No, they just raised CAFE and emissions targets to very, very strongly encourage them.

But isn’t a full BEV a compromise for a lot of people? If you can’t plug it in at home, that’s a compromise. When your commute is 40 miles round trip, and you are lugging around 1,500 lb of battery, that’s a compromise. When your budget is $20k to $30K  and your options are maybe 1 or 2 vehicles, that’s a compromise.…

Funny you mention it. I read an interesting piece by a British architect who lived in London circa 1880-1930, and he talked about the changes in pollution and air due to transportation. In the horse era, it sounded MISERABLE. Piss and poop everywhere, plus the noise was out of control. And the crowding and…

Horses: the original green transportation. They literally eat green stuff for fuel.

Look here Klaren, the Swedes are my second favorite people. I’ve been there many times, even toured the Gothenburg Volvo plant in 1991. But you are sounding like an electric Karen, Klaren.

Gives you some plausible deniability too. “Sorry officer, I didn’t see shit.”  Hope it has air suspension to filter out the body bumps.

Yeah, I’m a “well-off liberal”, and our current cars are a 16 GTI and an 18 GLC300. So, not in the market in the next 3-5 years, but I do expect our next car to be electric (but only because we have a garage to plug it in). But while I don’t personally see Tesla drivers and think MAGA, I personally will never give a…

Back in the mid-80's my school teacher dad bought his dream car, finally, a Mercedes! It’s just too bad it was a 1972(3?) 450SE, with so many issues my mom dubbed it Hitler’s Revenge. My dad’s sister lived atop the mountain in snowy Johnstown, PA, and one Christmas we left there in a blizzard to allegedly drive back…

Armchair math here because I don’t want to break out my old physics textbooks: 3 seconds at 149 MPH is about 660 feet. This thing already accelerated at 30 MPH/second for 5 seconds. Say it could have averaged “only” 20MPH/second for those final 3 seconds (about 1g acceleration). Call it 2.5 seconds for a terminal…

It’s running 8 flat, but the last 3 seconds of that are at its governed top speed of 149 mph.  Yikes.  Agree, the Goodwood footage of this car look like a 1960's movie where they speed up the car chase, except it’s real.

My wife and I went to a blood drive at a Mercedes dealership back in maybe 2011'ish and they were offering free test drives in these, so we took it.  Your list pretty much nails our feelings.  While we were laughing nearly the entire drive at the absurdity of sitting in this tiny car navigating the expressways and…

Adjusted for the split, TSLA was trading at $400 on January 1, 2022, and today, December 8, 2022, is trading at $170. That’s down 57.5%. Over the past 12 months down 52.2%.

I didn’t watch either, also prefer to read.  Based on the picture though, I recommend the hell out of a Pacifica Hybrid for long-distance stuff.  I spent a week for work driving one around Maine and it was killer.  My DD is a GTI, but I loved that minivan for the jobs I needed it for.

Good thing her dad has government-provided healthcare to pay for counseling.  What an interesting concept...

I think you are recommending the ID Buzz from VW (if it ever gets here). But you still need space in front of the driver. One reason, it’s tough to sit people between the front wheels. Also, crumple zones. And even the Buzz has a deceptively long space in front of the windshield, unlike its death-trap predecessor Type…

I’ve been to France probably a dozen times. I feel about 10X safer walking (or cycling) there around traffic than anywhere in the US I’ve ever been. My experience with other Euro countries is less, but I feel the same about them to (especially Sweden). The culture is just different, and in this regard, much better,…

Back in the 00’s I lived in Richmond, VA. For a 6-year stretch my house was about 8 miles from my office. I was into Ironman’s back then and thought commuting by bike would be some good easy mileage. I even hard a route that was mostly wide shoulders, with only a few pinch points. Nope. It was the most unsafe riding…

I just sold our TSLA stock to the tune of about a $2,800 loss (loss-harvested it into an index fund). I normally don’t sell any stocks, just buy & hold, and maybe it would have come back, but I really don’t care, I’m just done with all things Elon. I find him hypocritically despicable and childish, and while our next…

Yep. Short of an emergency, there is zero reason to be at that altitude 4 miles from the airport.

I mean, he was back there due to the collision with Hami and raced from near-last to 6th, so he possibly/probably is that good. He’s also consistently smoked every teammate he’s ever had. In prior seasons in an inferior car he was the only person who could pretend to challenge Mercedes (cheater Ferrari’s don’t’ count).…