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Congrats on the 100K! I LOVE the Old School reference - RIP Blue - hopefully your Blue will have many more miles ahead of him...

You raise some valid points. The i3 REx limited when the range extender could turn on because they were trying to classify the vehicle as Zero emissions to meet strict CARB requirements. For those of us OG i3 owners, we know you can literally code the i3 (using a bluetooth dongle and an app)...

Oil change once a year. No emissions testing because you have a motorcycle sized engine and motorcycles typically don't undergo emissions testing. Yes gas is involved, but really only when you are on the highway which is typically the 20% use case scenario. You have an EV that when needed, can...

Tell that to the Chinese who have dominated the global EV market and the Chinese consumer can't get enough EREVs even though China can build the cheapest BEV in the world. I own one of the first EREVs ever built - the BMW i3s REx. Since the engine in an EREV is never used for propulsion, the...

What the market develops is called EREV vehicles that combine a small to medium size battery with a small efficient ICE that only acts as an electricity generator to replenish the battery. It is still an electric vehicle with electric propulsion. This gives you the benefit of using the smaller...

You are assuming the only thing that buyers are looking at when evaluating BEVs and ICE vehicles is highway range. That just isn't the case. ICE vehicles have an advantage in terms of convenience of not having to stop to "refuel" as often - depending on the ICE vehicle. There are plenty of...

How is it that we don't have this 500 mile BEV yet millions of BEVs that don't meet those standards keep getting sold every year? You don't by a BEV if your primary use case is 4+ hour driving without stopping. Like I said the average driver stops every 2-2.5 hours. That translates to...

A 500+ mile range BEV is completely unnecessary and in fact the opposite of what anyone should want with an exception for very specialized use cases (like towing). That would require a very large, dense, and heavy battery pack which would be less efficient. So for the typical 80 percent use...

Last time I checked, every BMW electric vehicle tested by Edmunds either met or exceeded stated BMW range estimates so I'm not sure what the hullabaloo is about BMW exaggerating their range estimates. https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-consumption-epa-vs-edmunds.html

I don't need to be an insider to use common sense. If you want to counter, provide an OEM that doesn't leave a buffer. I'll wait.

No car company is giving you access to 100% of your NMC HV battery.

You can't charge your EV battery to 100% - that is a myth. A portion of the capacity is locked away by the OEM as a buffer. I have been charging my BMW i3 to 100% for the last 5 years. The HV battery has a total capacity of 42.2 kWh total but only 37.9 kWh usable (net) capacity. So even when...

But....How many frunk magnets? Should I wait for Gen2? Does the sound system stink?

@ OP you need an option that reads: I am waiting for an R3x so it won't matter...

They built an EV from the ground up in 2012 and also built an entire factory to produce it (with 100% renewable energy). Yes, it was built out of carbon fiber, and it only ever had a maxiumum range of 155 miles - but it was the best city car ever made and Munro LOVED it and called BMW...

If this was April 1st, I would be giving Rivian their flowers but it clearly is not. The color scheme is giving me flashbacks to my 95 Kawasaki KLR 650 and not in a good way!

In China, the government is incentivizing industry to lean forward in terms of tech and reducing their dependency on foreign fossil fuel. Especially since they corner the market in rare earth materials that go into batteries. In this country we have disincentivized industry to lean forward...

Less about that specific issue and more about Apple not giving you enough control to customize the phone experience. Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, aka the preeminent tech reviewer of the last 20 years on YouTube carries an iPhone for testing purposes but uses his Android phone as his daily phone...

They will lobby hard for whatever puts them in the best financial position. That is the nature of companies that are for profit especially in an industry that is ripe with competition. Margins are getting smaller, labor and costs are getting higher. US OEMs can't compete with China on EVs and...