I just realized what replacing ICE with EVs means for racing. It means the possibility of the return of suburban motocross courses that disappeared over a generation ago over noise complaints. And motocross with cars which never was popular in the US, becomes a lot more possible.

It means all kinds of race tracks…

I guess Ford wasn’t using that grill anymore now that they killed the Focus ST in the US.

There are a lot of Home Depots in Mexico along/near the border. I don’t think they need to buy used NASCAR blades :)

Paltry original content, nothing special catalog content. Not a lot of incentive to pay another monthly subscription when there are so many better options out there. That we’re also not subscribing to.

Kinda hard to get excited about new gas cars these days. That aren’t really anything to get excited about.

Waiting for that first electric AWD hot hatch in the US to replace my current aging hot hatch. This is what we get instead.

Wait until you guys find out about the PT Cruiser cults where people spend truly unreasonable amounts of money on the cars, and insist that PT Cruisers are “Classic Cars”. We have a bunch of those people in Washington state.

I would be buying one eventually if it wasn’t from Volkswagen. Is anyone else coming out with an electric hot hatch?

Basically NASCAR is saying “Alla y’all need big saws to cut off your crap parts fast in the pits and get out of there. Staying in the pits looks bad on TV. Giant saws look great on TV.”

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.

It seems so much like something that has already been out for a long time that was available with a different brand.

I don’t have unlimited time to consume entertainment. Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO have enough content to keep me occupied. I’ve got so much unwatched content. So...

I won’t see Disney product.
I won’t see Marvel product.
I won’t see 20th Century Fox product.
I won’t see Star Trek product.
I won’t see Star Wars product.

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