Tesla did not ask to chop down a forest, they asked to clear a farm. Do you bloggers ever attempt to learn?

I liked my Volt but was always leary of the GM ICE that would eventually require normal ICE maintenance and perhaps have normal ICE issues. I went to the Bolt and never looked back. It’s been a great to to bridge the gap until we get a Mach-E/Y/XC40.

“it was NOT a hybrid. It was a plugin series hybrid,”

1) Expanded fast charging network would be great because it will give you more options at least. However, I believe virtually all cars charge faster when the battery is lower and the charge rate slows as it gets filled. So, I believe it would still be “faster” to not always fill up to 200 miles and then go to 0. You’d…

Still boggles my mind that GM couldn’t be bothered to put the Voltec drivetrain into a mid-size or large crossover. Seems like a no-brainer.

I own a 2011. Very good for what its supposed to do: Go to work on electrical power, drive on trips and weekends on gas. Its too bad Americans have such a hard on for SUVS and trucks as it didn’t sell as well as had hoped.

The locals have leveled their criticisms after multiple workers at both plants have tested positive for Covid-19 since the facilities reopened on May 18. In Dearborn, the union has filed a formal grievance demanding that the plant be closed until it tests all workers.

if GM had done the Menlo here instead of the Bolt, I’d wager it’d be selling a hell of a lot better.

Why are we supposed to be mad about GM attempting to electrify a notoriously less efficient portion of the automotive landscape again? Because replacing a 12mpg van driving 250 miles a day won’t involve a car attractive to people driving a CUV 40 miles per day at 28mpg?

This is an absolutely MASSIVE improvement.

So this is an extremely rushed photoshop job, but here’s what it could have looked like with a smaller grille. I literally grafted on the grille/middle bumper from the previous 4 Series lol.

That grille looks like pure hot garbage, especially with the way the license plate bisects it. Did the designers not even take that into account? 

Counterpoint: grille still looks like shit.

Yours ought to be the top comment. I wish I could give you more stars. People need to realize airbags are only meant to go off to reduce serious injury/death! There were no serious injuries in this crash, and thus, as you said, the airbags were not necessary and would only seek to cause damage to the driver involved.…

Airbags are not supposed to go off unless the crash severity is bad enough to warrant it. The windshield didn’t even get smashed in from this impact, only the front empty frunk crumple zone got bent up.

Airbags only deploy if a certain g-force threshold is met (and it is higher than you might think in modern cars, if the seat belts are being worn). Airbags themselves can be dangerous, and of course very expensive to replace so there is no point in them going off where they will not help much. This was the equivalent…

If the deceleration force inside the car is less than the threshold it would not deploy, regardless of how much damage is sustained to the car outside. If the damage outside reduced the forces enough (that the truck moved probably helped lower it further) then it’s entirely possible for the airbag not needing to…

Maybe the impact wasn’t severe enough for the airbags to be warranted? I’m not so concerned about that.

Visible damage is irrelevant (that shows you also misunderstand how airbags are actuated). What’s more relevant is the g-forces in the car, which we have no idea of. Typically a deceleration force of 5-15Gs is normally when an airbag deploys.

My wife’s Telluride (and MDX before it) has some of this tech. I will say it is nice, on long drives, on long straight stretches with little traffic, to let the computers take the lion’s share of the work so that you can relax a little bit, but I can’t imagine using any of these systems (other than radar cruise) in a…