This guy is the consummate gear head and also owns a Tesla.
For what little it may be worth, I recommend this guy to my gear head friends.
And yes, I'm looking forward to owning an EV with FSD (Full Self Driving)...Like a GV80 EV with FSD.
I’d own an EV provided that: it’ll go 450 miles on a charge with the heater or A/C on full blast and can be fully charged at any gas station in ten minutes or less (or the same time it would take to fill an 18 gallon gas tank).
VW is notorious for it's horrific electrical system problems. I've had friends I warned off turn in their cars within a year after things like ignition failure, window motors getting stuck and worse.
Way to burn your money.
I might get a hybrid some day, but I can’t seen a PlugInElectric in my future.
A glimpse of the forced future. Horribly environmentally destructive expensive electric cars. When we are forced to drive this trash where is every parking lot and home going to get the power and infrastructure to pull the amps to charge these batteries? The minerals required? Africa will be one giant open pit mine owned by China staffed by slaves.
Up high. Too low...
... too slow.
Will it reach the Extraterrestrial Hwy in Rachel Nevada? There's already a time capsule waiting at the Little A'Le'Inn:
It's lookin' a bit rough.
You do realize there is no manmade Global Warming.
A white steering wheel?
That will look great after a year. /s
In case you missed it in the video, the very network of charging stations VW created (Electrify America), it doesn’t work very well with this actual ID.4 VW, and it works better without any flaws on other electrics like Tesla and the Ford Mustang MachE. I had to laugh as the guy must have hammered this point at least 7 times lol.
Sorry.
I would also caution against cheering for "self-driving cars". Our eminently trustable government will see a wonderful opportunity for stepping in with "safety standards" which will unify the control network to allow uniform intra-vehicle safety, such as ensuring proper distances between vehicles, guiding vehicles along alternate roadways to free up congestion and of, course limiting speed to the approved upper speed limits.
Naturally, the government will improve things as the camel's nose fits under the tent: due to "climate change", these well-controlled self-driving cars will be prevented from driving at all if you have had a Bad Record for traffic violations or you have exceeded your "carbon limit" (which they will define for us) or anything else they feel like. Your self-driving car won't be allowed to drive on certain routes when they pull the switch and likely won't even start if you haven't enough passengers or all vehicle driving is denied (such as you QAnon membership is discovered).
Remember - the Constitution doesn't guarantee any "freedom of movement", does it?
Current charging port 'standards':
Until they can get to a quick swap-out on a hydrogen fuel cell, or a rapid fill-up of the same, electric-powered vehicles without an auxiliary on-board charging or energy source system shall never show much advantage over “fossil-fueled” vehicles.
Perhaps, if the world goes to next-generation nuclear power, like Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors to drive the dynamos necessary to generate the base power supply needed to both run the industrial sector and the personal use consumption patterns, then the power grid could bear the extra demands of rechargeable electrical powered vehicles, both for personal and commercial transport.
But the current design of batteries just cannot supplant the “fossil-fueled” power needed for this personal and commercial transportation.
Battery storage is largely a dead-end technology. Maybe a capacitor system with controlled release of electrical energy upon demand? Not yet possible, I know. But probably will be available long before a low-cost, high-capacity system of storage batteries.
Come on, engineers. Why are you paying the high tuitions at engineering schools if they cannot provide you with the tools to unravel these problems?
EVs are gay.
A Tad high, is what this guy calls a $40,000 car. It’s still a EV and has to be charged . When is the expansion of the Grid going to start to support all this new Electricity demand?
