If you’re going to the trouble of changing a car’s paint color, you need to go all the way—yank the motor to shoot the engine compartment, underside the hood, trunk, underside of the trunk lid, door jambs—all of it. And here, despite the money spent on the car, that wasn’t done and the result looks completely crass.

Well, duh.

Good for them. If it turns out to be practical, then double good.

You purchase the car without the pack. You get whatever the dealer has charged when you drive off the lot and batteries are standardized across all manufacturers. Often, electronics you buy come “batteries not included” and you can go anywhere and buy a D, C, AA, etc. cell and it works just fine.

And her shop is one of those “bikini wearing” shops.

I love the concept and it makes sense to give an EV vehicle that level of flexibility. I believe that type of system is used by electric scooters / mopeds in some countries.

OK, I’ll bite: fail how? I’ve got an oil cooler on my Charger. It’s a mini-radiator—oil goes in one side and comes out cooled down from the other side. It’s worked for decades with no issues whatsoever.

Thank you. I’ve been yelling this from the rooftops for a few years. Battery stations should be analogous to gas stations.

You wouldn’t buy the pack. All packs would be a leased where there would be an up-charge for the beefy pack and a down-charge for the light pack. And given how people love not spending money when they don’t have to, only lugging a light pack where you spend less money and commit less crunch to the highways would be…

Hey, someone has to own drive-up coffee shops in Seattle.

ISO standards for mounting systems, charging systems etc... Yes you could get a bad battery. You can also get bad gas at a gas station.

It’s a great idea in concept. The challenge becomes: How do you know the quality / cell health of the pack you are swapping to? If I just invested in a new car with a brand new pack, do I really want to swap that out for one that’s had hundreds of charge cycles?

“Emma Lee owns ... a drive-up coffee joint in Seattle.”

Thats what we have been doing in Denmark for decades. It works.

Three words: swappable battery packs. I feel it’s been nuts to saddle EVs with packs that can be technologically outmoded, go on the fritz due to one cell going bad, and just plain aggravating when you’re on a trip and you have to cool your heels at a charging station for hours before you can continue.

I’ve attended the Monaco Grand Prix. All thanks to my Army enlistment shipping me off to Germany to be NATO headcount. Any yes, to actually attend that GP is a something else—maybe not historic races taking place there but races which have history since the Monaco GP has been held so many years.

“That tumorous body”—what a great term. Now that you wrote it, I can’t unsee it. Well played.

I have to admit, that’s an off-the-wall, cool choice.  Well played.

$4 grand is cheap, but I never warmed up to the Firebird’s lumpy styling. There are the expected little problems of a used car scattered inside that tumorous body and dash. And since I live in sweaty south Florida, I’d be automatically adding $1-2K to that price to immediately fix whatever ails the A/C. Plus whatever…

May the Chevy Express live another 28 adequate years.