I was wondering the same thing. If we’re slogging through roads, rather than rolling over them, in a tiny sense, are we really creating energy? It seems like strapping a wind turbine to the front of your scooter and letting the generated energy shove you along. It’s a diminished return.

So do they manage to do this without increasing rolling resistance to the cars? If the road deforms more than typical asphalt, they really wouldn’t be capturing lost energy as much as taking energy from people’s cars (which aren’t exactly thermodynamically efficient to begin with)

Yeah, the eGolf would be fine for me as a work commute pod in theory but wouldn’t check all the boxes for me to use for “everything”. Even the 80 miles is plenty for day-to-day, but on the other hand the 120 isn’t enough for my weekend activities without fast-charging infrastructure nearby.

The Model 3 is the first EV…

I personally don’t give two shits nor a fuck about the environmental side of driving an EV, I’m just sick of buying fuel and dealing with the ICE drivetrain with all the annoyances that come with it. I won’t consider a Leaf or a Bolt because they’re front wheel drive econobox pieces of shit (and also they have no…

Maybe, Maybe not. Remember back when everyone said that the Model S was all vaporware and it would never get produced? I saw probably 5-6 of the things on the way to work today. Tesla actually has real products on the road now plus a gigantic factory to make their batteries too. VW has some concepts. Big difference.

Welp, glad I just googled that at work.

I agree. Once the coal industry gets back up to speed in a dozen or so sparsely-populated counties in bumpkinland it will certainly raise the standard of living across the nation.

If it wasn’t for the government then the US Auto industry would’ve gone out of business 7 years ago, if not decades sooner.

Counterpoint: Look at what happens when conventional dealers are given a hybrid or EV product to sell - they’re clueless about the technology, and end up misrepresenting it, resulting in either people buying a product that can’t meet the expectations the salesperson set, or alternately, being convinced that a product…