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the worst thing that will happen here is you having to survive a bunch of bickering.
then you submit the "proof" everyone keeps asking for, suddenly there are no more replies - as if they had been severed by a sharp butchers knife.

new ideas and alternative thinking is in great demand here. welcome!

p.s. beware of trolls! soak your space suit in scotchguard over night.
you DON'T want to get any of that on you or you will slowly but surely
begin thinking just like them.

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the volt and fiat supposedly saved the american auto industry. yet neither is being bought and volt production has even been throttled. yet somehow the
industry rebounded - despite consumers being more careful with their money since the depression of the 30s :-) now imagine someone built a telsa that is affordable, efficient and with great ROI. ppl would and most importantly could afford to buy it. other manufacturers would be forced to follow suit in order to keep from sucking up more taxpayers $$, just to survive. things would start making sense and a failing industry might have a chance of rebounding.

you said bricks, did you mean aerodynamically speaking? see the thing you don't understand is the fact that degreed cosmetics designers are exempt to the laws of fliud dynamics.
oh, and talking about design, DAMN, what happend to the Leaf??? Did Ghosn accidentally step on a toothpaste tube?

one thing i learned, while researching the idea to ADD electric drive to an already existing ICE car with the design intent of making it more efficient
than what you originally started out with, all of the components of the vehicle itself (weight and aero specifically), ICE and drive sytem as well electric drive system would have to be very efficient for starters then need to be optimized to work harmoniously.

Attempting to do that with an SUV - lunacy!