Rest assured - the electric Jag XJ is on its way to you. We just don’t know what it looks like yet.

Weirdly, I hated its looks when it was launched. And now I think it’s gorgeous.

Acceleration and velocity both include an element of direction. They are vector, not scalar.

Speed has no element of direction. It is scalar, not vector.

The UK had 22,000 stations 20 years ago.

Even if we had retained them, the US would still have 8 times as many stations for 5 times the population.

Jag also offer a wagon.

Do you see the crossovers exceeding your real world average with their real world average mileage?

Or do their published theoretical mileages exceed your real world average?

And do their published theoretical mileages exceed your hatchback’s theoretical real-world mileage?

The way public transport works, it is incompatible with rural areas.

The way GM lobbied to have public transport ripped up and replaced with roads in the early/mid 20th century, it is needlessly incompatible with many urban areas of the USA too.

In both the US and the UK, transport is now the biggest contributor to emissions of heat-trapping gasses.

“battery manufacturing and electricity production still produce emissions and increasing those areas of manufacturing could very well cancel out gains made at the tailpipe.”

Could - but, as all the studies show, actually won’t.

The best thing Americans can do to fight climate change is work to change the attitudes of their fellow Americans who continue to actively deny that there is climate change. The cynic in me feels that it is just rationalisation so they can continue their CO2-spewing lifestyles. (4 times as much as the average…

“When I was in the U.K. a week ago I was surprised how many diesel cars I saw still farting around in London. (Most of the cars I saw in London were diesel if memory serves.) Which is just to say for all of the pull back on diesel in Europe following Dieselgate there are still plenty on the streets.”

In Europe, as in…

Charging at fast-chargers, or high-power chargers, out on the highway is going to be as expensive as filling up on gas is now. 

Most natural gas is a primary product of natural gas production. Only a small proportion is a byproduct of oil production (and that often used to be burnt off, rather than captured)

Lots and lots of fluids in most EVs - they have bigger, more extensive, more interconnected, and more complex cooling circuits than ICE cars.

In 2009, Tesla’s strategy was to use the forthcoming Model S, and the “$35,000 car” planned for 2012/2013, as technology demonstrators so they could get into the battery pack and drive-train supply business. (according to the VP of business development, on the Dan Rather Show’s episode on electric vehicles).

They used…

Tesla is still buying the battery cells for the Model 3 at below Panasonic’s cost of manufacture.

And the other problem is that if a punitive tariff is put on ICE cars, that will be seen as an attempt to ban something that you are not allowed to ban.

It depends if you’re discussing the concept of ‘sales’, or the collective total of each and every individual sale.

In Jan-Jun 2019, there were 31,059 BEVs sold in Germany (excluding all PHEVs and BEVs with on-board range extenders)

Enzo Ferrari used to refer to any car-maker that only did bodies around an bought-in engine and gearbox as a “garagiste”

Loads of vehicle-component manufacturers float concept cars at trade shows.

They need to show just how much of the systems they make, and (if they have the money) they need to avoid looking like they are allying with a specific vehicle maker.