What’s old is new, love the ultra cheap EV leasing schemes various countries have used to help lower income households obtain EVs.

Very succinctly put!

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13 Months With a Used Porsche Taycan 4S: The Truth About EV Ownership #automotive YouTube video by Driven Car Reviews With Tom Voelk

@tomvoelk.bsky.social - is there a more reasoned, helpful, perspective in the U.S. automotive press space?

This is going to be my go-to for EV newb questions.

Love the comment about just buying it and driving 1,200 miles with in car nav and zero issues!

‘There are plenty of places you can drive… where you’d be advised to carry some spare jerry cans of petrol… Just as there are hundreds of millions, maybe more than a billion places to recharge an EV because in a pinch you can just plug it into a wall socket like a fucking toaster.’

Bravo!!

This! ✊🏽

This. Texas is where republicans go to test the horrors they want to visit on the rest of America.

GLORIOUS!

They can thank themselves, this is the GOP.

I’ve driven 🔋 🚗 for over 1/4 century

I’ve owned 🔋 🚗 for over a decade

Never a Tesla, Never SuperCharged because Tesla has a horrible, well documented, history of pollution and unsafe and racist manufacturing conditioning’s and as a contentious consumer, I can’t support that.

Surprising no one…

Ford, GM, Stellantis urge Canada to scrap zero-emission vehicle mandate Canada’s largest automakers have met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, urging the government should repeal the federal zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales mandate. The industry is calling the ma...

Just more “give kids asthma for barras golden parachute” bs I’m sure 🤮

Unfollowed several “sucks its come to this” Virginia hot-takes from, checks notes, all white dudes with an academic, insulated response to American democracy.

This is a fight for our country. Wake the f*ck up.

Sodium-Ion and LFP will rule 2020’s as we move into [hopefully] mainstream Solid State in the 2030’s.

And I’m sure 1/10 space x employees are driving cyber trucks 😭

Maybe you know, I refused to use the devil's AI, when the parking structure was initially proposed behind the organ pavilion, I know that was going to be paid, but was the proposal for all parking to be paid at that time, or just the structure?

Love me some free light rail!

a little girl with blonde hair is sitting in a car seat making a funny face . ALT: a little girl with blonde hair is sitting in a car seat making a funny face .

"What do you have to compete with the Telluride/Palisade/Grand Highlander HEV? EV9/IONIQ 9/Highlander EV? Rav4/Santa Fe/Sorrento/Tucson/Sportage HEV? Corolla Cross/Niro/Seltos HEV? Camry/Sorrento HEV? Corolla/Elantra HEV?"

'lol, nothing, and we're killing future EVs not just current'

That's pretty hilarious given their documented history of fighting it tooth and nail at the expense of clean air for kiddos.

Indeed, Electrek's assertion, not mine. I'm a huge fan of the EV2, a price point better suited to that title, and where VW's new clean sheet ID.Polo is going to compete with the EV2.

Volkswagen slashes prices on ID Buzz electric "Kombi" by over $12,000 to boost sales VW cuts thousands off the prices of its electric ID.Buzz, expecting a boost in inventory sales.

I'm guessing, in this case, as we're seeing incentives everywhere, Kia knows VW's stronghold is Europe and expects the ID.3 refresh (like the bZ refresh) is enough for captive customers not to consider looking outside brand, thus the incentives.

Same reason VW's discounting ID.Buzz as PV5 launches.

Kia cuts EV4 prices by $10,000 in response to the new Volkswagen ID.3 Neo The battle of the entry-level EVs is heating up. A week after Volkswagen launched the upgraded ID.3 Neo, Kia is...

Yup, having a globally competitive EV platform allows you to respond to market changes and... compete globally.

Dawwww 🦦

Which is why it's utterly mind-boggling, Canada, another country without a carmaker but extensive automotive manufacturing, isn't likewise leading in the shift to Chinese production.

I mention Europe because the rapid Chinese construction expansion is regulation/tariff driven.

Surprising no-one is right.

It was hilarious folks sat mouth agape at the cancellation of the bolt at launch. Especially people who report on the industry, do you pay any iota of attention to GM?

Oh well, looking forward to the tsunami of HMG EVs hitting North America, including Trucks 😃

Feels like retconning Kia's intention with PV5 (concepts of commercial vehicles at trade shows, entire platform focused on commercial vehicles separate from consumer, etc) and projecting them on the meager ID.Buzz sales... I dunno, so many of the takes on that site just don't make any sense.

I've not seen the article, but I have given up on Inside EV as so many of their asides are so sophomoric and don't seem grounded in the reality of the segment I've been driving for a quarter century.

VW launched decades of passenger concepts, built out 150k prod capacity and barely hit 1/5th that..

What a supremely unserious and unequivocably f*cked company.

Grab the popcorn for the GM/Ford/Chrysler bonfire as we close out this decade.

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That’s not a perspective I share 🤷🏼‍♂️

Stop asking:

“Why aren’t they…” (covering parking with solar)

Start asking: “Who is leading on…” (covering parking with solar) “How’d they get there? What can we do to see the same progress in our community”

(San Diego isn’t leading, just using this example as I saw SO MANY lots with solar in MV)

Bilbo: “why shouldn’t I, why should I take two and a half decades, and launch it on the wrong platform with meager range, and no heat pump in places that get winter”

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