The Boring Future

[Mike Self]

41 minutes ago, GasProcessor said:

take a 2002, throw an electric motor in it, throw in a battery that gives about 100 miles of range, and then enjoy the amazing parts of owning a 50 year old BMW without much of the headaches of owning a 50 year old BMW. The range isn’t much, but most of these cars don’t get driven that far from home base anyways. 

More than a few of us (still) take long trips in our 02s...Our Ohio to Arkansas (and return!) caravan to Mid America covers a bit over 1600 miles round trip...a 100 mile range isn't gonna help very much.  Nor will it to the much shorter (800 miles round trip) to Vintage and back.  Think I'll stick with my 1961 design M10 ICE engine to get me there and back...but that's just me.

 

mike

[conkitchen]

48 minutes ago, Mike Self said:

..... Think I'll stick with my 1961 design M10 ICE engine to get me there and back...but that's just me.

 

mike

 

 

Oh the Forestry! 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 24 by conkitchen

[calw]

5 hours ago, Zak said:

 

The process of producing electric cars, including lithium batteries and all the plastic, is responsible for more pollutants than the entire life cycle of an economical gas combustion automobile such as a Toyota.

 

 

And astronomically less green that continuing to drive an already existing ICE vehicle, which has it's ecological cost of production already spent with no refunds allowed. 

 

Ignoring how green EV's really aren't, the govt. mandates to force EV's have no matching mandates or even a sketchy plan to provide the energy and infrastructure needed to power them.  Perhaps we'll all sit home except on the days when we're allocated electricity to charge them?

[Son of Marty]

15 minutes ago, calw said:

the govt. mandates to force EV's

Well the government can mandate what it wants but the free market will provide what's best for it, after all the US signed the treaty of the meter in 1875 making us the 3rd country to go to the metric standard.

[JohnS]

I know I'm a little late to the party, but I'm going green today...

 

Thank you Steve and the FAQ for the cool shirt!

 

Edited March 25 by JohnS

[Son of Marty]

This looks pretty boring. Took them all of 40 feet to do it.

[Zak]

1 hour ago, JohnS said:

know I'm a little late to the party, but I'm going green today...

 

Thank you Steve and the FAQ for the cool shirt!

 

That looks like an Irish themed 02 T-shirt.

[tech71]

I might consider an electric ride as long as I had an 02 standing by, just in case.

Not really, pretty skeptical about the actual practicality of it all.

Now, if you had a micro black hole as your battery, you would have something.

Edited March 25 by tech71

[TobyB]

10 hours ago, Blue-2002 said:

Well, let's see... it has 4 wheels, 4 doors, a windshield, a hood, a trunk, etc... yep, looks like a car to me.

 

Just because you don't like the way it looks doesn't mean it's not a car.

 

Try not to be such a grumpy old man... now get off my lawn!

...but my car doesn't look like an anal suppository, and most electrics tend to...

 

or the face of something that's just had an anal suppository administered.

 

What's funny is to watch the newest generations of ICE cars trend toward that same look...

 

BTW, I tend to agree- BEV is not a 100% solution.  But a 72% solution now is far better than what we HAVE been doing.

 

t

was once quite excited about an electric Focus until it turned out to cost more than an RS and not

actually have the real- world range to do his 60 mile freeway commute in the winter...

[JohnS]

12 hours ago, Zak said:

 

That looks like an Irish themed 02 T-shirt.

Shamrock Rally that happened on St. Patrick's day.  I must have had a few too many Guinness' yesterday when I posted that 🙂

[ray_]

1 hour ago, JohnS said:

Shamrock Rally that happened on St. Patrick's day.  I must have had a few too many Guinness' yesterday when I posted that 🙂

The internet never forgets!

 

[conkitchen]

8 minutes ago, ray_ said:

The internet never forgets!

 

that and our wives  

[AustrianVespaGuy]

We recently got my wife an EV6 and while it does look a *little* bit goofy it's at least a very beautiful green color!  I actually quite like the thing; it's perfect for her since all she really ever does is commute with it, and it's also really good for the super short trips where for a normal car it would just be 2 cold starts and never get warmed up.  And frankly with the 2002, E30, E39 M5, and minivan, I don't really mind NOT having as much standard maintenance to worry about for her car!

 

All that said, I still say *most* pickups are dumb and the Tesla pickup is extra-dumb. . .

[AceAndrew]

19 hours ago, conkitchen said:

 

 

Oh the Forestry! 

 

 

 

I prefer Greta's oil company, need to start pulling some of my crypto profits and putting them here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkhB4VTm1E

 

Edited March 25 by AceAndrew

[JohnS]

I may not be on the EV car thing yet, but I'm all over these for camping "glamping" in the 2002.  

 

You've got to keep dem coldies cold.  That's important... and the food...

 

I see a rear seat delete in my future   My camping buddy of 40+ years just bought one of these for his Toyota Tundra and now I want one...

 

 

 

Edited March 25 by JohnS