Pls unwad your panties.

The best use of a 300mi battery is to put 30mi of EV driving into 10 PHEVs.

kinda a bummer to have to charge the car so often (the tradeoff of two years of free charging is having to drive to the charging station a mile away and sit there for a half hour.)

How do you like the Polestar? It’s pretty much the only sub-$100k EV I actually like and would consider buying.

That floor is not that high.  I’m not doing the research, but I would guess it’s about the same as a Sienna.

Yeah, but none of us driving them.  Compare apples to apples.  Or at least apples to oranges.  You’re trying to compare apples to steaks.

So a PHEV shleps around an extra vehicles worth of componentry for what-if trips.

The BMW iX is basically an electric minivan without sliding rear doors.

Exactly. If everyone who drove less than 30 miles per day switched to an EV and the jalops on here who drive 400 miles per day in 20 degree temps uphill both ways kept their ICE vehicles, climate change would be 1/2 solved.

You can’t get away from oil companies 100%, but switching to an EV from an ICE is a huge, huge step. Gas pumps are literal ATMs for big oil.

I’m with you 1000%.

Love that you’re advertising these for Polestar, but in North America, the dual motor versions will have no change to battery size or charging speed for 2024, per the Polestar press release.

deadhead miles to reach stations and the opportunity cost of waiting for vehicles to charge at stations.

Important facts Jalopnik should include for North American readers:

My Tesla Hertz rental in CA last fall was the same.

I’m not saying it saves Tesla money, I’m saying it allows them to reap rewards when they can raise the MSRP on a whim without a bunch of whiny dealers complaining about eating into their profits. That’s exactly what Tesla did by raising MSRP over the past few years.

Rental car companies are trying to get ahead of the eventuality that EVs will be like ICE cars.

That’s the $35 charge. It’s a flat fee, up to ~ $25 more than what it would cost the driver to charge it.

Considering its direct-to-customer model and price hikes during COVID and gas price spikes, of course their profit per vehicle is much higher in the past couple of years relative to the other make, who allow their dealers to mark up / suck up the difference between manufacturer prices and what the market will bear.

Don’t think they’ll be abandoning them.