Back in the day by brother had a Cavalier Z24, which - stop laughing - was kinda hot shit back then. Unfortunately he bought his dirt cheap because it had been in an absolutely horrific front end collision and put back together by a back alley body shop. Looked fine, but the whole damn thing was held together with…

I’ve been looking at the Ford as a possible replacement for my Bolt, if GM pulls through with a buyback due to the buggered battery issue. The biggest concern I have is with the range; the AWD extended version gets only 270 miles out of a huge 88 kwh battery; the Tesla Model Y dual motor extended range gets 326 miles…

Or - and hear me out here - what if someone bought the original Bolt EV and already has an L2 charger installed, and wants to upgrade to the new version of the Bolt in the hope it will be less likely to self-immolate?

Let’s not forget that LG is responsible for the faulty cells in the Bolt / Niro / Kona that are causing those cars to go up in flames. If SK copied everything but the “let’s pretend to be a Galaxy Note 7" feature that seems like a pretty big improvement.

Fun fact - the only DCFC in Cheyenne, Wyoming is at the Harley Davidson dealer. Ask me how I know...

I rented a Mazda5 once and had to put 5 other adults in it for a short drive. Nope, too small.

One of my all-time favorite cars was a 2004 Mazda MPV, bought new when we had kid #2. It was perfectly sized and actually kind of a hoot to drive. Sold it to my brother cheap when we moved about 5 years ago and it’s still chugging along. It was a real bummer when they dumped it in favor of the CX-9.

I had the diff rebuild tools, sold them for good money IIRC. But there are lots of tools that nobody really wants / neeeds.

Many years ago I scored(?) a huge stash of Alfa Romeo factory tools. Like, the ones that the factory would force the dealership to buy as part of the official repair procedures. Which is cool and all but even after selling off bits and pieces for years I’m still left with a big-ass tub of very heavy and mostly…

GM’s federal tax credit is long gone, mostly due to Volt sales. Completely phased out at the end of 2019.

I bought my Bolt in Salt Lake City and drove it back to Denver. It was doable, but not ideal. The usual routes along I-70 or I-80 include some of the most desolate, service free stretches of highway in the country, and with 80 MPH speed limits your options are to either keep up with traffic and burn through range or…

One thing Hyun/Kia have done very well with their EV offerings so far is powertrain efficiency. In fact the current Ioniq EV is nearly as efficient as the RWD Tesla Model 3, the most efficient EV you can buy today on a range per KWH basis.

Were you trying to buy one of these, only to have it somehow go horribly wrong?

So it’s the road version of that Volcon Grunt vaporware thing I signed on to?

 Most RV power poles have 3 types of plugs available:

Years ago I was working on a master’s degree at a university about 50 miles one way from where I lived, commuting 3x a week for an evening program after finishing up a full day’s work. Fortunately I managed to score an excellent stealthy speed-commuter - a 1991 Sentra SE-R in refrigerator white. Plenty fast, handled…

HAHAHA of course. So part of the reason I bit the bullet and bought a new truck is because my excellent old Chevy beater - which you might actually recall - was stolen back in August. Before that I had two lovely GMT400s, one reg cab 3/4 ton 4x4 pickup to haul stuff, and a 8 pass Suburban to haul people. Perfect,…

It doesn’t by itself, phase 2 is adding a slide in truck camper. The motorhome needs maintenance, insurance, registration, etc. and it just sits 90% of the time until we take a road trip. A truck camper doesn’t need any of that.

Confession time. I made a deal on a leftover 2020 Ram 3500 Crew Cab SRW long bed today. Readers, it is big. In my defense it will replace 2 vehicles - a Suburban that is nearly as large as the Ram, and a Class C motorhome that is much larger. I also expect significantly better gas mileage from the Ram’s 6.4 V8 over…

If not a Bolt than a Leaf+ or Hyundai Kona EV or Kia Niro EV. For high-milee commutes the combo of stupid cheap per-mile costs and zero oil changes or other periodic maintenance you get with an EV is an absolute godsend.