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Awesome creativity and I'm guessing just as good (if not better) build quality as the real thing1

I have an R2 reservation but really waiting for R3. I'll give the iX3 a few production years to work out the gremlins and then it is likely going into the stable.

ICE vehicles are so inefficient it should be criminal. People don't appreciate that ICE vehicles are also impacted by cold weather, but they are so inefficient to start with, you don't see the hit as much as you would on an extremely efficient electric vehicle. That inefficiency comes at a...

Pay the man! IX3 is going to be a huge hit. It already is in Europe. I think people are likely to shop both but the buyer bases are slightly different. The iX3 is more refined but less capable. It will be interesting to watch.

You are basing a lot of your annoyance with how much Rivian has continued to develop iterations past Gen 1. When you were in your shiny Gen 1 and "king of the hill" so to speak, I am guessing you didn't feel this way. Rivian needed to continue to refine and improve their vehicles in order to...

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?