You can tell that to Chrysler, with the A57 Multibank tank engine they produced during WWII, which was essentially five 4.1L 6-cylinder inline engines mounted in a pseudo-radial fashion around a single central drive shaft (each engine retained its own crankshaft). 109 M3 Lee tanks and 7,499 M4A4 Sherman tanks were…

Yes; they’re still good, even though the ‘cold brew’ part takes a back seat to the ‘caramel’ part. I guess they would have called it ‘cold-brew caramel’ if the flavor balance had been the other way. I would have liked the coffee flavor to be more pronounced, though.

Make the private companies shoulder the cost of evolving the technology for large EVs, then the state and municipalities can take advantage of the paid-for R&D and buy buses and garbage trucks cheaper. And if the hauling vehicles can’t operate effectively because they would crush the state’s power grid trying to…

The coffee note in the caramel cold brew M&Ms is there, but it doesn’t stand out particularly well; the sweetness is the front-and-center note.

“...according to Columella, one of the best ways to amp up the flavor was to boil the crushed grapes in a lead vessel. That’s because lead, indeed, provides a natural sweetness.”

Want to bet that, within six months of the requirement going into effect, we’ll see companies selling ‘blanker’ adapters that prevent your car from being tapped for energy?

Calm nights. Miniscule amounts of energy being produced by solar and wind generation, and negligible fossil-fuel generation because of the state mandate to shift to zero-emission generation, leaving the burden of production to sit on the nuclear facilities that are being decommissioned and battery farms that have, at…

A diesel-powered truck with a gasoline-powered generator to recharge the depleted battery on an electric vehicle. One picture will provide irony for years.

I will take the black on black on black look over the gratuitous use of chrome for chrome’s sake, creating new and entertaining ways to flash the sun into nearby drivers’ eyes. It’s already bad enough with enourmous rear glass panels that turn into a giant reflecting panel for the sun at certain times of day, and with…

Don’t forget New Madrid, which is pronounced ‘MAD-rid’, not ‘muh-DRID’.

Or if you go back to classical Greek, you’d pronounce ‘Nike’ as ‘nee-keh’.

I still wish Trader Joe’s had kept their Tempura Chicken, which was similar to the Mandarin Orange Chicken, but the sauce for the latter, I feel, overpowers the chicken and is less appetizing. But the Tempura Chicken didn’t sell as well, so it got bumped off the product list.

Remember that a USB cable has two ends — you don’t need to have one with a plug custom-designed to fit when plugged into your device; it can be a basic datablocker on the other end of the cable, where you have it plugged into the public USB port.

The greener-than-thou attitude of manufacturers hawking their EVs, while carefully brushing under the rug things like the child labor that went into mining the raw materials for their batteries, that in many regions it now actually costs more to recharge an EV than fill up a conventional-fueled car, or that, depending…

And the utter lack of any regulations on the maximum height from the road that headlights can be and still be street legal; I’ve seen jacked-up pickup trucks where the headlights are at my eye level standing -- and I’m 6'5"; there is no way vehicles like this aren’t blinding the vehicles in front of them at night,…

The wording for the various state laws appear to simply refer to “mirror” or “mirrors”; some regulations specify that they must “reflect” a view of the road behind the vehicle to the driver, which could be argued to exclude digital rearview mirrors. Many states require two, one mounted on the left side of the vehicle,…

I’ve used ATMs that work both ways — they all eat the card, but some hold on to the card until you complete your transactions and say you’re done, while others spit back the card once you’ve entered your PIN and tell you to take the card. With the second type, were I to be picked out for this scam, I’d take my card…

You can copy the article’s title from the paywalled page, close that page, then open Google and paste the title into the search box, then select the ft.com link to take advantage of the fact that some paywalled sites will give you full access to a page if you come there from a Google link, because they want to…

Or even more obscurely, “Octothorpe 3".

“The upgrade is an example of how infrastructure improvement can make roads safer.”