“The *real* question is: is it “rub and tugs” or “rubs and tug”

“the body will be beatable to shit and reparable at home easily”

No-one is repairing a stainless steel body at home easily, never mind a stainless steel body made out of Tesla special-sauce own-brand stainless steel

Assuming there was enough unused capacity in the battery.
You can’t regen on a full battery.

Ah yes - sorry, my bad. 150mi for $30k, minus $7.5k and state EV subsidy.
220mi for $36.5k, minus $7.5k and state EV subsidy.
Still, 50% more than the Mini e, and 20% more than the VW e-Golf (EPA ranges of 100mi and 125mi each).

Trains are fucking ugly - then again, there’s the Intercity 125.

Even brake-forming tools wear out quickly on these hard steel alloys, and when you cold-roll them for extra hardness, the tools wear out even faster.

It does make me want to try the Baja in the new LR Defender.

I’ve got two main theories:

A binch of those coal-fired plants in China have been cancelled already, and they’ve got the only active Gen3+ nuclear water reactors.

In 2018, over about 22ok EVs were sold in the USA, out of a total of 5.3m cars - or 4%.

You can drive an I-Pace from Houston to Dallas using only DC fast-chargers. What stops you from doing it in an e-tron?

The Vauxhall Corsa-e is £30.7k incl taxes etc (but excl EV subsidy) , with a 50kWh battery. (I’m guessing the EV Peugeot 208 will be about the same)
Equivalent to about $28k before taxes, subsidies, etc.

The Zoe is £25k incl taxes and destination in the UK, with a 55kWh battery.

And, hopefully, some insulating gasketing. :-)

Unlikely - they tend to be phased out as sales increase. The large per-vehicle subsidies are to jump-start the market, and become expensive to provide once the sales volumes increase.
Teslas used to sell 5k vehicles a year. They now sell 350k/year. That’s a lot more subsidy funding for governments to find.
Plus - it’s…

Yes, EVs have transmissions and brakes and lubricants and coolant.
They have simpler transmissions, the mechanical brakes get used less, and only most, not all, EVs run coolant through the motors or the battery packs.

I’ve just dug out the previous years’ sales figures, and the previous annual profits/losses.

The cumulative figure to end 2018 was -$10,460. The cumulative figure to end Q3 2019 is -$8,116. (Cumulative losses of $6.6billion, cumulative vehicle sales of 810k)

Lots of people are taking the race to create a cheap EV seriously. The problem is that it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Complaints that they’re running more like Mo Farah and less like Usain Bolt don’t really make sense. Or Jamaica would win a lot more golds for marathons.

Most natural gas comes from natural gas extraction, not oil bycatch.

Yep - the Volt was an epic marketting fail on an engineering triumph.

The press all reported it as an unremarkable highway economy gain for all that expensive tech.