Find a semi. Get tight to his bumper. 1.5-2 car lengths max away. The semi can see far enough down the road that he drives a constant speed. You drive a constant speed.

The problem we have is that we keep thinking that there is one magic bullet that we need to use. Consumer vehicles as battery powered. That seems to work for 95% of use cases. A few diesel or gas powered vehicles remaining to handle the guying towing halfway across the country to his campground. Doesn’t hurt in the…

It typically isn’t’ just some random split, but an engineered path to dissipate the material away from the vehicle quickly.  There can typically be plugs or blowoffs that will pop when the pressure is exceeded and the blowoff is routed to a semi-safe location.

I loved the Intrigue that I had. I bought it very used and drove it for about 4 years. We took it on a long trip and my wife who never notices these things commented on how well it rode.

When we bought our last vehicle, the wife didn’t want another minivan because she felt silly driving around in this big vehicle all by herself. It was the 7th minivan that we had owned.

Everytime I see an article about Rare Earth materials, or battery chemicals, people start complaining that we are going to be beholden to China or Russia or ... to build our batteries.

Seems like it doesn’t matter how often you ask, you stay gray.

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner.

Everybody is missing the big item that was buried in the story. “The company is also rolling out new battery storage systems to help with energy loads”

Even better is automatic handshake between the charger and the car. You plug into the charger, it queries the vehicle for the credit card info and then authorizes the payment. No interaction from the meatbag side of the equation.

And they all carry signs saying that they want to have sex with the president.

Voltage regulator on my 87 Dodge Omni.

Will Jalopnik call the increase in gas price due to the supply shortage a ‘Tax’ as well?

I am shocked by the number of people claiming to want to have sex with our PM.

I’m in Canada. I tap to pay with my bank card. Within 2 minutes, my banking app pings that it has recorded the transaction.  We have real-time transactions.

I always loved how people keep claiming that antifa is the problem. Antifa is Anti-Fascist. If they are against you and they are anti-fascist, that would make you......

The problem is that somebody walking around with a drill won’t even bother checking the cap.

Can’t wait to see what the Mazda 6 looks like.

Sure.  They fixed you but not me?

So prices jump and the first response from everyone is drill baby drill?