What if he splits the difference and puts the charger in his ass?

If I’m buying something with that kind of credentials I sure as hell am not willing to sit at a charger with my thumb up my ass every 3 hours.

To be fair, I’m skeptical this Taycan is a whole lot different from the Macan, at least in terms of interior and exterior dimensions (or am I mistaken?). Wagons aren’t over, they have just been rebranded as CUVs or small SUVs.

Most asphalt shingles, even if you shell out for the architectural-grade stuff, are living on borrowed time at 30 years (and that’s even if they don’t get hammered into oblivion by a hailstorm—not likely in the Bay Area or Portland, the two cases discussed here, but a real risk in some parts of the country—or get…

How did we manage 30-40 years ago when a car the size of a current Civic was considered a perfectly adequate family car, even a fairly large one as many families made do with smaller cars than that? Of course, we left the damned dog at home where it belonged, and if I was pretzeled into the back seat uncomfortably…

As a wheel designer, I’m fairly certain anyone at Enkei who saw this went “Oof. Okay then.”

Yeah, bad take.

My understanding is that this uses a modified version of the existing G80 platform. I suspect that there likely won’t be much of a “frunk”, if any at all, on this model and that the space used for packaging the ICE has been reconfigured for the EV components. I suspect that also has some consequences in terms of…

noone is saying drunk driving aka reckless driving shouldnt be enforced. We are saying cops dont need to pull people over for expired tags, brake light out, air fresheners hanging from rear view mirror, etc etc etc. All this can be noted and sent to owner of the car via mail. Warning first, fine second time.

So HIPAA would restrict the hospital on disclosing the information. HIPAA does allow the hospital to do it in limited circumstances such as if the LEO got a court ordered subpoena. But, the thing about HIPAA is that the law controls the entity and does not follow the information. So, once the information is disclosed…

Finally, special credit for anyone who can say convincingly that the correct answer is that NO electric truck will ever be mass-produced.

I dd a first gen leaf my dude.  

He’s saying it doesn’t have the range to be something other than a city car. But, it’s meant to be a city car, so it does have enough range.

From multiple people I know who have worked and 1 that still does work for GM, they are notorious for forcing the hand of their suppliers. The old, “if you want to be a supplier for us you first need to build this part at this price, and we don’t care if it is profitable for you.” They even employ that tactic with…

This was a great read. Thank you for sharing.

The “unlicensed dealers” like you’re describing are probably committing crimes. “Not making a living” isn’t the standard the Feds use to nail unlicensed dealers. https://www.atf.gov/file/100871/download

The connectors are designed that way, but it’s a backup. You want to shut off high current before the contacts start sliding.

No it’s really not. It’s equivalent to having roadside phones when everyone has a cell phone that can lose reception / functionality due to a million variables outside your control.

I’m more or less in the “what’s the point” category ... I don’t foresee any realistic future in less than 50 to 100 years to have fully automated (L4) vehicles in the ascendance. Personally, what I think the future needs is a car where you can drive and switch to auto as desired and on demand ... let the robot drive…