The 1984 Buick Reatta would like to have a word with you. Embrace the CRT touch screen and secret hidden engine scan tool.

An electric car making fake engine sounds? Hold on a second, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Repeat after me:

We need the media to advertise this what it is. High prices BECAUSE of a fuel shortage. And the (short term) answer is for an aggressive campaign designed to get everyone to cut back on fuel consumption. Reduce or eliminate unnecessary trips, work from home if at all possible or encourage companies to promote…

Put a kill switch on your fuel pump for under fifty bucks including a very high quality switch and the misc bits and pieces to do so. 

Never buy an adventure bike you aren’t willing to dump on it’s side and have a good laugh about it. If you can afford to do that with the duc, then sure. Why not.

H2 has double the power to weight ratio of diesel when stored in it’s cryogenic state. Perfect for a plane, fuel and go. But you need to build an electric plane anyways, the fuel cells are just a range extender. So Alice does move us forward.

Also, cost of operation. Alice is said to cost 1/5th that of a conventional aircraft to operate and maintain. That means short hop flights are going to be stupid cheap.

My old shop had the correct sign for this situation:

A touch screen for all the little menus you need to access when parked, sure. HVAC and many other functions used when driving need to be used by FEEL. The defroster is a safety device. Tesla has a touch button for the horn on the yoke steering wheel. What kind of hell came up with that idea?

But the eco buyer will be going straight for an electric truck now, at around 4-5 cents per mile.  Or 0 cents if you have a big PV array.

If there was any hope of importing and insuring that, I’d buy it and tesla swap it so I could daily it all summer.

5G has low enough latency to allow a remote operator to slowly navigate through a construction site or other obstruction. If you want real self driving it will be a subscription service and they’ll simply have one operator babysitting 50 self driving cars. If one gets in trouble it will wait and ask for help.

And the fact that it runs on 87 octane and gets really good mileage. The CP2 is hard to argue with.

THIS. A 270 degree crank is the king of off road adventure bikes. Mad traction in the slippery stuff. And this is destined for a middleweight ADV bike. 

Honda is going to make a bike to compete with a Tenere 700 and the R7. Just look at that thing. It’s a carbon copy of the CP2 motor.

FWD is idiotic on a electric car. Front engine front drive had grip. Front drive but fat battery in the middle means the front wheels lift when you accelerate and you get less traction. I have a friend who had a Kona EV FWD and it could not climb the hill to his house in the snow even with good snow tires. The weight…

That picture is a sprinter. I wonder how many trades guys woke up to this great big fuck you.

they’ll use this as an excuse to DRM and encrypt the whole car. make it dealer repair only.

Factor in lifespan. Those cars from a hundred years ago were not going to make it 200-300000 miles with minimal maintenance. Back then you had to disassemble the engine every 5000 miles for ‘decoking’.