Which looks like a copy of a BMW:
Kia Stinger:
BMW:
To be honest, all cars look much like others if they’ve been designed with air resistance in mind.
It’s just those ugly marque distinctions which make them different (sometimes in a bad way)
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Just be careful if you meet a black Kia driver then.
I think Lewis Hamilton drives a Ferrari, not a Kia.
He has more than one car. Among the collection was an EQC, which he apparently used as a daily driver. Which is not surprising, given one of his other cars is an AMG One.
Thanks for clarifying. I assumed he drove his formula one car to the shops.
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He used to live in Luins. I think he drove a Toyota Supra at the time.
Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle
Just cancelled my preorder for a cybertruck - let’s see how long it takes to get 100 bucks back.
With the quality and build issues, along with the escalating price of insurance on teslas it became a no brainer.
In what country were you planning to use it?
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I preordered it when it first was announced in Switzerland - I was quite hopeful it would arrive… and that it would live up to all the sales hype der fuhrer had made around it.
Now I think the next car will be another ICE (looking at the grenadier) or maybe wait until we go hydrogen…
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That will never happen.
Or rather, we might sooner have fusion-reactors than mass-marketable H2 cars.
Even busses are going electric rather than H2.
I’m starting to sound like a Tesla hater (despite owning one) but what the hell do they have to debut at the Vancouver Auto Show?
Chainsaws?
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That makes sense for coop and migros. There’s a aydrogen refueling station in Hunzenchswil (AG). It makes sense for the trucks that make regular short routes, and start and end their day in the same place.
It would also be cool if farm equipment would run on hydrogen. After all, there’s nothing more predictable and in small radius than working on the same farms.
But, that’s vehicles with very specific tasks. Mass-market cars as rainer_d mentions, I don’t think we will see it.
I think that’s right.
For Migros and Coop, EV trucks make even more sense: their daily travel is pretty limited, they rarely run at night and they indeed start and end their day at the same place.
Building and maintaining a H2 charger is very, very expensive, whereas electric charging stations are rather cheap. You can buffer a lot of the peak-load with a battery pack (which Tesla does).
Hydrogen has a terrible well-to-wheel efficiency and I doubt you could make useful farm-equipment H2-powered. Supposedly, the fuel-cell needs very clean air and has a very expensive intake filter usually - it would fill up quickly…
So much doesn’t add up with H2 - the only ones pushing it are companies that want to continue to exploit their monopoly as fuel-suppliers or those with significant investments in ICE-technology they want people to continue to buy-in until that investment has been completely written off.
Maybe. Then again, I have a cousin working at one of the larger car manufacturers, and his entire team is working on hydrogen as the next fuel.
They start with trucks, as this means they can build the infrastructure on the highways, and then once that’s in place, move down.
My opinion is, it doesn’t really matter what we want - we (in Europe) are being left behind in the innovation sector. Look at the new cars coming out of China… like the new BYDs, which charge as fast as refuelling an ICE car.
If China goes hydrogen, we will too eventually - and they H2 is pickup up pace there…
“Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle”
The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
They are recalling 46,000.
Tesla do not publish numbers for Cybertruck sales in the USA, now a lot of industry observers are saying this is unexpectedly low.
Viable fusion reactors are the stuff of science fiction. H2 cars are just waiting for a hydrogen distribution system - given that the petrol pumps will soon be redundant, there would seem to be a good chance of that becoming a reality