I despise them, but mostly because they never get my special snowflake of a girlfriend’s orders right, I’m pretty sure my credit card # was stolen at one once, and there’s only one line so you are helpless if “that guy” is ordering.

Hybrid drivetrains should be legally required in all vehicles from passenger cars to semis unless the buyer wants to pay a $5,000 excise tax.

Battery pack death repair will be less and less expensive as technology improves though.

GM/VW saying no hybrid is pretty ridiculous. Sounds like investorspeak / regulationspeak to me, there’s going to be too many lower hanging sales of 100mi electric range + engine sales out there.

The only way this works is if the solid lithium batteries are really the real deal and are on the verge of halving the…

Your vote won’t matter, it’s the most gerrymandered state in existence.

One of those sleeps with the fishes however.

Well, allegedly, his transcripts are sealed under threat of lawsuit.

Good thing he’s a rugby player.

I’ll admit, his footwork looked ok and that third throw to a ?square out? to the left sideline was a nice looking throw, as was the TD. 

Startups are 99% of the time about finding the bigger idiot at the end of the line for the venture capital people. That’s why acquired startups go from hypebeasts to afterthoughts almost overnight, the startups were all hype to begin with, because that was their real product.

That’s why the sexual harassment was such a…

They RECOMMENDED A TESLA. Jalopnik.

This is definitely bizarroworld Jalopnik.

People don’t like this? And you guys bitch about hidden rules and no fun MLB?

Getting higgy with it is fannnntastic.

It’s a blowout game. What else should he do?

Which means the very sales network that is designed to push NEW cars is actually incented to NOT push new cars and sell used cars.

That is utterly insane from the standpoint of the car manufacturer to tolerate that.

As for warranty claims, it should be dead easy to file those. For computer-enabled components (almost…

That is either fine performance art or a forthcoming specimen in cognitive dissonance studies.

What are the economics of car buying for rental fleets? Because the depreciation of a new car is crazy, and then a rental would be worse with the abuse.

Do they start out new for a few thousand at Hertz, and then go through a chain of resells to the cheaper rental agencies until they finally end up on the used market…

The corporate town thing of Los Angeles must have a lot of dark secrets. This is creepy, but so was Sonny and Cher. Actually that was way creepier.

Anyway, the police probably have way worse that keeps them up an night than this, especially since the dude is dead.

The Fast and the Furious all suck, by the way, and his…

Manhattan literally warps the consciousness of any white male of stature.

I had a friend in college who was idealistic, environmentalist, and wanted to work for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He went to law school and got a job in New York.

He turned into a corporate shill whose only concern in life was…

Jeff:

EVs will torpedo the profitability of service departments, they are too reliable.

And service can be done by certified independent mechanics.

If there’s such good money in service, they the auto manufacturers should set up their own service networks, and reap all those profits themselves.

Dealerships are just…

Get a PHEV for that. The hybrid drivetrain will still deliver superior low-end torque and an all-EV mode for worksite/farm/town driving, and an ultra-efficient Atkinson engine can do the long range/highway towing.