What does covid have to do with the world’s largest and leading electric drivetrain maker releasing to the wild next generation technology? I’m not making the connection?
Having a vehicle that can use grid power at a couple of cents per mile vs gasoline in the 14 to 20 cents per mile range for every trip one makes except for one or two trips per year is money in the bank. A 30K 5 pass sedan with specs like this would sell out in the USA. The 4C charge is just a bonus it’s the 200+ mile range before going to the gas extender that matters. Most if not all Americans drive under 40 miles per day so really a 100 mile plug in would cover 99% of all the miles driven per year. It arguably makes more sense to have a rental genset that is modular you rent it for the long weekend road trip or the two week annual time off from being a wage slave and a 9-5 commute 5 days a week. Which is 37 miles or under for 96% of all Americans per the DOT who keeps track of that.
Because you are expecting people to jump on the band wagon.
We are going to be forced to drive these cars rather then the market deciding what we drive.
There will never be the infrastructure to support this.
You think the grid can be expanded? They can’t keep up with it now.
Where is the copper going to come from?
Very similar to covid.
Lies.
If it wasn’t, the government would let the market decide.
If I’m off track let me know.
This all seems like government over each to me.
The entire exercise is very similar to the types of coverage that we saw with the Covid vaccines. This is not coverage of... in your words “wild next generation technology”... it is hype.
I really enjoy looking over https://newatlas.com/ but this story is not unlike other articles that are currently headlining there.
“Bigger, bolder ebike conversion kit boosts range by up to six times”
“”Best instant camera on Earth” shows style evolution from its Cold War roots”
“Miracle powder sucks CO2 out of the air ‘like nothing else out there”
This article sounds like the same type of hype we have been reading about “new and revolutionary” battery technologies for the past ten to twenty years. I was an early adopter of lithium based rechargeable batteries back when you basically had to order them from China yourself if you wanted to use them in products such as flashlights.
Incremental improvements have been made since that time period as one would expect, but even with the $100s of Billions being spent on various forms of lithium based rechargeable batteries nothing revolutionary has taken place that I can recall. Yet, we have countless examples of articles such as this piece from New Atlas claiming that this “new battery type” is going to create a new generation of hybrid vehicles.
Somehow it reminds one a great deal of the types of hyped big media articles on Covid vaccines. That is the connection. People have become better at differentiating hype from actual news.
“What does covid have to do with the world’s largest and leading electric drivetrain maker releasing to the wild next generation technology? I’m not making the connection?”
Clearly, he is referring to your all too apparent enthusiasm for government mandated change of the energy and transportation sector. If you are too dense to see this, perhaps you are not the “polymath’ you claim yourself to be.