Right or wrong, bicyclists need to adopt the same strategy that I use on my motorcycle: Assume that every vehicle anywhere near you IS TRYINGTOKILLYOU. Does wonders for your situational awareness.

Surely not like a manual! But not Subaru rubber bands either. Ho ho, Merry Christmas to all.

We did polka too. And ballroom and salsa for that matter. It was that sort of town. :-)

I have a 20 STI and it has worse mileage than my son’s Jeep Gladiator.

Subaru’s engines are all stuck in the late 90s/early 2000s in terms of their power and efficiency figures. I don’t think they have the R&D funds to improve the boxers to be better than they currently are.

The STI still had the old EJ series - it’ll be substantially worse in terms of emissions than the new wrx motor given that it was around 30+ years ago.

Could they make a higher power version of the new FA engines and make a new STI? Maybe. But they don’t want to.

They might be too close to the $30k limit, or over it if you include destination.

1988-1989 6th grade in Southern California we were forced to Square Dance.

In Georgia we square danced every time it rained and we couldn’t go outside for PE. This was in the 70s, and once I moved to NC I don’t remember square dancing ever again.

One simple step in researching a dealer is to use Google Maps to inspect their location. From the overhead view, does it look orderly? Are there vehicles like the one you’re shopping for on the lot? Does the area around the dealer look solid, or is it a shabby industrial park? Then go to street view. Does the showroom…

Honda of America getting ready to release the Prologue:

Good question and it depends on the car...if the travel/transport costs on the car further away end up closing the price gap with the local car the one close by could be the way to go.

It has to absolutely suck to be a Tesla engineer. “well, it wasn’t easy, but we nailed all the bosses weird requests.”

Agreed. I just got back from a trip last night where I drove a rental an hour north of Detroit and then three hours south to a small town in OH and then 2 hours back to the airport. Rental company offered me an electric. No way! The Michigan hotel had no chargers and the Ohio hotel had one broken CCS charger. Both…

I have to drive quite a bit for my work, and sometimes that means doing 300+ miles in a single day. Most of that is across back road highways with blink and you miss them towns. Which usually consist of maybe a single flashing intersection light and one horribly priced, and horribly out of date gas station.

I do some long distance driving every year, and the last thing I want to have to worry about is where I’m going to find a charger that works with my car, where there aren’t one or two hour’s worth of EV drivers in line. If you drive long distances, that’s what you’d be up against with an EV.

100% this. Long family trips are impractical in an EV. 

Or, as an interim solution, a setup like the Volt had, where the car was an EV, bolstered by a generator to provide juice when the electrons are depleted.

Once batteries can match the energy density and charging time of a 15 gallon gas tank in a car that gets 35…

I was in sales and typically drove 50-70K per year. I don’t need to add a level of difficulty like planning a charging stop or spending an hour waiting for it to charge. Sales appointments can also get cancelled or rescheduled even on the same day meaning I might have to replan the ev stop. I’m too busy just trying to…

How much electricity to charge a 100 cars over night? And that's just one hotel. In many areas there can be a bunch of hotels in the same area?  It seems unworkable 

Building codes need to evolve to require chargers. A few years Boston started requiring 25% of parking spaces have EV chargers and 100% be EV-ready (meaning conduits, electrical capacity). This requirement is even higher than California.