All women, but not totally naked. All are wearing thongs.

Not even ONE photo of Spinelli in the car terrorizing the tuk-tuks? I would surely have thought that the Bentley PR people would want to use a photo of Spin in the Flying Spur as a billboard in Beverly Hills.....

That was the point - the air cleaner in the car was filtering out maore particulates than the exhaust was emitting.

1st Gear - I always wonder why most stories about pollution in China seem to focus (yay for 2nd gear pun) on cars. The biggest drivers, by leaps and bounds, are the coal-fired plants, and individuals using coal to heat and cook. I recall a story where a car (Saab, I think) was driven around Beijing and the emissions…

Am I missing something? Where does it say anything about cars?

I understand that there is a history of class conflict in London (and Europe in general), but my first assumption would be kids throwing the egg. Why? Because when I was young in NYC all the 8 year old boys in my school did the same one point or another. (we usually targeted busses, but nailing a Ferrari convertible…

Since it's a Citroen....

Just one point (more of a request, really) - You must not fool yourself with statistics such as the 1% of 300,000 cars use the swap stations per day resulting in $71mm potential profit example you use in section 1 above. Certainly that could be true, but again, it requires way too many assumptions - the same ones I…

Under the scenario you give, yes, the swap station could be profitable. But then I can make a case for almost anything to be profitable given a specific and exacting scenario. There are just way too many assumptions being made - the most difficult to accept being the number of swaps per day.

I think I understand my point of confusion - the stations only swap the 50 batteries they have in inventory, and only store and recharge the customer batteries. I was, and still am, unclear on this issue simply because all this does is add a further 150 miles to a Tesla's range, which doesn't really solve the range…

I'm not sure you understand my point about how many swaps will take place over a battery's life. Tesla does not think 'each battery pack will be swapped.... for each charge cycle'. One of the main selling points is for customers to charge them at home. The whole battery pack swap idea is to resolve an urban recharging…

I'm glad you've done the math, but your assumptions are bizarre. In the order you present them:

"Too dense or too disinterested"? And you work in politics?

The short answer is that human history is replete with examples of bad governments. People tend to forget that 'governments' are just people, not some godlike, superior entity. Governments are filled with just as many stupid, vain, absurd, nasty people as civilian life. The United States was founded on the belief that…

Your premise is based on the hopes that those in power never change the definition of 'wrong'. In fact this has nothing to do with 'doing something wrong', it has everything to do with giving more power and information to people who want to be in authority. These are definitely NOT people you want to give power and…

No hardcore death-metal fan would forget this:

Why, Hello there you egomaniacal, skeevy snake oil salesman! I may not like you, but do sincerely hope you have continued success in the dealer battle. Your legacy may well be changing the WAY cars are sold which would be a good thing.

We had an Ami 8 back when I lived in Paris. Basically a 2CV with fancy body. I loved the thing, though it was quite an event to hit 60mph (downhill with wind at your back). We had a mini celebration whenever it happened. 2 CV's were hilarious to drive, but only if you didn't really have to go somewhere.

The song did get me all misty-eyed.....

Aaargh! What I really wanted to know was how many passes before running out of juice? What was the Kw usage?