With non-answers.OrientExpress wrote:No I’m answering your questions despite your ignorance of the topic.
I'll ask again:
Why are tax credits not included ?
Why are fuel savings not included ?
With non-answers.OrientExpress wrote:No I’m answering your questions despite your ignorance of the topic.
Ok my clueless friend, tax credits are not included because they are a temporary entitlement, and fuel savings are irrelevant to this measure’s definition.SageBrush wrote:With non-answers.OrientExpress wrote:No I’m answering your questions despite your ignorance of the topic.
I'll ask again:
Why are tax credits not included ?
Why are fuel savings not included ?
Friend ? NoOrientExpress wrote:Ok my clueless friend, tax credits are not included because they are a temporary entitlement, and fuel savings are irrelevant to this measure’s definition.SageBrush wrote:With non-answers.OrientExpress wrote:No I’m answering your questions despite your ignorance of the topic.
I'll ask again:
Why are tax credits not included ?
Why are fuel savings not included ?
Not a professional fool, that is certain.Who do you think you are fooling ?
It would be fairly easy/cheap to redesign ICE to get 900 miles on a fuel tank that was twice as large. Almost no one is interested. Except for some pickup owners. Who are likely some of the last to be interested in a BEV.OrientExpress wrote:I have a nine year old GTI that routinely gets 425-450 miles to a tank, so it’s not unreasonable to demand a BEV to do the same.
I have to disagree that BEV travel is like road trips from the 50s. I now have a Tesla model 3 and after 11,000 miles I find it a modern highway cruiser. The battery easily outlasts my bladder and the Tesla Superchargers have not let me down.OrientExpress wrote:The only issue here is that the situation that the author dwells on and makes the central thesis of the article (Slow than desired charging) is essentially limited to less than a thousand LEAFs in the US, and of that universe there is probably less than 10% that would ever be in this situation."Very balanced article. The writer is obviously an EV advocate and LEAF fan but she does not gloss over the limitations that come with tripping an EV without a TMS.
The other issue that I see is the obsessive dwelling on battery temperature on the 2018 cars. The arguments are based on assumptions from earlier versions of the LEAF regarding the 18s LEAF battery durability and its normal operating temperature. A quick scan of the owners manual would clear that up.
The real story is that long-distance travel for any BEV, TMS or non-TMS equipped, is still just like road trips from the 1950s and 60s. Road trips from that era and for modern BEVs is slow and full of surprises.
If you don't have the discipline and patience that is required for the pitfalls of this sort long distance travel in a BEV, then stop whining about it. This same story has been repeated ad nauseam by Tesla, BMW, Kia, Bolt owners since BEVs started their resurgence this decade. It's always the vehicles fault that the trip is a real pain.
Having poor judgement, being impatient and not taking responsibility for one's actions is not a vehicle defect.
Is 1% of Tesla Model 3 owners "many" ?OrientExpress wrote:Thanks for your observations. Many of your fellow Tesla Drivers do not share them, but some do.