Looks like the push for electric vehicles is backfiring in California!
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Elon is supposed to be smart? This shitty car can apparently be turned into a hybrid for under a grand and he's not cashing in on it.
Chevrolet made the Volt with about 55ish miles of electric range before you use gas. They killed it after not ever advertising it and dealerships not wanting to sell them. Served the purpose of 100% electric around town and gas whenever you needed it.
It’s amazing how hard they drove that Volt concept into the ground. My favourite is the concept car they developed to get the government funding vs the car they actually produced. You can’t convince me they didn’t tank it on purpose
100% shot themselves in the foot for quick profits.
It was probably to raise their fleet fuel economy for EPA purposes... so they could sell more inefficient SUVs.
Similarly, Ford built the truly God-awful C-Max which had like 12 miles of electric range...
I was going to buy a Volt for $18k a few years back, until I sat in the seat for ten minutes
I'm tall and trim, 6'3", 170
Seat was rock hard, and the bolsters squeezed the shit out of my hips til they started to ache
Tesla was a no go because no sun shade (I shit you not...the sun just gets to roast the flesh off your face and skull, forcing you to wear a hat at all times), and no spare tire - told the guy to get back to me when they finish making the car
Keeping my 8-cylinder RWD sedan, thanks
Hybrids take additional cost and engineering and it's hard to produce anywhere near the same distance that you could get on electric before turning to gas.
Interestingly, and Elon clearly knows this, rising gas prices and the attack on all "fossil fuels" will hurt his bottom line long term, as the electrical grid can't handle a country full of EVs and certainly raises the cost of energy tremendously since he understands the limitations of technologies like solar to produce.
This ultimately makes an EV less attractive, and may continue to make it less attractive long term when your power company asks you to keep your power usage down and gives you a lower price or credits on your next few bills for not charging there.
Essentially, EVs are for nerds. Gas is for utility.
Neither are all that great for long term future technologies, as both have limitations and good use cases.
EVs can get more torque on the wheels and also distribute torque more asymmetrically as needed which is useful.
Gas on its own splits the energy burden across multiple resources and that in itself is already invaluable.
Both are run on high carbon emissions anyway.
How about the farmer I read about a while back. He developed a truck that ran on water. That was quickly squelched by the government. How about someone developing a car that runs on the byproduct of garbage? That would solve our landfill problems.
Car running on garbage was already invented by Dr. Emmett Brown. He invented the Flux Capacitor in 1985.
Name checks out.
The garbage car exists.
Burning real garbage or are you saying a lot of cars are carnage!?
Patents
That car can go anywhere in the US and Canada just using the awesome Tesla Supercharging network. This guy is carrying that gas to power your moms BumbBlaster 3000. Get your story straight
Pffffffft
You know nothing
My mum has the new and upgraded bumblaster 3500 and it runs on an integrated windmill.
Those turbo powered electric cars are so sexy. Especially driving down a mountain road, you can make it all the way down the hill on regen and turbo generator alone. Take that fossil cars!