These make a lot of sense for slow-moving vehicles on off road surfaces like Mars and Moon Rovers or in nailed-laden works sites like construction equipment. The lack of “real” sidewall is a major problem for high-speed cornering and etc.

They already did.

Skidloaders and similar equipment have had airless tires for a long time. Traditionally you would simply fill them with foam.

If you can drive it onto a stage and smack it with a sledgehammer, sure.

Don’t want to scare anyone off but chargers/charging is not as straightforward as it might seem. We get used to just plugging into any socket and it works nary a thought. Not so with EV chargers

I do believe everything for China needs to be built there as part of their domestic “partnership” so they end up designing cars specifically for there and sometimes end up exporting those.

Yes. Plenty of construction machinery also use similar airless designs.

Given how Michelin developed the tweel first:

Yup

First they came for the gasoline in my tank.

I’ve seen them pretty commonly on commercial lawnmowers used by the local landscaping companies, at least on the newer mowers. It’s pretty cool to see them, even if it’s been so long that they’ve been “up and coming”

Thank you!

These are already in limited use in agricultural applications aren’t they? I remember reading about it a few years ago. I too cannot wait to see them on the road. Hurry up!!

To answer this question, US-spec Ioniq 5 has also been unveiled already and the front side marker light is incorporated into the main headlight module whereas the rear side marker light is placed low, just behind the rear wheels:

Just wanted to point out that the Palisade also has a neat trick where the silver accents next to the taillights also have delicate, thin strips of LEDs on top-end trims like the Ioniq 5.

it was nice of them to restore the turn signals to somewhere they can be fucking SEEN

Take out VAT. This thing wouldn’t cost anywhere near $27k. It would be closer to $20k.

Especially if you get the G-wagen conversion kit.

Or the petrol station putting the wrong grade of fuel (or worse type of fuel) in the bowser. That almost never happens, and failures with chargers should be equally rare.

Like pretty much every vehicle designed for space-constrained cities overseas, the appeal of these for a US buyer is totally lost on me.