I have said this before, but most people who reserved a model 3 could have gone out to a Chevy dealer at the end of 2016, bought or leased a Bolt, and then driven that for 2-3 years and sold it or turned it in when their Model 3 was ready. I wish people had, because it would have dumped a ton of affordable used EVs…

My dad bought an Accord a couple years ago. I didn’t know about the Earth Dreams name at the time. We went out into the garage to look at the car and we got around to him popping the hood. Apparently he didn’t know it was called the Earth Dreams either. We both just laughed our way back into the kitchen. What a…

You think Skyactive is worse than EarthDreams?

That “kind of premium but not a luxury brand front wheel drive large sedan” class is already pretty small.

I think we found Mildred from Fahrenheit 451.

Seriously. It looks 45 years old.

I should have specified the “dinosaur-juice” kind.

I’m reading this as “9 out of 10 F1 teams think that the 10th team will do a better job cheating this into an aero advantage than they can.”

That’s kind of the key point here- the current rate. Assuming even 25% adoption rate of EVs in autos 10 to 15 years form now, that’ll be 18 million cars a year. That’s over 100x as many as how many were built last year, plus all the solar storage people might start installing, etc, making that 300 million year…

To be fair, I had my first car for almost 2 years before I went to college.

Maybe this is a dumb question. I’ve heard many people cite statistics that we have enough oil to keep using gas for a certain number of decades before it literally runs out- as in there’s no more left to draw from the earth.

It can be hard for dogs not to go after balls. Seriously. I have two dogs, a lab and a lab mix. One is an obsessive retriever, and part of that is that I’ve trained her to be that way, but she just loves bringing people stuff. Pick up a stick in the yard and throw it in the woods? It’ll be poking you in the leg 7…

Well he appears to be an expert on consuming agricultural products, at least.

Good.

I have an issue with your color coded infographic breaking up the space utilization. Put the break line between engine and passenger at the steering wheel instead of the base of the A pillar. The graphic will change drastically.

Size. Comfort. Reliability.

The real shame is that they may have totaled a very good car.

Is it weird that the people I see doing this (purposefully taking up extra space to avoid being sat next to) the most are women with their bags/purses?

There has to be a benefit to them for people to buy them. With the Bolt, there is no “cool image” benefit, and the cost benefit is negative because it costs $20K more than a comparable gasoline model.

I’m seeing the issue here as being price. With Tesla you get that brand image, but not with the Bolt. A lot of the ones I see are advertised for $40k+. For that price your alternatives are a Premier trim Equinox, Limited trim Highlander, etc. For something of similar size, you can get a decently well equipped Cruz…