Is the end of Battery EVs coming?

Jonnycoupe said:
Exactly, its so expensive yet its sold out, yet my mate at Polestar had to change his Polestar 3 order to a 2 due to the delays. RR sport SV is likely to have lost less aswell in the TOC when you come to sell it!

What point are you exactly trying to make. My IPACE is faster than a polestar 3 and amazingly cheaper anyway. RR sport SV at 3.6 to 60 and 180mph is frankly A N O T H E R league and indeed segment altogether. comparing the two is frankly ludacrous! Put down the Polestar Kool-aid Wuhan Clan, its on the same shelf as the Telsa stuff! Turning your brain to mush. 510bhp in an EV is nothing like 635bhp ICE.

Please dont use 'likewise', its pretty embarrassing for you. But then again you roll around in an iX ;)
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Polestar was just one of the 3 examples, it could be any of the £80k to £120k performance SUV’s

My point - I’m struggling to see the purpose of this RR Sport SV, other than price gouge rich people.
It’s a 2.5ton vehicle with McLaren 750s performance parts, engineered for ‘best in class’ off road use, with ‘Apple’ style buzz word branding used in all the marketing, yet will be used purely for school runs and posing around cities.

One of the press cars is running carbon wheels & brakes with off-road tyres fitted :cry:

Will the next version have a rear wing, a venturi effect diffuser, whilst also coming with a front winch and one of those Defender side mounted 2-rung ladders :p
 
Wouldn't touch RR with a barge pole (not that I could afford the SV) given the reliability and insurance issues. Just look at Matt Watsons video that dropped yesterday.

And to the original question, no EV are not coming to an end. Think there will be drastic improvements in the tech over next 5 years
 
Chuk_Chuk said:
The biggest change I see from driverless cars, is a car being able to solve the need of both parties in the household without having to consume time of one party in service of the other party. (There might be a better way of wording that)
For example one party in the household goes to work, they take the car to work and then the car drives itself back home. The other party in the household now has access to the car for what ever they need. Whether that is going to work at a later time or running errands. The car is sent to collect the other from work at the end of the day. One car used by both parties without the need for a person to pick up or drop the other off.

I do not believe that driverless taxis or busses will radically change the service of busses/taxi when compared to what we have now. Hence I do not think that driveless taxi/busses will radically change car ownership.
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Two things.

I want to be able to summon the car by talking into my watch.

The car has to call me Michael... Even though that's not my name.
 
SDK^ said:
Polestar was just one of the 3 examples, it could be any of the £80k to £120k performance SUV’s

My point - I’m struggling to see the purpose of this RR Sport SV, other than price gouge rich people.
It’s a 2.5ton vehicle with McLaren 750s performance parts, engineered for ‘best in class’ off road use, with ‘Apple’ style buzz word branding used in all the marketing, yet will be used purely for school runs and posing around cities.

One of the press cars is running carbon wheels & brakes with off-road tyres fitted :cry:

Will the next version have a rear wing, a venturi effect diffuser, whilst also coming with a front winch and one of those Defender side mounted 2-rung ladders :p
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They need to drop the off-road marketing. No one off roads in a RR beyond maybe a slightly inclined field. They have got far to heavy and complicated.
 
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Jonnycoupe said:
If anyone takes marketing advice from the Masher they really are screwed.

So a sold out car needed advice from Masher cos he’s confused…alrighty then.
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People buy Nissan Jukes by the ship load. Doesn't mean they are good.

Also the theft problem isn't exactly RR sales, or used values right now :D

Maybe they should market some proper security.
 
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Jonnycoupe said:
Means the marketing works, which means it doesn’t need changing….

Need more than hill descent control to manage a thread going down hill Mashing
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Yes but the Juke doesn't hold the title of most stolen AND least reliable. That reputation is going to take its toll eventually.
 
Jonnycoupe said:
If anyone takes marketing advice from the Masher they really are screwed.

So a sold out car needed advice from Masher cos he’s confused…alrighty then.
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To be fair it's easy to sell out something with incredibly limited supply so sold out isn't necessarily the win you're thinking of. Obvs that may not apply here!
 
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