Yup, good description of it! It is similar to driving a CVT, but also different. When drive without a “charge” (I believe the car keeps about 20% of the battery charge for hybrid driving, so you’ve never really exhausted the battery) at a steady but sub-highway speed, the engine just sits at a kind-high idle, and…

Try the Volt anyways. I have one and love it just because the EV drive train is so smooth and quiet. Really makes my commute more tolerable than when I was doing it in my E46. Plus, you aren’t using other consumables like oil or putting wear and tear on the engine in EV mode. Its energy re-gen is top-notch, too, so…

Do you live in a single-family home with a built-in charger? Because people in apartments don’t have that luxury. 

Better than the boet. 

Yeah but they should be banned in any just society that cares about climate change. 

Hydrogen power does offer some interesting advantages over battery EVs. Hydrogen can be made carbon-free by operating plants when renewable energy is available (sunny and/or windy) and idling them when there is no carbon-free electricity. That way, you know you are powering you car with zero-carbon fuel, as opposed to…

The ONLY thing I don’t like about this is it feeds the completely baseless, bad-faith arguments that Elizabeth Warren is some kind of Trojan neo-liberal horse and Bernie is the only true progressive in the race.

The footballs were never deflated and were not under the pressure limit when they were checked.

Trump knows exactly what he’s doing here. Now we are all spending time trying to educate people about slavery, while the right crows about Trump opponents “playing the race card” and accusing people of being guilty of being white.

Yeah, its a big goof, but swapping in some new RAM seems like a doable solution. And it isn’t like other car manufacturers haven’t made giant goofs like this before (see: water pump, BMW).

Well, Trump says his approval rating is 50%, which 100% means it is 0% true.

Legit saw one of those in LA marked up $4,000 over MSRP. The only one in stock I could find. Rare as hen’s teeth even in what should be its biggest market. 

I saw new ones being sold in SoCal for ~$26k. That’s really not bad!

Its funny that Bernie is basically the standard-bearer for white mediocrity on the left, but nobody brings that up. He’s from goddamn Vermont, and his political effect has been “angry about anything that every happens, thinks he can do it better, has failed for decades to actually do it better, but is famous for…

“That is why he is fighting to cancel all student debt.”

Man, whatever happened to the SFR? Looks like the Yaris inhere ted some of its styling cues.

+1 for user name. +2 for kicking that dude out.

Nah. What the hell else is Belichick gonna do? He’s wanted to coach a Brady-less team for years now.

“So Tannehill, who the Titans acquired from Miami in a low-pick swap, will be under center at home against the Chargers on Sunday.”

Ever think about the Bolt? That is “an attainable-enough electric hatchback with respectable performance and range,” especially now that the 2020's get like 260 miles of range. 0-60 in 6.5 seconds, sweet sweet Chevy dealer cash, no Tesla baggage, can actually be repaired by normal body shops.