If H-D is going to survive it needs new customers and entry-level just isn’t in the cards. This type of well-engineered offering to a new market segment is a great start.

“I would encourage everyone to understand the environmental impact of nickel, cobalt, and lithium mining before thinking that batteries are going to solve our environmental issues.”

“Pure BEV is solving one set of problems while creating others. There aren’t enough battery metals (lithium, cobalt, etc.) for the level of BEVs we have today [1], much less a wholesale replacement of all ICE vehicles. T”

“Synthetic fuels are the fossil fuel industry’s latest bullshit.”

Meh... this is just a legacy automotive CEO trying to protect his current legacy revenue streams.

Its either sustainable or not.

It’s not a net negative carbon impact. As soon as you burn the fuel it turns straight back into CO2+H20 again, so it’s zero-sum at best (notwithstanding local particulate and NOX emissions).

You can get it running, for a time. Hydrogen embrittlement will do a real number on the internals though.

Not so much forgotten as almost everyone has looked at it and said, “That’s not practical on any kind of useful timescale”. Right now our hydrogen mostly comes from fossil fuels anyway, and getting it from hydrolysis is too inefficient. The alternatives I’m aware of are things like getting it as a byproduct of nuclear…

Bosch: “Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!”

The company’s CEO, Volkman Denner, said there are other low-emission alternatives that the EU is overlooking, citing hydrogen and synthetic fuels

TIL the following:

“It’s surprising that going hybrid is pretty much the only way for a consumer to make a significant change in fuel consumption.” I mean, only if you don’t get that the most effective way to improve fuel economy in an ICE-powered car is just to turn the ICE off a lot of the time.

True this. We just got rid of our Prius because even 30mpg better than our next best car doesn't justify having it sit around. As much as we drive, the cost of registration and insurance is still more than just getting 14 or 18 mpg in our other cars. At $6 a gallon, the math would be very different. 

It’s only 4 MPG, but that is 28% better. That’s not insignificant.

You are able to have this discussion because gas in the USA is just way too cheap. 

It’s pretty ridiculous that the market has created a group of people who will pay over sticker to get a mass-produced product slightly sooner than the rest of the population, but I also can’t hate on those people because they’re the ones keeping the new car market going. 

Too bad Ford never let them have the keypad, which has been letting people lock their car without worrying about getting the keys wet since 1980.

My Viper has extra wiring from the factory in the rearview mirror specifically designed to connect a radar detector.

In college, some of my friends got into cocaine, and every single one followed the path of using a little coke to get amped for the weekend to using a lot of coke to get amped for the weekend to “my new weekend hobby is sitting around doing coke and talking nonsense until 4am”.