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Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record

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Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record

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>Like - what do you even need, while driving? Front and rear defrost, mist light, wipers, rear passenger airco are things I miss physical buttons for. Mist light is the most annoying since you can't even use voice control and it's fairly deep in the menu. Same thing for passenger airco.

I'm pretty sure that the brights (are those the same as mist?) are activated through the normal "pull" action on a stick; but I don't live in an area that gets mist with any regularity so it might not have ever come up for me. I've never even heard of a situation where someone needed to turn on defrosters while driving; I've certainly only ever turned it on before driving (and then it stays fine). I can see the rear…

> I'm pretty sure that the brights (are those the same as mist?)

They are not the same and are not activated through the pull action. The only way I've found to turn them on is `car`, quick controls, rear mist lights. Maybe your car doesn't have them but they are mandatory in Europe.

> I've never even heard of a situation where someone needed to turn on defrosters while driving

Ideally not, but have you never started driving and only then realize how bad your vision in the back is? Or maybe you would want to turn it off when the frost is gone.

> I can see the rear passenger airco, but only if you only have rear passengers, since reaching up there isn't going to work.

When you have kids that's something that will happen frequently.

Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record

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Yup, the only place where you can go over 140.

Montana didn't have speed limits until 1999.

Not sure that's quite true. They had "reasonable and prudent", IIRC, which meant that a cop could still write you a ticket for 140. If there was much other traffic around, he might have been justified in doing it.

Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record

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Montana didn't have speed limits until 1999.

Not sure that's quite true. They had "reasonable and prudent", IIRC, which meant that a cop could still write you a ticket for 140. If there was much other traffic around, he might have been justified in doing it.

> They had "reasonable and prudent", IIRC

Isn't that the same guidance as the Autobahn?

Also, I get it for eastern MT, but my mom and step dad were living in Helena at the time, and my step dad drove way too fast for those unstraight mountain roads. It wasn't just traffic that they brought the speed limits back for.

Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record

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The world is such an odd and funny place now. My 2007 Toyota Avalon Touring drives pretty well with none of those 'trinkets'. The utilitarian value of a car seems to be an outlier to a lot of people these days. I wonder if we'll be able to get back to the place where products we manufacture will span decades and commands good value. Electric cars in my opinion should have fewer points of failure but here we are, hank…

I would love to see a minimalist electric car with no air conditioning, no LCDs, cloth seats and hand crank windows.

Dacia Spring nearly gets you there, but even the basic version has electric windows. Possibly some Chinese models would fit this.

Re: Kia EV6 Smashes Tesla's World Record

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what you are describing is a PHEV (plugin hybrid electric vehicle). The Chevy Volt and Toyota RAV4 Prime are examples of that. Those vehicles are intended to address range anxiety, not charging speed. Trying to do it with a Mickey Mouse contraption like a generator in a trailer would likely be inefficient and inconvenient compared to an integrated system like a PHEV. Generators are not as efficient as just getting el…

>they don't try to recharge the battery as that would cost more than just plugging in on a charger. I always assumed they had regenerative braking.

The do, but that doesn’t add all that much back into the battery.
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