I have an exercise bicycle. It has no chain. Just a flywheel and an electromagnet. It drives a fake speedometer.

The fact that you can use an e-bike as a regular bike now, is only transitional. Like hybrid cars. To the very young and very old, they’ll be bicycles. Only the people in the middle will resist.

That would not be embarrassing to be seen in.

Also, I realize why I find it acceptable. It kind of looks like my wife’s Outback, and that’s nice too. The Buick has a nicer grill. 

That is not a motorcycle. That is a fast e-bike with a long range and pedal assist.

My current e-bike does about 30 mph and a 30 mile range. With pedal assist. 

That is not a motorcycle. That is a fast e-bike with a long range and pedal assist.

My current e-bike does about 30 mph and a 30 mile range. With pedal assist. 

ROI needs to be considered within a time frame. And the time frame for vehicle platforms is decades. Platforms get names with “Gen” followed by a number after a decade or so of service.

Electric vehicles are the rare economic phenomenon, where the production cost declines over time with the company making no other…

I’m wondering how well the sarcasm came across in that last paragraph. 

I hope K5 works out for them. It’s a great, underrated car unless you want a sometimes race car. It’s a car for 5 over, not 20 over. But those things are comfortable. I’d rather get picked up in an Optima than a BMW 3 series or Mercedes C class.

The Optimas I’ve been in with Uber and Lyft, had HVAC controls in the…

The realistic world in which solar and wind replace coal, is built on infrastructure time scales. 50 years or more.

If you can’t see every new house and building being required to be built with solar roofing, and can’t see how that makes the total output of coal and gas chump change, you have a very limited…

5 years ago on this site, arguments raged about how electric cars excreted more CO2 than gasoline cars because of coal power.

My counterargument was always the same. An old electric car gets cleaner every year, because the power grid gets cleaner.

Ha! And that oil war is with Russia and the US conspiring to keep the world’s largest oil reserve, Venezuela’s, off the market (which is why Venezuela will always be a mess, whether their government is capitalist or socialist or run by Hogwarts or visiting Aliens).

What’s the oil glut going to look like when there are…

The assumption that EV ownership is now related to fuel economy, is...anachronistic. Especially luxury EV ownership, which is one of those things that economically functions with reverse elasticity.

The experience of driving a Tesla, or I-Pace...is luxurious. Insistent, quiet acceleration without annoying gear…

I label this: reasonable.

I’m not going to read a lot into this. GM is doing what they have to do.

Ford has been avoiding what it has to do. They don’t want to destroy Trump, and the layoffs they needed to do would torpedo Trump’s re-election chances in the swing states.

And defeat of Trump, means every executive pays much more in taxes, with fewer loopholes. Maybe even Trump throttling restrictions of imports of…

This is a government which through deliberate incompetence, is allowing tens of thousands of people more to die, than had the pandemic been shut down with national action in January.

This is a government, which is trying to eliminate EPA rules that protect the air and the environment.

And at this time, with this…

I has a sad because I have a Focus ST. No check for me. I only get a car that keeps running without transmission problems. I’ve had the thing for 7 years and still have the original clutch.

Not a hot hatch. Same problem with a WRX. And I’ve decided, gasoline cars are out. Next car will be a “fun electric”, that isn’t on the market or announced yet. I keep cars for a decade or more and choose wisely, and I already look at ICE cars as feeling a little “old fashioned” after driving a fully optioned Model 3.…

Yeah, no. My FoST runs great, and I don’t need something not quite as...complete...to replace it.

You guys are going way out of your way to avoid the obvious: Subaru. Big dog, Outback or Legacy wagon. Medium or small dog, pre-2015 Impreza STi or WRX hatchback.

First thing new Subaru owners discover: other people’s dogs expect to just jump in your car when you go to the park. We don’t even have a dog, which dogs…

We live in fucking weird times.

Honestly, from a home viewer standpoint watching a video game race today is more exciting. More crashes, don’t have to feel guilty about someone dying or getting hurt.

Next we need to hook those cars up to real, remote controlled cars on the tracks.

I’m kind of guessing this is a problem, because Ford didn’t have a “Head of Ford Archives” back then. Not to put too fine a point on it, but essentially a librarian.

A field that is generally has been the butt of humor and disparaging career choice jokes.

I’m not a librarian. But I worked on a project where we really…