Just to play devil’s advocate for a moment – is it possible that the Prius hasn’t changed, but rather what you want from a car has? I’m agnostic about the Prius and have found it an eminently useful tool on past borrowed drives, but my understanding is that none of the faults of the Prius from an enthusiast…

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Who said that this was just for a car? GM clearly is getting in on the electric truck game, so that 600 miles of range may be 300 (yes I’m just guessing here) for cold weather towing. Also, who says that the 600 mile range battery packs couldn’t be sold to eventual electric semi-truck manufacturers, where range is a…

Leather (the real stuff, not bonded leather, which is basically collagen particle board) is an inefficient pain in the ass to use in large scale manufacturing. The move away from leather probably has as much to do with Volvo just wanting to be done with it as it does shifting consumer preference.

The first time that someone is hurt or killed by a Tesla on Autopilot (other than the Tesla driver), this will probably happen. Right now Tesla has been real lucky in the fatal accidents that have occurred have involved only Tesla drivers doing stupid stunts that killed them and violated the recommendations other…

The point of the Tundra is that it is a thinking man’s full-size truck

No

“Tribute”

Just as some perspective, the current market cap for Ford, who actually builds and sells automobiles, is $52B.

It took me about a decade to learn that lesson. From the time I was 16 until I was in my mid-twenties I hovered right at that line of having enough points from speeding tickets to lose my license. I had to start hiring lawyers to knock down tickets to non-moving violations which allowed me to keep my license but cost…

I vividly remember a movie they showed us in driver’s ed (nearly 30 years ago) where they had two cars drive the same route at the same time, with one driving as aggressively as possible and one obeying each and every traffic law and rule of safe driving. The aggressive one reached the destination only a couple of…

I got a speeding ticket this week...

1st: Does GM really have a choice other than sticking with LG? Battery cells are in short supply across the board. They can’t just drop LG and pick up a different supplier.

To help with the stress of traffic tickets I learned to obey speed limits and traffic controls and I bought a dash cam to protect myself against false charges. I hate state sanctioned shakedowns.  

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…