This is one of my three issues with electric vehicles. The current battery technology is far too inadequate for them to be practical for most people. They're fine if you're only going to use them to drive to work and back and live reasonably close, or take short trips around town, but it you have to rent a room while you're waiting 8-12 hours for your vehicle to recharge, I can't see that being feasible. Second is the expense; the price tags are usually twice that of a comparable combustion engine vehicle, and when it's time to replace the battery current estimates are hovering around the $5,000 mark.
Third...they're too quiet. I've had some roll past me in a parking lot, and I hardly heard anything. Considering the number of nitwits who carry on throughout their day with their faces and attentions permanently affixed to their cell phones, I can see this becoming a serious safety issue.
This is one of my three issues with electric vehicles. The current battery technology is far too inadequate for them to be practical for most people. They're fine if you're only going to use them to drive to work and back and live reasonably close, or take short trips around town, but it you have to rent a room while you're waiting 8-12 hours for your vehicle to recharge, I can't see that being feasible. Second is the expense; the price tags are usually twice that of a comparable combustion engine vehicle, and when it's time to replace the battery current estimates are hovering around the $5,000 mark.
I do think that this technology is super cool, and I'm all for it. However, I will never drive one out of pure love for the gasoline V8 engine. Its just my thing.
Yeah, my heart jumped when I saw a video of a Tesla whipping the snot out of a Dodge Hellcat Challenger. Geeeez.
Yeah, even a old school gearhead like me cant overlook that! Phenomenal!
At Tesla's prices they'd better do that and cook my breakfast every morning. I'll never have that kind of money to spend on a car, so I guess I'll never find out.
That would have never happened with a vintage car. I never had trouble distinguishing between a Camaro and a Firebird back in the 70s. Now days I make a mental note of exactly where I parked because we have three foreign made cars that look exactly like all the other foreign cars out there.
On the front page of this month's MG Enthusiast, is an MG Y Type like mine, but the whole drive train, engine, gearbox, propshaft and differential are all of the 'B' series, the one that goes into an MGB.
You have such a way with words. Cracked me up.
If you have an extrusion like an aerial, tie a thin strip of ribbon to the top to help you identify it, you won't have the embarrassment of trying to get into the wrong car then.I cannot tell one foreign car from another today - they all look the same to me. Dh bought a new-used car a few years ago and it was the first foreign made car we ever owned, it was a Hyundai Elantra 4-door. The first time I drove it I went to Walmart and parked it. Naturally, Walmart was packed so I came out of the store, went to the car, and try as I might I couldn't get the electronic key to unlock the door. After about 5 minutes of repeatedly hitting the unlock button, I finally called dh. His first question was, "Are you sure it's the right car?" I told him of course it was the right car. His next question was for me to look at the trunk of the car and tell him what the emblem looked like. I said there was an "H" on it. He asked if it was sitting straight up or leaning to the side and I told him it was straight up. He starts to laugh hysterically, barely able to tell me I'm trying to unlock a Honda, not a Hyundai. It seems that my car was actually parked in the next row.
Or the environmental effects those batteries will have in many years to come? [emoji14]
Allegedly......if they ever work out the production bugs.....the jury is still out on whether they are a legit car company or a tech play
