“As Nikola walks back its partnership with GM” - Pretty sure you wrote that backwards

FR-S is the daily in Colorado winters, so absolutely. Anything else would be a death wish

Step 1: Break away from symmetry
Step 2: Actually design in an offset plate & offset radiator
Step 3: There are no more steps

Alan is giving me strong “low and slow” vibes here. The no Wrangler + family that I assume he’d want to at least in part be able to ride with in this vehicle make me want to rule out pretty much any 2-door/normal drop top. Really has me pointed all over the place, mainly the direction of older vans/old-school pickups…

Here’s a few base metrics...
1) How predictable are the length of the vehicles routes?
2) Along these routes, what is the general availability of chargers? Current and future.
3) How varied are the intensities of the vehicle’s routes?

Unfamiliarity is by far the biggest deterrent. People have grow comfortable with the inconveniences of an ICE vehicle (have to burn dead dino’s to move them, oil changes, gas stations, noisy (when it’s bad noise, not when its good noise),thousands of parts to fail, literally a rolling box of flammable liquids, etc)…

Ford’s bet on commercial EVs is a smart move across the board. Don’t really need to guess what the effectiveness of electrification in the commercial vehicle industry will be at this point though, there are a few companies now that have been operating c-EVs successfully (including some Ford Transits)

I don’t think anything’s nearly that cut and dry. For example Tesla with the Model 3 is set to crest 200,000 units this year despite the pandemic and all, and some simple/off-the-cuff math puts their 2020 theoretical volume sans pandemic near the 300k unit mark in the US alone. That would put it right next to Toyota’s…

Haven’t had the pleasure of driving the RAV4 prime yet but I’ve heard great things. Big thing here is just going to be when we assume this crossover will happen. If it happens anytime in the next 5 years, Toyota is just not going to be it. Outside of that and I’d say they’ve got much better odds. That would put a…

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Until the full-sized truck segment is either electrified or handicapped by regulation, there won’t be one. Assuming those two circumstances though I have two predictions.

Until the full-sized truck segment is either electrified or handicapped by regulation, there won’t be one. Assuming those two circumstances though I have two predictions.

*ehem* I believe it would be the “eF-150".....

These “near T-boning” events are... Not that... given they’re being a bit aggressive but what they’re looking at is the projected location of the opposing vehicles, which in all referenced scenarios was precisely not in the way. Record yourself the next time you drive in SF and see if you don’t naturally do the same…

Every damn day. At this point I’ve been contributing towards vehicle electrification in various areas of our economy, commercial vehicle electrification now, for the last 4 years and I have no plans of going back. We have an obligation to do what we can to correct our path, however small that part may seem at first,…

Similar to a breakdown I did on what I think the EV tax credit system should be (to incentivize what it claims to); I would like to see a system that looks at the average consumption figures across vehicles in each class (Class 1 being consumer vehicles for the most part, Class 3-8 being commercial only) and generates…

At least the Arrival vehicles are legitimately designed to function as commercial vans. This thing is just so misguided in design before you even dig into the unrealistic aspects of it. Just to scratch the surface...

As someone that hopped from Detroit to the Bay Area, I can add my check-mark next to “Improved Salaries” box emphatically. Sure you won’t be able to buy a house there for 150 years, but if you’re saving up as if you were planning to do so and then move to an emerging market (i.e. Austin, Sac, Denver, etc.) then you…

Day 1 of replying to What Car Should You Buy? with only Bring a Trailer auctions...

That’s good, I was thinking “Immune to Liability LLC.” though.