This is the sort of headline that every writer wants to write but few get to.

I hope you are proud of yourself this doesn’t happen very often. 

This is the kind of “mandate” I prefer.  Give people their freedom but charge extra if they’re being stupid. 

I thought I heard Delta say that the average cost of a hospitlization was $50k, if that’s true and consistent for all hospitalizations (2 1/2 million in the us) then it has cost an average of about $390 per person ($50k x 2.5 million / 330 million population)

Here. I’ll help everyone out....because I love you

I give the guy a lot of stick here (it’s okay, he’s earned it), but setting that aside, it seems unfortunate to have to write about something one does not truly enjoy. I doubt the job pays much, but to not love the subject matter seems sad.

Farmington Hills is HQ for Nissan R&D in North America, HQ for Bosch Automotive North America, and R&D for Lordstown Motors. Many other suppliers there as well. You should plan a tour sometime. Not many “ladies who lunch” in the area, unless you are counting the many hardworking women in the automotive industry who…

If you don’t know about the Woodward Dream Cruise, you may want to check out Jalopnik.com. They have some good writers there, including David Tracy, who often writes about the Dream Cruise. It’s quite the thing, and has been so now for a few decades. Shame you haven’t heard about it, and certainly accurate to say you…

yup. its not even close either. 

• Tesla Model 3 - sold in 15.7 days, for $46,982

On paper the Bolt should compete with the Model 3 but in reality one feels more futuristic and drives more demand.

Sounds like a perfect example of engineering process controls if you ask me. Some process control was probably put in place to make sure symbols weren’t forgotten, so the easiest thing to do is include all the symbols on all the models.

Plus, it might streamline some process used to make all dash screens. Something like, “All dash displays need to display the following symbols:...” and then you load it right up and put them in.

This sounds like a good engineering practice. While they might not reuse the entire cluster they may want to reuse just that plastic piece. Adding the unused symbol is likely free/very cheap vs just the cost of engineering hours to add a new configuration of the same thing with it, and maintaining two parts numbers.…

1st gear: So, the nation with 60 million people is touting squeaking ahead of the nation with <6 million people? Let me get the trophy shop on the line!

There’s a lot of things I don’t understand in the automotive world, but 8 of the top 10 probably relate to this vehicle.

Yeah, I had high hopes for this class. I just learned of them dropping this rule with the release of the Peugeot. It’s really disappointing considering how this rule was essentially the basis of the Hypercar class at the start.

“I didn’t totally grasp how the economy worked in terms of dealers and used cars”

You’re not wrong.  In order to make the class more enticing they dropped the main thing that made it interesting.  LMDh is shaping up really well, but I just can’t bring myself to care about prototypes like I do about something I could theoretically see driving around near me.

This is Shilling, after all. He’s not going to stop being an idiot. 

The title says 2050 but the article says 2030.  By 2030 isn’t “weak ass-shit,” it’s realistic. Moreover, it’s completely fair for PHEVs to count towards that goal as they can do 90% of driving in EV mode for most drivers, which gets more out of our limited battery supply.