Wiyh the PSA-FCA merger, I'm hoping the modern 2CV, the Citroen Berlingo, makes it to America.

What is never discussed is that exhaust of hydrogen fuel cells is low temperature water vapor which will turn all roads into skating rinks in cold climates.

It’s a commuter car. You’re not going racing. And 20 miles is not very far at all. A mid-2000s Dodge short wheel base Caravan with the 3.3 liter. They’re cheap and reliable and you can save your $15,000 for something else, like putting aside money for college expenses. Or, you can get an earlier model PT Cruiser with…

My favorite car of all time was a 1993 Caravan with 2.5 liter and 5-speed manual. It drove like a car and hauled like a truck and got 30 mpg overall. The 2.5 had way more torque than the 2.2.

Yes, and the reason they’re called “engines” is because they have to run power demanding pumps to jet large volumes of water against high static pressure. The original engines were steam powered and drawn by horses.

Fire trucks are also emergency responder vehicles. They’re constantly on the road, and as mentioned by others, there are high parasitic demands, like pumps that would draw down the battery rapidly. Without the range extender diesel, this truck is an expensive show horse.

They did plan. The manufacturer lied about cold weather range, and the charging network was not ready for prime time. Blaming it on boomers with no real knowledge of the situation is what is stupid.

San Diego, climate wise, is far more aberrant than Wisconsin. San Diego has the mildest climate in the U.S. What will work there won't work elsewhere. I have summer nights that can be colder than San Diego's coldest winter temps.

This morning it was 25 below zero air temperature, not windchill, and it’s only the beginning of winter. Here in northern Minnesota its a long way everywhere. Yesterday, it was a 250 mile round trip to Duluth for a peridontal appointment. Today its a 100 mile round trip to the Iron Range for a dental appointment. If…

The horns have to be illegal. They would impale pedestrians.

Seat heaters and heated steering wheels are for places that don’t really get cold. In the places with true cold, that is, where an air temperature of -20F is considered only a bit chilly and the hood doesn’t go up on the parka until -40, you have to be dressed for conditions anyway, and a heated seat and wheel are…

Clarkson is an attention seeking teenager who happens to be 59 years old but looks like he's 79. Thunberg, on the other hand is a mature 16 year-old adult.

That’s because nothing has been changing. I first learned of anthropogenic global warming when I was 10 years old in 1959 from a chemistry textbook written in 1950.

My 12 year old granddaughter has autism like Thunberg. She comes up with deeper insights than most adults. Nobody wrote Thunberg's speech for her. She is a capable young woman.

So, nearly a half century ago an actor talks about an ice age and that carries more weight than modern science?

Jeremy Clarkson is an idiot and has been one for a long time. What Clarkson has shown is that doing idiotic things on television can make him a lot of money. The mature one in the room is Thunberg.

Citroen had that function decades ago. I remember my friend’s DS-19 rising and falling with its pneumatic suspension.

Musk doesn’t know. He started with a converted Lotus body, and his sales are miniscule compared to the industry. The largest manufacturers of electric vehicles by far are the Chinese. I don’t see anything in this design that shows a serious morphologic change direction for future BEVs. The exterior look is all…

Like the Tesla in my rear view mirror following me for 70 miles on the Pennsylvania turnpike, even when I slowed down to 40 mph because I’ve only got a 3.7 V-6 and the bed is loaded and I’m towing an overloaded trailer. He stuck to my tail drafting me. Range anxiety.

This doesn’t look at all like what a commercial user needs in a truck. That point on top? Where do the ladders go? Loading over the side? Try that day after day with this design. Towing 14,000 pounds without a ladder frame? Steel gets stress fractures from vibration, and thin steel even more so. I know. I’ve repaired…