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Nfcknblvbl posted:I'll personally feel like we're there when all the busses and delivery trucks around me are zero emission. Sick of smelling diesel. That'll happen sometime after it's clearly cheaper to use electrics. We're not there yet, but I can see it coming on the horizon.
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Every electric car should do 0-60 in 3.5.
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May 11, 2021 22:11
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And have 21” wheels.
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May 11, 2021 22:11
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And T tops.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:I'll personally feel like we're there when all the busses and delivery trucks around me are zero emission. Sick of smelling diesel. Not sure if I mentioned it here, but my neighborhood got electric buses last year and it's such a huge difference in noise. The labored diesel pulling away uphill must have lowered house prices near the bus stops. Now it's nice and quiet.
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May 11, 2021 22:15
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bird with big dick posted:Every electric car should do 0-60 in 3.5. We used to drive a VW microbus, and I had trouble getting that fucker up to 60MPH on a flat highway with a tailwind. I am looking forward to the absurdity of how much a bus-mounted MEB platform outperforms the gas one. I mean, "is able to get up to 60MPH" is going to be enough. Doing it in under 20 seconds will just be riotously funny to me after being passed by mopeds.
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May 11, 2021 22:20
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bird with big dick posted:And T tops. And require a mullet to drive.
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May 11, 2021 22:24
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DoomTrainPhD posted:And require a mullet to drive. Mullets are in. Don’t think I could pull it off, maybe a rat tail though.
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May 11, 2021 23:08
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Speaking of- why don't we have an electric convertible yet?
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May 11, 2021 23:36
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Right? I really wish there would be a mass market Tesla roadster. Convertible, two door. Range similar to model 3/Y and a slower 0-60. Instead it's some halo car that won't be out for a few years, and costs 250k.
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May 11, 2021 23:39
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Westy543 posted:Right? I really wish there would be a mass market Tesla roadster. Convertible, two door. Range similar to model 3/Y and a slower 0-60. Instead it's some halo car that won't be out for a few years, and costs 250k. You just had to be an early adopter, my Roadster cost less than my Model X brand new and is definitely slower than the X or the 3. Range was 210 new which I guess doesn't stack up that great.
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May 11, 2021 23:45
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PIZZA.BAT posted:Speaking of- why don't we have an electric convertible yet? Because the market for convertibles is really small and no one is going to spend precious development dollars on that instead of things that people will buy in large quantities like crossovers.
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May 11, 2021 23:47
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Because the market for convertibles is really small and no one is going to spend precious development dollars on that instead of things that people will buy in large quantities like crossovers. Yeah it would pretty much have to be something that you sell at a big premium like the Lucid Air or it will be somewhat difficult to recuperate your development / retooling costs.
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Ola posted:I've been waiting for Subaru to wake up for many years now. This is a car maker that has been utterly determined to throw a CVT onto every single car they build, even the performance models. Guarentted it'll be boooooooooring middle of the road to appeal to the most boring sectors possible and for some reason have some sort of neutering Disclaimer : I bleed WRC Subaru Blue CAT INTERCEPTOR fucked around with this message at 00:00 on May 12, 2021 |
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May 11, 2021 23:58
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Westy543 posted:Right? I really wish there would be a mass market Tesla roadster. Convertible, two door. Range similar to model 3/Y and a slower 0-60. Instead it's some halo car that won't be out for a few years, and costs 250k. If I learned anything from Knight Rider, it's that the only difference between a normal car and a convertible is an angle grinder and some break-dancing urban youth.
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May 12, 2021 00:04
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knox_harrington posted:The mirrors are kinda important safety kit that someone that jumps into the car should be able to adjust. I'm impressed that you're holding out any hope that a valet or your aunt would even make a token effort to attempt to adjust the mirrors on something that isn't their personal baby. In the dozens of business trips I've done to dense cities like LA where the hotel parking was valet-only, I have not even once had to readjust my mirrors back because they never changed them.
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May 12, 2021 00:34
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The Sub-E-ru will have a CVT.
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Does anyone know the magic password necessary to test drive a Mach-E? I realize I’m in Ohio and this prime “Mustangs without a V8 should be burned with their owners inside” territory, but I would have assumed that capitalism would override some of that and dealers might be willing to entertain the thought of someone paying them $60,000 for an automobile. As it stands, I’ve gotten one “we don’t have any” (despite a premium AWD standard range sitting outside the entrance to their building), one “we only use those for the service department’s courtesy shuttles, you can’t test drive it,” and one complete lack of response. Honestly it probably wouldn’t end up being my choice, because even though some YouTube types have implied that it’s better-built and possibly even a better SUV overall than the Model Y, the non-Tesla charging infrastructure out here combined with a bad fast charging curve on the Ford would probably conspire to make it an inferior experience as my first EV purchase. I don’t road trip much, but ABRP shows some of the places I go as only having L2 chargers for part of the route, which seems like a bad time for everyone. I’ve really only been considering EVs seriously for a few months, but is my assumption generally correct that Tesla is still the only viable option for road trips in much of the flyover part of the country? I’m not opposed to Tesla by any means (punchable CEO aside) and I really liked driving the Y, but I wonder if I’m missing something.
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eeenmachine posted:You just had to be an early adopter, my Roadster cost less than my Model X brand new and is definitely slower than the X or the 3. Range was 210 new which I guess doesn't stack up that great. I wouldn't mind having one of the original Roadsters. Although it doesn't look like it has much storage space :P
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eeenmachine posted:You just had to be an early adopter, my Roadster cost less than my Model X brand new and is definitely slower than the X or the 3. Range was 210 new which I guess doesn't stack up that great. Not by 2020 standards, but it was the first pure EV with a range above 200 miles that you could actually buy, meanwhile the mainstream auto industry was like "We'd love to make electric cars, but
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Charles posted:I wouldn't mind having one of the original Roadsters. Although it doesn't look like it has much storage space :P With the cloth top in the trunk you could easily still have room for an umbrella or two, maybe even a jacket!
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Because the market for convertibles is really small and no one is going to spend precious development dollars on that instead of things that people will buy in large quantities like crossovers. Yeah this makes sense 
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I would murder someone for an EV version of my legacy wagon.
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Nfcknblvbl posted:I'll personally feel like we're there when all the busses and delivery trucks around me are zero emission. Sick of smelling diesel. God, this. I cycle to work and being stuck behind a diesel bus pouring particulates is just foul.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:This is a car maker that has been utterly determined to throw a CVT onto every single car they build, even the performance models. Guarentted it'll be boooooooooring middle of the road to appeal to the most boring sectors possible and for some reason have some sort of neutering I really want to get my parents into an EV so that's what I want. And to have totally normal controls. My mom hated the Tesla touch screen
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Sonic Dude posted:Does anyone know the magic password necessary to test drive a Mach-E? I realize I’m in Ohio and this prime “Mustangs without a V8 should be burned with their owners inside” territory, but I would have assumed that capitalism would override some of that and dealers might be willing to entertain the thought of someone paying them $60,000 for an automobile. As it stands, I’ve gotten one “we don’t have any” (despite a premium AWD standard range sitting outside the entrance to their building), one “we only use those for the service department’s courtesy shuttles, you can’t test drive it,” and one complete lack of response. I’m going to try my local dealer tomorrow. I’m tired of beaters (but not the lack of a car payment) - and with the Mach-E having a $10k total rebate here in my state, it’s hard not to consider one.
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Qwijib0 posted:I would murder someone for an EV version of my legacy wagon. I would also let you murder someone for one, I don't actually even care what wagon you have. We're waiting for whatever the Space Vizzion becomes, and then someone usually tells me it's not likely to come to America, and then I plug my ears. I had hopes for Volvo since they at least sell their wagons here, but based on the image they put out, it doesn't look like a wagon is in their immediate future.  I think where I am today is if there isn't good news about the Space Vizzion or something else, I'll just get a V60 PHEV. 22 electric miles will cover my commute, at least.
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cruft posted:We used to drive a VW microbus, and I had trouble getting that fucker up to 60MPH on a flat highway with a tailwind. I am looking forward to the absurdity of how much a bus-mounted MEB platform outperforms the gas one. Isn't the buzz supposed to come with awd/400hp? Seems mental to me but I'm sure someone will justify why they need it for the school run.
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it's more like there's very little cost increase to go from 200 to 400whp so why not?
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The Driven: Nissan Leaf owners could start feeding energy into grid by end of year. https://thedriven.io/2021/05/12/nissan-leaf-owners-could-start-feeding-into-grid-by-end-of-year/ I think this tech is a pretty big deal!
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LRADIKAL posted:The Driven: Nissan Leaf owners could start feeding energy into grid by end of year. Yeah, and I just read last night that there's a way to upgrade my daughter's 30kWh batter to a 65kWh one, which would be a hell of a lot cheaper than buying her a new car. Combined with this, it'd be a no-brainer: we could easily run the house overnight with 65kWh.
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You could run a house for days on 62kwh in many cases.
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LRADIKAL posted:You could run a house for days on 62kwh in many cases. Not to mention the power reserve. Our apartment's main fuse is 63A @ 230V, or 15 kW, and serves us cooking, showers, etc. You could probably keep a house of cards standing inside a Nissan Leaf while accelerating with 15 kW, it's a tiny amount of power. And yet the 62 kWh battery can easily deliver many times that down to a very low state of charge.
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Great news for Mach-E and F150 lightning customers! https://www.motor1.com/news/506493/ford-billboard-scanning-tech-patent/
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May 12, 2021 18:55
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God, please just sit on that patent and do nothing with it.
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May 12, 2021 19:08
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SAY "MCDONALD'S" TO END BILLBOARD
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May 12, 2021 19:26
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I could see positive uses for that. Drive through zoos (which I know are bad, just giving an easy example) could have the animal info pop up. Campgrounds could have reservation information. ’billboards’ could now have hardcore porn
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May 12, 2021 19:43
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Having easy access to nearby points of interest on the infotainment screen can be useful, might be similar to how Waze does its ads. Better be able to opt in/out, though!
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Advent Horizon posted:I could see positive uses for that. Drive through zoos (which I know are bad, just giving an easy example) could have the animal info pop up. Campgrounds could have reservation information. Aren't drive zoos the worst idea though? I mean zoos in general, but who the hell would want animals scratching the paint to hell etc?
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