That was peak Appstore. Its all trash and scam apps now.

This will never work for a variety of reasons.

• Its going to hurt EV adoption if you have to reserve charge spots, especially for road trippers.
• If you reserve a spot for ~10am and don’t roll in until 10:15am, is the charger not available to anyone for that entire 15 minutes? What if you reserve and don’t show up at all.
• It puts more unneeded dependence on apps.
• If someone pulls in desperate for a charge but they can’t use it because someone with 52% reserved it an hour ago but isn’t there yet, are they just supposed to sit around?

The only solution is to introduce more charging stations. More and more are being built, but solutions like this aren’t going to help.

My work has this setup. Its primarily a EV charging space, but if no EV’s are charging it can be used as a handicap parking spot. This is only allowed because there are other handicap parking spots, so this just offers a surplus if no EV’s are charging.

No. You’re falling for the media hype that happens in every market. There’s always going to be a “next gen” so you’re going to just end up waiting forever for some major development.

Remember 20 years ago when graphene batteries were going to change the future for everything battery powered? Where are they? Solid state batteries aren’t new either, they were first introduced nearly 40 years ago. Any time there’s been a media hype for some “revolutionary” new tech, it’s just been a slow and steady progression instead. Just like how every month for the past 20+ years there’s been revolutionary progress in solar panel technology, yet solar panel efficiency never had a quantum leap, just progression over time.

Its applicable to anything, why by an iPhone 15 now when the iPhone 16 will be better, but why by the iPhone 16 when the iPhone 17 will be better?

Who cares. They’re just upset that their car has less power than yours.

Your flaw is thinking momentum is a force that’s working with the electric motors. It takes constant force to maintain speed. The faster you go, the more force is needed.

Transmissions are needed on ICE cars because they have a specific power band and have a limited RPM range. The transmission allows the engine to propel the vehicle at any road speed while operating within that specific RPM range. In addition to this, the transmission can be coded to shift at certain RPM’s based on load and speed which can increase power or efficiency. But it has nothing to do with being more efficient in general at higher gears.

Electric motors produce the same power and torque regardless of RPM, thus a transmission is not needed. Transmissions in and of themselves contribute their own drivetrain losses, are an additional wear item, and are heavy. So adding a transmission to an electric car would make it less efficient, produce less range, and be less reliable.

Well they’ve been advertising it for years and they’re finally taking orders when interest rates are at an all time high.