I wake up actively horrified about it most days. I live in a place where winter tourism revenue, water scarcity, and fire risk are all in a perilous, soon-lost, fight against climate change.

Well to be fair, you can use a Torx bit on an Allen screw to your heart’s content. 

It’s Elon. Teslas in Tunnels is probably super profound because it spells TITs.

I believe the 2020-relevant equivalent is “this slaps.”

Glad you’re enjoying the Gladiator! The first time I ever saw a Gladiator in person (from behind), my brain’s first thought was “huh, why does that look like a pug rocking a mullet?” Makes no sense, but the truck’s been ruined for me ever since. 

‘24 payments left at $650 a month (rolled in equity from trading another lease in too soon’

“Hmmm, what fresh horrors await me today?” - Me, an American, waking up every morning and reading the news from around the country. 

I don’t understand how David went to “cool Japanese cube” without landing on one of these.

Wow, great to finally see where the Model Y’s designers got their inspiration.

This car is unashamedly aimed at the kid-hauling, grocery-getting set who are always on the hunt for the safest vehicle possible.

My generic 11-year-old midsize sedan weighs the same, hauls more gear, gets an extra 30HP and 3mpg, and like most cars designed originally for the US market, aces the NHTSA tests (unlike the TrailBlazer). 

This is a terrific, well-thought-out read. Unlike every other proposal in this piece, though, solar microgrids aren’t a good move. Meeting power demand sustainably is a “count sand grains in the Mojave” endeavor. Doing so with microgrids? Do it with an abacus.

It doesn’t help that “my ride has an air-cooled flat six” doesn’t mean squat in the airplane world, where nearly everything has a Lycoming air-cooled flat six driving the propeller. 

In my neck of the woods, state and federal incentives combine to take almost $14k. off the price of an ID.4.

Same. We have a pair of charging spots...across a depressingly massive office park away from us. If you’ve read any reviews on non-Tesla EVs, they pretty much all read as “great car, good torque, good luck charging away from home.” 

I entirely agree with your perspective. My argument is specifically that we’re doing a bad job of jumpstarting demand (eg putting as many BEVs on the road as possible): if you want as many people as possible in BEVs, the incentives need to be scaled up at lower price points to make them affordable to as many people as…

Presenting the E400 wagon. For chrissakes, you guys even reviewed one of these back in 2018. Meets every criterion (including that sweet sweet third-row jump seat!), and plenty of low-mileage examples out there around $50k.

As a nice reminder that our transportation and tax policies are horrifically regressive: my chronically cash-strapped home state will happily give you a $4,000 tax break when you buy a $160,000 Tesla.

Check out durrtlang’s comment in The Old Man From Scene 24's thread, above. They have another neat tap tempo example. 

So how about instead of putting batteries in trailers, install diesel generators on them? The truck stays pure EV, but keeps its range when towing while also keeping the trailer’s cost and weight relatively low.