That’s amazing but I think you’re in the minority

I think machine compatibility plays a huge role, some machines do mostly ‘just work’ while others are a pain. It also definitely requires some tinkering, though mostly on setup or on the first week or two in my experience.

Also, ymmv and a lot of people swear by them but I’ve never had good luck with Ubuntu based distro, they’ve always been super buggy with hard to track fixes for me. I like fedora a lot better and it similarly has decent (though not nearly as extensive) community support for weird bugs, but I know people swear by many things.

Yeah, I’ve had one hardware glitch that support sent me a detailed video how to fix by resetting the mainboard within a few hours of writing them, fixed it within 10 minutes. Other than that any issues I’ve had are linux-funkiness, like odd sound profiles on the speakers that I could fix myself, and have been gradually taken care of through updates along the way.

That’s pretty disingenuous, the Hyundai ionic 6 is either the second or third fastest charging (km/minute) EV on the market and costs twice as much as the most affordable non-chinese EVs. I’m an advocate for mass ev adoption, but to pretend that real issues don’t exist hurts the movement. Battery capacity doesn’t necessarily need to increase imo, but all cars need the charging speed of Hyundai/Tesla or better before these types of trips are reasonable.

In a 2023 Chevy Bolt here’s what the same trip looks like:

It’s not just evacuation, it’s a sudden illness or death in the family that means that I have to drive 7-12 hours on very short notice, which has happened to me twice in the last 5 years. I daily drive an EV but to pretend that I don’t sometimes need more range than it has and can easily compensate for (lack of charging infrastructure in rural areas, charging adding 4 hours to a 12 hour drive unless you drive a 50k+ car or a tesla) is ridiculous. Tbh I think the 260 miles of my bolt is more than enough for me if it charged like a Tesla/Hyundai and there were more chargers in West Virginia

Why are they only releasing SUVs? Such a PITA

I can see it being useful for students or the types of professionals that can use an iPad as a travel laptop, so you have this and your phone instead. Seems pretty awful for almost any other use case though

I’m in this boat and got a bolt, though I wish it were lower. And that they kept making it.

No, but it does play a pretty significant role in how much influence they have to control AI

Looks like they’ve indicated that only the larger EUV will be offered. Unless you consistently have tall adults in the backseat or need the extra quarter inch of clearance regularly it’s a worse car in every way, but it’s pricier and gets higher sales margin so of course it’s the one they keep.

Just in case there was any doubt, the data shows 2024 as the warmest, with 2023 and 2025 competing for second.

Personal experience but I’ve found that Ubuntu breaks far more easily if I’m doing anything nonstandard, and doing nonstandard things is the whole reason I’m on Linux. Probably this is because of snaps, but as a new user it’s hard to tell where things were installed and how. Switched to fedora and had a lot more success and didn’t go back, so maybe as a power user I’d be able to figure it out more, but not worth it imo.

Gosh, even the sunroof is studded in their logo.

Also, aren’t shooting breaks by definition 2-doors? This is just a wagon.

I’ve seen a few in NC/SC, but I think there’s a plant there

Or like lawnmowers and mopeds, which typically have unfiltered exhausts

I see two big things that others have touched on. One, you wll not believe how much of a difference a real road bike makes in your speed once you have a chance to try one, and the average speeds you’re seeing are almost definitely on road bikes. I don’t think you need to go out and get one now or anything, get comfortable with what you have first, but also know that if/when you try one your average speed will probably jump at least 5km/h.

Second, cycling takes a lot of time to get used to. Anecdotally, when I first started I was a competitive distance runner and would occasionally win smaller races, and I started riding with a bunch of older relatively out of shape guys who had been cycling for decades. On about one sprint or hill a ride I could beat them, but they would kick my butt on the rest of the ride for more than a year before my conditioning caught up and I started to be able to keep up consistently.