Luckily EV night charging profiles line up perfectly with night too-much-baseload generation.
In the UK, this is used to fill up pump-storage hydro tanks, and consumers were still being bribed to get electric night-time heat storage fitted.

And ignore the 10 times thicker than usual body panelling.

If the Ford is pulling downhill in 2WD mode, it’s traction is compromised due to the weight transfer to the downhill wheels.

A Leaf starts at $30k, but is the next size-class up - it’s a Focus-size vehicle, rather than a Fiesta-size vehicle. Admittedly, the only A-class EV I know of in the USA is the Fiat 500e, which is the next size-class down.

In Europe, you could get a Zoe for about $17k, minus subsidies.

The 240-mile Leaf can be had for $29k, minus the $7.5k federal tax credit, and any applicable state subsidy.

There are actually more DC fast-charging station for the Audi, across the USA, than there are Tesla Supercharger stations.
Tesla V2 Superchargers provide 34kW+ depending on how busy the station is (as each charger gets shared by 2 chargepoints), with 130kW or 150kW if less than half the chargepoints are in use. They…

This is just part of the 150kW charging network available for the Audi - as at last June.
There are also about 2,000 50kW fast charger locations.

TCO of cheap EVs is at par with TCO with cheap gas cars atm - it’s just that all the cost is front-loaded.
Fuel costs are much lower - with electricity pricies at 8c to 25c per kWh, depending on location, and typical mileage of 3 to 4 miles per kWh - or 2c to 8c per mile in fuel costs for the EV. For the ICE, it’s…

“those were the given prices before any federal discounts.”
And, because Tesla has used up all its Federal discounts, it’s also the pricing after the Federal discounts.

A Kammback is a truncated teardrop tail. Teardrops are constant-curve lines.

Scheissholz resonance?

“The efficiency of EVs with regenerative braking is much less affected by weight than ICE vehicles.” ... except at high constant speed. Like, say, the long-distance highway driving you are doing when the range actually matters

Two reasons
- the Tesla body panels are already 10 times thicker than the average body panel
- the Tesla steel cannot be pressed into compound curves, like those reinforcment webs are

Oh - you deserve so many more stars.

They’ve got their own special-sauce stainless-steel alloy recipes, similiar to particular grades of Inconel.

“The question is why. Why would you use thicker, heavier metal?”

I used to have a Nokia VCR.

It turns out that removing Andrew for public fuckwittery has proved much easier than removing Trump for his.

Sometimes having an apolitical head of state has advantages - even if it does mean paying for the annual upkeep of the 11th-in-line to the post

(approx. cos I’m not goimg looking them up again)

In Europe, Tesla is turning the Superchargers into Tesla-branded CCS chargers.

In late 2019 or early 2020, the majority of Teslas using the Supercharger network will be CCS-socket vehicles, rather than Tesla-socket vehicles.