There have been a lot of exciting battery breakthroughs, the problem is scale production and manufacturing adoption. I think a lot of people don’t understand that even if some revolutionary super battery was invented today that could charge in seconds and had 99% efficiency it would take 5-10 years before it could…

According to this: https://blog.ucsusa.org/rachael-nealer/gasoline-vs-electric-global-warming-emissions-953 it takes an additional 4900 miles of driving to offset the difference between an BEV and ICE. This sounds great, but I feel like I need to go through their math because they keep bouncing between different…

While I don’t like it when someone reclines in front of me, I don’t blame them because my discomfort is the airline’s fault not theirs. We need to stop putting the onus of blame on the users and back on the company’s selling the product.

I took my car in for dealer service and they wanted $1300 to change the brakes. I almost threw up laughing... thankfully they sent it to me in a text message. Now this is a new car and der Germans just appear to be using really quick wearing components, so it was never a question of it being worth more than the car,…

I carry a lot of that as well...not a radio or umbrella... in every car I have. I run and bike, most evenings so having (headlamps, gloves, emergency blankets, energy gels, first aid kit, reflectors, shorts, small repair toolkit and misc). I put all of it into one of the cubby holes in the cars (Miata -the cabinet…

I was raised in a Roman Catholic family, they had weird ideas about conception. 

On the papoose or baby carrier front, it’s fine when the little lead bottoms are less than a year, but after that you’re asking for spinal issues if try carrying around a kid. Yes there are plenty of great stroller options that fold down small and don’t consume an entire grocery store aisle. I even built one using…

I don’t “fear death” I just have too much to do, so all this “growing up” crap is for the dogs. Plus, people seem to think having kids is an excuse to turn their car into an episode of the hoarders. Get yourself an umbrella stroller, anything more is just you taking a grocery cart with you, in order for you to have a…

Anyone who thinks he should be fired for this joke needs their head re-examined. There are a lot of things in this world to be upset or offended about and this ranks so low down the list, that if you find this joke to be a fire-able offence, then you need to crawl out of your basement and get a job or do some charity…

When my top was last slashed, they still weren’t able to get into the car. Cutting a top is a lot harder than you might think... although they may have done it be a prick. 

Yep former Miata and other convertible owner and replacing a slashed top isn’t fun. Also most convertibles have some semi-secure means of storing items. 

Sorry Kinja didn’t notify me there was any responses to this post. If you go into settings>wallet/apple pay>toggle ”double click home button” .... now whenever you have a wallet event, such as a boarding pass, that will be the first thing to appear when you double tap home. If there is no event, then it will just show…

What about my fear of automatic toilets? I don’t care about toddlers, but those scary toilets rip the toilet seat cover away the moment I’m about to sit down. Sometimes, I’m sitting there and it makes weird gurgling noises, causing me to flash back to stories I’ve read about snakes and alligators coming out of the…

Why are you even using the app? If you have an iPhone your boarding pass is can be saved to your wallet and pulled up with a gesture. I suppose using Android is a little less convenient, but you can almost get there using something like Passbuk. I fly constantly and have been saving paper using my phone since 2012 or…

As a former MX-5 owner, they probably removed the sun visors and replaced them with useless plastic flaps. It amazes me how many “weight saving features” the cars have, that only amount to a few grams and the extra gram or two would have been better left on.

So was Lee Iacocca’s wife or mistress’s pregnancy announced? Let me look at old news... nope. Maybe too long ago... How about Carlos Ghosn? Can’t find it. Mark Fields, nada. Maybe they are all too old, how about younger automotive related CEOs no matter how far afield... Larry Page....found one website that mentions…

I didn’t think The Rise was a horrible movie. I would have wished that the director didn’t try to undo the previous movie to make this one his, but whatever. However, that 86% score is highly suspect, it’s been 86% since audience ratings were available and hasn’t gone up or down from that score regardless of how many…

I wonder if this is what kicked in on my test drive. Right before I got back to the lot the brakes kicked on hard and when I pulled into the lot the smell of brake was overwhelming. The dealer made some kind of “the brakes need to bed, this is common” comment and I assumed it was a malfunctioning electronic e-brake.…

I would really love to see more energy being put into changing cargo ship’s fuel source or at least efficiency. Currently the overwhelming majority of all cargo ships burn crude. Your average panamax cargo ship outputs more C02 than all the vehicles in Los Angeles do in a year. If we were to figure out how to decrease…

The blacked out grill looks like the vehicle has been involved in front end collision and is waiting for a new front end to be installed.