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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.


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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would buy it in a second. It ticks every box on my want list. I don't think I'll need another vehicle when it comes out, but hopefully it - or something similar - is available when the time comes.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure about those polypropylene body panels though. Most cars are going to be exposed to the sun, a lot.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Polypropylene is already used for panels for a lot of cars. They seem to hold up.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure, it's used as filler and bumpers a lot. But it's almost always the first thing to deteriorate on the vehicle.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought a Saturn back when they were a thing. I ran that thing into the ground. The panels were not a weakness, and we get a lot of sun where I live, and I didn't have a garage.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And I've owned multiple cars where the plastics just crumbled away. The metal body panels lasted long after.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It all depends on the composite. GM used a polypropylene composites for several models in the 90s. And even after 30 years, the panels are fine. They only return back to steel panels because plastics have higher thermal movement so the fits had large gaps and consumers associated plastic as cheap and inferior as the inital dentless marketing wore off in the mid 2k's.

What your probably refering is ABS composites that manufacturers love using for trim peices. ABS tends to have the stablizers just leech away.

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I love this. Between the Slate with a bed cover, R2/R3, and Telo, there are some cool outdoorsy oriented EVs coming in the next few years that I'm looking forward to.