Re: Sci-fi solar EV never needs to plug in for a recharge

Up to. I fell for that once. A scratch off from a car dealer. I won the $1000 prize. I got there and they gave me a $5 gift card. Read the fine print. The $1000 prize is worth up to a $1000. They gave away a lot of gift cards one of which was worth a $1000. I don't see how that builds trust to get someone to purchase a car from you.

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Wanderer<dont
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They have raised $133 million. Not bad.

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john larkin

They claim earlier in the article that the motors can do 0-60mph in 4s. The body shell will be light, the batteries and passenger(s?) less so.

A few paragraphs further down it claims 0-100mph in 4s which might be a bit risky in something which looks more like a three wheeler flimsy toy.

40 mile daily commuting range might work OK in the semi tropics where there is a decent amount of sunshine and sunny days.

One problem with al modern cars is that they have become so electronics based that even a trivial bump can cause a huge bill. More so with ones that have batteries in hidden compartments in the chassis subframe.

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Martin Brown

My Chevy Volt's charge controller had to be replaced under warranty at

70k, BGA solder joint cracking issues, for whatever reason known to be particularly problematic on the 2017 MY.

New England's "high-quality roads" probably didn't help.

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bitrex

Old England's roads are full of potholes too :(

They only really fix them when someone breaks an alloy wheel on one!

Road maintenance is typically yellow spray can paint around the hole and about 2 years for someone to actually fill it in (unless a damage claim occurs and then it is fixed within a couple of weeks). Even so it is a bodgit and scarper job stamping down some wet tar mix into a wet puddle.

We got lucky - one of our local roads was used for the start of "Tour de France" in Yorkshire a few years back and so that route got properly repaired to avoid catastrophic accidents.

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It would have been very bad to see the peloton crash and burn on TV the first bit of semi-derelict road they encountered.

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Martin Brown

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