If it’s made the way I think it’s made, it’s just a wire, capacitor, and a resistor attached to an LED. The circuitry in a 120V to USB charger is more complex than this. No metal, no resistance, voltage higher, LED’s red. Metal touching resistor, resistance higher, capacitor charging, voltage lower, LED’s now green.…

I don’t really care as long as it directly affects the consumer. Make stupid decisions HURT. It’s not just the vehicle, it’s things like deciding it’s OK to have an 80mi round trip commute so you can have an unnecessarily large McMansion. And then use an 18mpg pickup to do that commute because gas is so cheap it just…

Meanwhile over at their corporate cousin Audi they work hard to see how complex they can make stuff, Skoda gives us a user friendly windshield washer reservoir with funnel and Audi gave us the remove the entire front clip service position.

I just wish our government had the balls to DIRECTLY influence people’s buying decisions by appropriately taxing gasoline and or cars by size/power output. Which might also mean our roads would be less shitty. Win-win.

Toyota doesn’t even have the battery supply to match demand on a single PHEV at the moment. Even if you’re right, they aren’t doing the work.

SBA’s only reason for being here is to shit on EVs. He makes worthwhile points about the difficulty involved in scaling to 100% EV takeup, but then throws his hands in the air and says that the whole concept is a charade as a result. He also likes to say that because it’s currently not feasible to use battery power…

This ignores the fact that “normal” is pretty bad for a lot of folks, like our absurdly shitty healthcare system, and there’s major problems to be addressed such as climate change. Even Boris Johnson is making large policies for climate change, but the US Republican party is in complete denial.

Sure. Because if this election showed us anything, it’s that Americans believe in the concept of a common good.

Using hydrogen fuel cells instead of batteries in an EV always had a fundamental scalability problem that has never been addressed by any of their cheerleaders. 

1st gear: you just gotta love crusty old farts

1st Gear: I think there is a lot of jealousy happening there. And I think the analogy he gives doesn’t really hold. Really, Tesla has a kitchen and chef too... just a smaller operation compared to Toyota. Tesla does a lot more than selling the recipe... they actually created the recipe to BEV sales success. And…

I think Toyoda is just salty that they sold their stake in Tesla for pennies on the dollar in 2017... oops.

I wonder if Toyota is kicking themselves yet for blowing a massive amount of money, and worse time, chasing the hydrogen phantasm.

Toyota had better get real about its electrification efforts, or it will get its lunch eaten by Tesla or VW. Even GM is ahead publicly of Toyota in BEV’s.

if your business model only works because you use slave labor and treat employees like shit then your business model doesnt work at all.  

Really? Do pickup truck owners drive them 300-400 miles per day? If not, then recharging at home or the workplace overnight while you and everyone else is sleeping is what the plan is. That way, you leave home every morning with a “full tank”.

Ironically, I feel like pickup truck buyers who buy them for work will be the among the fastest group to adopt electric pickup trucks. The savings in fuel alone will probably make it worth it. Throw in a modicum of off-roading ability for those unpaved job sites and features like 240V power outlets, and you’ve created…

Yes and no. Unless you live in Wyoming, the infrastructure is fine. Here in Iowa, I can go in any direction to find not only Level 2 stations at every lunch stop (which are really useless for day to day), but DC fast chargers every 100 miles, which is the real business. Many, to my absolute delight, are actually free…

“Thermal Event” is some top-grade bullshit lawyer talk.

WHO MAKES AN EXPLOSION VIDEO WITHOUT SOUND??????
I now actively hate these people