Sounds very promising, but welding too materials with a thermal expansion coefficient as radically different as glass and “metal” may lead to cracking very easily.

A lead-acid battery in a EV is like a using fire in spaceship for heating purposes.

If I ever find myself in Germany and in need of a Trockenbau, Frank Habitz will be it

No instructions are needed, only common sense. I know that waching a rally car pass-by a few feet away from you is an insanely impressive experience, but generally not worth the risk. When you realize how easily things can go wrong you get to understand why watching from a distance and at certain height makes sense.

Why do we need to motorize everything?

Well is not good enough.

This is what happens when dumb people use dumb transmissions (i.e automatic transmissions). I’ve seen plenty of car-park crashes due to people accidentally leaving the stuppid shifter in D with the engine running.

“a major maker of breaking systems,”

I just don’t understand how the suspension/tires withstand such abuse, that stage was ROUGH.

32,000 mi =high mileage?

I fail to understand why America needs 178hp and 8 sec. 0-60mph on a base model of a car like this, specially given the speed limits, the relaxed driving style and the mostly-flat orography of the US. Cheap gas I guess...