I've said it several times, no matter what Dodge does with the Challenger and Charger SRT EV's, it is going to have to be absolutely sublime. They have built up a huge fan base, in this second golden era of muscle cars, with their 6.4L and 6.2L turbo engines, making 500 - 850 hp. I own one, and can tell you they'll pass almost everything else on the road... except gas stations.
To win over this petrol-head crowd, which might be as closely-aligned to the "anti-EV" crowd as any other inhomogeneous group, these new SRT BEV's are going to have to be the top performers available at their price point.
We used to have to drive some where and park to make out, soon it can just be done as the car auto drives. So no it’ll never be like we had it, but it might be better.
As much as I'd like to always believe things were better when we were young, and they were in many ways, I have to admit these kids are getting a lot of things right today. Their willingness to collaborate instead of always compete is one thing that I always find most remarkable. They're also a heck of a lot nicer to each other, and less confrontational, than most of us were when I was growing up. I think they're going to be just fine, or at least enough of them will.
One quote that's stuck with me for more than 20 years now, came from an Amish father, in the huge fight the Amish had against the PA school boards in the 1990's. The state of PA was pushing to force them to stay in school through grade 10 or 12, when custom had them pulling their kids out of school by grade 8. The state was trying to pass new laws to force this, stating that the Amish parents were not preparing kids for life in the modern world. One Amish father responded with something like, "we're not trying to prepare them to live in
your world, we're trying to prepare them to live in
our world." The guy probably had no more than a 6th grade education, but I'd say he was pretty thoughtful, based on that statement alone.
