load/rpm values that are seldom encountered. In fact, the wiki link - right there in the quote - you didn’t bother to read says this:

Now it’s electricity demand is going up 10X? How much electricity do you think EVs use? 10 kW/h from the wall will propel a Leaf/e-golf/500e/i3/Volt about 35 miles. My old electric water heater used more electricity than that each day. A pool pump uses more.

Transmission losses average about 6% in the US.

I find the design appealing but the execution lacking. I got a brief ride in a fairly clean one years ago and my recollection was of it being kind of shitastic inside but it helps to remember it was an ‘81. It was no worse than an ‘81 Lotus Esprit, for example.

I picked up an e-golf a week ago and was formulating charging plans. I have a 20A 240 plug in my garage but I also have a dormant 50A circuit that terminates 25ft from my garage. It took a few days to realize the obvious: I leased it with low miles (7500/yr) precisely because it’s my commute/local/3rd car. There are…

The BMW product trainer was talking nonsense. That must be the BMW party line.

Having just leased a “short range” e-golf, I’m not so sure. As the industry matures, I can imagine a common realization: “hey, I paid the extra money for 200 miles but never went more than 100 miles last year. next time I’ll save some coin.” Or 2 car households with one long- and one short-range car.

VW has already said that the fix will involve hardware. This test is meaningless.

I solved this problem for myself over the weekend. :)

Since you’re talking equivalent prices, those better materials don’t come for free. The cost comes out of something else. Window regulators, for example. ( :) i’m sure they’re better now, just something that came to mind...).

I was at a VW dealer on Saturday (leased an e-golf) and was surprised to see the TDI signage was still in place. I would have thought the dealer’s would have been asked to remove them (I guess they can’t be forced). The salesman told me they had moved all their TDIs to the remote lot. Claimed they didn’t actually sell…

I’m selling my ‘00 XJR cheap ( SPAM! ) and so far I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of nutjobs. I’ve spoken to two reasonable adults on the phone, one email low-ball, and one “i have cash need a car ASAP!!!” that I ignored.