This article is so full of inaccuracies it is hard to know where to begin.

No one (statistically speaking...there are maybe 5,000 people who this does not apply to) buying new cars buys them to go offroad. Thus there is no reason for a true BoF SUV anymore. Gas mileage and cargo space are king in those segments. Biggest cargo area with the least tax on gas mileage will sell way more than a…

Cool like the graphics on my middle school binder

Why can’t we have these here. We need more real SUV options. This crossover shit has to stop.

*sticks pins into New Blazer voodoo doll*

How can you make an armada into a patrol? Let’s see the parts list. 

“enlarges the entire passageway by several fractions of an inch”

> Under 100 miles highway makes these very limited in practicality

once you ride or even just see an Energica up close and learn about the tech, you realize that like Alta, Mission, and others which have fallen by the wayside, you realize that there is no competition yet in this segment. it’s like early days of electric cars when half-hearted attempts came up against the Tesla model…

We extrudehoned an engine we were using in a propane vehicle competition in college. I don’t remember the dyno numbers, but the gain was substantial & impressive. Possibly the single most effective engine upgrade we made. 

Pulls up to Taco Bell. “Danger to Manifold.”

I think I saw this in my daughter’s room when she was little.

Agreed. It would be nice to have an article that better explains what drives efficiency on EVs. Other than the obvious stuff shared with ICE cars like aero and rolling resistance, what are the critical components on an EV that affect it?

Something that is lost on the whole Tesla vs the world argument is the engineering that has gone into the drivetrain, electronics and charging systems. They are in many cases revolutionary and absolutely ahead of the game. I would argue that they aren’t quite 7-10 years ahead, but they are definitely ahead of the game.

Interesting comparison - and one that is probably a little more relevant to the average buyer of these cars! However, I know that the industry as a whole is focused on 0-60 numbers, I do feel these are pretty irrelevant with the dawn of electric cars. Even the smaller and less powerful electric cars feel swift and…

“And really, the EQC and E-Tron are just as bad...”
You can’t buy those vehicles yet and they don’t match the capabilities of Teslas that you can buy right now. It’s almost like the traditional auto manufacturers need to learn from Tesla, instead of the other way round.

Motor efficiency? Battery efficiency? Drivetrain / parasitic losses? It’s not aero specifically since the city MPGe is so awful. I went to the link but they provided no additional details, but this would be very interesting to understand better.

When certain people say “Tesla’s doomed as soon as established manufacturers slap together some EVs” they compactly ignore the fact that their drivetrains (motors-controllers-batteries) are far and away the most advanced and everyone is else is 7-10 years behind at this point. Those billions of dollars and hundreds…

Approx 99.79% of the car trips I make are less than 234 miles one way. About 95% are less than 50 miles.

Exactly. Poor energy consumption combined with poor AC charging = a bad EV.

I love this damn thing. That’s plenty of range for my needs as I rarely go on longer road trips. Plus unlike some other EVs it doesnt look stupid on the inside, just normal lol.