My ‘07 Mazda3 had LED brake lights without a red lens, which was pretty much unheard of at the time.

I absolutely agree on the problems, just highlighting that this specific article is an anti-EV shit take. It’s legitimately a bad point.

Seriously, what’s up with those anti-EV takes? The Ford F-150 is all aluminum and has been since 2015. The Lightning might use 200 pounds more than the average “car”, but so does every other F-150.

Mandatory evacuation. Except if you only have an EV, then I mean you should just die. Who cares about left wing godless heathens anyways?

To add to this, a lot of the preemption enabled traffic lights have surveillance cameras. IR is invisible to the naked eye but very much visible to cameras, and all of them that I have seen do save and flag preemption events in the surveillance software, usually for debugging when they don’t work with emergency…

I couldn’t agree more with you here. The thing is, those next-gen batteries are not any lighter (for now, at least).

We all do, but we also want cheaper housing and less inflation. EVs are heavier because batteries are heavy, and there isn’t any tech meaningfully on the radar that would reduce their weight all the way to comparable ICE cars.

It’s disingenuous to only consider weight in your calculation. Actually, even gas taxes are better in that regard because fuel consumption is not purely a function of weight. The advantages on the environment, less emissions, less smog do have an advantage for the economy, be it coming from EVs, hybrids or simply more…

I have a Polestar 2, which is hardly a huge vehicle, and it has a curb weight of 4750 pounds. On par with an F-150.

Based on weight would penalize EVs versus any comparable ICE car.

What an absolutely stupid take. Did they compare the country’s highest priced electricity with the lowest priced gas?

Yes, and it should be something insane like $5 a minute.

I have a non-Tesla EV. Once every four times I need to use a fast charger, some Tesla fucking asshole driver decided to park right in front of the fast charger, not charge, and fuck right off. Because they think, somehow, that they’re entitled to the parking spot.

When an automatic transmission car creeps forward as you release the brake.

Why? My Polestar 2 has a setting to turn the “creep” on or off, and another to enable or disable one pedal driving.  I don’t think anything else would have any purpose.

Not quite. The FWD single motor is 170kW while the AWD motors are 150kW each.

Yeah, if it felt slower than a Golf, it’s a FWD... My AWD is fast.

Was that a dual motor?  With mine, 50% power is more than enough to accelerate significantly faster than traffic.

The throttle response is very delayed

Well, it’s on a Volvo XC40 chassis and was tested extensively at Volvo’s safety research centre.