Tesla Model 3 (ducks). Most of the issues people have with them are initial quality type stuff. We’ll see how the battery and electronics hold up long term, but there’s no transmission to go out which seems to be the achilles heal of most American cars haha

Could this replace your existing car? Because if all this vehicle does is replace public transit for short trips and turns you into a two car household, then there’s a substantial net negative environmental impact vs a longer range EV that could be your sole vehicle.

There is such thing as too much battery in an EV. Particularly if the large battery is being used to compensate for an unnecessarily large and inefficient vehicle (Hummer EV I’m looking at you!) But 100 miles of ideal range is far too small to be practical for all but a handful of ppl, likely in a two car household.…

The XC40 range and charge performance is about as “modern” as something like a 2015 Tesla Model S. Competitors like the VW ID.4, Mustang Mach-e, and of course any Tesla on sale today perform substantially better on road trips.

The renaissance of urban living in America has been positive in many ways, but one of the areas it has failed is that many of the most successful urban areas end up just being playgrounds for young childless wealthy folks. Unlike many of my peers, I didn’t move into a downtown luxury apartment building within a 5…

I’ve noticed you low range EV owners are so quick to discourage EV ownership for cases that aren’t served by those low range vehicles. Something like a Model 3 Long Range is totally usable by apartment dwellers. It can easily go a week between charges when used for an average 15 mile or so commute. All it takes is…

This will be the kind of car that people who like quirky rare cars (Jalops) eat up on the used market when they are a few years old and available for sub-$10k. But yea, they’ll be rare because they make absolutely no sense at their list price and thus will sell in microscopic volume.

It’s not just the uber-rich driving into Manhattan. Look a few posts up and you have someone stopping in for a few hours. I typically drive into the city and park when I visit friends. The current $15 isn’t stopping me. $30 may or may not, but there is absolutely a price (probably around $50) at which I’d change my…

Yep, NYC is the fairly unique place in America where poor poeople typically don’t drive. And middle class people don’t have to. This sort of plan in the SF Bay area would meanwhile be a tax on all of the low-wage workers commuting in from hours away who have been gentrified out of transit distance.

Way too complicated. Just do an 80mph highway range test. Hell, it can even be on a dynometer. This is a worst case scenario. Frankly I don’t think any other number matters because to achieve reasonable highway range your real world city range will be way higher than anyone realistically needs.

My gf drove her grandpa’s old Buick lucerne for the last 5 years up until it got totaled on the street a few days ago. Super reliable if you don’t live in a place where they use salt. They have some really poorly designed line routing where road slush just sits atop the subframe crossmembers rotting out a bunch of…

I thought Subaru’s were cool and quirky back when they were the small and efficient alternative to a hulking gas guzzling 4 wheel drive SUV. I actually almost bought an Outback instead of my BMW 335i 6 or so years ago. But in a world where I see a Subaru on every block, the larger and more capable Rav4/CRV/Tucson etc g…

Time your stops on your next road trip. You’ll be surprised how long they actually are. Most of the time, the car is waiting on me because my bathroom/food break took longer than the 10 or 15 minutes needed to get enough charge for the next stop.

Disagree. Tesla is an American company doing American things in an American way. And selling like hotcakes because of it. Oh, and they only sell EVs. There’s nothing remotely unamerican about pushing the limits of technology to create a new, cool, different, fast car like Tesla is doing.

It’s not just HOAs that make storing a truck easier than a trailer. Most cities allow free car storage on public streets. Not usually the case for trailers.

I just don’t get the fraud/scam thing. Like if this was a used Model 3 or 2014 Model S or something then maybe. But who sits on a waitlist for half a year for a brand new $150k Model S and then burns it to the ground to try and make a few bucks in a lawsuit? It just doesn’t check out.

Cool car, and I considered picking one up. The problem with “city cars” for those of us who actually live in a city though is that it’s not practical to own a bunch of cars for different purposes so I ended up with the car that could do both city duty and long distance trips (Tesla Model 3).

We are actually starting to see that in some places. Here in Ohio, golf carts are now legal on 35mph roads and under. We just need golf carts to become less “golf carty” (heat/ac, doors) and cheaper (why the fuck do they cost $8k?) and I think they would make a viable option as a city car in some areas.

This is what car people who own unreliable cars tell themselves to make themselves feel better. It’s true to some extent, but there’s no denying that most Toyotas can take abuse for decades with little more than a brake job and a few oil changes and still get the owner to the store whereas a BMW or VAG product might…

Chrysler minivans. By the time the 4th gen rolled around, they had most of the kinks in the drivetrain worked out. The transmissions were known as being unreliable, but my parents had zero issues even with 250k on the clock and me towing cars with their van across the country multiple times.