I am cautiously optimistic for Geely. Well, okay, I’m optimistic for Volvo, and Geely looks good by proximity.

Enthusiasts will always find things to enthuse about. People who treat EVs as monolithic and soulless clones usually haven’t tinkered with electric drivetrains before. There’s a lot of diversity and a ton of stuff to geek out about.

There will always be commuters who don’t care what voodoo happens under the hood, and there will always be enthusiasts and wrench monkeys who do. There’s a ton of stuff going on under the hood of an EV — it’s not monolithic or identical.

Hearing stories like this is just surreal to me. With every one of these old EVs, I feel like I’m getting a glimpse into an alternate timeline.

I try my best to avoid the “EVs are set up for failure” narrative, but it’s such a compelling case for EVs from 1990-2003.

Buddy, I have some bad news for you. The entire VW I.D. line has names like Buzz, Crozz, Vizzion, and (I kid you not) Roomzz.

You’re mostly right, but in the EV industry, state of charge (SoC) is measured as percentage of usable capacity, not total capacity. Most automakers only tell us one or the other capacity measure. Audi is being nice by telling us both.

So say we all.

The thing that impresses me most about this effort is the battery technology itself. It supports a flat 150kW from 0% all the way up to 80%, which is very, very impressive. While that doesn’t translate into a whole lot of miles due to the E-Tron’s inefficiency, it gets my hopes up for the next vehicles based on the…

Bjorn Nyland tested the E-Tron in mixed highway/city driving at 23°F, and got 205 miles out of it. 2.45 mi/kWh consumption. So yeah, Audi is under reporting.

I’m calling it now. In four years, Karma will be long gone and this thing will be back as the Revero Fisker.

The typical application of a range extender (REx) isn’t to recharge in a parking lot. It is to keep the vehicle going when the battery is dead. To do that, it needs to have enough horsepower to recharge the battery as fast as the motors can drain it. A tiny REx that trickle-charges the battery is a perfectly valid…

I can’t find this piece by The Economist that you are referring to.

Here are some numbers that aren’t made up. With the number of links I’m about to post, I have no idea if this will make it out of the greys.

I’d argue that the Tesla price tag isn’t a huge obstacle to Tesla sales right now, but it will be soon.

I cannot express how much I want to add “Biodiesel Pirate” to my list of credentials.

So at least in some concentrated areas it will be a capacity issue.

Or if they add a crager to every pump - what will everyone do when all pumps are being taken by cars that have 15 minutes to a half hour left charging?

This is a really fascinating move. It’s easy to spin it any number of ways.

I.... I need to know more about this vehicle.