Probably used a car with real plates on

people vastly underestimate how much you get from regenerative braking under real world conditions

From what I’ve heard and read, that’s why the original Opel Ampera/Chevy Volt was so beloved.

and pretty much every major manufacturer switched to plug-in hybrids

Nowadays we have new Honda (and Nissan but who cares tbh) hybrids where the engine doesn’t drive the wheels 99% of the time. So we’re intersecting with that timeline a lil bit lol

I’m not a time traveller so I can’t say for sure, but cars lile Chevy Bolt and Renault Zoe wouldn’t be the same, since Leaf showed that there was demand for small BEV hatches and battery cooling systems

We wouldn’t be here without it though. It did a decent job popularizing EVs, much better than i-Miev for example.

Leaf was the first “off the ground”. Tesla were the first to show that production EVs weren’t limited to boring econoboxes.

Anyway, you can filter out early adopters because they didn’t have factory anti-chrome, so if you see a shiny trim around the windows - it’s probably got a pre-public meltdown era owner.

It got 5 NHTSA stars for driver safety, 4 for passenger, anyone caught outside of it are acceptable casualties. And as far as I know the manufacturer can self-certify.

It’s their marketing selling something non-existent, the patent doesn’t mention anything about bullets.

Yeah, it’s just laminated glass, with borosilicate external layer

arrows/bolts made primarily out of metal? now that i think about it, americans have a lot of handy tools that are quite a bit better at delivering metal, but loud