Kia Soul is absolutely a fantastic option for around town and hauling stuff.

The designer needs to go to Yale

As noted in another post. ICEs are in many ways worse for mass evacuations because they have to use gas while idling. Gas station tanks can’t be refilled remotely and many run out. But before the storm arrives every outlet anywhere can charge EVs.

Narrator: In 50 years, the number of chargers in FL will be the least of their problems.

FL specifically doesn’t do that. It’s not as simple as it sounds, you need dedicated traffic enforcement at every exit and you need to allow south bound traffic for things like gas tankers to let people fill up, get emergency crews in place, etc.

“Slideshows are dumb and illegal but they keep happening.”

Yep. I know it’s hard for the MBA’s still wet behind the ears to understand, but build a reliable product tends to garner repeat business.

Literally just put EV powertrains in existing cars and they’ll sell like hot cakes.

So does the cigarette lighter to power your 12v AM radio.   Literally just do that instead of mandating the CAR have something it most definitely doesn’t need.

Reminding buyers why they hate you by bringing back something they do like isn’t a terribly successful gambit.

Here in VA there’s a 7-11 knock off store called 5-12 lol

And mfrs have also generally learned you need *new* models more than every....well we’re still counting with Tesla.

Imagine saying a 2 ton vehicle potentially killing a pedestrian is similar to chat grammar?

We definitely don’t travel enough to even bother.   The only ‘miles’ perk that ever interested me was a Citibank program that had no blackout dates.    Money I’m expecting to spend, but time you can’t really control.   Hence the only perk that matters to me ;-)

Pricing parity is ‘firing marketing execs’ years away. Sell EV Honda Civic, Ford Focus etc for $30k and print future money with repeat customers. You know, how every car maker builds it’s repeat buyers?

I’d probably just get out and remove it, why pull over when you’re already stopped? Something Waymo is utterly unable to do though.

Given the car in the header image. Imagine minor fender bender in the *middle of nowhere*. Can the car even drive itself now that the cameras are just out of alignment enough? or are you literally stuck there until a repair crew/tow truck shows?

It’s a weird article ;-)  Given ‘used’ cars the comparison of a 3 yr old Lincoln off lease to a 10 yr old Kia a first owner sold might skew these numbers a bit me thinks.

Question: Aren’t *radios* supposed to be replaceable? i.e. DIN/ Dbl DIN were created so we’d have a standard 3rd party market no?

I won’t say there isn’t a point to a good chunk of the tech. But it’s not mature enough to be mass deployed. And when cars are *already* getting too expensive, it’s just stupid to add more ‘new unproven’ stuff on top of it.