It was 2014 and it was just an incredible increase in demand, partly due to increasing demand in China. Supply was also suffering after years of drought.

If you’re up for an interesting 10 mintues: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/06/777031319/whats-the-beef-the-declining-american-leather-industry

There’s no reason it can’t be both. Sometimes moral and business decisions coincide. But yeah, at the end of the day he’s going to the government because it benefits his company, which I would expect any CEO to do.

You know at some point over the past decade, leather prices skyrocketed. The result was a lot of companies looking for leather alternative which spurred a lot of development in the area, to the point where there are leather alternatives that are cheaper, perform better than the real thing, and even feel like the real…

Ugly as sin, but the hybrid option is interesting and a good differentiator from the competition

I’m just curious how long Tesla can keep pushing off legal responsibility onto the driver/their customers as their system advances. There’s got to be some level of overlap of responsibility at some point.... I guess that’s something for the courts to decide.

China hasn’t been afraid to let companies fail in the past. Take a look at their solar panel business. A while back they took away their government subsidies and a lot of their solar businesses went under. Ironically though, it forced several companies to quickly innovate and find ways to reduce the costs of their…

Techically yes. Someone would have to get into an accident and then sue and prove that Tesla’s autopilot is at fault. At that point, I would think that it would open up more legal action against Tesla, which in turn should make them be more conservative when it comes to releasing this software. Tesla, up to this…

The lovable Honda e was developed with American sales in mind, and we nearly got the electric hatchback. Honda is now talking up EV sales in the U.S., and you might think this would be e-related news, but nah. It’s a bland-looking crossover thing.

No one wants to talk about how Bo Burnham was robbed by an old recording of Hamilton from the back of the theater?

It’s because Erik Shilling took a week off, business will return to usual.

My god, it’s horrifically beautiful. This is the type of stuff I come to Jalopnik for.

Somehow Rivian has stuck around as a company since the late 2000s when they were based in Florida and were planning a fuel efficient hatchback.

Welcome to any article by Erik Shilling

Seems like someone reminded all the sedans and Crossovers they’ve made over the years.

It’s hard to say. To the general public, I don’t think many even know Lotus exists. To car enthusiast, I think the brand is still quite strong. One that has stuck to it’s roots even if it has meant very unfortunate business sense over the years. I think that crowd holds Lotus’ performance engineering in high regard,…

I think there are some interesting design elements for sure, but the proportions seem all off tbh. I bet this could be turned into something beautiful, but this incarnation doesn’t evoke much emotion in me.

1st Gear: I mean, it’s not hard to see why Toyota is slow to the EV game. They’ve already got an extremely reliable and profitable product. They’ve invested greatly in Hybrids, which offer the benifits of both EV’s and ICE products at a competitive price (something most car companies don’t have because they’re…

Do I think they have a decent business plan at this point and could potentially survive long term? Sure. Do I think they’ll out perform Ford in any measurable way for the next few decades? Nah.

It seems this guy has caught a case of the Hyperbole

Pick a brand from England