Electric Vehicles, Hybrids...Battery tech... Land Air and Sea. Let's See 'em.

Is the internal combustion engine doomed to history

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 25.0%

  • No

    Votes: 31 59.6%

  • Not sure

    Votes: 5 9.6%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 2 3.8%

  • ...er... what was the question again?

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Total voters
    52
Single seat electric three wheel car,

I had a very rare car sighting this morning. I was out for a walk with my wife , when this rather egg shaped, small , single passenger vehicle went gliding by me, very silently. I had to go home and scour the internet to see if I could figure out what it was. It turns out that I saw an Electrameccanica Solo ( the prototype no less! ) This was a start up company from British Columbia, who began production in Canada, then moved it to China, then moved production once again to Mesa Arizona. Almost all of the cars that were built in China ( which was most of them ) suffered catastrophic failures, which led to the cars being discontinued. Elctrameccanica even went so far as to buy them back. The first cars that were made in Canada did not suffer from the same failures which explains why I saw one of the early prototypes still running around. The later models, after the prototypes, looked more car like from the front end. It turns out that there is a junk yard in Mesa Az, that has a great big pile of them , waiting to be scrapped.

https://driving.ca/auto-news/industry/electrameccanica-three-wheels-four-buy-back-cancel-production
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It's started...

Lemonade Stock Jumped 17% Today​


  • Lemonade launched an insurance plan offering 50% discounts on miles driven with Tesla's autopilot engaged.

  • CEO Shai Wininger first floated the Tesla FSD discount idea on X in October 2025.
Lemonade is betting that self-driving cars really are safer; if they're not, the company faces significant risk.

The day is coming, you won't be able to afford driving your own car.
Let me rephrase that, few will pay the premium to do something many will no longer want or know how to do.

AI is going to be like living in your parent's house, forever.
 
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Grimly said:
Batteries hidden in the baseboard.
It's a scam, it's always a scam.
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Yeah, if opposing pole magnets could give us "perpetual motion " such as this guy shows, then also being able to power a generator/alternator would be the discovery of all time. Free energy requiring no power source and giving off no pollution. Built to scale it could power the world. Maybe they could build the first powerplant next to that bridge for sale in New York. ;)
 
I was just reading this article about Chevy slashing the prices of its all electric Equinox. They said the dealers just want them off their lots , the article said it was happening nationwide and man they weren’t kidding! I looked them up for sale locally and check this out! First the advertised price, then the window sticker MSRP, then the price breakdown. That price without federal rebates. 😲
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Mailman said:
I was just reading this article about Chevy slashing the prices of its all electric Equinox. They said the dealers just want them off their lots , the article said it was happening nationwide and man they weren’t kidding! I looked them up for sale locally and check this out! First the advertised price, then the window sticker MSRP, then the price breakdown. That price without federal rebates. 😲
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You beat me to it, ram promaster E vans upfitted as local delivery vans are being sold brand new for less than half of list. rough numbers from 60Kbux down to 30. :yikes:
 
gggGary said:
The Giga plant
Hope the plant is smarter than the text to voice AI in the video..
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One problem I can se here is that production systems have continuous flow of parts for building the cars
and now and then unforeseen events takes place like a fire in a suppliers factory
They most likely dont have parts in reserve on some shelf
VOLVO had a fire in the factory producing the wiring loom
It was not possible build cars and later install the loom
So parts was arriving as if assembly happened and " Just in time " production and no place to store it
The metal body stored out in the field
Tornado in Texas or so evolution moves on But the computerization of cars are having problems
expensive maintenance .. impossible correct electric faults
i am not convinced that computerization of the factory is the solution but I have been wrong before.
 
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