Because unless you have multiple acres of land you aren’t powering an EV much less 2. No city or even suburbs would be functional. Skyscrapers are in shade a huge chunk of the day and at noon, obviously get far less sun per sq foot of space with 20 floors and only one roof.

I can see the argument but for the same reasons you say it can’t work, I say the specs would be lowered to allow slower lower draw charges without needing super duper jigawatt charging, even at 12 ports.

it also means you never need to sit for a full charge. A 10% charge every few days means shorter times and less raw draw needed.

I’m entirely not following.  Why is a dealer making their new cars ‘used’ and then selling them?  Who is paying ‘more’ for a used car than new?

I mean we all have ‘proof’ we can drive a car based on a single test 30 years ago.  So sure, that temp vax you got 2 year ago is plenty!

We’ve got a 2012 and 2011 respectively and am NOT looking forward to the new car buying experience...they all have touchscreens at this point I think.

That’s actually a major selling point of some of these. They literally have no key slot to bump.

Yep, I used my HVAC stack space, have a portal door in the front hall closet and master bdrm closet for mid floor access as needed.

Another major feature of wired, while definitely advanced lvl, is power over ethernet.   If you want security cameras, you can run ‘only’ the ethernet cable and not need a power source for the cameras.

Certainly reasonable, and cheap!, initial step. But the wifi reliability issue remains. It’s just variable by design, especially if you have just one central wifi point. As long as hiccups in signal are acceptable wifi is a fabulous solution.

For the love of god, can we get normal wheel sizes again?   When *range* is a concern, sacrificing 10-15% because wheels seems really f’n stupid.

nah it’s missing that extra special feature.   We’ll make it *raised*

liability is a cruel mistress if you’re into that sort of thing.

never understood that. I absolutely hate when I see a hatch or something with massive tumblehome(?). Just wasted storage space.

regardless, the CEO pay isn’t the main issue. 20 mil x 50,000 hourly workers is a paltry $400/yr.

And when the slight shift in weight brings down a section that’s holding the rest of it up, you can pay the claim?

As did Standard Oil once upon a time. We need to elect people with balls of yesteryear to start breaking these oligarchs off at the knees.

As someone who’s within sight of my retirement age...it really depends. Your expenses don’t really change, and given medical costs and age, may even go up in retirement.

EVs aren’t competitive on up front price, but they generally are very close or better on TCO over time than comparable ICEs. They’re wildly less expensive when you consider the CO2 costs (which aren’t dealt with in the prices). The other significant problem with driving lower economic classes to used is there simply…

It’s the poverty of cheap boots just starting at $50K+. EVs are less expensive to buy, own and operate over time. Another factor is buying used. EVs, for the same reasons of people’s inexperience with them, depreciate much faster than ICEs. So you can get comparatively more car for less money...and without most of the…