Posted on 02/03/2019 12:02:55 PM PST by Yossarian
Edited on 02/03/2019 12:44:05 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
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I believe there are a number of high-end vehicles with flush door handles. Top-trim Range Rovers have motorized flush door handles.
And if one goes over to a Tesla owners forum you get a different picture. Only one complaint about people leaving charging adapters in the snow.
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/
“Oh PLEASE - what car operates PERFECTLY in cold weather”
All of mine do.
Chevy Cruz.
Yes but all those smugs!!! How can virtue-signallers live without them???
Yep, Ford is ditching the Fusion to, at least in the USA.
[Elon Musk is not a Car Guy or Manufacturing guy. I’ve yet to see any Tesla that has body panels fit as well as a Chevy Cruz.]
Ping.
[Of course, there is the issue of water freezing. So an air-cooled engine is probably more reliable.]
During my years living in Alaska I learned that there are no machines that work well when the temps get around -25*F or colder. The first winter I spent in Fairbanks it was -55*F for several days. A vehicle had to be running 24/7 because if it stopped it wouldn’t start again unless covered with a heavy insulated tarp and running a Reddi-heater under the engine for 2-3 hours. My friend’s brand new Suburban would develop flat spots in the tires that would take about a mile to round out again. It takes a lot of work and expense to live in a climate like that! I doubt if there are many electric vehicles in Alaska but there are leftard fools everywhere so its possible.
““Oh PLEASE - what car operates PERFECTLY in cold weather”...All of mine do.”
Well then, Luddite, you are OBVIOUSLY OBLIVIOUS to ‘technology’.
If technology means hype, then, yes, I prefer to remain in the world of common sense.
Do you have a phone number for any of these girls?
Here is something for the Tesla owners to think about in the winter months:
- You start off with a full charge in the morning heading to work, but snow is expected for later in the day.
- After work your battery drain is way more than expected, but you have to get home.
- Then, there is a major traffic jam on the snow covered roads and you sit there watching your “remaining charge” meter drop below 10% and you still have a long way to go.
Your SCREWED.
Next thing you know, your on the side of the road in a snow storm with no power, freezing and waiting for AAA.
Only one complaint — the heater was terrible. Carbon Monoxide if the exhaust system wasn't tight and it didn't work that well. I had to scrape the inside of the windshield as well as the outside. LOL.
You forgot the "< /sarcasm >" tag. Left coasters were BORN out of touch.
“My biggest concern is the cold weather drained my battery 20 to 25 miles overnight”
Lol..... just sitting outside or perhaps in the garage overnight in very cold weather killed off some of his driving range. Does this really happen to Tesla, Prius etc type batteries?
Chevy CRUZ, or VOLT? The all electric Volt has been rumored to suck real bad from the day it was intro’d. The Cruz is just a half decent mid-sized sedan. Howbeit, the Chevy Malibu and Impala are both very attractive, and DO throw shade on the Cruz.
LOL.
I have no animus toward electric cars. I have a Mercury Mariner Hybrid. I really enjoy the car. When others are sitting in traffic burning gas by the tens of thousands of gallons collectively around me, I’m sitting there with my gasoline engine off moving ahead by electric.
Is this going to save the planet? I am not convinced the planet needs to be saved. It’s doing just fine > iMO.
Is it going to reduce energy usage? I’m not convinced of that either. If everyone went electric, it would have to put a massive load on the grid. It costs money to develop and provide electricity too. We’d be swapping out fossil fuels for electric, but then some electric companies burn oil to generate electricity.
I enjoy my vehicle for what it is, and claim no bragging rights other than the traffic dynamic I mentioned earlier. In that one situation, electric makes a lot of sense. If you have hundreds of thousands of vehicls on the road in drive time gridlock, there’s a lot of gas to be saved by having an electric or a hybrid.
I’ve had it for 13 years now. It runs as good as the day I bought it.
It’s a little SUV and on the road I’ve gotten over 34 mpg. Around town I get 26 plus if I’m tuned in to driving carefully for gas mileage purposes.
I don’t think folks should be bothered by electric cars. They’ve come a long way, and I suspect they are going to do a lot better in coming years.
I love tech, and I enjoy watching the electric cars improve. It’s a cool technology.
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