It seems likely that cars will have an overall shorter lifespan in the future, with the concept of a 25 year old beater being eliminated by the exorbitant cost of battery replacement.

Who Would Win: a worldwide effort to stop the apocalypse, or some coal miners and autoworkers that don’t want new jobs?

California isn’t contravening a damn thing. The Federal standard is what it is. The California standard is higher. The Clean Air Act of 1970 clearly and explicitly gives them the right to do that.

I don’t find this unbelievable at all. What people are doing on bikes these days, sheesh. I watched a guy ride a mtn bike down in Moab off a cliff and then down the cliff and then jumped the cliff and also the cliffs weren’t enough so halfway down they built a big jump to gap the cliff.

The chief differentiator of performance cars is going away, they’ll all be powerful, effortless and nearly uniform in approach and design.

This^ is a person that has never driven an EV, thinks cargo pants never went out of style, and has Limp Bizkit CD’s in his Mitsubishi Diamonte.

It’s pretty fucking ridiculous that we are legally bound to respect the mere appearance of a design, which has only the vaguest consistent appearance throughout a 75 year existence, which was originally made by a bankrupt company bought by a later bankrupt company bought by a later bankrupt company bought by a…

The two most fun things I’ve been in/on this year have been electric. Taycan Turbo S and Harley Livewire, in case you were wondering. 

The Montreal Protocol wasn’t limited to CFCs, so hence ODS.

You do realize that many of those crises passed because people made a genuine effort to fix them, right? Y2K lead to significant changes in firmware and computing. The hole in the ozone layer lead to a comprehensive change in the refrigerants people used, resulting in a reduction of CFC emissions so drastic it…

Re: ozone layer. The world did make an effort to reduce ODSs via the Montreal protocol and now the layer is making a (slow, but measureable) recovery according to the EPA.

Wow, he has aged terribly. Like a red wine that’s been sitting next to a radiator for 40+ years.

Why should we sit around and argue about how we are going to die

Because the country with the most responsibility on the subject still doesn’t believe that it’s

Is it possible that kids are just interested in different things, and loud cars were his generation’s thing?

You’ll read those headlines you want once conservatives stop pretending climate change isn’t real.

He’s not even 60!? I swear I thought he was nearing, if not in, his 7os. Man, that diet of bile, xenophobia, anger, and cigarettes is really not good for you. Maybe someone should make him a few more salad sandwiches?

Nah it’s not the crushing student and medical debt, it’s definitely Greta that makes young people not buy cars as much.

I love how we’ve reached a point where a 2.0L 4-cylinder with 326 horsepower and 384 lb-ft of torque is prefaced with ‘only’ 

I don’t want a car that is made in China, sorry.