also these are expensed miles for my employer Exxon Mobile so the roughly $4000 / year in fuel savings means nothing to me. 

Different without being pretentious is a good thing.

Despite what you said... it’s van time.

A huge benefit of living out here is the outdoors are accessible nearly year round and they’re magnificent.

So many great road trips, ski destinations hikes, and of course surfing.

After a while you won’t put the top down anyway because you’ll be worried about getting too much…

around here all the contractors run those over-cab roof rack things anyway. Real long beds are rare.

personally I’m at 4 and 17... so right on the average actually. 

*** assuming you get a decent interest rate ***

this is why I don’t get too wound up about longer financing terms. Even warranties are much longer than they were a couple decades ago. If you plan on keeping it a long time this can make a lot of sense to get the newest safety features. 

that said, there’s a lot of 5-10…

I’d take that range estimate with a grain of salt. EPA would probably be about 75-80% of that range.

The taycan isn’t really a value proposition. Everything looks like a bargain against a ferrari.

I expect this to be very close to the Audi eTron, and you won’t even be able to get it in the states because the dealers…

Yeah the key is keeping a vehicle for a long time. You can take a bath trading in a 3 year old car after 2 years or have a relatively low cost of ownership keeping your new car for 10 years 

Another big benefit of going to electric is distributed propulsion. Check out the X-57 on the efficiency gains from this 

These things are so fun. The low power, lower CG and silent operation meant you could hoon the hell out of it without drawing much attention. 

One of the biggest barriers to EV adoption is getting people to actually try them for a few days.

My crackpot Idea has been that cities wanting to push adoption should mandate rental companies cary some (small) % of EVs in their fleet and then ratchet that up over time.

More and more hotels have chargers already, and…

I’m just saying that maybe Toyota is going to be putting hybrid drivetrains in a lot of its heavier, thirstier vehicles going forward.

I guess we’ll have to wait until they refresh the taco or tundra, I’m guessing sometime in the 2030's :P

The continued absence of a hybrid Tacoma really puzzles me.

Maybe the Sienna signals the way forward. 

A lot of semisub drill ships use Recaros out of a 911

Not so much a competition thing as just making sure you can move as much product as possible in a market that clamoring for it, especially if your competition cannot.

China’s been the main driver of net growth in the industry for a while now,

Idk. MB is planning on spending $11bn on electrification and so far the EQ sub brand is a bit of an also ran

With only ~125 miles of real world range I can kind of see why they shelved their plans until 3rd party charging became a realistic option.

For better or worse they didn’t want to build out a network like Tesla did. Without that, what would be the point, especially in a performance car? Only the Taycan and Tesla really…

16 city / 23 highway was the epa rating. Which is on par with some full size pickups these days.

Love a wagon but the benefits of the lower roofline didn’t really materialize in this one. Wish they’d made a hybrid.