Recent content by JoeBlow-Kokomo

it will be liquid cooled batteries I'm sure, so still a small pump and radiator somewhere. But yeh huge difference. Heck a brake fluid flush, transmission service, coolant flush and injector cleaning might put a hole in $1,000 these days.

In a couple of discussions I've started listing the wear/maintenance items typically on an ice car and it's an exhausting list if you keep your vehicles for a long time.

There's more than 5,000,000 annoying people so...

5 year old car. Mileage or Time on a lot of new car service schedules now. Thats likely a major service, not ongoing maintenance cost.

WAY more than that potentially. Avg american spends 2-3,000 a year on gasoline based on 12-15,000 miles per year and the mileage you get. Now add in oil changes every 5k. And that's jsut the beginning of maintenance that is mostly not there on ev's. Would not be hard to save $20,000 vs a...

EV inquiries and sales are way up the last month. KIa salesmen said a lot more lot traffic for ev's. Yes it matters a great deal to a large % of people. When $$ is tight gas is one of the great variables in your discretionary income. It hurts when a fill up is $70 when it was 35 a couple...

500 hp in a truck shorter than a mini cooper - now there's a brilliant idea. Sounds like Tesla. Oh, right, it's ex Tesla guys. WTF is with this obscession with 0-60 times? That truck will get people killed. Doubtful it makes market it seems.

I like the little woody!

I think you're right. Assumption that they won't hit that, so a couple grand more. After awhile seems like someone said it.

List them please

Because everyone has a cell phone and can get weather updates from it. Nice try though.

only if you want one by 2030

IF Fords comes in a 35k with pretty paint, nice stereo and other creature comforts as planned. That won't be far off a close to 30k Slate truck imo. I like the simplicity of design idea to a point, but Most of that comes from not having an ICE engine and all that maintenance and replacing of...

Might want to read a bit maybe. 50/50 weight distribution means fun, sporty handling. Light weight (small batteries) makes it even more so. it's going to be a FUN driver.

In those days there were very few 4wd vehicles and next to no fwd. Beetles were the BEST snow machines on the road most of the time. We went bowling one time and came out hours later to blizzard conditions and deep snow. Nobody could get out of there. Except us in our Beetle. putt putt They...