Sure. What year is the EV going to reach this 100% penetration point you’re talking about? Because if it’s after 2030, that’s kind of irrelevant. See again, resource planning.

Utility guy here. Few answers:

Town and City Chambers of Commerce will absolutely do that. At my old company we held a conference in Houston every year and had a standing agreement which let us supersede events in hotels and the convention center during our given week. If Ocean City wants the wineries more than the car show, they request a…

As a note, I’m 90% sure the graphics say “Celica LT” in 80s-riffic terrible font. The LT was a trim level until the third gen.

I owned a Pontiac Bonneville where the plastic clips that held the parking light assemblies in place had begun to fatigue. The assemblies would pop out constantly, eventually culminating in a massive short circuit from the light’s wiring having its insulation rubbed off. Having no other way to keep the assembly in…

I think we need to cool it with saying the IS300 is moddable just because it has a 2JZ. The Altezza was intended to be a four-cylinder car, and Toyota did a lot of work stuffing the 2JZ in there...none of the parts that fit on other 2JZ cars fit on the IS300, and doing anything more intensive than…

This one’s actually pretty straightforward: the number of used car factories for sale at the time was basically one, and it was in Fremont.

I knew a Subaru guy who moved on to an Audi S4 and then a 9-3 Viggen. Regarding the Viggen: “I have finally found a car that makes an Audi look reliable in comparison.”

Seriously. I was cranking up into third on an on-ramp the other day only to get stuck behind a guy in a 340i doing 35. Boston is weird...people in Mirages and Crosstreks (two of the only cars on the road slower than a Fit) are trying to pass me in anger while I end up blowing by Mercs and BMWs doing 5 under the speed…

I used Rotella in my Subaru partially because it was the cheapest synthetic available. It was also cheaper than the yellow jug Pennzoil I was using before, though only by about two dollars per gallon.

The HR-V is Honda’s subtle way of punishing people for being too self-conscious to drive an actual car in the form of the Fit. The Fit has roughly the same amount of cargo space, gets better fuel economy, is faster, and is cheaper.

As a Fit driver I was ready to come in and excoriate people for putting so much emphasis on power, but if a Crosstrek does 0-60 in 10 then my Fit is about 2 seconds faster. Hm.

The new Elantra Sport has the 1.6 turbo from the Veloster and does 0-60 in 6.4.

Jon Peterson’s Playing at the World remains the authoritative text on the genesis of D&D...not only does it go into some of the more esoteric origins of both the roleplaying and the wargaming sides of the hobby, but it treats the collaboration between Gygax and Arneson with a more even-handed approach than most of the…

I’m in energy research, so we do a lot of (unfortunately fairly expensive) publications on nationwide (and international through LNG) gas trade. Fracking doesn’t necessarily undermine California’s commitment to cleaner energy...one of the biggest signposts is that they’re one of the first states in the country trying…

Personal service jobs are already one of the faster growing sectors of the labor force according to the BLS. Basically, if you want a secure job it will be waiting on, cleaning up after or nursing old rich people.

Automation is also going to “replace” mechanics (as well as electricians, plumbers, welders, and so forth) though in a more insidious way. There aren’t going to be automated mechanic-bots, instead there will be augmented reality expert systems that show a person exactly how to do a complex task as well as provide…

On one hand, you’re right that California likely doesn’t use much fracked gas...the largest gas fields near California are in Texas, which until recently has been primarily a conventional play. That said, the Permian basin is one of the hottest fracking plays in the country right now and is in that area of Texas...it…

The F engine was kind of an aberration, possibly because the engine was originally a licensed copy (that’s speculation on my part). In almost every other case, the number was iterated up when there was a changed block design. The 5S-FE used the fifth iteration of the S-block, as an example. It’s more accurate to call…

I owned a 1997 SSEi, and the thing that bothered me most about the car was how good it could have been if it wasn’t screwed together so poorly. It was a great cruiser up until the moment that you heard that “clunk” and something else had detached. Or you found that you couldn’t open the passenger door due to the…