Yeah, we were crossing our fingers for a Grand Cherokee L 4xe, but it looks like one isn’t coming anytime soon. Time to send the kids off to the salt mines.

Yeah. Where we need to end up at the end of 300 miles is covering 10 miles on a dirt / gravel /clay road with one creek crossing. The last DC fast charger is 100 miles away, so 200 round trip. Once the fast charging industry gets some customer-friendly reliability metrics, we are in.

Good point, although with the decreased gas mileage from the drag of the roofbox, maybe leave it at home? “oops, forget to add the roofbox.”

So. Much. This.

True, but I’d rather take the hit to efficiency and instead have the utility of a useable second and third row plus cargo space rather than the swoopy styling and blind spots of the “coupe” crossover/SUV craze.

One of the benefits of an EV is that you can pre-warm the cabin and de-ice the windows using grid power, whether that’s at home or work. It’s pretty awesome coming out to a snow-covered parking lot at the end of a work day to a nice toasty warm EV with a full battery and windows clear from snow and ice. All hail…

Yup. So much this.

Can you flip it for $132,000 like this Toyota dealership is doing with a R1T in San Francisco?

1. Why only bucket seats in the middle row?

Yes, plug-in hybrids have real all-electric range, a bigger battery, and a stronger electric motor. Accelerating, emerging, passing, etc. is... fun. Since 80+% of Americans (pre-pandemic) drive 25 miles a day or fewer, it’s a great solution as most of your daily mileage is covered by the battery. Also when you road…

And you know what isn’t luxury - high beltlines, thick pillars, and overall crappy outward visibility. At this rate, cars are about to become elevators.

Wouldn’t this policy also apply to Rivian, meaning buyers of the R1T and R1S also wouldn’t get the $2,500 rebate?

That WSJ article does create a bunch of questions about specific route choice, charging station choice (24 kW?), etc., but let’s put that aside for now.

Reminiscent of the “Schoenes Wochenende” ticket of the mid-1990s.

3rd: the electric utilities have been working with NFPA since the 1990s on EV / first responder safety. Nearly 20 years.

So much this. Thank you.

It’s hilarious how hated third row passengers must be. “I know what they need, a giant pillar in front of them, making a claustrophobic situation much worse.” See 2022 Chevy Tahoe and its siblings.

For a second, it looked like Apple finally revealed their iCar.

These are great videos, but why does it sound like the same narrator in all of them?

This.