Tesla has more batteries for less than everyone else (outside China) put together. That is a huge competitive advantage for the next four years or so. If it meets its commitments VW will somehow be installing more batteries in EVs by 2025. So Tesla has about five years to get good at making and supporting $30,000 cars…

VW has teased us with four Kombi concept EVs (Bulli, Budd-E, i.d. Buzz, and ... whatever), and still hasn’t committed to building any. VW and Audi (seven e-tron concepts?) are the queens of concept electric vehicles.

The CCS combo plug is the common standard for fast charging, supported by every car manufacturer but Nissan and Tesla (and Honda and Toyota still futzing with fool cells). VW will install fast DC chargers with both the CCS plug and the CHAdeMO plug; Leafs can use the latter, as can Tesla owners if they buy a CHAdeMO…

VW talks a good game about costs. From the Bloomberg article, ‘the German company has made “huge progress” in reducing production costs, Christian Senger, head of the VW marque’s electric-car project... The division reiterated a target to deliver 1 million fully electric cars a year worldwide by 2025. ... has pledged…

You’re mistaken. VW’s plans includes fast charging stations. Go read “California ZEV Investment Plan: Cycle 1" ($800M over 10 years) and “National ZEV Investment Plan: Cycle 1" ($1.2 bn over 10 years). In California: “A deployment mix of L2, 50 kW, and 150 kW chargers will be offered across these use cases to help…

dupeGuru now says “Windows used to be supported, but it’s not anymore” :-( The developer is asking for a Windows maintainer to step up! The last Windows version available for download is 3.91.

You mean peddle. You pedal a bicycle.

No you're not human, you're inhuman (and you can't spell) as AlexCarillo_ patiently explained to you. Someone only slightly worse than you "chased the dog and hit him intentionally." This wasn't the news focusing on some tearjerker accident where a pet dies while ignoring human traffic fatalities.

Quit bitching. As the Atlantic article points out, many Millenials don't want to own cars and don't want to live in suburbs. Why shouldn't they demand support for that from employers and elected officials, including cheap bike lockers and shower facilities that are far cheaper than another parking lot, and transit…

The conveyance I use to buy groceries and go to work is a bicycle. Read the Atlantic article Zac Estrada mentions, there's similarly less interest (and ability) to own a home that strands you far from your job. The younger people I work with all get housing near their job or near public transit. They may be living in…

You're confusing the Volt with the Hy-wire that the article links to. The Volt isn't close to that design because its large T-shaped battery pack and engine force a particular layout: 4-seater with a hump in the back.

CO2 levels have not been as high as they are now for 800,000 years. Go read the papers cited here, and view more graphs

Good, now we're getting somewhere.

I think it's a tradition. Maserati showed the old 1980s Italdesign one in chocolate brown with tan leather interior (tons of leather). It's the anti-Benz/BMW, non-Ferrari. I saw a current Quattroporte in a medium blue and it was really distinctive.

Why will the EV hype "wear off"? Only a few of the dozens of research innovations already announced have to pay off for batteries to continue to get, conservatively, 10% better each year. That means in 8 years the same size battery pack will send the car twice as far, and more importantly for car fans will be able to…

Fantasizing about dropping a different powertrain in a car is just that. This car is designed around its skateboard chassis, re-engineering it to fit a transmission tunnel and catalytic converter and muffler under the car would be a huge operation. The design is worthless to other companies.

False economy doesn't mean what you think it does.

Because if you connect an Atkinson-cycle engine up with a motor and a motor-generator through the Ford/Toyota e-CVT, the engine can run most of the time at optimum load, and the efficiency benefits of diesel are marginal. And the low-end torque of a diesel doesn't add much when you have one or more motors providing…

1. Anthropogenic CO2 emissions (burning stuff) is the prime cause of global warming.

Not quite. Karmas are assembled by Valmet in Finland, but were engineered in the USA; part of Fisker's loan from the DoE was for that work. The Delaware plant was to be used for the follow-on Project Nina/Fisker Atlantic, but Fisker has yet to get that part of the loan.