Comment by KaiserPro 11 hours ago But they weren’t designed as a commuter car. THey were designed to deliver milk. 1 comment KaiserPro Reply ben_w 11 hours ago I'm saying they couldn't have been designed as commuter cars: "neither the batteries nor the motors were up to being commuter vehicles".Battery tech was way off on price/performance needed for commuting, until around Tesla happened: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-declineIIRC, similar issues with compact powerful electric motors, but I don't have a chart handy for that.
ben_w 11 hours ago I'm saying they couldn't have been designed as commuter cars: "neither the batteries nor the motors were up to being commuter vehicles".Battery tech was way off on price/performance needed for commuting, until around Tesla happened: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-declineIIRC, similar issues with compact powerful electric motors, but I don't have a chart handy for that.
I'm saying they couldn't have been designed as commuter cars: "neither the batteries nor the motors were up to being commuter vehicles".
Battery tech was way off on price/performance needed for commuting, until around Tesla happened: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
IIRC, similar issues with compact powerful electric motors, but I don't have a chart handy for that.