Those are all essentially highly mass produced, many part sharing, throw away appliances. No one has any personal connection to them, nor will anyone care of their demise.  

One difference. The BMW i3, like the first gen Fiat 500e, uses Bosch’s ‘retrofit’ kit, which includes chilled, active water cooling for the battery.

With a rake?  You been listening to that orange idiot too much. 

Like the Peace Corp, but for a clean future. Great idea. I was younger and single I would have considered this. It might even set you up for a future career in some related field. 

A little Independence Day.

Why?

A universal, removable battery pack will also require a universal and cloned location on the vehicle for implementation. In some applications, that may dictate design changes and limit products that are truly unique and different from others on the market.  Perhaps having two or three standards is the workaround for…

Regulate both ends, all ends. Efficiency is connected to emissions which is connected to weight. No loopholes, through the EPA, DOT and IRS deductions. Registration based on potential damage to infrastructure. Enhanced driver license requirements for large and heavy vehicles.  Maybe insurance will get it on it and…

The difference between a sheathed pump and an unsheathed one is profound.  With the unsheathed, you can hear, feel and smell the escaping fumes rush by your hand.  Where do you think all of that is going?

Jesus Christ is that front end hideous. 

Women in ancient Rome were forbidden from drinking wine?  So those orgies were one-sided?

Convinced more than ever that social media is a stain upon humanity. At least wait until the movie is actually out and let the professional reviewers at it before you start complaining that it sucks.

Joy Division.  One point.

I’m OK with it.

Absolutely common in many European cars beginning in the 1960s. Strictly for packaging sake in very utility oriented, boring vehicles, not at all unusual in the eyes of anyone who was around such vehicles.

Nothing on my direct part, but learned late 90s and early 2000s vintage GM vehicles had a built-in ‘expire by’ feature in their transmissions.  Boom!  When you least need it to happen. 

1. It’s Google. Product support could end yesterday.

A new and cleaner aluminum plant.  Part of any recent re-industrialization legislation, like the IRA Act or CHIPs Act, putting manufacturing back on U.S. soil?

Like ever cheaper and quickly built renewables, paired with increasingly cheaper storage.  California says hi. 

Another take.  Stop building expensive EVs.  That market is saturated.  There’s only so many rich people.  It’s time to build cheap ones for the rest of us.  They’ll make it up in volume.