“Smart” Cruise control.

At the very least, there won’t be a GM key cylinder issue again

I don’t think Honda’s problem has been that the engineers are pushed out of decision making. Honda has been famous for having engineers who came up through the ranks leading the company.

The OG:

This one has a pyro component and is thus 100x cooler. (jump to 3:15)

wallstreet gets it off

Nope. Automotive engineer and shadetree mechanic here.

Nope. Automotive engineer and shadetree mechanic here.

As for the oil companies knowing for 30+ years. So what? Everyone has known about climate change for 30+ years. The oil companies never had any super secret well of climate knowledge that wasn’t accessible to the rest of the scientific community

I’d imagine the program being a public-private partnership with grant money to companies like chargepoint to install more chargers. Kind of like how the cross-continental railway was built in the 19th century. With more chargers out there, range/charging concerns would go away, facilitating the switch.
On a personal…

True, but the V8 noise is FUN. Is it asinine fun? Yes. But it’s fun nontheless. All electric Mustang is going to be a sad day - Electric cars are the future, I admit, but people still own horses in 2021. For fun. Shame it can’t be the same for cars.

Looks like Honda Pilot (grille/headlight area carries Honda unibrow-ness) and Nissan Murano ( Lower half of the grille/rear quarter treatment) had a lovechild

While Ii agree with your sentiment about Tesla’s stock prices, an irrational market can last longer than you can hold your position.

Honda doesn’t use exclusively in-house transmissions. They have plenty of ZF sourced transmissions in the 8 and 9 speed guises.

Honda didn’t take EV seriously for the last decade and a half. They tooled around with hydrogen probably because the Japanese government subsidy in fuel cell research. (example here)

Honda…

Honda management got caught with their pants down and have to pay GM billions to first buy into the Cruze and now have to buy cars from GM.

Macgruber

True, but the throughput of  a 3D printer is glacial. These things print at inches/hour. One machine might be able to print one part per shift. That’s going to be very long ROI for an expensive 3D printer

Acura TL.

Nah Apple will do “we long longer support your vehicle version” after three years and do a secret software update that makes your car slower

THEMS FIGHTING WORDS TO THE AUTHOR WHO HAS OWNED MULTIPLE SMART CARS AT ONE POINT

they exist, for one