A subsidy can encourage more than one behavior at a time, you know. If the US chooses to encourage companies to unionize in order to boost worker wages, that’s an objectively good thing (unless you’ve taken the bait to look down upon your fellow workers).

Every single Sandy Munro video absolutely shits on VWs engineering of this vehicle. He has said it’s very lazily done. You guys took the only thing he liked, the motor, and used that as a basis to conclude it’s well engineered.

The GM Voltec system runs batteries through the transmission tunnel and under the rear seats. You don’t NEED them under the rear seats if you don't care as much about range

Make it a series hybrid and the batteries could easily fit in the transmission tunnel

I think this is called “getting older” and “back in my day syndrome"

I just drove past the Lordstown plant today. God I hope that thing works. I don’t think it will, but I hope so for Youngstown’s sake.

I'd bet money that Musk will use the allure of a new factory to get Texas to open up its market and allow Tesla to sell there

If you have a garage, EVs are way more convenient. With my Volt I wake up everyday with a full charge. It's only on the rare occasion of taking a long trip that you would ever have to stop at a charging station. I hate going to gas stations now

Neutral: I own a first gen Chevy Volt. It's the best car I've ever owned and not by a little. I plan on going full electric in the future once prices come down a bit more

In a word, yes. Porsche does have a more rigorous cooling system than Tesla and Tesla has more efficient motors--so you can't minimize the impacts of those.  But yes, VW group holds back a lot of usable capacity. It's why the E-Tron also has so little range

You don't think every track will be installing chargers in the near future? Gas cars don't exactly run for hours on a tank on the track either

The Chrysler Pacifica manages to be an excellent PHEV despite being enormous. You go more than 30 miles on a charge then get 35mpg

With the way the Silverado is tanking from being so ugly, you’d think they would have changed the front for these.

The heavier vehicle means more mass which makes it harder to brace on impact, so there's a bit of a set off. This would be much better in a head on collision than a Civic due to size, but against a tree, not so much

Nah it’s not the crushing student and medical debt, it’s definitely Greta that makes young people not buy cars as much.

I would need a fully electric car to have 250 miles of range and mid $20k price to consider buying one new. We're still in premium price territory for them and I don't have a premium wallet.

If you believe in Tesla's reason to exist, it's to make the transition to electric vehicles and replace gas ones. This will never be more than a niche product so, in that sense, it will fail. With these specs, a semi-normal truck would be an absolute smash hit. They missed a huge opportunity

TFL Truck saw hauling range as 1/3 of advertised range. The long range battery here shouldn't be bad. The 250 and 300 mile battery will be pretty useless though

TFL Truck showed the Model X only had 1/3 of its range when hauling so anyone looking to tow will need the long range battery on this to make it useful

TFL Truck showed that your range is only about 1/3 of stated range when towing, so the 500 mile version shouldn't be too bad but that also means anyone looking to tow will need the expensive version