#In2019

“Li-ion batteries are always at risk “
You can take a 6 foot length of rebar and shove it right through some Li-ion batteries and nothing will happen.

Which is why electricity demand is highest during hot spells, whereas electricity demand in Germany is highest during cold spells.

But do you have concrete-surfaced roads that might explode if the traffic takes the concrete temperature above 50degC?

Yes, but vampires shouldn’t use solar-powered cars.

Brand-new McLaren 570S is $195k. The 570GT is only $205k.  Just sayin’.

If they are not using interstates or state highways, they’ll be charging at home.
Generally speaking, the bulk of the infrastructure for them has already been provided: the generating stations; the high-voltage transmission lines; the local transformer sub-stations; the last-mile transmission cable; the domestic…

I’m sure the factories for film cameras could be kept going now - if only the market hadn’t moved on due to changes in economics and customer taste.

If you’ve got 250miles of range, you simply fast charge on the interstate, with flyover country reached as a return trip from the interstate. If you’re off the interstate, you’re pobably doing pick-ups or drop-offs, and you’ll be charging while the loading and unloading happens.

Yep - my non-hybrid Ford is 103g CO2/km, so it seems like it might be feasible to hit 95g with a bit of hybridisation.

200lbs of gasoline turns into about 990lbs of greenhouse gasses when burnt, of which about 675lbs is CO2. (The extra weight is from the oxygen consumed in the combustion).

Woops - my bad. Conversion factor error.
Every *2,350* miles. Rest of it stands.

Who wants to drive around in a minspec car? Then again, who wants to see the eastern seaboard one long continuous smorgasbord of permanent “nuisance” flooding.
Personally, I’m still hacked off by the flash floods we had in my city yesterday from 2" of rain in 2 hours. Normally that amount happens over 2 weeks.

More the 500. The Panda, teh 500 and the Ford Ka are the same platform, different sheetmetal.
The 500L is an ugly Punto.

“avatar” is the UX-development term in widespread use in the UK

Panda

Generally speaking, SUV braking distances are longer.

If you start to change the other cars into Civics and Fits, they get safer.

“The BMW i3 started production in 2013 and has not been replaced or significantly updated”

The battery size has gone up from 22kWh to 33kWh to 44kWh. Don’t those count as updates?

My car is 1,960lbs, and takes a family of 4 and all the vacation gear, at up to 40mpg (US).