PHEV makes a lot more sense with limited battery production. You can build 10 times as many PHEVs with the same battery supply. And those PEHVs can use the BEV mode about 90% of the miles. The simple math on that works out to PHEVs instead of BEVs resulting in about 9 times as many EV miles by using the batteries more…

The Cruiser tows the trailer, but it hates it, besides I’m trying to be a little kinder to the 330,000 mile original trans.

Panama could not care less what happens to the ship or its crew. The owners/operators are just using Panama as a flag of convenience for the country’s favorable maritime crewing and tax laws.

Where in NC?

NC is actually sorta’ “Purpleish”. You’ve got Asheville, which is super liberal, lots of hippies that live all over the blue ridge area and then the Raleigh/Durham tech triangle. So I’m not that surprised...

Buy expensive things that you don’t need to impress people you don’t even like is the American way.

I know you say four MPG, but in each category in the picture you included, the difference was six MPG. Perhaps you were quoting your actual MPG from when you test drove the cars?

Exactly. I had to convert the 23 mpg US into something metric (10.2L/100 km) to grasp it, but that’s a 1980s value for real world highway fuel economy.

I read through Torch’s million word post about why y’all keep posting about crashing Tesla’s, which really didn’t even say anything. And this is even less

America has been a nation of middlemen since long before you or I were born.

These are “It” car in the fancy neighborhood next to my fancy-adjacent neighborhood. None of the owners has any need for a vehicle this size, I’ve never seen one with even a passenger, let alone back seat occupants.

How did buying way too much vehicle become the stylish thing to do?

He also compared the Telluride to literally everything except crossovers it actually competes against so, who knows?

“It’s surprising that going hybrid is pretty much the only way for a consumer to make a significant change in fuel consumption”

“It’s surprising that going hybrid is pretty much the only way for a consumer to make a significant change in fuel consumption.” I mean, only if you don’t get that the most effective way to improve fuel economy in an ICE-powered car is just to turn the ICE off a lot of the time.

Why did the fire department decide that 32k gallons of water was appropriate for what is basically a chemical fire? Are they receiving training on putting out battery fires? Will a lithium ion battery fire operate the same as a lithium fire? Cause if it will, water would be *bad.*.

You are able to have this discussion because gas in the USA is just way too cheap. 

A Tesla would absolutely be on my shopping list if it weren’t for all the nausea-inducing stans constantly crying bloody murder ever time anything less than positive is written about the company.  No way I want to be a member of that clan.

I ordered a 2010 Camaro SS in 2008, was 6th in line at my local dealer. Received one of the first cars off the line June of 2009 (and I paid sticker, no more no less). The guy ahead of me bought 2, 1 to drive and 1 to go right into his garage to store because “they are never gonna make them like this again” and “this…

If you actually read, it states the mom is blind. 

Edit - the mother is blind.