1st Gear: “This is all slightly funny in that GM did have total EV leadership in the late 1990s with the EV1 and squandered it, basically gifting the market to Tesla.”

Reverse: To those of us who weren’t alive for the Cold War, Valentina Tereshkova is known as the craven figurehead in Russia’s Duma who’s trying to constitutionally turn Vladimir Putin into a czar for life. File this one to “Russia ruins everything”, I guess.

What, Lucas doesn’t want in on battery making?

If electric cars are to be a thing, then every Developed Nation is going to need a strategic battery construction facility. It is just how it is.

From quoting a lot of automotive production parts to all of the OEMs, I now have a nose for vaporware. For instance, I have quoted a ton of Rivian parts - even early on they were prepping the supply chain. Starting to get desperation requests for quote, so they will be on the roads soon. Early on, saw lots of Tesla…

Jalop motors is going to be a radical new paradigm in the mobility sector. We will harness synergies to create a dynamic user experience. The use of Artificial Intelligence in the design and development stages will be unencumbered by tradition and will lead to outside of the box solutions. 

Just watched that movie with my son the other day. He asked me why Princess Buttercup didn’t have a sword, when almost everybody else did. I temporized, telling him that she had been so sad for so long because she thought Westley was dead, that it never occurred to her. He said, and I am quoting an 11-year-old boy…

Is there a point at which they owe Mel Brooks royalties?

5th gear: no major oil company even bid on those leases. What Biden did is pretty much irrelevant- drilling wasn’t going to happen. It was mostly the state of Alaska and a few speculators who hoped the situation would change and the majors would eventually buy their leases. 

China’s ability to play the long game is unmatched.

Loving this so far. My girlfriend has latched onto this! She’s way more into it than I am, I’m loving it!

Because you all want to know what that song was like, I saved you the hard work of looking it up on Youtube:

I just feel so weirded out by the way our making our infrastructure/manufacturing capabilities better has to be framed as a competition with China. I do not care for China’s state policies re human rights, pollution issues etc. but cant we just talk about a manufacturing plant as a boon for the US with out this veiled…

I doubt this will be the last delay for Rivian, expect another delay or a lower production amount in 1 month.

Jacques Villeneuve is the worst recording artist of all time. Private Paradise is irredeemably bad.

Of course! It needs some work so this won’t be the last you hear of it. Perhaps my feelings will change when it’s time to buy hard-to-find parts. Then again, I happily put up with the infuriating nonsense that comes with owning an imported Euro-spec Smart that has exactly zero U.S. support or parts. lol

Journalists were arrested and assaulted across the US during the Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
The US supported politicide in Brazil, Indonesia, and many more states resulting in the deaths of well over a million people.
The US installed the Ba’ath Party and to remove them from power they killed hundreds of…

A base model 7 series is 86k, 103k for a 750i, all the way up to 157k for an M760. The base S class is 110k. A Tesla Model S starts at $69420, all the way up to a loaded up Plaid+ for 157k. All of those cars sell fairly well. I don’t think the price is unreasonable.

This car is not for the track. This car is not for collectors

At least you have a vehicle - I had to walk 650 miles each way, uphill in the snow with 2 different strains of COVID and a hangover.