Battery costs are coming down. Selling through Lexus makes it easier for them to pad their profits.

The tax credits are needlessly complicated and incentivize heavy, inefficient EVs (with the higher truck/SUV price cap). Also the complete disregard in our national transportation policy for the most efficient forms of transport: walking, bicycling, and taking transit.

The list basically implies: any car is good for winter (properly set up).

Boggles the mind that saving $20-40/month didn’t seem to factor into people’s behavior

That’s what I’ve been saying.

Enough to warrant claims of misleading carbon emissions by automakers, which assume owners will plug them in to maximize efficiency.

Disagree 100%. Railroad crossings can be made safe, and people taught how to cross them safely.

Many PHEV owners also never plug them in. So they’re dragging around extra weight for nothing, further reducing the efficiency of the gas engines they still have to maintain.

It’s not a truck.

CARB sometimes gets ahead of itself.  Goals are not a bad thing.

Lemmings.

The article doesn’t mean there are NO Airs or 2s. It means they aren’t in the top of the sales chart.

Anecdotal evidence is just that.  It’s irrelevant to the bigger picture.

I’m throwing shade on the idea that people who drive massive vehicles they can’t see out of drive them recklessly - i.e. they proceed regardless of whether they know what’s in front, beside, or behind them. Add a little speed and it becomes deadly in a 5000 lb vehicle.

How are so many companies still so far behind software wise?

ABRP is a really great tool for geeks. It allows lots of configurable options. As a result, it’s also incredibly slow, particularly in the EV interface (Android Automotive). It’s way too complicated and slow to use on the fly, IMO.

The most stressful thing to me, Google, is that I cannot select the particular EV charging network I want while I am en-route (vehicle moving, on the interstate), plotting my next stop. That one filter is “unavailable” when the vehicle is in motion. Yet every other filter/feature is available.

Thank you for posting that and recognizing the danger these giant vehicles pose to shorter people, kids, pets. Really anything.

If any vehicle is ideal for being an EV, it’s local run-about commercial vehicles. These often always have off-street parking too, so overnight charging is super easy to accommodate.   Any business that has vehicles traveling less than ~200-250 mi per normal day should be chomping at the bits to convert from gas to…

Performance?