Exactly this.  I’ve held this position for a while now.  There needs to be an intermediate step while the charging infrastructure has a chance to grow.  The government also needs to decide on a charging interface full stop.  I don’t have to worry if a fuel nozzle will fit my ICE machine, I shouldn’t have to worry if…

Ford execs: who could have seen this coming?

I lived out West long enough to know that the biggest thing that the Mountain West hates with the US government is BLM.

Every time I am in California I come within inches of hitting some moron lane splitting when changing lanes.

He even claims that it was “too much confidence for too little skill.” That reads to me like he thinks there’s a level of skill where lanesplitting and weaving through traffic at 100+ miles per hour could ever be done safely.

There is a reason lane splitting is illegal in 49 of 50 states. It’s seriously dangerous.

“Too much confidence for too little skill.”

rear-ended a pickup truck while lane-splitting like a fucking moron.

Right now, in the U.S., only 8% of new car sales are EV, but given the massive markups and general manufacturer-imposed price-unaffordability of new EVs, that 8% is probably an iceberg tip on top of actual pent-up demand.

I’d define 94.7% - 92.1% as “a lot.”

Shocking that people aren’t wild about $60k (at 7% interest!) cars with limited, often-broken charging infrastructure and insane repair and maintenance costs.

The thing is there ARE places to race, and even drift legally in the LA area, I pointed them out on the last article about takeovers.  And the cost to rent them out isn’t really all that bad compared to the cost of an arrest/ticket for street racing on public roads.  They do street racing and take overs BECAUSE it’s…

The vehicle owner’s insurance should be covering this. The vehicle wasn’t in use at the time and it’s a clear comprehensive claim rather than collision. There’s no liability on the renter since they didn’t cause the damage. Now whether or not the owner’s insurance covers the vehicle being used like is is a different…

Main lesson - don’t rent from Turo. 

IT’S FUNNY, when you spend decades hollowing out the middle class and ensuring wages continue lagging behind inflation - you find there are less customers for your wares.

Musk said on a post-earnings call where he also talked about “paycheck-to-paycheck” pressures on American workers.

I have a pretty hard rule of never ordering pasta at a restaurant

I think this article misses a huge issue: DRIED PASTAS!!!

My local joints don’t make *any* pasta by hand, so it’s all boiled spaghetti with pepper and oil for $20 (and that’s not even the full box of dried spaghetti, lol).

If a full box of spaghetti is $0.99 and the other ingredients barely add up to another $1.00,…

LOL! Butt busting, spine rattling, kidney shaking, whiplash inducing car is somehow luxury now.

$36K is an interesting number, because if you adjust it for inflation it’s what the top of the line Laredo cost in ‘87. The base was equivalent to around $25K.