Is ad hominem your plan here or do you not understand why it’s bad to increase fossil fuel use when we need to be reducing it ASAP? I don’t drive that much, and I try to drive efficiently when I do. I also advocate for moving away from car centricity because of how wasteful it is. Do you?

This is literally a supplier wanting to foster demand for their product regardless of the external impact (in this case, additional environmental pollution all for the sake of profit). This is not something to be celebrated.

No this is bad, because it’s directly intended to increase consumption of gasoline, which is the opposite of what we should be doing.

Remember that Consumer Reports weights infotainment and electronic issues the same as engine or transmission problems.

They literally do not do this.

From their site:

Engine major, engine cooling, transmission major, drive system, electric motor and EV battery problems are more likely to take a car out of service and to be more expensive to repair than the other problem areas. Consequently, we weight these areas more heavily in our calculations of model year overall reliability verdict. Problems such as broken trim and in-car electronics have a much smaller weight. Problems in any area can be an expense and a bother, though, so we report them all in the reliability history charts.

I love watching this shit crumble at the seams lmao

EVs are the future of cars and if you think the continued sales increases year over year aren’t a clear sign of that, just look at China’s auto-market.

Torque steer on a bicycle does NOT sound fun

Turbo badging on an EV?

“Turbo” has been a synonym for ‘fast’ for quite awhile, especially in the tech-space. The CPU in my laptop has a turbo-boost mode that increases clockspeeds.

“Turbo” in Porsche-speak just means it’s the really fast version.

While software can be used to manage traction it will always be reactive in a way mechanical lockers aren’t. The reason a locker is so good for offroading is because the wheels spin at the same speeds, preventing power “leaking out of the system” via wheelslip because the grip of every other locked wheel prevents a single low-traction wheel from slipping.

Independently powered wheels don’t have the proactive traction-management of mechanical lockers and thus are limited to reactive traction-management. That’s not to say independent motors can’t be extremely effective off-road, but mechanical-lockers will be more capable in serious offroading. The physical connection of mechanical lockers work in real-time.

A virtual locker doesn’t work as well as a physical locker offroad because there’s no leverage limiting wheelslip. In a mechanical locker you only get wheelspin when grip is low enough for both wheels to spin, while a virtual locker will get wheelspin when the grip of one tire is surpassed. Per-wheel motors lack this leverage too, making them not as good as a physical locker. A system with mechanical lockers on both axles with a locked center-differential does even better because you’ll only get wheelspin if all four wheels lose traction.

Hey aren’t you the guy who repeatedly spreads anti-EV misinformation?

While you could have an all-wheel drive system with a transfer-case/center-differential in an EV, it would have worse performance in most scenarios coupled with much higher losses. By minimizing the amount of parts the electric motor(s) have to spin, you reduce losses and improve efficiency.

Needing to package drive shafts throughout the length of the car eats into passenger room too, that’s why so many ICE cars have rear transmission-tunnels.

The one scenario I can think of where a center-differential/transfer-case would fare better is with lockers in an off-road situation.

To be honest, it’s very hard to find a similar price/value proposition. Does anyone know of other similar cars?

Used Corvettes

I don’t understand why this comment has so many downvotes, car-centric infrastructure doesn’t suddenly become fine and dandy if the cars are electric. We need to be driving less, and e-bikes are a GREAT way to do that.

Lucid Air Sapphire.

Not only one of the quickest production cars you can buy (only bested by the Rimac Nevera) but also apparently great fun to drive, and incredibly efficient too.