(Ignore me, I’m just rubbing lemon juice and salt in my wounds)

True story. I live downtown in a medium sized city and about a 2 minute walk from a bus stop. I *could* get to work in the ‘burbs by bus, but it would be a 45 minute ride (with a transfer) and then a 15 minute walk on that end. Having that as an option puts me ahead of 90% of Americans, probably, so I’m lucky to have…

• EVs are more eco-friendly. Even if your electricity is generated 100% by coal/natural gas it’s still better for the environment due to increased efficiency with a larger turbine generating the energy vs a tiny one in an ICE. on top of that because electricity is agnostic you can charge it anywhere without needing to…

Each wheel has its own Hayabusa motor and CVT transmission.

The “headlight streaks” (for lack of a better term) should not stop at the door cut line.  It’s a bit jarring.  They should stop before the door.

Saw it at the LA Auto Show and it looks fantastic.

There’s no need to raze existing apartments to put up bigger ones. Pretty much every American city has huge areas that are single-family only. Replacing even some of those with low-rise multifamily buildings — I’m talking townhomes and two- or three-story apartments, not skyscrapers — would drastically increase the…

Reading the comments section in Jalopnik every time there’s a study that says “cars are bad actually” is both amusing and depressing at the same time. We’re all Jalops, we all love cars, but there’s so many things that we use cars for that just aren’t necessary at the end of the day. Some of it can be easily…

EVs are not here to save the planet

“Our way of life.” lol 

For those of you fortunate enough not to know who Michael Shellenberger is, he’s a corporate shill with a background in public relations. He has zero training in any science or environmental subjects, but he is handsomely paid by the nuclear power industry and various conservative think tanks for his “contrarian”…

Even from the little I know about this subject, scientists across the globe have basically in an arms race to try to find the next big innovation in safer and way more efficient battery tech than continuing to rely on lithium. Hell, the journey towards solid state development has kept John B Goodenough alive at a…

Taking thousands of pounds of steel, glass and rubber with us every time we run out for a cheeseburger was always staggering arrogance. Like carried-in-a-sedan-chair-by-slaves arrogance.

The thing about the F250 and that entire class of vehicle is the lowest-hanging fruit that could be cured very easily by substantially painful taxes up front and with annual registration. And no one needs more than 400 hp. 95% of the driving public shouldn’t behind the wheel of more than 200 hp.

Many of the people who consider themselves recalcitrant suburbanites would quickly change tunes if they ever spent time living in urban centers. Once you’re there, you realize that contrary to alarmist/sensationalist accounts/reports, the streets aren’t filled with blight, undesirables and violence.

So, there’s a solution, but nobody wants that solution. The solution is, drive less. Start requiring neighborhoods to be built walkable, and on public transit routes. Start requiring new road projects to prioritize public transit. Override the NIMBYs who refuse to allow infill development in their neighborhoods…

“The coming age of EVs will only make things worse as the heavier cars are harder on consumer tires and brakes”

“I live in alabama and most of our electricity is from coal, natural gas, and gasoline/diesel fuel”

I love how people say things like “there are still the dirty parts about EV’s no one wants to talk about” when literally every article and comment thread about EVs is chock full of misinformation about how batteries can’t be recycled (they can), or how lithium and rare earth mining is uniquely harmful (it isn’t), or…

The only solution these governments have is to expand the freeways, which, as history taught us with projects like Katy Highway, only makes things worse at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money and sealing the average person’s fate for car dependency. The cost of this infrastructure is…