There are plenty of places to put EV charging stations. Urban areas invariably have vacant lots from urban blight being cleared. The suburbs have abandoned restaurants and strip malls. Since most driving is local, yes we need to focus on neighborhoods where people rent and wouldn’t have access to a personal charging…

Fiat and Chrysler have zero buyer goodwill anywhere on the planet. Kill both immediately. Ideally sell Maserati to Ferrari. There’s nothing left of Lancia, so kill that too. The real question is what are these brands going to sell? The market is crossovers, and hybrid crossovers, then EVs. There’s no need to try and…

Regulated meant “organized” back in the day, not “restricted.” EVERYONE had a gun back then, well, every white male because racism/sexism. But guns were in every household. 

What is the real world benefit of this? A keyless remote and a button on the door handle accomplishes the same thing. So you save the movement of your thumb to the button on the door handle. Phew! A lifesaver. The off chance that you need to loan someone your car while you are out of town and can’t physically hand…

If the typical 25 year old pot smoker with a $100/week habit invested that money instead, they’d have $1.4 million by retirement age. Bad decisions and bad spending habits are a bigger factor in poverty than race. 

You won’t pay enough for an Uber ride so Uber can afford to pay it’s drivers enough so they can afford EVs. Besides, for a full time driver doing 200+ miles per day, EVs don’t have the range yet (and don’t tell me about the EPA ratings that don’t hold up in the cold or other real world conditions).

The corporate lawyers will never accept the risk. It’s cool if people die and it’s other peoples’ fault, but if it could come back on the corporation, nope. 

As a nation we can’t get pots holes filled or faded streets signs replaced. We surely aren’t going to get a whole new sensor system set up nationwide with 1000s of new “rest stops.” Your idea seems predicated that the driver will never become involved at all during this. Won’t the driver chose to take command after…

EVs are just the latest expression of Western upper middle class consumers desire to push the yucky part of producing consumer goods out of sight. So instead of burning gasoline in your car, they would rather burn oil or natural gas at some power plant miles away, and mine the materials for the batteries far far away…

I’ve enjoyed both seasons of The Mandalorian. It’s just great to be in the Star Wars universe, and I like the little call backs to the movies in every episode. HOWEVER, most of the episodes so far have been the standard “damsel in distress” or “monster of the week” variety. Pretty much every episode has been “I’ll…

Thanks for the tip. These slideshows are a nightmare to click through.

So tired of these low redline, slow revving turbo lumps that need augmented sound to feel sporty. Give us the revs!!

The USPS is too busy buying Mercedes vans on the DL (by removing the Mercedes logo and putting a USPS logo in its place).

Can we stop with the fiction that green energy is going to create new jobs? At best in the short term there will be some additional new jobs during the transition, but in the long run there will be FEWER jobs. Why? Because these new green technologies require less ongoing maintenance. Fossil fuel or nuclear power…

— unless that audience decides the Mach-E has a certain Tesla-like “it-factor.”

Even the handicapped would rather pay more than be seen in a minivan.

Why did we see only a small drop in emissions even though we stayed home most of the year? Because WE aren’t the problem. We keep getting told we need to radically change our lives, but here we are. We DID radically change our lives and it did almost nothing. It’s not us. its the government, it’s the corporations. The…

They get it wrong because the software the dealers use decodes the VIN wrong, and the person who handles uploading the cars to that software is either lazy or ignorant, and doesn’t catch the mistake. I used to do that job at a Hyundai dealer, and the software would consistently list the Sonatas as manual…

It’s irrelevant whether Uber considers it’s drivers employers or contractors, the fact remains that ride share drivers interact with millions of passengers every day. A full time driver can do 20-30 trips a day. 1 infected full time driver would interact with well over 100 people per week. Extrapolate that to all…

I was most interested in your maintenance section. As the driver of a 2017 Chevy Cruze with it’s own quirks, I think some of your Sonic quirks also apply to my car.