Under no circumstances should anyone enable this behaviour.

The tesla sales have been dramatically off for two months now. If march results continue that trend Tesla and the fad that is EV will be dead by the end of 2019.

You don’t own the battery in this system- the energy company does. 

That’s the only realistic solution if batteries are to be used by a significant percentage (above 10%) of the vehicle fleet. 

I think it’s a ZF made under license by FCA. 

The markets seem fine with it right now...

The EU is the opposite of free trade. It is crony trade internally and huge tariff and regulatory walls externally.

Fixed battery storage is a dead-end. Swappable battery packs are going to be very difficult to implement. Toyota et al realized this decades ago and continue to move forward on fuel cells which as of now are the only realistic option for getting EVs above 5% market share. 

The grid it far too inadequate to handle anything more than a tiny number of EVs that use batteries for storage. 

Sales of the 3 have plummeted in the first two months of 2019. 

CO2 isn’t a pollutant. 

The air is cleaner today in urban America than it has ever been. The climate is not being significantly affected by human activity. 

All 14000 of them last year...

Most of them that weren’t in states where they hid behind SALT deductions...

Thank god.

On the basis of Number of fires per vehicle on the road/Miles Driven it might be worthy of front page news...

Upgrades to the grid - particularly the final mile would enormously expensive- trillions of dollars in the US alone. EVS will only be feasible if batteries become standardized and removable or fuel cells are used instead. The big manufacturers know this and that’s why they continue to work on fuel cells. 

They do. No one would pay what they actually cost for rational reasons. 

And if Henry ford had asked his customers what they wanted they would have said “faster horses”..

What is going to be the take rate on the stripper model? 2%? It’s a loss leader