Uhm, CARB standards are based on emissions, not mpg actually. They get converted to CARB mpg (not to be confused with sticker/EPA mpg) for easier legibility.

The thing is, what do you consider as “affordable”? Sticker price or True cost to own? A highly efficient car would have a lower cost to own, thus you can achieve all 3.

While we’re at it, let’s have politicians make all political decisions without any input from anyone who isn’t a politician.

But the usage of fast chargers is different than usage of gas stations. Gas stations are your only realistic ways to charge, fast chargers are merely for long distance travel. And in reality the more range EVs get, the LESS people will use fast chargers. Because fast chargers for EVs are mostly range extenders.

The reason I use the Mirai as a basis is because it is the only FCEV made from scratch. So one can’t argue that it’s because its put in a gas car. Otherwise, take any other mass produced hydrogen car and you will see they weight more and have less interior. That is right, what they are doing is sacrificing interior…

Pretty much nothing of what I said was ever spoken by Musk. All of it comes from actually doing my research.

You are aware that a 20kw is 27hp right? That is no way enough for highway driving. A nissan leaf has 80kw motor which has its top speed at only 93mph.

I see you have a bad habit when losing a discussion to call people Elon, lol.

Motor controllers and high current invertors aren’t cheap. They cost what a typical transmission would cost.

Why not round to 10,000lb while at it?

Latest numbers show it down to 38% in 2017.

Yes, I consider EVs that weight similar to their ICE counterparts like Model X and ICE Range Rover weighting the same as the answer. (I’m still confused on your insistence to use an F150 due to it being completely different class of cars)

But that is in the city, not in the country right? You can go to plugshare.com yourself and get all the details. It’s also possible that multiple chargers were put up at once as well, but I count 16 in total.

Considering that modern hydrogen technology is more mature than modern EV technology despite being so far behind, and considering the theoretical limits of both technologies, hydrogen is a dead end.

You have some FAT passengers. In my family me and 2 passengers would not be 6000lb. That said, adding passengers is not the weight of the car itself so its kind of cheating.

Yes, all that will be addressed with time. Wasn’t the point to look at things long term? Many of these places already have electricity, you don’t even need charging stations, outlets are more than enough for a skii resort.

Read up on what innovator’s dilemma is.

Already happened with invention of the lithium ion battery. From here on out, no breakthroughs are needed, incremental improvements at the pace its going at now is more than enough.

Well yes, FCVs are EVs, though there technically are hydrogen ICE cars too. But FCVs are also EVs, albeit poor EVs, but EVs never the less.

Tesla is making a profit on EVs, Nissan is claiming they are. VW has said EV production is profitable.