The bolt really does seem like the perfect prius replacement of today.... low cost/efficient vehicle... still kinda early adopter phase because it’s BEV and the looks are subpar. but everyone that has one gets the last laugh all the way to the bank. these last few weeks, I have seriously, seriously, considered selling…

He’s talking about Bolts not Volts. these Bolts should have zero issue with another 100k

I think a majority of us would be able to live with all the other little shortfalls if the MPG was even remotely reasonable. it’s just crazy to me that we still see so many new vehicles with mileage in the teens. especially with how expensive gasoline is getting (my area is around $5/gal)....

I have 4 volvo catalytic converters I have no idea what to do with. One off my race car, and 3 off donor cars I bought for the race car.

looks nice. if i had to drive one of these, i wouldnt mind it at all..... but that’s about the extent of it...

GMT400.

Nah. I’d bet the auto industry would become complacent, and just build cheap gas cars, and not ramp up on cheap EV… they’d then have their lobbyists pressure regulators to push the full EV roll out date, saying “we don’t have manufacturing capabilities to just switch.” And we’d be back to square one. 

we have a 2020 ioniq ev, and I rotated my tires a couple days before taking it into the dealership for the coolant recall... got a call that the car was ready, and the service writer was like “and we did a free tire rotation for you too!...” this was a month ago, havent driven it much, but i need to re-rotate the damn…

Nope. Because not everybody will need to charge while shopping… but I wouldn’t be surprised if stores eventually all had 10~20.

south bay area checking in... the amount of money people blow on cars here (and houses for that matter) is next to insane.... but then again, theres a boatload of engineers around here pulling north of $250k/yr... so there’s that....

once chargers at places like the grocery store and the workplace become super common this “20 minutes” thought process wont really be an issue.

who the fuck clicked no-dice?

a fuckton of $500 volvos.

If I had to take a quick guess, I’d say the bottleneck is the CVT. My 98 Volvo sedan is rated for 3300lbs and pretty similar in power.

ive seen a few, and each time ive just scratched my head as to what drove that individual to make that decision.

I’m half Japanese myself, and I grew up there, so you can cool it.

Part of the fun is having the only one.

If I were to add to the above, one thing I forgot to mention is that 6/7/8/9/10sp road and 6/7/8/9sp mtb deraileurs from shimano share the same pull ratio. So in a pinch you can swap deraileur a or shifters pretty easy. Like my tt bike is actually running an 8sp shifter with a 10sp rear derailleur, but 9sp pulley…

if you want an end of the world bike, I would actually recommend going with 8-speed.

Yeah, I built this thing a while ago to carry a keg to the top of a trail on turkey day. theres a handful of photos and videos of it floating around out there... it is very much a one-of-a-kind bike.... I haven’t seen anybody else dumb enough to build anything like it. which was magically kinda convenient, because it…