This is a really dumb article. You’re basically saying, “Rivian and Hummer put bigger gas tanks on their trucks, so those are better.”

I actually use this tactic on my own cars, in case they ARE stolen.

The AirTags are really easy to hide in an inconspicuous place in your vehicle (behind plastic trim, under carpet, basically anywhere near where a phone can pick up the signal) and you don’t have to pay a monthly fee for tracking like you do for the 4G…

I agree about not paying ADM, but I don’t think you’ll see many discounts on EV trucks for quite a while, even if we didn’t have the chip shortages.

Automakers aren’t going to be able to scale their EVs anywhere near as quickly as their ICE vehicles as the EV supply chains are still pretty new. With demand what it is,…

Yeah, but it’s Ford, so any small town with a post office is going to have a dealer. I was able to find several in the area with no ADM after my original one tried to pull a $6k ADM on me. 

Yeah, I asked the dealer tied to my reservation, and they said they are adding a $6k ADM to all Lightning orders. Then they tried to justify themselves by saying their ADM was the lowest in the region, and made up enormous $10k+ ADMs at other dealers.

I don’t think even the sales rep knows that yet. I can say I’m not going to place an order unless I can get in writing that I will be paying MSRP. My dad did that on his Bronco reservation. 

I got a call from my local Ford dealer yesterday that the Lightning order books will open in January, and they were confirming if I would turn my reservation into an order as my Day 1 reservation was at the top on the list.

If this spurred the development of hybrid and fully electric RVs, I think it’s a good thing. I’ve always thought RVs should have PTOs that directly power a generator rather than having a totally separate ICE just for the generator.

Couple that with larger lithium battery packs and solar arrays, and you quickly…

9 people in a sub for 12 hours and there’s no bathroom? Does everyone just wear diapers or something?

It’s just that expecting to pull in billions of dollars per year on software updates sounds more like a kind of revenue extraction than something done in the interest of the consumer.

I hope Rivian offers a downmarket version in the future. I could do without 800hp, the air suspension, and some of the interior niceties for a $45-$50k truck.  

Tires, tires, tires. Nothing transforms a car’s driving dynamics like tires. You don’t have to buy super expensive tires to improve ride, handling, noise, traction, etc.

Derp, you’re right. I was thinking Bolt and typed Volt. Good catch. 

Solid review. We have a 2018 Leaf we bought new, and we bought it because it just feels like a normal family hatchback that happens to be electric.

Obviously.

I still think Elon’s wealth almost exclusively exists on paper, so I don’t know how useful it is to talk about how wealthy he is. It’s probably enough to say that he’s a rich guy, and leave it at that. It will also never happen, but I would love, one day, to sit down and talk to his financial advisors. Not, like, the…

While the i3 was expensive new, they are GREAT used EVs. Better range than the Gen1 used Leafs flooding the market, and much nicer inside.

I’ve seen a couple of R34 GT-Rs at my local Cars and Coffee (they have Show and Display titles). No entry fee needed.  

I don’t like these single-purpose types of battery banks, but I can get behind the ones from Ryobi or EGO that use your drill or lawn mower batteries tied to an inverter. It’s much easier to justify the expense when you can use the batteries for lots of other purposes for more than just camping or power outages.

I do not think it is any stretch of the imagination that today’s hulking pickups would immediately all-but disappear off the road if we hiked up the gas tax.