The Volt actually had an engine direct to wheels mode, and a planetary gearbox about equivalently complicated to the Prius.
The Volt, like the Prius, was ridiculously reliable.

The lifespan of any given model of hybrid’s battery pack really depends on the battery pack’s capacity compared to how much of the capacity gets used.

If a hybrid has a 10kWh battery, and it uses all 10kWh each day, the battery will last about 3 years.

If the hybrid has a 20kWh battery, and it uses 10kWh each day, the…

The Jeep is already on sale as the Fiat 500X

I’ve got an ‘07 Panda 100hp. It’s been far too much fun to get rid of.

My tankless system heats the water with natural gas, so moving to a solar pv + managed thermocline tank would lower the carbon footprint by a lot.

In the UK, it’s the “accelerator”, or “accelerator pedal”

There are now hot water tanks deliberately designed to act as energy storage - they carefully manage the thermocline within the tank.

You use, lose it *or* store it.
And if your car can receive charge *or* do vehicle-to-grid (V2G), then the car becomes a useful storage device for the house, not just a place to use surplus charge.

Lack of deep-discharge is actually an economic issue, not a technical issue.

Can’t discharge below 20%? Add an extra 25% to the battery pack capacity, and don’t discharge the pack below 20%.  While getting as much charge out as you would by deep-discharging the smaller pack.

Pls re-read.

There are three fast-charging standards in the USA.
Tesla. As used by Tesla
Chademo. As used by Nissan
CCS. As used by Audi, BMW, Chevrolet, Hyundai, Jaguar, Kia, Land Rover, Mercedes, Porsche, Renault, VW, etc and (in Europe) Tesla. And which will be used by FCA, Ford, and the rest of GM.

And in Europe, Tesla S&X sales have plummetted, and i-Pace and e-tron sales are substantially higher than the S/X sales. Often even S/X sales combined.

“It violates GAAP for auto companies.”
Yep - which is why a lot of commentary on Tesla financials translate the Tesla-published figures into GAAP. 

Across the EU and USA, the Porsche has 8,000+ fast and high-power chargers. Which compares well with the 8,000 fast charge-connectors Tesla Superchargerhas. (But only Tesla 4,000 fast chargers - each 135kW or 145kW Supercharger splits its charge between two charge-connectors). Tesla started rolling out high-power…

We have 1 to 5years to have a better than evens chance of keeping global warming to +1.5degC.
We have about 20 years to have a better than evens chance of keeping global warming to +2degC.

Here’s a graphic from 32 months ago, showing we had 49 to 94 months left (for better than evens chance of +1.5degC) So now, it’s 17…

Siemens have a 130MWh thermal storage plant underway.

“re-purposing” (which conclusively has been proven to be BS on utility scale).

Electricity generation is the low-hanging fruit of the first-world. Except in the UK, which has now dealt with that enough that transport is now the sector with the biggest carbon-footprint.

You know that Tesla bought up all those SolarCity installs so that Elon Musk could bail his cousins out of impending bankruptcy. And that they spent the last year replacing key parts of every single the SolarCity installs (“Project Titan”) without announcing it - despite the substantial financial implications, and the…

“I’m not sure EA’s is fast enough for convenient travel”