A lot of people said the same thing about Japanese cars in the 1970s. 

About a year ago I rented a BYD Han, a luxury EV sedan, from Sixt in Norway and that thing had nothing to envy of the high-end German cars, which I regularly rent with Sixt in Europe. The Han EV had a well-designed cabin, top-notch fit-and-finish, high quality materials and drove very smoothly, even on the icy roads;…

Oh boy, it’s the retarded american exceptionalism self made guy again.

Hearing that from you is like the kettle calling the pot black lol.

Since when did the US consumers care the morality in the products that we buy???

There’s a difference between cars designed and made for SEA/Asia market vs cars designed and made for the rest of the world market...

the fact that in some SEA countries, BYD seals perfomance only cost as much as entry level BMW 3-series which is 320i and Benz C-class which is C200 yet has straight line speed, acceleration and 1/4 mile as fast as Ferrari 360

Teslas are now firmly in the category of “cheap used car” (or “ugly novelty” if it’s a cybertruck). They are rapidly approaching the cultural status attained by the Altima

would be a shame if Tesla we’re a company, a collection of workers and engineers with a vision, and not just the Equity ambitions of an autistic South African Oligarch.  

Tesla are a dead company walking. They ever make money on that German factory I’ll eat my hat. Here where I live in CA I see far far fewer than I used to. And the MAGA audience is not making up the numbers.
Would buy a BYD Seagull (drove one in the UK) tomorrow.

You may not want to buy it though. May be better off going to buy something used at the end for a bargain, or if the leases are still as good as they are now, you may be happy to lease again.

Love it.

Those are called EREVs and they’ve been gaining some traction in markets where the charging infrastructure is less than ideal.

I’ll catch heat for this, no doubt, but I’d definitely be in favor of only allowing trucks that are legit commercial vehicles in city centers--like construction and the like--not Bob driving his Ford Super Duty 350 dually to his office job.

We really should be talking about why we would need larger vehicles like cars and pick-ups in crowded city centers in the first place. Cities globally are moving to eliminate cars in the most crowded areas and it makes sense considering they are incompatible with every other piece of city center existence.

I dunno if you are new here...but “X Car Is A Good Deal In The Used Market Right Now” is a pretty consistent blog from me over the years. 

So, as an engineer, I can do calculations!

Range is less of an issue than recharging speed and infrastructure (for longer trips). I can charge, overnight, at home, and that would work fine, 330-340 days a year. It’s those 15-25 other days that create the huge psychological hurdle, where I’m trying to go 200+ miles in one day.

Yep. Doesn’t matter how good technology is with crumple zones, and automatic braking, and how many airbags you throw into it. In the end, physics will always win.

Would be interesting to see the stats on how often vehicles crash into the scenery vs into another car.