Agreed, no free lunches.

My favourite is the Ditmars’ Horned Lizard, which was found once in the late 18th Century and then lost again for some seventy years.

I’m in this photo!

Nice job on the article! Really well done synopsis. Fun trivia, I’m in the back left of the team photo and am the CogE for the arm, but I hide on Jalopnik in the gray.

Sure, but where does the money for the Superbowl ad come from?

“Dean runs an asphalt-paving company, which she probably doesn’t watch him do either. “

I appreciate this sentence

Buying a newer one wasn’t easier? :)

My American MBA taught the Efficient Market Hypothesis.

In terms of “shitty things auto CEO’s have said and done” — I feel like we have to grade on a curve. Is Elon Musk someone who speaks without a filter, often to his own detriment? Sure. I often criticize him, because his company deserves it. (So does his behavior.) But... Henry Ford wasn’t exactly a progressive. You…

TED’s brand dilution has been epic...  I’ve gone to TED Talks Events here in Santa Barbara-- and it’s always a let down.  A lot of flakes and a lot of flaky ideas.

The R1T is the only thing seriously competing with the ID Buzz to be my next vehicle. Really great looking, cool bits like the tunnel, and the tech sounds legit. Glad to see it’s actually out in the wild doing cool, non-vapor stuff.

Well, yeah, but “Union Carbide” was badly hit by COVID this year...

Clearly making cars is hard.

It’s rare that I find myself defending FE, but here we go. They race in parking lots because the tracks must be small enough to drive exciting racing. When the battery tech advances and the ranges extend, they will be able to drive faster and for longer. Then they can transition to permanent road courses. There’s no…

Neutral: we sunk it in driverless cars that don’t work instead.

PHEV is 100% what the world needs right now. BEVs need to stop being shoved down our throats. 

Well, the FIRST bridge ...

I wondered if they are talking about forging rather than straight casting because straight cast aluminium is not that strong. This would be similar to forged wheels in which case this thing would be maybe 10x bigger than existing wheel forges.

“Gigapress”