Rob

The only people likely to buy a new EV are people in the market for a new car. Your comment makes zero sense. The cost of a new EV is very similar to the cost of a new ICE vehicle. And it’s even cheaper if you consider fuel and maintenance costs. That is not what’s holding back EV adoption.

I wasn’t saying there’s any improvement to the financial accounts. Just the headlines. Share price for Musk’s businesses are only barely related to their financial performance.

Bold move? Every car off that production line increases the share price more than the cost of production. Hardly a bold move, just a logical corollary to Musk’s business strategy.

Seems like this could be used to inject malicious code into software!

Does that mean that logically then those factors aren’t actually risk factors?

It’s incredible how the USA squandered its technological lead in new technology to China by succumbing to old tech propaganda. And it was just the portend of its descent into irrelevance.

I guess if you’re doing regular trips over 500km or don’t have an accessible power point at home that could be an issue but I wouldn’t bother with plug-in hybrid in that case, why bother carrying around a second motor and battery?

If you love torque and efficiency, why don’t you have an EV? They take about 20-30% of the energy to go the same distance. And torque is flat from zero.

Surely someone obsessed with efficiency would already be driving an EV?

Also not one person in his story called him “Sir”.

I live in Melbourne Australia. Temperatures reach over 35° often in Summer and over 40° 2-3 times a year. Apart from the cooling getting a bit of a workout my car works fine. It’s especially nice to get into a cool car at the end of the day. As to an apocalypse, my solar system can charge my car.

Road user charge for all. ICE vehicles pay an environment, health and pollution tax depending on emissions.

Of course it does. The more you drive, the sooner you pay off that “debt”. That doesn’t change this fact: You knew full well that everyone talks about “carbon debt compared to ICE” but pretended that you had read “carbon debt compared to nothing”. You are dishonest and yet you call me a “parrot”.

Oh OK. Happy to discuss. It all depends on how the EV gets its energy. If it’s from 100% clean energy (say you’re charging from your own solar panels), then one year is possible. If it’s from the grid, which for most places is about 40% renewable, then it’s going to take 2 to 4 years.

I mean the headline’s enough “when do EVs become CLEANER THAN GASOLINE CARS”. That’s not saying “EV becomes carbon neutral after 2 years”!?

Doesn’t mean you have to! But just one reference then, should be super easy to find. Just ONE person saying that an EV will magically become zero carbon after a year. Did you think that some people think EV actually absorb CO2 from the atmosphere??

Also I’d suggest you stop making your earlier claim as that’s called a “straw man argument” where you assume a claim that no one has made and argue against it.

Yes but you’ve misunderstood that claim. That is comparing an EV to an ICEV not comparing an EV to nothing. Perhaps provide the whole article with the quote in context and we can discuss what the author meant by “carbon debt”.

Polestar 0 project | Polestar Learn more about the Polestar 0 project, our ambition to make a climate neutral production car that fully eliminates greenhouse gases from production.

By the way, Polestar is working on the dream of a carbon zero car, even though it may be decades away. www.polestar.com/global/susta...

Sorry you’ve mangled that fact. It takes a year or two to pay off the increased cost of carbon in the manufacturing COMPARED TO AN ICE VEHICLE. No one has said an EV is carbon neutral, you’ve just misunderstood the facts. Yes “an EV becomes carbon neutral after a year” is indeed nonsense.

If they’re replacing the equivalent fossil fuel powered vehicle, they are about 80% better. But I agree smaller vehicles are better.

I can’t help you with your specific requirement since I have no idea what products are available in your country, and if it’s the USA, that’s one of the worst countries for EV availability. 3/3

But most stuff that will go wrong is mechanical, so in the long term it’ll be just purchasing parts either new from Polestar or from a wreckers. There’s no difference to any other car. Also lots of people do EV conversions of classic cars. 2/3

Only thing I’ve had break on my car so far was a “drivers door module” that was draining the 12V battery. Since my car has a 5 year warranty I’m not going to be repairing that myself, but the part would definitely be available to purchase. 1/3

I don’t get this complaint. 400 miles in a weekend means stopping to charge once for 20 minutes, or charging overnight while you sleep. Sure it might be slightly inconvenient, but surely it’s worth it to help reduce co2 emissions?

Suzuki have had plenty of time to find a solution. Instead they chose the route of political pressure against good policy for Australians. See ya later Suzuki.

And that is why they don’t let you change it.

Glad you agree that oil is bad. Nice one.

Yep animals just LOVE oil.

I miss my chocolate bars when refuelling…