Given how distinctive it is and the short run it’s having, I reckon these will end up as collector’s items.

It’d be nice if it was also cheaper with prices closer in line with internal combustion engine compact crossovers. It’d be nice even if the 2024 prices only managed to stay the same rather than up compared to 2023.

If the goal is to get polluting vehicles out, then this makes sense, but I like Vermont’s implementation a lot more than I like Colorado’s because Vermont’s allows you to apply those funds to electric bikes, car-sharing, and mass transit instead of electric cars/trucks.

Do you have a way to charge at home? What are electricity rates, including time of use rates, and what are gas prices in your local area? How many miles are you putting in on average a day? How often would you need to use public charging? What incentives if any do you qualify for? What segment of the automotive market are you looking at? What is your budget?

EVs can save money, they can even save a *lot* of money compared to its closest ICE competitor, but it depends on those factors above and more so without them the question doesn’t make much sense.

Also, if you want to save money, don’t get a car if you can find a way to swing it. Use mass transit, biking, micromobility (electric bike, electric scooter), etc.

This seems very nicely priced for a bus. Another article on this I saw says deliveries start in Autumn 2025 which seems quite a whiles away.

How cold is the winter you’re driving in?

PHEVs or early BEVs (no hybrid) with smaller capacity battery packs will get hit by winter much harder if it’s really cold and you’re spending energy to initially heat up the vehicle after every time it gets “cold-soaked”. The vehicle has a certain amount of material and space it needs to heat up from an ambient cold temperature and that requires a certain amount of energy over a fairly short amount of time.

Arbitrary example: let’s say it takes 5 kWh to heat up the vehicle from 0 F to a comfortable 70 F. In a 16 kWh battery, that’s going to be a massive percentage of the capacity and the miles in that fairly short amount of time and you’re not going to have much usable range if you started at 31 miles and about a third of it is gone to warm up the vehicle. If you have a battery capacity of 60 kWh and normally 250 miles of range though which is more in line with battery electric vehicles sold today, that 5 kWh would be a small dip relative to the overall range and would still be fine for most trips.

Overused rental car is possible as a factor as well.

Am I right to assume that this is still going to be alternating current at 200-240V? If so, I wonder if there are plans for DC vehicle to vehicle connections at much higher voltage and power levels.

Article says it’s better than RX lease deals which would be its most direct Lexus ICE competitor, so if it takes some sales away from that among diehard Lexus fans, then this is great. For a Lexus owner looking for a daily driver, this does seem like a pretty good way to convert from what might have otherwise been RX drivers.

Have you tried looking up other sources on reliability? These vehicles did get battery recalls, but that’s basically been taken care of already and otherwise don’t seem to have notably bad reliability concerns.

That’s fun! I reckon that when it comes out, the Lucid Gravity in a performance spec would probably be the most direct EV competitor to the Urus.

Essentially, as EVs are currently, they are only clearly “better” in the way OP probably is going towards of more convenient and a better value if you have access to relatively cheap and convenient dedicated home or workplace charging. This dramatically changes the experience of having an EV and that appears to be true at the moment regardless of which country you’re talking about. That is not what the OP has since he has stated there is no possibility of him getting a charger in his building. That’s essentially what this distills down to.

There’s going to need to be work done on some combination of having more public charging, better fast charging, better efficiency, and greater range for the price in order to compare favorably to internal combustion engine competitors when someone does not have dedicated home or workplace charging This is something pretty well understood and agreed upon by many here. Those things are getting addressed though and it is far easier to live with an EV without dedicated home or workplace charging in most places than it ever has been and a massive change from even just a decade ago, and there is no indication that improvements have hit a brick wall.

I’m not sure that last political bit makes much sense. That ban is for 2035 on *new* vehicles and it’s announced well ahead of time so that countries and automakers can prepare for it.

Just have a ground-based launch mechanism for the initial launch of the plane and beam energy to aircraft in certain areas so they have less storage needs in the first place

I’m wondering how it compares to the Cadillac Lyriq given that they’re riding on the same platform and have very similar prices.

Sales seem to point to there not being a slowdown in adoption rate, but rather an increase in total and proportional amounts from previous years. There are individual automakers that seemed to have put out offerings at prices and specs that are probably not doing as well as they hoped, but the overall US EV market seems to be growing.

The way model years generally work in at least the US market is that towards the second half of year X, automakers start rolling out model year X+1 of the vehicle. That’s how it’s been for a long time and I don’t think it’s relevant to any payola scandal.

Among EVs on sale today, the Bolt is on the low end for fast charging and at about the middle for range, so it’s not a great long road trip vehicle for most people. However, it is a great commuter vehicle and would have been a solid choice if you had the level 2 charger (mid-level charging as you put it).

What are some recent good, non-Motor Trend reviews?