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Did they all forget about the Canadian province of Newfoundland?

This is all empty hype. 1.5MW chargers!?! Where are these power plants coming from!?! This would cost a fortune in North America….we need more government support!

Strange comment when GM has been such a big player. Unless you think they’re going to drop their EV lineup….?!

As always, with all of this car tech stuff, my question is: don’t we already have exactly this in our pockets? We’re all being sold the same thing we already have — the same computer, AI ability, music player, personal assistant, you name it…….but you still need your phone to call people...

GM has a secondary storage business that sells bidirectional chargers and V2H equipment including storage….it’s called GM Energy, they have a webpage

I just want to ensure we all realize and understand the distinction here. Manufacturing in North America means paying North American wages. If those US-based companies could pay China labour rates, they would; and it BYD was forced to manufacture in North America, their cars wouldn’t be nearly...

Curious if you’ve looked into that innovation further. My takeaway was that this feature required 1MW chargers. That seems like a marketing-headline feature set that is effectively useless. To my knowledge, here in North America 350kW chargers are still surprisingly rare, apparently because they...

Agreed. 11.5kW would be mostly fine for 97% of needs. I was getting a ~102kWh EV (the Lyriq) and wanted to really futureproof at the time.

$1000 for 80ft of wiring, 100A sub panel, and install?

Yeah. At the end of the day to try and get accurate $$ and charging time calculation purposes it probably makes sense to add a buffer — treat a 170kW battery like a ~185kW battery. YMMV. To get a 19.2kW charger I needed a new panel, ~50ft of that expensive wiring, and a new service line from my...

Exactly. Well the Ford Lightning implementation is just piss poor anyway — towing results in like 30-50% percent f an already small range, so yeah you’re stopping to charge like every 1.5-2hrs or so. Silverado is probably more like 50-70% range reduction for towing, like the Cybertruck? So...

Also keep in mind that there are still efficiency losses with electric charging — it’s not nearly as bad as gasoline, but it’s there. You should likely add 10% to the battery size to account for how much electricity-in it will actually take to charge it. Edit: note most chargers are either...

Is that a joke? I’m pretty sure that Level 1 charging would take about a week to fully charge this truck, right? 1.4kW Level 1 charging, and a 170kWh battery pack — and assuming that’s going to require closer to 200kWh with charging efficiency losses…..you’re likely looking at a half-day to...

You seem like you’re living in a fantasy land.

The Chinese are profitable on EVs? You mean with insanely low hourly manufacturing wages and absolutely wild government-backed industry subsidies? There are dozens of Chinese EV car companies that spring up every year and disappear the next……”profitable” is quite an argument.

I would recommend not getting a cheap e-bike, and spending the money on a normal pedal bike instead. $2000 will get you a very fine pedal bike that you don’t need to worry about charging. There’s nothing wrong with e-bikes — I personally love the challenge of pedalling myself on a slightly...

Hah, going to $5k USD? How about starting around $5k? Bike industry prices have crashed hard over the past year or so, but a “high-end carbon mountain bike” will still be between $5k-10k and the e-bike variant will likely be 6k-11k. My mountain bike was $9.5k new. I got it barely used from a...

Is that downhill or uphill incline? I hit my local trails this morning and turned on Strava (which so don’t normally use) just to check this — I hit a max of 37.9km/h at the end of a short jump line on dirt forest singletrack, and 48.2km/h on an open dirt singletrack transfer path through a park...

Most readers here (including the reviewer) seem to be completely ignorant about pedal bikes. A bargain-bin drivetrain, cheap China-made components that likely won’t have viable replacement parts when the time comes, heavy as lead, and completely outdated bike geometry from 15 years ago (they...

Honestly looks like a hunk of cheap junk. Keep saving your money a little longer and get something more useful.