My Truck...

[Aaronp18]

The ID buzz was a dumb idea.

Should never have been a full electric, it’s an ideal family travel vehicle but EVs suck for road trips.

PHEV perhaps.

Tis why they are half the price they started at MSRP. The won’t even be making them in the US anymore.

They dropped it in the US for 2026, May bring it back for 2027 with likely a new drivetrain if they’re smart.

[Cousin Strawberry]

The only ferry I'm taking is to Victoria.

20 - 25 minutes.

Don't need a sleeper van.

What am I?

Shaggy?

That's plenty of time for a nap and to tuck into some Scooby snax Donny

[Cousin Strawberry]

The ID buzz was a dumb idea.

Should never have been a full electric, it’s an ideal family travel vehicle but EVs suck for road trips.

PHEV perhaps.

Tis why they are half the price they started at MSRP. The won’t even be making them in the US anymore.

They dropped it in the US for 2026, May bring it back for 2027 with likely a new drivetrain if they’re smart.

They should've put a full hybrid drivetrain in there I agree but it's pretty groovy no?

I'd pack one of those good inverter gennies in a hitch box

[Carl Yagro]

Always loved the VW Bus. A groovy classic for sure.

It was a great idea to bring it back, but poor execution. It's revered as the ultimate road trip vehicle, it should have hybrid and PHEV drivetrains.

[Aaronp18]

Love the VW bus, classic, has a 1972 bay window but that just got too rusty to restore. So stuck to the bug and got that done finally!

Would still love a 67 or earlier split window.

The concept was great, I may have misrepresented my viewpoint, it’s just being all electric that was the fail! The design is there but it needed to be the ultimate roadie vehicle. EVs are not that.

[Meds]

I may have misrepresented my viewpoint, it’s just being all electric that was the fail! The design is there but it needed to be the ultimate roadie vehicle. EVs are not that.

Ummm….

Should never have been a full electric, it’s an ideal family travel vehicle but EVs suck for road trips.

PHEV perhaps.

If that’s misrepresenting then I apologize for every comment I’ve ever made here as they must all have been too vague.

[Aaronp18]

Simply meant it’s not that I actually don’t like the design and bringing back the bus, just not as an EV.

[Carl Yagro]

Saw one on the street today, it's truly a beautifully aesthetic, modern design of the classic... unlike the mistake that was the new Beetle, IMO.

As a city EV, I prefer the utility of this over a Tesla or any jacked-up SUV. However, the overall value isn't there for the sticker price.

Bringing it back is not the issue, it's the implementation of it that's the problem because buyers have a completely different expectation than what this actually delivers.

[Aaronp18]

Right now would probably be a good time to bring back the Beetle, entry level, inexpensive starter vehicle like it originally was.

I’d give it multiple options for engines and make it better looking than the original redesign (there’s tons of renderings out there that look great). Bring back the fun and delete all the standard options that drive up price these days.

Back to Donny’s new whip, personally I’d get the M5 Touring or the RS6 Avant. But I know your penchant for SUVs and the BMW XM cranks out 739 hp and is a plug in hybrid to appease your island neighbours

[Per]

Love the VW bus, classic, has a 1972 bay window but that just got too rusty to restore. So stuck to the bug and got that done finally!

Would still love a 67 or earlier split window.

The concept was great, I may have misrepresented my viewpoint, it’s just being all electric that was the fail! The design is there but it needed to be the ultimate roadie vehicle. EVs are not that.

EVs are the road forward though. Give it five years and they will be better than fossil cars in every aspect.
The new Volvo EX60 can go 810 km on a fully charged battery, BYD has just released a car that should be able to do 1500 km.

Just like computers, battery technology is improving exponentially. And charging too.
China has just started launching a new kind of charging station that can give you 1500 kW!
Now, most if not all current EVs can't handle that kind of speed, but they keep raising the bar.

My Skoda Enyaq iv 80X has a an 82 kWh battery that can charge at 125 kW. Most charging stations have fast chargers that can handle 300 or 350 kW, so charging from 10-80% takes roughly 27 minutes. If I'm on a road trip I usually try to time the charging so it coincides with a meal break.

Now with cars that can charge at 300 kW or more that time is cut in half. With that Chinese 1500 kW station charging the battery will take 2-3 minutes for most cars, if they can handle that wattage. And with batteries that can take you 800 km or more, you really won't stop to charge on the road that often. My car will take me roughly 400 km in the summer and 300 km in the winter before I need to charge. That's enough for me in most cases. I may have to charge on the road perhaps 5-10 times a year or so. And charging stations are everywhere. All the old gas stations have them, plus most fast food franchises, hotels and shopping malls.

One of the greatest things about having an EV imho is that I never have to go to the gas station. I just plug it in at home and it charges while I sleep. I never have to worry about should I get gas before going home or the first thing in the morning.

New car sales in both Norway and Denmark are now more than 90% pre EV. Sweden is sadly lagging behind, but we are now at more than 40% + some 23% PHEV. In the long run PHEVs is an evolutionary dead end, as they still emit CO2 and need two sets of engines, a gas tank and a battery. As EVS become more and more powerful and battery prices start to drop the PHEV will never be able to compete. But I see that they serve a purpose as a transition phase, especially in places where there is still a lack of charging stations. My previous car was a PHEV, but I found it more convenient to go fully electric.