I used the Cobra IIRC and threw all the power I could in it. I think I did manage to beat the Toyota with it...barely...

The car isn’t just another 3,000 lbs of weight though. It’s not like it was being dragged along perfectly straight; it was dragging its tires sideways at highway speeds, which is a ton of extra resistance, all added to only the right side of the truck. There’s no way the driver didn’t notice a massive change in how…

Nothing about those stats is good obviously, but for some reason I’m troubled most by the stat that an average of 91 people a day are ACCIDENTALLY shot. As if I needed another reminder of just how ridiculously irresponsible so many gun owners are...

Are you sure you’re not talking about the OTHER guy who was exonerated after over 40 years (all of which were spent in prison)? 

Now that you can rent it out to others to use as a fully-autonomous self-driving taxi, that Model 3 has probably (literally) paid for itself.

Well, it’s easy to make the Leaf inexpensive when it’s got the same battery capacity and thermal management of a cheap laptop (very little and none, respectively); and last I checked, GM lost money on every Bolt they make (and that was before the battery fire issues), so the Bolt would need to be much more expensive…

That’s what I don’t get; the cars are supposed to be capable of 200 mph...but where are they ever gonna hit that speed??

I MIGHT be able to watch it if there were any drivers or manufacturers that I actually cared about. Most of the FE drivers are former F1 drivers I never paid attention to, or sports car journeymen who I don’t ever pay attention to because I only watch sports car racing to cheer for my favorite brands; and I don’t…

The thing is, Formula E cars aren’t exactly quiet. I actually wish they WERE quiet like their road-going counterparts, because they sound like dentist drills dragging across a chalkboard. They’re awful to listen to. Noisy racecars are fun, but only if it’s a good noise, and not artificial either.

That makes sense. I’m not a fan of how almost everyone wants to “tech-ify” EVs. I still find touchscreens in phones infuriating, so I definitely don’t want a car that’s controlled almost exclusively by one. Give me a phone with the form factor of an old Blackberry that can also run Android, and you’d have me as a…

I could see the value of maybe an electric CRX (you’d have to limit battery capacity to avoid literally doubling the weight though...). Anything else from those decades that’s considered exciting is worth preserving the original drivetrain from. Of course, far be it from me to tell someone else how to enjoy their own…

The proposed rally car doesn’t sound like a restomod though - just sheet metal shaped like a Delta draped over a spec chassis.

The phoned-in “eMuscle” moniker is very much on par with the general half-assed approach everyone seems to STILL be taking with EVs (even their so-called “serious” ones that aren’t just compliance appliances). Even on the ones that don’t look like literal sculpted turds on the outside, they still usually can’t be…

Thankfully he’s a computer engineer, so understanding the properties of electromagnetic waves (even at a middle school level) isn’t critical to the job. Still, given that, it seems odd that he thought being a computer engineer gave him some sort of extra insight...

Because Detroit isn’t in California. You’re either a tech zombie who worships all things that come from the Bay Area, or you’re a Boomer I guess...

This isn’t even Physics 101...it’s middle school physics.

The Volt? I remember GM marketing the hell out of it as the first real plug-in hybrid/range extended EV. Do you mean the Bolt, because I’ve never seen ANY ads for that except when it’s being advertised alongside the rest of the Chevy lineup (in TV ads where none of the models are mentioned by name). 

If you can find every single one of them, and definitively separate them from people who were trying to get away from them but in the panic unfortunately just became part of the crush, maybe... 

Oh yeah I know he wasn’t legally carrying at the time because he was a minor, but the argument that just having the gun out was inflaming an already tense situation (while probably true) wouldn’t work because the defense would inevitably argue the 2nd Amendment. His age wouldn’t be a factor when determining whether or…

Because “something-something 2nd Amendment”. Idk if open carry is legal in Wisconsin, but if it is, that line of defense by itself wouldn’t work since any legal possession of a gun (no matter how stupid it is in context) is protected by the “most sacred” of amendments...