I really hope these are as good as they sound. I’d take a decent wagon over an SUV any day, but don’t want to spend 300k aud on an RS6. If they bring the fast ones here for a decent price I’d be one of probably many buyers.
I mean, it’s great that they have long range, but I’d rather have something cheaper that goes about as far as my ICE vehicle does. I use my EV for 95% of my driving already.
All because Americans can’t do math in their heads and get anxiety.
So we carry around 1000lbs of battery for no good reason.
Uhhh BYDs are not sold in America?
Well, the reason is to move the car carrying the battery.
Not exactly sure what you’re on about.
Of course it would be better, if you’d just take a bike, but I don’t want to drive more then approx 50km per bike to get somewhere - and if I have to transport stuff, if would be even less.
Especially in bad weather.And I’m not even American and usually get my groceries by foot
While impressive it really doesn’t make sense to me, driving 10+ hours continuously just isn’t safe. In my world, 300km of real range in freezing conditions and being able to charge 10-80% in <30 minutes is ideal. Three hours of driving and a 30 minute break is what I normally do when driving long distances.
Being able to drive much more then 300km is very useful in places where not a load of chargers exist. Doesnt mean you shouldn’t take any breaks though. Which is the same for normal cars.
Oh absolutely, being able to go further isn’t a negative. But the cars tend to become even bigger than they already are and much more expensive. But I live in Western Europe were charging isn’t a problem, at least not on main roads.
The company says the update brings with it the option of two fresh battery packs, with 102kWh and 122.5kWh offered, providing CLTC ranges of 820-1,036 km (or 509-644 miles ) respectively.
That’s 5 mi/kWh. 5.25 in the larger battery (how does that work?). In that thing? Absolutely no fuckin way.
