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Lmao Bollywood type shit for the plebs
Business idea: Very cheap electric city car with low range, but standardised commodity batteries you can rent for long journeys.
Why not a city car EV and just rent another car when you need to make long journeys?
Or for me in the UK, why would I want a car, you can’t even drink in it. Trains have staff to sell me a drink.
Having sat on a rail replacement bus inching its way towards Stansted down the M11 while the takeoff time loomed closer and closer, I think I’ll pass on that for important journeys.
Quite happy to take it to work, the worst that happens there is a shorter working day.
Making batteries exchangeable adds a lot of costs and overhead. The battery changing infrastructure is even a greater nightmare. Nio tried it and failed. With batteries getting better and better, this concept also is getting less and less feasible. It is really easier and cheaper to expand infrastructure of long range EV renting. That said, in Europe taking the train and renting an EV at the destination (range is not much of an issue then either) is probably the more relaxed option anyway, if a car is needed at all.
Home charging is easily better for city car. Only two use cases for changeable batteries are commercial two wheelers and trailer trucks. And for trucks you’ll need to change out the driver too. There are ones being trialed which use a forklift to change it out.
Most cheap EVs have a battery you need to rent, and they are “standard” to the company (proprietary)
I’ve wrote this before and I’ll write it again. Conversion kits need to become mainstream. It’s like my old Jeep can have pretty much any engine. Someone converted theirs with using parts from a junk yard Tesla.
And it’ll be extra nice because those kits could also deshitify the car in the process. Oh, you stuck a dependency on a functional phone home system in the fuel injection loop? Who cares after I’ve removed the fuel injectors?
as battery tech improves and electric motors become more powerful and ubiquitous it’ll happen. there’s a small market of people converting classic cars to ev. one day I’d like to convert my old honda element. I don’t need 300 miles range, give me 80 and it’ll be fine for grabbing lumber or taking junk to the dump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ZV1GMrf50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqcHIQmWgIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d53aNHMMai0
and a host of companies trying to cater to the market -
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T4WWHvZODz4
dig around and there’s a lot more. there’s a lot of rolling stock that can be swapped eventually, it would be stupid to condemn all that metal to scrap.
Totally agree. It sounds like you live in Vermont or the like. I think of how the star trek movie had a electric corvette.
There is a whole chunk of people wanting the diesel electric conversion kits Deboss Garage is developing with Edison Motors.
https://debossgarage.com/builds/diesel-electric-edison-pickup
(yes it will be possible to have a big battery instead of an engine + smaller battery)
Pretty cool if it’s legit. The west side Germany 300 got me a giggle. Bookmarked it. Okay, I just finished. I can’t believe this tech is out. I have read about how well it does with frying oil.
Go get a used Chevy Bolt or Nissan Leaf. Tesla ain’t the only EV in the US.
Hyundai Ioniq 5 is the best small EV in the USA. I highly recommend it.
Its an iron!
Isn’t there Renault 4/5 or Kia EV 2 in USA? They seem perfect
No renaults at all, and no kia ev2 here. Affordable cars are pretty much completely gone from our market.
Oh damn, and with Chinese brands not allowed, its pretty much waiting for Japanese brands for you all
The US is basically walling up its market against affordable compact cars. That can’t be the whole reason however. After all, Renault could sell the R5 or Twingo in the US if it wanted I assume. Are the regulations there so incredibly hostile towards compact cars, or do European companies resent producing compact cars as well and just do it in Europe because they absolutely have to, in order to survive?
The US buyer is obsessed with size, power and automatic transmission. Almost half of Americans believe “Made in USA” equates to a superior product. There are tariffs and a vast distribution network is required. Cars would have to be significantly adapted to follow US regulations.
Americans don’t like cars any smaller than a house because they make you gay
What do gay Americans drive?
Small fast cars
Outbacks or Foresters
No, we need more rail. Enough with cars.
And dedicated bike lanes.
I’d take more Heavy rail, light rail, bike lanes, better city layouts, AND cheap electric cars.
We can’t afford that either, look at California.
“hyperloop” lol
Yeah Americans are shit at doing hsr
I don’t honestly think the US has the technical ability anymore. The US doesn’t really make much and hasn’t since the seventies. That’s a long time. How much of a Ford is actually made in the US? Shoot, how much is designed in the US?
Best they could do would be buy the parts, maybe make the frame, paint it and assemble. Don’t make batteries, don’t make screens, or chips, or leds or much of nothing.
I’m probably gonna get an Ioniq 6 or 5 in a year or two, those are very affordable and have actual buttons and switches.
I walked past a Tesla showroom recently and they had one car on the floor that they still sell, one that they haven’t sold in decades, a frame to a car that’s out of production, and a robot they still don’t produce. They used to have more cars out then they stopped producing them. The stock is still high somehow.
The original roadster is still so cool to me. I wish a small relatively light ev sports car was sold in the US. I don’t want a barge with 800 HP I’d much rather have something nimble with a quarter of the power.
There was very little original with the roadtser. The chassis is just a Lotus Elise that they stuffed an EV drivetrain into.
And there are some small ones. The Kia EV3 is 201hp and under 30k.
Yeah I know and that’s exactly why it was good, because the elise already had an incredible sports car chassis.
The EV3 seems like a fine commuter but is certainly not a sports car in weight, shape, chassis, or suspension. It’s just another compact crossover, seemingly a good one, but not really what I’m talking about. In the US the closest thing is probably the Mini Cooper SE, but it’s still heavier and less powerful than the original roadster.
Imagine if Mazda made an mx-5 EV or Toyota made an 86 EV.
Imagine if Mazda made an mx-5 EV or Toyota made an 86 EV.
I’m pro-EV in general (pro-trains notwithstanding), but don’t see the point in that. I’d rather they just got the people who designed the MX-5 and GT86 to design EV sports cars on their own terms. An MX-5 EV would just be there to remind you how much more fun the ICE version was to drive.
Well yeah I don’t mean literally make the same car but an EV. Of course there are special considerations that need to be made when designing a different type of car. The main reason most EVs aren’t very fun is because most of them haven’t been designed to be.
There won’t be flying cars until Autonomous Vehicles have a perfect self driving score.
Joe Average Potata-brain can’t drive as it is. Now they want to add the extra chaos of multiple tons of debris falling from the sky after minor crash bends one of the stabilizer ports out of alignment?
My EV only cost 1.5K
