Yup! My Dad had a 2016 Chevy Spark EV, which he got in 2017. And I inherited in 2020. It was a great little car - sure, it had a tiny range (60 miles when I got it). But it had tiny range because it had a tiny battery. So, it was cheap! It was also a blast to drive. And I could drive it to work and back and run…

I’m a huge believer in plug-in hybrids. For now, I think they are up there in the best-case scenario. It eliminates range anxiety and ends up doing a vast amount of leg work in terms of (like you said) making the majority of people’s drive emission free.

Range anxiety was sort of the after-effect of the range wars by EV manufacturers. Suddenly, even 300 miles wasn’t enough. Manufacturers became so fixated on having hundreds of miles more than actually necessary and touted it that it became the de facto choice for EV purchasing despite the reality that 95% of Americans…

Unfortunately, in my immediate life, the majority of families that I see have the following:

Do you know that opening the door dilutes any gases to non-concern levels? How? Why? I don’t know that? Does anyone know that? Doesn’t it warrant some investigation? The Forbes article mentions that studies were done in both summer and winter:

Yeah, it’s a lot easier to have them on a dedicate switch so that you can put the car in park or neutral with the handbrake on while you dick around with the trailer. That’s how it is for mine. I often leave it on for a few minutes when I pull the boat out of the water so that I can keep an eye on everything and make…

EVification of three-row crossovers and pickups is just the most monumentally stupid use for battery tech. Take an already giant heavy vehicle and make it doubly so by adding enough batteries to get it 300 miles. It’s just bonkers and I’m frankly happy to see them cutting back on this. Six figure SUVs are similarly…

Seconded. 

Rear-facing LED light bars are amazing if you regularly use a trailer. Dealing with a trailer in the dark sucks, from backing up to it to jacking it up to plugging it in to checking your load. It’s a hassle. Having rear-facing LEDs is a great way to make that whole process safer and easier.

Maybe you missed the part about offgassing - lord knows clicking the link didn’t take you anywhere relevant to that issue. But the point is that a car seat, sitting in a hot summer car, might offgas sufficient amounts of carcinogens to a problem. It’s not about eating it - it’s that you don’t even think about it being…

Slammed cars. Not just low - tire wrapped 1" off the ground slammed. You want to bring it on a trailer (if you can get it on there) to some car show and drive around real slow, go for it. But if you have to drive 13 mph through my entire city so you don’t bottom out on anthills you need to make some adjustments to…

CEOs shouldn't use the corporate jet to commute to work. That's madness. 

What celebrity has actually been canceled though? They take a few months - maybe a year - off and ease themselves back into things. Hell, Kevin Spacey was in four movies between 2022 and 2024. Sure, nothing huge in the US. But still. Louis CK back out there all the time. Despite what he says, no one has actually…

Sounds like the perfect opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of remote work. I’m sure showing up there once or twice a month would be sufficient. The fuck does a CEO do anyway. 

Clarkson is an asshole, no denying. But, the world is full of them. We tolerate way worse in our celebrities, politicians, and friends.

Absolutely. I’m not even sure he made it to 6:00. More like 4:30. 

Definitely know the one you are talking about! Lol

I mean, literally, there is a difference. Functionally, legally, ethically, morally, etc., there is no difference. But there is a diagnostic difference in terms of ICD-10/DSM-5, and different parts of the brain/body are triggered in “true” pedophiles compared to ephebophiles. If you conduct a penile plethysmography…

Psh. Wednesday. Any real Corvette owners knows the least amount of cars were made on Mondays and the rarest. I wouldn’t even own a Wednesday car.

The Bentayga is such an anonymous blob. Saw a handful of them on my last visit to Montauk and they are just so uninspired. And frankly, look way too much like a $40k VW Atlas other than that god awful front end.