Ex mechanic (electrical guy) here. IGNORE RED TO RED. Actually read the battery and look for the plastic plus symbol. You’d be surprised at how many times earl schleb installed a red or orange battery cable on the negative back in the day.

Tesla is failing miserably with the 4680 cell production and that truck is relying on it. The semi, model S plaid and cybertruck were all supposed to be equipped with it.

My (maybe) future cybertruck will be a blank canvas of crazy wraps that I change out every 3-5 years. The current crop of cars is dull and bland. Why not be wild with a finish that might go out of fashion in 5 years?

As the owner of a shiny new electric chainsaw I can confirm that they are every bit as good as the gas models now. However for a pro logger we will probably need to wait 5+ years for Stihl to catch up. And we also have to wait for electric trucks so the operator can charge spare batteries from the truck all day long.…

This is a super easy mod on any vehicle with air suspension. Add a pressure sensor to each air bag, read the voltage of all 4 sensors when the vehicle is empty. Then load it with a known weight, read it when full and work it out. Tractor trailers have used this trick for years.

Please tell me that piece of glass is optional. I’ll be bolting a pipe rack to the roof of any truck I buy and would rather have a dented roof over a smashed one. And it will get dented.

Canada here. It costs $100-125CAD (80-105usd) to drive a pickup truck 650km (400 miles) with our fuel prices. That new chevy electric truck? $20 worth of electricity if I am charging at home.

Track the SCRAPPER SALES, not retail sales.

Fix it at the source. Any scrappers must take your photo, copy your photo ID, record what company you work for (auto salvage, auto shop, meth lab) and record how many cats you are getting rid of. If you care caught sawing a cat off of a car you can be charged for every single cat you have ever scrapped. Throw the book…

Trades guy here. I’m currently rolling an astro van and it is fine for what I do. When I need more size I tow my tandem axle trailer. That truck with a canopy is perfect. I have a freind with a diesel Canyon and he’s pulling 34mpg unlaiden and 17mpg towing. If you are a professional you are tracking your vehicle…

It’s not like Toyota could engineer a oversized version of the Rav4 prime or anything.  A plug in electric truck with a turbo 4 range extender would be PERFECT.

Where is my pure electric or at least plug in hybrid Hilux (Tacoma) pickup dammit!

This is a easy fix. On your Tesla settings screen go to autopilot> Ai personality and uncheck the box labelled “F__k the police”.

I used to race cars on ice. All identical chevettes. 60 horsepower has never been more fun, and you learn a LOT about racing with limited horsepower while drifting sideways 3 wide through a sweeper at 110kph and rubbing door handles. I have owned lots of fast vehicles inc a 400 hp S-10 but I’ll be dammed if that car…

There have been ‘flying motorcycles’ for years. Dubai had cops running around on them a couple of years back. They are basically a quad copter with a double stack of motors. 8 motors, 8 blades. The electronics work like 2 independent quad copters so if one takes a shit you can still land safely. The run time isn’t…

I’ll take my new Astro van in dual motor electric, please. Tough mid sized vans capable of towing and mild off road need to return.

Auto makers are cheap which makes them ‘lazy’. They are also very risk averse. This is why our cars have stagnated since the 70's and the changes have been only evolutionary and not revolutionary.

Tesla and John Deere need to get their asses handed to them. Your tesla is so DRM locked out that you can’t even change a door handle without the factory software.

The cybertruck is hideous. And as a stainless fabricator I kind of want one. It’s ugly, it’s different and it’s built to take hell abuse. When we start seeing these things covered in scratches and war torn they will look even better. Now that FTC just voted to enforce open repair standards I may even buy one. Tesla’s…

I was chatting with some fire fighters who did a lot of vehicle rescues several years back. They were saying that anything built to handle a v8 tended to do a really good job staying intact but it was the front wheel drive cars where they would always find ‘the drivers seat on the street’.