You and DeWayneV8 are both right, which is why most biologists dislike the expression “survival of the fittest.” It has probably done more to give the lay public a misunderstanding of evolution that just about anything.

They would sell the absolute hell out of an EV Maverick.

Yes! Someone else who gets it. Especially this, which is exactly why killing people while driving is consequence free.

The truck has always been ugly, and I’m unable to tell if it’s any uglier now than before. It hurts my eyes too much to look at it to tell.

You’re right. In general, it’s a fourth-power relation to axle weight. So double the axle weight and the “relative damage factor” goes up by 16. While I relish the idea of a guy driving a Hummer EV paying 25 times what someone driving a Camry pays, I don’t think that’s politically palatable. 

No.

It’s clear you didn’t read past the headline, because the very first sentence says:

I have a light just outside my office that I have to turn left through every day. It is much safer to turn left when my light is red than when it’s green, so I run that red light every chance I get. It’s the only light I run, as I’m normally trying to set a good example and be a good bike citizen.

As an EV owner, I’m fully on board with this. I imagine a road usage fee at $x per mile, multiplied by a weight factor. The weight factor could be something like (curb weight/4000lb) so that people driving cars lighter than 4000lb will actually get the road fee reduced.

We’ve been adding error-proofing and traceability to our stuff here at work, but this level of detail is mind-blowing.

FYI, it’s omicron, not omnicron.

The trouble is nobody buys standard cab trucks anymore, so to get a useable bed the truck has to grow in length. As for height, everybody wants to feel macho I guess.

If I was in charge of an airline, I’d ban hard-sided roller bags from carry-on. Period. If everyone had soft-sided bags we wouldn’t be having this conversation, because the overhead bins would never fill up to the point you couldn’t squeeze yours in.

My buddy in high school (back in the late ‘80s) had a ‘vette (Chevette, that is) and I can vouch for it’s place on this list. That said, it was so over-the-top craptastic that it was fun. You just beat the shit out of it and didn’t care. Nothing you did to it could make it worse than it already was. It’s a very…

Agreed. I’m generally skeptical of the viability of hydrogen, but I think it would be foolish to put all our eggs in the BEV basket and not continue to develop other zero-emission technologies in parallel. 

Not sure if paying half the people to stay home would help your example. It might have just taken six months to get the typo fixed!

A nice Cross Matrix is something that Ford should release

I don’t hate it, and I’d much rather see one of these than a diesel F-350. But I’d really rather the huge battery this thing has be used to build three more sensible vehicles. Batteries are the big constraint in developing more affordable (and just plain more) EVs. 

You don’t need to charge from empty every day. You just charge to recover what you used during the day. For most people that will be 20-60 miles, well within the overnight capability of an L1 or L2 charger.

Ha! I haven’t heard this song since I was a kid. We had this on an 8-track that was a regular part of our roadtrip soundtrack.