You purchase the car without the pack. You get whatever the dealer has charged when you drive off the lot and batteries are standardized across all manufacturers. Often, electronics you buy come “batteries not included” and you can go anywhere and buy a D, C, AA, etc. cell and it works just fine.

You wouldn’t buy the pack. All packs would be a leased where there would be an up-charge for the beefy pack and a down-charge for the light pack. And given how people love not spending money when they don’t have to, only lugging a light pack where you spend less money and commit less crunch to the highways would be…

As a long time New Yorker, they do not look funny to me as we used to have them mandated in our state as well however it longer is (for probably almost 20 years now).  

Eliminate all dealers. You have to order straight from the factory.

this could be down to 3, It gets even muddier when you go into the packages, engines, transmissions, and tire packages.

Really a high-quality article you’ve written here, Bradley!

Buy an Outback XT. Lower it if the added 2" of height bothers you.

Thankfully, Toyota now builds the hot hatch that Subaru refuses to.

Maaaaaaaaaaybe its because they’re ugly, plastic lumps that generate zero excitement and have nowhere near the power to be classified as “performance” cars.

Tesla was on the path of breaking the mold of EVs before Musk showed up. And even if you credit him for getting the company off the ground, what is he doing for the company lately?

Elon is such a genius he reinvented British Leyland, very biggest brain.

I think there is an upside to this. As I replied to another commentor, my entire 30 years career has been in the world of fear of being fired constantly. There always seems to be at least one manager that will fire people for stupid stuff like not wearing the correct shirt or the like at every company.

That’s been all of my 30+ years in my career. Every company has a “Queen of Hearts” in the C-Suite.

It’s pretty fun to watch these silicon valley “geniuses” that think they don’t need any help from seasoned experts in their fields and that they have somehow discovered some magic new way of doing things learn the hard way that they are not as smart as they think.

1st: Elon is learning a real lesson in “free” market economics.

Of course commercial flying is safer - the planes are safer. You don’t have nearly the redundancy in a single-engine plane that you do on a jet. Hence why I’m not nearly as worried about the 737 Max issues as some people are (got off one yesterday, in fact).

The “forked-tail doctor killer” strikes again. The V-class Beechcraft Bonanzas have a history that is not great.

I got to see one of these (unliveried, never raced, from a Japanese collection IIRC) at Lime Rock a few years ago. It took a moment to realize what I was looking at (Porsches are like trees in the forest at car meets), I walked right past it but luckily did a double take.

I do not disagree with you in the slightest (also own an EV...2 actually). However, we absolutely must be cognizant that a very large population in the US currently rents, so being able to install or have access to a home L2 charger is not feasible. Until we see both higher saturation of public fast charging and…

Mitsubishi Mirage (78 hp) 12.8 sec