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Electric cars have been in Gran Turismo since…the last time I played Gran Turismo, which was like a decade ago. They are sort of boring to drive, like an RC, they quickly accelerate to a certain speed and then more or less cap out there with virtually no reserve torque so your top speed is dependent on the grade of the road.
I wouldn’t be too concerned about having EVs forced on the American public. Europeans in large cities…quite possibly. The reality is that Americans want wasteful machines to drive around in. Making it electric isn’t going to make it any less stupid to daily an F-250 to a desk job and back. Before we even learn this though we will see the market simply not be able to fill all the segments it does now with ICEs. You can’t trailer four horses across three states on batteries in any way that makes engineering sense. You can’t go on a trip upstate in a Range Rover that has no fucking range, etc. All of this will become apparent as we attempt to go though this.
And the fires. The first high profile celebrity suicide by Tesla will change the industry. When a 700lb LiPo battery goes up in flames while charging in Jay Leno’s garage…people will think twice.
I wouldn’t be too concerned about having EVs forced on the American public. Europeans in large cities…quite possibly. The reality is that Americans want wasteful machines to drive around in. Making it electric isn’t going to make it any less stupid to daily an F-250 to a desk job and back. Before we even learn this though we will see the market simply not be able to fill all the segments it does now with ICEs. You can’t trailer four horses across three states on batteries in any way that makes engineering sense. You can’t go on a trip upstate in a Range Rover that has no fucking range, etc. All of this will become apparent as we attempt to go though this.
And the fires. The first high profile celebrity suicide by Tesla will change the industry. When a 700lb LiPo battery goes up in flames while charging in Jay Leno’s garage…people will think twice.