Oh, you’ll still be able to do that. The car will be a lot smaller though…
My car is already small. 2018 Honda Civic Si.
I’ve mostly owned small cars. I have a European taste in daily drivers for the most part. Small, 4-cylinder, manual transmission, light weight, with just enough power to have fun and enough economy not to break the bank.
When someone releases a compact EV truck, I’ll buy one of those to be a daily driver and I’ll have a small sports car as my ICE vehicle.
I’ve only owned two vehicles that I would consider large.
98 Town Car (had for a while but sold because a guy offered me more than twice what I had in it; regret that decision to this day it was an awesome ride)
04 Yukon XL (current tow vehicle I share with my granddad; we pay 50% each of the maintenance on it and 50% each on insurance)
I’m actually a very efficient minded car owner. Every other vehicle has been a compact car or a compact truck. 01 Nissan Frontier, 98 Corolla, 00 Celica, an 87 Toyota Hilux. My Trans Am And the two mustangs I’ve had over the years were mid sized.
I’ve always bought for my needs and not much more. Every car has an intended purpose.
Oh, that’s just adorable.
Look upon your future and despair 
That is awful. Center of gravity is terrible; pulling into a hard corner with the throttle down will flip it easily.
I will put my fat ass on a 250cc motorcycle before I drive that.
This is a micro car (sold as Kei car in Japan; Honda won’t bring them over here for some ungodly reason) that I would buy in a heart beat.
66 glorious horsepower 660cc engine mated to a six-speed manual. Mid engined. 55mpg highway about 40 in the city. Can be slung around corners easily.
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Well, it’s a good thing that max speed is 18 MPH then.
Oh, you dear, sweet thing. Here is your… ‘motorcycle’.
Not when a 250cc Yamaha V-Star only costs 800 bucks on the used market.
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In all seriousness i don’t understand why Honda won’t bring the S660 to the states.
They imported the Beat (the predecessor to the S660) back in the 90s. I drove one at a Honda car and coffee once. The thing was hilariously fun to drive despite only having 45 horsepower and being tiny as hell.
I weigh 220 and I’m about 5’ 11”. I fit inside of it relatively comfortably. It was snug but comfortable once I arranged myself.
Like come on Honda. I will be at the dealership saying “take my damn money” if you brought the S660 over. There’s some of us Americans who love tiny Kei cars.
Especially once the warranty is out and I give it a real good tune and install a bigger turbo. About 110 horses should be able to come out of that 3 cylinder.
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They are discontinuing the S660.
Your chariot awaits.
Eh maybe we can fix it. I’m assuming it’s electric.
Nothing a hotter inverter and a more “tightly packed” lithium cell battery can’t fix.
If I had the extra money I’d love to do a Chevy Spark EV build. Those cars are NUTS. The electric motor puts out 415 ft lbs of torque. For production GM put a governed torque limiter that limited their output to about 200 ft lbs of torque. Ya know so it would actually keep its tires longer than a mile.
But it all it takes is a flash on the PCM and tada. You’ve got a 415 ft lbs FWD sub compact that will shred the front tires the moment you mash the accelerator. Even better you can do an aftermarket mod for the battery pack. You rebuild it with newer high density cells. Which nets you extra range (they only do about 80 miles stock) and even more power!
There will still be a place for car modding in the EV future. And it will be hilarious and fun.
Your spirit is irrepressible 
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A lot of electric car fires here. During the hurricane, I watched my car floating in the garage from the attic where we had taken shelter. It can’t be moved as there is no access on my street yet.
Nice to watch your house flood from storm surge then burn down.
We turned our main breaker off even though electricity was restored just today. Salt water, sand and mud do not make it safe for using electricity just because power was restored.
I can’t even imagine the nightmare of evacuating in an electric car. For anyone who has never had to go through an evacuation, it isn’t a pleasant experience. The stress of not knowing if you are going to be stranded because a charging station is down or people are lined up for miles would be a nightmare.
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Who is “they”? The people sold on EVs?
No communal housing for me. Mass transit either.
The sooner we vote these authoritarian idiots out of power the better.
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We were oil independent until the dementia riddled Fool took office and began hindering oil drilling at every opportunity. Cheap gas everywhere and even exporting some of it.
Now he goes begging hat in hand to Venezuela. 
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Covid.
…and you just got spanked with your own arrogance. Now run along. 
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There are several parts to this that make it a complete picture. One is the battery and it’s range, one is the car and what it’s maximum charging rate is and one is the charger itself and how much of a charge it’s capable of giving. As our technology improves each must remain compatible and they do not making these components obsolete and unsupported by the manufacturer after it’s legal requirement to do so.
Tesla has taken each of these components to an all new level and primed the American pump to at least consider EVs.
How?
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The unprecedented collapse in worldwide mobility as a result of lockdowns and travel restrictions in March and April 2020 slashed oil demand by over 20 million b/d, or 20% of total demand. We expect global oil demand for 2020 as a whole to decline by 8.1 million b/d, wiping out six years of growth
On the supply side, cuts to capital expenditures and specific project delays will lead to a reduction in non-OPEC (non-shale) production well into the mid-2020s and have even longer-lasting repercussions if producers require higher price signals relative to project breakevens to commit to new supply.
Still recovering. Less than 2 years since the vaccine came out.
Ukraine stuff made it worse. Uncertainty. Banks aren’t going to hurry and loan oilmen a bunch of money when Putin could fall out of a window tomorrow.
Saudi Arabia and Venezuela didn’t have COVID?
What does that have to do with where the oil is coming from?
