• Riverside@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    Did they deliberately only look at the cheapest cars

    Seeing how the highest selling car a few years ago was the Wuling Hongguang, which starts at ~$5k, I don’t think the authors have made any failure. If anything, they’re short of the reality.

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      24 hours ago

      Wuling Hongguang

      omg it’s so cute

      As much as I appreciate the charger “nose”, that’s a bad place to have it if you park close to the wall

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        23 hours ago

        As much as I appreciate the charger “nose”, that’s a bad place to have it if you park close to the wall

        Chances are because that’s such a small car, there would be ample space to park away from a wall and still remain within a standard car footprint.

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        20 hours ago

        Must be nice to live in a country where your vehicle working is a more important consideration than your vehicle making you feel like a big boy.

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        24 hours ago

        omg it’s so cute

        I know right?? I hate that we don’t have affordable cutie electric cars like that in Europe :(

        I never thought of the nose charger thing, something to consider definitely!

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        21 hours ago

        It’s actually a great place to have the charger, I had a Nissan leaf for a number of years and it’s great not having to worry about the cord reaching when you’re at a public (free) charger.

        I have an ioniq now and the charge port on the back quarter panel is the worst place for it, since almost all pull forward parking spots have a cord that doesn’t reach.

        I have to awkwardly back into angled forward spots if I want to use the charger, and most fast chargers on the interstate aren’t designed for a back end charge port either, so you kinda have to find a very specific angle to get the car parked to charge.

        The middle front works in almost every situation.