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BMW 3 Series 2026 is what I'm most excited for, besides the Scouts.
I want to be excited about them but I just don’t like the modern take on the front end. Can’t figure out why. Hoping it’s like every honda accord ever photographed and it ends up looking way better in person than on digital/film media. Happy for those who are happy for it though
 
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Aren’t these the same guys that said SM would delay the BEV? These guys are just click-baters
I thought they didn’t start the rumor; they reposted the gossiping about delaying of the BEV.
They have a mix of reasonable articles and clickbait, which is frustrating.

On the batteries lifetime. A 40-year battery isn’t even a difficult thing to believe with liquid electrolytes. With a normal level of use, today’s LFP batteries designed with high-quality thermal management could get 5000 cycles before they reach 80% of original capacity.

If the driver goes through one full recharge cycle (0%-100%-0%) once a week, or the equivalent (for example 80%-66%-80% every day), that’s 5000 weeks, which is 95 years.

A 5000 cycle battery is the top end of the LFP battery lifetime, and one full recharge cycle a week is mostly a locally-driven vehicle, with few out-of-town trips. Cut the cycle lifetime in half, to better match a middling lifetime, and you’re at 47 years and you still have almost 20% to play with.

Battery calendar aging is still a concern. That can be mitigated somewhat with more active battery management system.

A solid electrolyte *should* give less time-dependence for battery capacity fade. Getting even a low-end cycle lifetime from solid batteries would easily give a ridiculously-long lifetime.
 
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I read that today. Not good.
I think that rumor should be filed in the same drawer as the rumor about the Scout BEV being delayed, but deeper in. It’s a rumor started by the WSJ, which has been strongly anti-EV. They interviewed dealers, not Ford corporate. Ford dealers have been anti-EV by about 2:1, and have actively discouraged EV customers from buying the Lightning.
 
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