You laugh, but Rivian has huge injections of cash, seems to lose money on every vehicle, but will probably survive as a car company, or at least live long enough to become a division of another car company.

The sad part about Canoo is that their actual idea isn’t half bad, unlike some of these other jokers out…

If Canoo’s actual revenue for 2023 was that low then they had a huge problem to begin with.   You can’t run a car company with that kind of money.   I wonder what their cash burn was vs capital...   I mean if they have huge injections of cash, then while the jet use is a bad look, I’m not sure it’s the worst thing in…

Disagree. The point of the credits is to retool the industry as well as sell cars. You need both. Hyundai, Honda, and other EV makers are scrambling to build plants in the US for battery production. Mines in the US are being opened. Even domestics like Ford and GM are having to reconsider and move their EV and battery…

That RX-7 was beautiful when it came out and remains so today. I knew it was timeless when it first came out...and it has held true. Problem is, everyone else realized that as well.

so that thing about manuals? Turns out they may be safer in the era of smart phones... research suggests that after 2007, pedestrian deaths rose in the US but not most other parts of the world. Smartphone usage seems to be the culprit. Why the US alone? Because most of the rest of the world is more reliant on…

It’s true.   But it’s both low and high stakes.  On one hand, yeah, your job is not at stake.  On the other, publishing is the coin of the realm and I’ve seen brutal fights over stuff like that... that is more high stakes.   But handled by people who should be more mature...because they won’t get fired over it, unless…

Honestly, used properly, it is powerful. Think of the war on wokeness. It is a needed thing. But the problem I am describing was tenured coupled with a department chair who was also in a union member—super bad combination. It puts the union in a situation where it is in conflict with the rank and file members.
I…

I hope mostly harmless.  

This is only the tip of the iceberg. When I complained to the union, I submitted an eighteen page single space report. The three most senior faculty members in the department backed me up.
My attorney thought the whole thing was beyond absurd. The cornerstone of the chairperson’s argument against me was a chart that…

When I was in college, there was a years long mystery in the CS dept of someone taking smearing dumps on the top of the toilet tank in the men’s restroom. This person was known in the dept as the “phantom crapper”. Yep, I’m typing this because it turned out to be a professor. A friend of mine in the department was…

that might’ve been because the car rarely ran long enough to not be in the garage for service during any 10 week period for those brave enough to use it as a daily driver. 

Well, maybe Tesla will gladly give you the good stuff for an extra $100k.  

Oh, I’m sure they knew, but at some point you just have to ship the damn product. 

I watched a review on youtube. This had every opportunity to be a good EV truck... if Tesla had just built it conventionally. Musk could’ve even built it with with a crazy ultra modern shape... just without stainless (which we all know is “rust-resistant”). What a pity.

That’s the problem, I think, when you have to keep the youtube gravy train going.   All the click-baity titles to his posts are a waste.  

I had a good chuckle. Yeah, that’s about every Kilmer video ever.   I mean I think he started out decent enough but then had to keep the views going. 

not a fan.    He’s kind of over the top for me.   About a few minutes of good content for every 10 minutes of showmanship.  

The Money Guy podcast regularly rips on Dave Ramsey. Ramsey often doesn’t know a lot about basic saving for retirement, much less about cars. So... you know.

I’m not necessarily shilling for the Money Guys, but they actually break stuff down things in simple ways so you can do the math yourself. Plus, they are a…

Choose between Muskmobile and Chinese built car.  I cannae do it!

Honestly, I think the harder problem is out of state (district) cars.   An old car?  Just pull the registration and not let them drive it at all.