I think this is a valid point you’ve made.

However, since these cars don’t support many common American use cases, it will be difficult to determine whether or not automakers can keep on the path they’re on and gain mass adoption.

I almost think we’re going to see some stagnation in the adoption of EVs until the…

Sometimes that’s not possible if the priorities are time vs. leisure. 

Misleading headline.

I thought, “Wait, Rivian makes tires too? Who would buy Rivian tires?”

However, as you pointed out, the tires are in fact, Pirelli.

So, here’s a revised headline, “Pirelli tires, on Rivian vehicles are lasting as little as 6000 miles”

Maybe also write a piece that illustrates the other extreme use…

Without a major revolution in battery technology, EVs will fail to gain mass approval unless it is the only option available.

I’m not against EVs. I have owned a PHEV, but can tell you that it was the hybrid aspect of it that made it practical. Most of my driving with that vehicle was around town. Even with its…

And the brains are a key part. Oy. 

The thing is that pleather wasn’t a marketing term, it was a tongue-in-cheek reference to vinyl and vinyl-like materials. Vegan leather hurts my brain. Typically the animal type precedes the word leather, such as:

Ostrich leather - Made from ostrich

So you’re suggesting natural leather can be something from other than an animal hide?

It precedes them, but they might be the first automaker to use it. 

I came here to say just this. My understanding is that most cow leather is a food production byproduct. So unless people abandon beef as a protein source, it doesn’t seem inhumane or counter to environmental concerns to not use the hides for practical purposes.

Purely from a position of aesthetics and function, I…

The one trend that needs to stop is the EV push based on battery technology that results in a use case that isn’t a 1:1 to an ICE equivalent vehicle. The heft, and relative slowness of charging a massive EV battery are counter to our expectations of a vehicle. In a best case scenario, an EV is a compromise of time…

Not all salvage cars are inherently unsafe, particularly when the claim of total loss isn’t damage sustained from a crash. Flood, fire, theft, and a range of other situations can result in a total loss and thus a branded title.

Even crashed cars, though classified as totalled, but not suffer from issues that would…

I’d be curious to learn more about that. I’ll look it up.

Given how utterly horrid they were, I imagine that they under-engineered them using a gasoline-designed block in typical GM malaise-era fashion.

Oh, this is a good theory. Expect to find some malaise era Olds 350 Diesel powered land yachts. 

All car modifications are a waste of money. If you have to modify it, you’re not driving the right car. 

You’ve got a lot of opinions, that’s fine, but you are ignoring many factors of both science and economics in your responses.

No, not TV. Not news. Not PR. Not influencers. Not conspiracy theorists. Facts. Real, hard facts.

In reading through your reply, I don’t think your views are based in facts. 

I think EVs are only limited by charging speed and range. If they were a 1:1 replacement of ICE cars, where use cases aren’t so limited, ICE would be gone quickly. But until there’s a breakthrough in battery tech, we are where we are.

Some of your logic cancels out your arguments above. 

1) An ICE has production costs…

Nice. What year, make and model? 

What other methods of public safety do you not agree with?