Comparing gas prices during the peak of the pandemic (and peak economic collapse) is sad and pathetic. Compare the pre-pandemic price.

Motorcycles are now banned from the Pikes Peak hill climb. maybe a name change is in order.

That ‘warranty’ does not include stone chips. Electrochromatic paint was invented several years back. Works great in the lab. Add in some stone chips or golf ball sized dents and you get a short circuit at the damage location. Aaaaaaaaand then the panel is dead.

Toyota says every model will have an electrified option by 2025. If I could buy a Hilux/Tacoma with a upsized prius style drivetrain and a front electric motor to get rid of the conventional 4wd system I would in a heartbeat. Especially if it can do 80KM of electric only range.

The hummer didn’t even come close to the original range promise. I am skeptical about the 400 mile range now.

I have solar and a EV battery in my bus for the coach battery and it kicks ass. Air conditioning works with zero effort. However we discovered during forest fires that solar output was 10% of normal. Plan ahead. We had to actually plug in as a fridge full of perishables needed attention.

Well it’s pretty obvious they will be introducing a per mile vehicle tax soon enough. They are just holding off until the EV fleet is a double digit number.

‘fitted a feature called MaxRegen’. Are you telling me the early feature had no regen at all?

The single most important thing about post apocalyptic technology is the ability to repair it yourself. Until Tesla gives us scan tool access, they can go f___ themselves.

Custom van culture died off with high fuel prices. There is no reason to believe that the electric cargo van revolution won’t bring it back. Maybe with 47% less shag carpeting. And it is a shame the Nauga is extinct.

Good luck off roading however.  It’ll be fine in the hard pack but as soon as you get into a soft hill you are DONE.

239 miles of range?!?! Chevy WAS claiming 350 miles initially. That is a serious state of the art fuckup. That’s 68.2% of the original estimate. What a disaster. 

This is a bike dependent question. If you mount a phone on a buzzy KTM or Harley you will ruin it. If you mount it on a butter smooth goldwing you are fine.

Firemen told me that FWD cars were usually the ones you would find torn wide open with the drivers seat sitting in the middle of the road. Anything build for a high horsepower RWD application had enough structure to keep the passenger compartment intact.

Zero, I used to love you.

Race cars are designed to do a single function. If you want to develop a flying racing league you would need to design tracks that are 50% road and 50% air so the vehicles must do both. And I think this is a great idea. If you build the challenge and put up the prize money people will come. 

Your mechanic will hate you with a permeant glue.

Tiny, lightweight and not enough horsepower to hurt the drivetrain is the true off roader here in the mountains of British Colombia. Big off roaders are laughed at as our tiny goat paths reject all but stuff like this and quads.

How to stop this is FOLLOW THE MONEY. Tackle the problem at the scrapers. Limit cat scrapping to 1 maybe 2 units unless you own or work for a shop. Require photo ID if you want to get paid and register the sale.

Get a throttle lock. Electronic throttles suck. I rode my buddy’s brand new KTM 1290 and the throttle response SUCKS even in the best sport modes. I’ll take real throttle cables doing exactly what my wrist says to do any day.