Even at $4/gal it’s a wash compared to a regular bike... but takes hours longer and has a $30K price tag.

The current state of battery technology and the sheer amount of mining and shipping that requires to give a battery pack a <10 year lifespan at 50% or higher capacity you simply cannot “high road” a modern clean efficient gas engine. At the end of the day both are going to leave a similar enough carbon footprint as to…

Credit where it’s due I appreciate Chevy tells you which tire is low, not just that one is low.

Do you know what the gas and electric costs are out there to compare this to? Because that seems HUGE to me and around here that’ll get you 4ish gals of gas.

I will say I’ve had trucks with gauges that didn’t work and I knew without a shadow of a doubt it would go 300 miles between fills without any issue.  It really didn’t matter where, though when you get such low mileage that even a 30% variance is a couple MPG difference it makes the calculations easier.

Whatever hit that windshield put a nice dent in the A pillar at the same time.

Gas engine cars have gotten pretty good at being accurate with range to empty calculations without even tying in data beyond recent avg fuel consumption.  I feel there is a stigma against showing a small number with an EV even if it won’t make the optimistic range shown as it will be seen as proof they aren’t fit for…

So... with the range thing I’d say it becomes a much bigger issue when you have a very short range to begin with. If you are only getting 70% of 300 miles it’s a much smaller impact than getting 70% of 100 miles. The ubiquity of gas stations helps, but having a long range to pull from helps to alleviate the range…

43 cents per kW/h?!? Damn.

The trucks get the big offroad tires that are winter rated and wear them year round. It’s worked well for them for years. The cars, one gets snows on different rims for ease of swapping, the other gets all seasons.

Excellent write-up.

Lol Franklin

That’s how I bought. Get an email price from one dealer and tell the next dealer to beat it, bring that price back to the first dealer, rinse & repeat.

The worst part is they could have solved the whole problem by doubling the size of the flash memory and implementing wear leveling to reduce the write cycles by half and double the lifespan. It would have cost them almost nothing to implement per unit.

Oil is cheaper per BTU than natural gas (if you can even get it around here), it’s way cheaper than pellets and the only way you’re getting wood cheaper is if you cut and split it yourself.

I do think using oil in ways it can be recycled makes more sense than burning it.

There has been some pretty decent progress towards the new tokamak designs but I totally agree superconductors would solve a huge problem. Energy storage and distribution would be great areas for advancement as it would bring solar up to a more useful level. I do believe that hydrogen can be used for short term energy…

Hugely less energy density and much more expensive.  The best kind of LNG ship is the kind moving LNG already.

Every few years that idea gets floated...

The old Top Gear board was a much better assessment of a vehicle than a ‘Ring record will ever be.