Comments by "" (@Wingnut353) on "Auto Focus" channel.

  1.  @enigmabey  G1 2000 Honda Insight has charge bar indicator and mpg indicator as a bar... it makes driving very gamified. If you don't pay any attention at all you'll be around 60-65mpg... but if you do you can get up around 70-75 under the right conditions or more.
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  2. The one thing I see that would not fly is the cup holders, cup holders in my commuter car MUST, not have nooks and crannnies, MUST be removable for cleaning. and preferably do not have a piano finish that shows fingerprints and smudges. All the other stuff.... seems great becasue it does't detract from it being a car. The interior door handles are pretty neat. The G1 honda insight definitely gamifies effiiency... and it does it quite well. You should definitely get up with people that have iconic cars and drive those too not just the new and fancy.... you know just for some perspective. The G1 Insight also has a 5spd transmission in a hybrid... which is quite fun.
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  3. I dunno I just pull my 2000 honda insight up to a gas station an put 10 gal in it in about 90 sec and I'm good for about 550-600 miles depending on the time of year (winter/summer fuel etc... ethanol content %).... and on top of that I USE LESS ENERGY to get from A to B than pretty much any EV on the road today.... with a Lithium pack upgrade i plan to install next year or so, it should be even more efficient (higher MPGe than a tesla or pretty much any EV) and I can charge the plug in hybrid pack at home off solar (so I am not using grid power). Yes it's quirky, yes it only has enough power to get up to speed at an acceptable rate its no sports car, yes it is a 5spd (yeah its a hybrid with a manual transmission), yeah the wheel skirts make people think you are george jetson... but the infrastructure is great, the car is still one of the most reliable cars on the road and many of these things are at over 500k miles and still going. I dunno an EV that burns through expensive tires twice as fast as my cars cheap tires, and 61% or so of it's power is CO2 heavy natural gas or goal power generation.... doesn't motivate me to buy one. It isn't just the charger infrastructure that is the problem its the weight, rare earth mining complexity and energy sources that are all the problem. The grid cant' sustain all the superchargers that would be needed to fulfull the typical EV pipe dream either.
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