My Bolt has a resistive heater like you’d plug in to warm up a room. I’ve watched it use energy via Torque and I’ve seen it up to 3.5 or 4 kW. I preheat my car while it’s plugged in before I leave for work. It uses the heater settings it had when I last turned the car off.

Other cars have a heat pump and use waste heat from other systems.

With the temperature at like 45F the other day, my Bolt’s transmission coolant reached about 110F while driving and the battery was in the 40s-50s. It would be a pretty slow warm up if all I had was a heat pump (but I just have the resistive heater instead).

A bad 12V battery on an EV shouldn’t kill the car if it’s already running. It’s just like an ICE where it’s needed to start the car and then the alternator/traction battery is supposed to charge the battery and maintain a voltage for the 12V system. In an ICE, it turns the starter. In an EV, it engages the contactors for the traction battery.

I did have a car die once while driving. If I turned on the headlights it would die. That’s because the alternator was bad and not charging the battery.

I think the first time I ever test drive a car was about 20 years ago and it was a Kia Rio. The salesman couldn’t stop telling me how shitty some other car company’s cars were and had nothing to say about the Rio.

An article posted about a month ago here showed that the break-even point is about 15k-20k miles. So driving an ICE from new to 10k miles is cleaner than driving an EV from new to 10k. But the EV beats the ICE from 15k-20k onward.

“remains king”… But steadily falling in market share over time, but that doesn’t fit the “Tesla numba one” narrative.

It’s pretty easy to make a small, high power electric motor and they can be easily synchronized or adjusted for traction control. It frees up space where a drive shaft would go to instead put the battery there.

Toyota Supra

About 300 of them

Mitsubishi 3000GT

2 of them.

and even the aforementioned 2006 A4 Cabriolet Quattro

1 of them.

C4C was bad for specific reasons, but the paranoia of “zomg! think of all the classic cars that got smashed” is debunked nonsense.

For the most part,

For the most part, the cars that got turned in and junked were run-of-the-mill cars.

Not to mention that the emissions it took to produce the EV still need to be offset,

I saw an article posted on here within the last few weeks that an EV beats a new gas car on emissions by ~15k miles driven. In other words, the break even point for a normal commuter’s driving requirements is about 12-18 months.

You’re looking at a few years of driving an ICE before you’re behind a new EV plus driving the same distance. That makes it better for the environment to replace an ice now with a BEV, because you’ll be contributing less to emissions in about 18 months or so.

I like how there’s a thread on the Fisker sub about how it’s fine to lose 2 CAO in about a month and to be late on filing financial data with the NYSE. Maximum copium. Meanwhile the Fisker investor sub is all-in on “it’s over, isn’t it”.

Fisker needs new leadership. The Fiskers have killed one iteration of Fisker Automobile company and they look like they’re about to kill a second. Maybe another company will buy their IP and actually build these things instead of outsourcing it.

I wonder if Steve Burns of Lordstown Motors is going to try the same thing. He killed Lordstown but profited from it by getting out before it died and then bought the IP for pennies on the dollar.