I was looking at buying a used PHEV when last shopping but ended up buying new instead. The reason? Dealers weren’t taking the EV incentives into account when pricing their used offerings.

Hopefully never. If they add dogs I might have to kill someone else’s dog to get that Chicken Dinner, and that’s just not happening.

Bought it yesterday on Steam. I had it downloaded and beaten within 70 minutes.

We don’t see whether there are any intrusions into the footwell that may cause injuries, and the lack of a side airbag and poor restraints fail to keep the driver contained so his head impacts the B-pillar in a fairly dangerous and painful fashion.

I got a similar credit for buying my Ford C-Max Energi. Total cost after the rebate was only $23k.

Listen, if the railway companies didn’t want to deal with a company that performed unnecessary work and dumped waste into the ocean, they would have gone to one of their competitors and the invisible hand of the market would’ve taken care of the rest. The fact that this company was still in business means that there…

I’d guess that it’s braking force is set to maximize scavenging, thus extending overall range. If the driver slows hard enough that the regenerative braking isn’t enough and the brakes need to be applied, that’s lost energy. I drive a plug-in hybrid and have already noticed myself barely dragging the brakes to slow…

Makes sense. CO2 comes from oxygen in the air combining with the carbon in the fuel, so if you have incomplete combustion then some of that carbon would still be tied up in hydrocarbon chains instead of completely binding with the oxygen. Mind you, the emissions from incomplete combustion are probably worse for the…

It’s probably a whole lot cheaper just to drop an existing cigarette lighter into that slot than to wire up 2 USB plugs in the same space. Just let the buyer spend $5 for an adapter if they really need the USB slots and save a couple of dollars on every car that’s built.

Nothing longer than 6" can hang off the side of the car. They probably had a GoPro mounted to the fender or the bumper to get those ‘below the beltline’ roll-by shots.

I’d like to see costs controlled by further restricting what’s allowed aerodynamically. The current crop of F1 cars produce tremendous downforce, but because they’re all designed in a wind tunnel and tuned for clean air, it gives the lead car a huge advantage during an actual race and reduces the number of passing…

Is it surprising that cars designed to provide the most downforce in clean air suffer when they’re in dirty air? I’m sure I’ll receive a lot of pushback about F1 being more about the engineering than the racing, but I firmly believe that modern F1 cars rely too much on aerodynamic downforce and need to perform worse…

As much fun as Mosport would be, I think there’s too much elevation change for an F1 race. F1 stopped coming to Mosport because the cars were starting to lift-off on some of the hill crests. Unless you want to see a recreation of the CLK GTRs at ‘97 Le Mans, it’s probably for the best to keep F1 away from Mosport.

I’ve said it before, but I have to think that Tilke is some mythical creature that has a pact with Bernie Ecclestone, where Tilke gets to design tracks in exchange for Ecclestone’s immortality. Tilkedrome’s make much sense if you think of him as some sort of mix between the South Park/Family Guy manatees and the God…

I think it was the 7/8ths car, but it’s possible it was for another body modification, he built two. One he took racing, the other he parked just outside the main gates in the visitor parking lot. When the officials saw his race car they couldn’t believe the body was stock so he took them into the parking lot, ‘found’…

I’ve only ever seen a single picture of it (which I can’t find...), but my favorite cheat was the asymmetrical oval track racer. The story goes that the regulations required 4 wheels, 2 of which steered, obviously meaning a standard car with a steerable axle. However, one intrepid builder wanted more traction on the…

If people were regularly driving over the curb and regularly getting stuck in the first place, there’s probably an issue with the corner to begin with.

I believe the logic behind targeting cobalt is DRC has cobalt, DRC uses child labor, and unsourced cobalt was sold to GM and Renault, therefore GM and Renault use child labor to build electric cars!

I’m pretty sure Ontario phased out all of its coal by 2007 as well, but it still shows as nearly 20% in that graph.

The fan service in 7 Deadly Sins turned me off of the show completely. It might have been a great show otherwise with an awesome story, but it was just creepy how much casual sexual harrassment happened in the few episodes I suffered through.