I suspect you’re probably right - and a lot of companies are going to be in a rough spot, or worse, in the next 10 to 20 years. If I had to wager money on what’ll happen - I suspect we’ll see a handful of big companies survive - Ford, Toyota, GM, VW... maybe a couple others. They’ll buy up start up EVs and smaller car …

First Gear - so I see that Ford is one of many companies that sees the writing on the wall: New ICE cars are going to be banned from sales in Europe (and other jurisdictions) and are taking the opportunity to recast a necessary shift in production in a more marketable fashion. Not complaining about it, it’s a…

“Toyota seems hell-bent on hydrogen which will never work.”

This is basically Cadillac looking enthusiasts dead in the eyes and saying: “don’t say I never did nothin for ya!”

As a current owner of the old “last” RWD, manual, V8 sedan, I hope this new “last” RWD, manual, V8 sedan sells well enough to prove to makers that they still need to make products for enthusiast buyers. It clearly won’t sell a ton at this price point, but hoping for a 20% manual take rate (and hopefully higher in the…

The door bags are more than just covers. They also have features to help secure them properly in the back, along with being form fitting so they actually protect them well. And they are strong enough to support the weight of the doors, and designed to be easily installed while the doors are still on.

Let me see if I’ve got this right...

Yes, it’s nuclear.

It’s basically impossible to create new hydropower in the US due to all the regulation. If you want to build a new dam, good luck to you.

Renewables produced 38% of the EU’s electricity in 2020, up from 34% in 2019. That was just enough to surpass fossil-powered generation for the first time, which dropped to 37%

I’d axe/change the following:

Dodge, Ram, and Jeep ought to be consolidated as a muscle-truck brand. Ram and Jeep at very least.

Except, when it comes to the Chinese government. They will fuck us at every opportunity and will continue to do so via intellectual property theft, currency manipulation, state sponsored espionage, and any number of other methods they can think of to take advantage of us.

1st. Gear: Normally I would be on the side of governments letting free trade do it’s thing and leave private enterprise to the laws of supply and demand.

I think vehicle taxation should simply be by mile driven, adjusted by weight.

Or, heres a wild thought, dont tax your people to fucking death because you cant balance a budget. 

That’s my background too.

To me, a major factor that nobody considers is the human cost of power. They look at “how many cents do I pay for a kw-hr” and not “how many people were poisoned, hurt, or even killed to get me that kw-hr”. Sadly, no real power source has the answer being “nobody”. People fall off of windmills, people get killed in…

A really high gas tax would be super regressive in the US. The people least prepared to handle a gasoline tax are the people least capable of replacing their cars with an EV or moving closer to work.

You’re ignoring all of the incentives that went into fracking for natural gas... without it, natural gas would still be quite expensive. The last decade and a half have turned natural gas around because we incentivized getting it out of the ground.

Your point overall stands, but not many people understand why natural…