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Yes, this is what I was told at Everything Electric. IM cars were a joint development with IT companies.

You've made it look like a BYD Seal or something with the corner scoops from the snow.

"travelling in a fried out Kombi" what does that mean in the electric age? 🤔

Is this discussion related to the rebound effect, or Jevons Paradox? This is the economic concept that when efficiency improves more gets consumed as it is cheaper to do so rather than usage decreasing.

Fly down low.

The more chargers there and the faster the charge speed the less you need additional battery. Range anxiety will drop as people get more used to EVs. Bigger batteries do seem to correlate with faster charging speeds, though, so I can imagine ending up with "regular" cars being 40-60kWh and...

I think you are imagining that BG are a tech savvy company like Octopus and not a lumbering dozy giant. How did Octopus take on this industry so easily? Because the old players were analogue firms in a digital age. Octopus' founders were making IT systems for other industries before they...

Presumably the HV battery has a cooling circuit which would need some kind of compressor/intercooler?

I think their excuse would be that they have more customers than staff. The process of taking on a whole load of customers is a time-consuming one. This bankruptcy thing happened to us a few times in the old days when anyone could set up an energy company, offer great rates, fail to be able to...

I think we can put this one down as 'user error.' Easily done if it is a twin.

Yeah, though I know what @gazza487 means. One of our buttons was broken when we picked up the car. The working one has something noticeable (albeit not particularly audible) that you feel when it gets pressed. On the broken button you don't feel anything - just pushes in without that feeling...

Black/brown/sludge gold.

Very good point - a used LFP battery will be worth a hell of a lot more than an old fuel tank!

Indeed - a car is eventually going to end up falling to bits and become useless and without value. We are just discussing the question is the exact curve/graph of what others will pay for it in that middle period between new value and scrap value.

Or more likely to compete with the legacy brands and make them look like bad value. Works well for consumers when businesses are fighting for market share, but it isn't good for the investors in the companies that lose a lot of money and possibly even have to give up. Western auto companies...