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To: Red Badger

Snazzy and huge, but classified as a SUB-COMPACT in the USA:

As it has a full gas AND ALSO electric engine, those take up space, right..?

Fisker couldn’t bite the bullet and cut the baby in two, i.e. decide which way to go.

An amphibian can go in either water or land but is super good at neither, right..?

It’s cramped. Also:

While the designer is amazing, I think he should have been more honest about his intended path at the outset of his designing for Tesla.

He kept mum about it and sprung it on his partners, sorta like a designer’s Pearl Harbor.


13 posted on 06/19/2015 4:56:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

I forgot to add:

Once the battery is depleted, the gas engine has to contend not only with the weight of the passengers, frame, engine, but also the not inconsiderable weight of the battery, which at that point of course is not making the car go at all.

The battery is dead weight at that point, meaning that the gas engine ends up surprisingly anemic, given it’s size.

More about my “cramped” comment:

I was talking STRICTLY about the interior cabin, not the overall car size.

A TRUE BEAUTY, I must concede, though.


15 posted on 06/19/2015 5:02:13 PM PDT by gaijin
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