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What is the scammy part? That’s what I don’t get about the (pretty angry/sarcastic) comments being made. The technology is there, the math checks out. You can a
by jiofih 6y ago
What is the scammy part? That’s what I don’t get about the (pretty angry/sarcastic) comments being made. The technology is there, the math checks out. You can argue the range is not useful, but for my particular case even 10km/day would satisfy my needs through most of the year.
Here is an article with more numbers on the solar charging: https://sonomotors.com/en/blog/park-the-sion-in-the-sun-and-charge-free-solar-energy/ https://sonomotors.com/en/blog/park-the-sion-in-the-sun-and-...
- natch 6y agoThis meets the textbook definition of snake oil. Electric cars are great. If they can be solar powered, also great! Solar paint — sure, go for it! Selling it as "the car charges itself" — really, no. That is dishonest and scammy. The writeup just anchors this conclusion with excessive verbiage, itself a red flag, vague numbers about ideal conditions, and enticing but deceptive misdirection about oh-my-gosh we don't want to overcharge the battery now, do we? Snake oil.
- jiofih 6y agoThe car does charge itself, maybe not at the rate you want it to. That doesn’t make it a scam. There’s nothing else I can say at this point. Are you willing to dispute any of the figures or technical claims or just wishy-washy handwave the whole thing away?
- natch 6y agoI’ll go with a hand wave. Bye! But do let me know when it’s real (just to spell out what that means: physically available for normal consumers to buy, and delivered to them and driven by them in the real world, not as part of any restricted access rollout or prototype) and we’ll look at the empirical numbers then.