each ev1 cost rumored to be $75-100k and was never intended for mass production.

source to back up?

“could we see a future where Tesla is an energy company, instead of a car company?” that very thought has been proposed by a number of economists. That the plan was to get bought out, with Mercedes and Toyota investing in partnerships. It has also been brought up when automotive journalist questio how Tesla will make…

I think what highly skews the impression is the number of miles Americans drive vs Europeans. There was an article years ago on Drive regarding BMW Start/Stop system and a couple other issues, that in the US the average driver puts on over 50% more milage than their German counterpart, and questioned if BMW ever took…

I can never understand the hate. Those drivers using less gas is aiding in keeping gas demand low. its completely irrational.

There was a detailed discription the NYT that the reason a large number of people in expecially rural areas of midwest, and west don’t support healthcare is that very often the closest specialist is 3 or 5 hours away. which is you can’t take a day off from work, might as well be on mars.

given the high speed the nature the turning radius of the hyperloop would be massive, so it wouldn’t be able to go over existing train lines

Is this cheating if using the camera car to aid in creating a slipstream?

I’ve seen a few cars do this. i don’t think its legal but probably get a pass on a classic car.

and lost michigan, ohio, PA, florida.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/opinion/campaign-stops/how-the-other-fifth-lives.html

Only thing he might have brought to the table was repeating 2012 and swinging Virginia blue. The hubris to reach for virginia while loosing key states. She needed someone 1/2 her age to breath some life.

A neighbor goes down for the hot rod show. judging by the photos and videos there is enough asshole behavior to go around, and as SomethingBrewer puts it enough safety violations to impound a large portion of the cars. . I think the major difference is also that crowd spends more and doesn’t cram 6 people into a hotel…

The best market I could see would be box trucks. They run around all day in stop and go taffic, don’t go that far.

Tesla. Even if they break even the main beneficiary may be that tesla can improve thier economies of scale to drop battery prices for their cars.

I have a senior relative who NEEDED to get a smart phone. Only he leaves it home 1/2 the time. and the other half has no idea how to work it.

uncanny resemblance

you would think the utiliites would be hopping on this trend to install even paying charging stations in a push to increase demand... but that would require them to first have forsight, which in my experience they don’t have.

I think what bugs me the most with a lot of new cars particularly bmw is the odd mix of smoth melted butter curves, polygons, and straight edges. That photo has all three and they don’t seem to mesh. Its half Audi, half mercedes