General EV Discussion

[prozac]

I'd buy one for that performance alone... each to their own I suppose

Get a motorbike. I am about to sell one that will do it in 3 for a very moderate price.

 

[kookaburra75]

Get a motorbike. I am about to sell one that will do it in 3 for a very moderate price.

I gave up riding motorbikes a few years ago, as I don't bounce as well as I used to

 

[Forg]

Ugly doesn't seem to matter, SUV's & dual-cabs are the most numerous vehicles sold these days.
And the expensive ones made by Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley, Rolls Royce etc are among the ugliest passenger-vehicles on the planet - yet, they sell.

Also EV's are in-effect automatics, 20 years ago the concept of a car that can do 0-100 in 2.5s as being boring would've been unthinkable - yet here we are!


Going off on a tangent in this thread, I don't have an EV & haven't ever had to deal with charging the ones I've been in. I therefore have zero concept of what apps etc you'd need to install & use if you want to charge at one of those fancy power-points where you pay for the electrons.

This is back-story to the fact that a couple of months ago I was considering a rental in France and (for The Goodies related reasons) driving to the Black Forest in order to go for a Walk in it.
A servo in a foreign language is no problem ... but with no experience, and no idea of whether a trial-run here would teach me anything that would help there, the cheapest alternative of hiring an EV for that trip was just too much of a risk.
The whole drive got canned due to my (German) wife telling me it was nothing special & not worth planning a day-trip around. But what on the outside appeared to be a good way to sample the wares that an EV offers turns out to be notsogood due to the logistics. If it were a multi-day rental being considered, that puts a different spin on things.

 

[kookaburra75]

Ugly doesn't seem to matter, SUV's & dual-cabs are the most numerous vehicles sold these days.
And the expensive ones made by Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley, Rolls Royce etc are among the ugliest passenger-vehicles on the planet - yet, they sell.

I suppose they work on the principle, that once you're in the car you can't see what it looks like anyway.

 

[prozac]

I gave up riding motorbikes a few years ago, as I don't bounce as well as I used to

Me too