theluckycountry wrote:OK. Finally some good news on the EV front. This car makes sense and I can see it as a move in the right direction. No I'm not rabidly anti-EV.
Never said you were. Just ignorant about EVs. EV data. The difference between sales going up, and saying they were cratering. I just assumed it was because if a kangaroo was good enough for your parents, by God it is good enough for anyone else who didn't have what it took to graduate high school.
theluckycountry wrote:I believe they have their place, I have just always thought that the brainless American/Euro concept of making them in the image of big sports cars was doomed from the start.
Okay, so you have no experience with EVs themselves, which seems to lead you astray as to exactly what they might be for, how us owners use them, how much they cost, WHY we bought them, etc etc. Now you want to offer your opinion based on the same thorough lack of experience on MARKETING concepts? Do you have any formal marketing experience with....anything?
theluckycountry wrote:The perfect little city runaround
A 4-seater too.
Really? Sounds like my EV.
theluckycountry wrote:Cuts pollution, cheap, and very economical on battery usage I would think.
My Leaf certainly fits the bill as well.
theluckycountry wrote: Both variants are powered by a 41 PS/110 Nm electric motor mounted on the rear axle with the smaller battery (17.3 kWh) having a 200 km range
Well, 41PS converts to about what, 40HP? My Leaf output is 107 HP. Why do you like less power? Afraid of it?
110 newton meters is the equivalent of 80 ft/lbs of torque. My Leaf has 187 ft/lbs. Enough for my wife, so half of that could be satisfactory for the "male" descendants of penal colony folks. It must be the comparison with kangaroo's that makes you scared of more horsepower and torque?
theluckycountry wrote:Charging via a 6.6-kW AC charger to hit a full state of charge (SoC) takes 4 hours. That's nearly household currents. 5kW here in Oz.
The exact current my Leaf accepts as well.
theluckycountry wrote:starting price of RM 52k (Malaysian Ringgits) or 11,000 $US
I paid $8000 US for mine. Lightly used, I can't stand the new car depreciation drop, just for the smell, and a month of driving it before it becomes the used one worth 20% less that I should have bought in the first place.
So you like EVs inferior and more expensive to the EVs we folks here in the land of exceptional buy (3 Leafs on my block alone) why? Because products built in countries with a reputation for only able to do lower quality, less powerful, probably less safe, work than the First World manufacturers? With your compliance with the New Asian Order run by China do the aborigine's call you yellafella?