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Expect ZERO flexibility. Get the diagnostic done at the dealer before the mileage is up. If that means not driving it (at all) until you can get a service appointment, don't drive it. If it's two miles to the dealer and there's one mile left on warranty ... get it towed there so that there's one...

Whyyyy ... If you are building a parking garage, there is nothing exotic about distribution panels, meters, conduits, switches, and outlets. Locally, an electrical installation like that would have to be inspected and certified, but so would the distribution circuits in the rest of the garage...

Since this car was subject to the huge VW emissions scandal and recall, another consideration is the extended warranty that came along with the recall work. Any aftermarket "tampering" will void it. And you really want to have that warranty in effect on those cars. My recommendation on the...

That's rough. Sorry to hear. My heart goes out to your family.

Compressing hydrogen for storage in a practical volume takes about a third of the energy content of the hydrogen itself, and there's no practical way to get that back when expanding it. Storing the hydrogen in some sort of chemical compound doesn't make the hydrogen just magically attach itself...

That covers the daily commute, or most of it, for a lot of people. Or the trip to the grocery store and back, or the trip to church and back, or running the kids to hockey and back. It ends up being enough to cover most of the daily running around for most people - and that was the whole idea...

EVs are not all things to all people YET, and they don't have to be. People doing thousands of km of constant driving without fuel stops are very much the exception rather than the rule. Back before this annoying little virus, my driving was quite a bit higher than average (annually 40,000 km...

Extreme range numbers won't be what gets EVs to be mass-market. Normal (300 - 400 km) range combined with competitive pricing AND fast-chargers (150 kW minimum) at every motorway rest stop (plus countless other places) is what will do it. Most people stop for a coffee, washroom break, or a meal...

Not saying you won't have any problems, but you won't have that problem. Did it have the VW dieselgate emission fix done, and is it under the extended warranty from that fix?

Simple advice here: Don't do it. Leave well enough alone.

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/15/vw-id-3-cost-less-than-golf-germany/

That particular Rivian-rebranded-as-a-Lincoln has been cancelled, but Rivian itself is carrying on (and they've got a contract with Amazon to build delivery vans for them https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30768563/amazon-rivian-electric-delivery-van-revealed/ ) Ford owns a chunk of the Rivian...

The general point about economies of scale is true. The general point that EVs will soon be close to the pricing of combustion-engine vehicles is expected to be true because of that economy of scale. But don't be deluded into thinking that EVs are "simpler" because you took the covers off a golf...

I'm not sure what your point is. It's relevant for comparing a Bentley to a Lexus, but it's not relevant for comparing major powertrain engineering changes. I work in auto mfg on the engineering side. Electric cars are built the same way as combustion-engine vehicles. Some of the bits and...

EVs that meet today's consumer expectations are NOT simple. You can cherry-pick certain components that are simpler (the gearbox, for example) but the vehicle as a whole is just as complex and it's more expensive. It may be mechanically simpler but it is electronically more complex and...