Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM

Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by kennywinker on Saturday September 26, 2020 @07:41PM (#24603037)

I already solve this problem on the regular, since I live in an urban area but do not own a car. There are car coops and car share programs that make renting a vehicle incredibly painless. Not hard to imagine a world where there are in-the-city cars and inter-city cars that are designed quite differently.

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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by kennywinker on Saturday September 26, 2020 @08:07PM (#24603159)

From your tone I can tell you're not listening, but the car coop in my city has clean well maintained cars that are all less than 5 years old. The car share app has a fleet of prius v's that are in even nicer shape than the coop's cars.

But how often would you need a vehicle that goes +40mph to take your kids somewhere? It'd only be useful for drives where you'll be outside of the city for long enough to make the lower speed matter - since for city driving the limit is almost always traffic and stoplights not your vehicle's top speed.

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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by kortilla on Sunday September 27, 2020 @02:41AM (#24604698)

Op was being an asshole but not wanting to share cars with the population at large is a thing whether it’s “a dirty hippie coop”, a regular rental car, or the backseat of a Lyft.

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Re:Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM by arcticbull on Sunday September 27, 2020 @02:01AM (#24604552)

Indeed, there’re no more of a “dirty hippy car coop” than Enterprise is lol.

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