god I wish Quebec and Ontario and New York had reasonable regional trains

And no more midsize and large patrol cars!

Thing is though, when I am in Germany I WANT to drive, as much as humanly possible. The place is like Disneyland for keen drivers. Especially as my last two trips there were to do European Delivery of new BMWs.

This is a little better from the press release

it can theoretically be charged exclusively by the sun, it has an option to be plugged in to charge when conditions require it.

Super cool concept and exciting to see. Solar panels continue to rapidly become more efficient and cheaper as well, so this bodes well for future options that are more friendly to the average consumer.

We need an in-depth article on the Chinese car market. I was shocked by literally every sentence rocknroll_jeph said about Beijing car market. I’d love to know more.

Let’s say Company A has designed and built their car to CA strict standards. Govt relaxes the standards. Company A may very well stick with what they’re building and wait until the next re-design to address the changes which may be quite a few years later.

Having to develop cars to two different standards makes no sense and just drives up cost. The logical thing to do would be to have California take the lead on a reasonable national standard.

Of course, because this is a bureaucracy we’re talking about, it won’t happen.

...a ruling that a group of 17 Republican attorneys general is currently suing the EPA over.

As someone that went to school along the central California coast back in the 80's and visited LA a few times I have to say that the improvement in air quality in the LA area has been amazing since those times.  My roomates from LA told me stories of not being able to practice some high school sports due to air…

The EV that interests me the most is converting an existing non-ev and make it one so I can enjoy an older car for decades to come and not be pressured to drive something contemporary like everyone else.  

Uu, that’s nice. On this side of the pond, Audi and Merc has mostly sold their hot versions in wagon guise anyho.

The Levorg doesn’t come with a manual transmission either. Even worse, it’s a CVT *spits*.

Volvo also made the V90 special-order only in a country that wants to drive home their new car today. 

Also, electric cars with huge battery that weigh much more will also have a significant impact on particle emission.

Góod. You should feel like a total douchedick driving one of these monstrosities around.

Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..

1500lb vehicle with 165 horsepower has a better power to weight ratio and would likely match if not exceed it’s speed due to better coefficient of drag.