OK, name a single reason to buy this over a cheaper, more powerful, longer-range, faster-charging, similarly-sized Mini Cooper SE, or a much larger and longer-range Ioniq hatchback for the same price.

This car is like if I took an iPhone 5 straight from 2012 and sold it for $500 today. Sure, the design and quality is as good as any competitor, and it’ll still do the basic car/phone things you expect it to do, but you’d have to either be out of your mind or have some extremely niche use case to buy one when so many…

See, I paid $35,000 for my EV, and I took it on a 2000 mile round trip the other day. It was 18 hours of driving each way compared to the 16 it used to take in my gas car. Even though I still have a gas-guzzler, the Model 3 is my primary long-distance car, because it’s so much cheaper to run and more pleasant to drive…

It’s not an EV though, it’s a hybrid. I owned a Prius with 110 hp from its hybrid drivetrain and it was slow as shit (11.3 seconds 0-60 and zero power above 70mph)

Is this really better value than a basic Honda Civic for $22k? I mean, the new Civic has an interior that’s arguably nicer inside, just with a smaller screen, it comes with 160 horsepower instead of 110, and it probably won’t crumple like a wet cardboard box if it hits a small squirrel.

The moonshot imagery is especially interesting when you consider what GM views as its biggest competitor, the Cybertruck, will be made (maybe) by the automaker with the most actual connections to space. If the Cybertruck is ever made I wouldn’t be surprised if one ends up on the moon.

4700 lbs though...

Flying is in general more efficient than driving. That 350-passenger 777 gets 80 mpg per passenger, much better than the average car and its average occupancy of 1.7 passengers. With a high-density seating layout and a newer airliner, 130-140 mpg per passenger is possible. The difficulty is that long-range flying is…

I mean, not exactly. Depending on which rocket you use, it ranges from about 120 tons of CO2 for hydrogen production for a New Shepard launch to 350 tons for a Falcon 9. The average car emits about 5 tons per year and each passenger on a transatlantic flight contributes about 1 ton, so an orbital launch with 4 people…

Originally, the Tesla was supposed to start at $40k for a 250-mile range and 7,500 lbs of towing capacity, which are fantastic specs.

Probably easier to go from Bangladesh to Mexico to the US than try to sneak in through an airport or stow away on a ship.

What, exactly, does China do economically better than the United States? The US has 4x the GDP per capita, 3x the median income, a far more developed economy, the world’s de facto reserve currency, a more balanced population (China’s workforce is aging very quickly without the birthrate to sustain it), and a much…

The difference between horsepower and range is that range has a huge impact on just the basic usability of a car. A family sedan with 150hp will meet the needs of your average consumer just as much as one with 400hp will. The same isn’t true for an EV with 150km of range vs 400km.

No, it spells KИ.

Mexico uses the NEDC cycle for testing EV range, which is notoriously inaccurate. This thing has a 30kWh battery and looks like it’s about the same size as the old Fiat 500e, which had a 24kWh battery and 80 miles of range, so you’re probably not getting more than 110 miles out of this. Get a used Nissan Leaf or Kia…

$35k Model 3 did happen (even without accounting for inflation - $35k in 2016 is equal to $40k in 2020 or $42k in 2021) but I don’t think this ever will. It’s hard to find a worse track record than Fisker’s in the auto industry.

Holy shit, that’s 200 lbs heavier than my Tesla Model 3 (which means it’s also 200 lbs more than a base 3-series...) I know it’s AWD and the Tesla isn’t, but it’s also a full segment smaller and doesn’t have to lug around a giant brick of electrons.

God bless NASA and the 747SP

The body panels on one of those would fall off before it left the production line.

800V chargers are harder and more expensive to integrate into the grid, for one. That’s one reason why Tesla can build their Supercharger network more quickly than any competitor. Their 400V chargers cost about half as much to install as an Electrify America 800V one, and are more reliable and quicker to build. In-car …