Our entire economy is run by institutional investors drunk on short-term profits. Like, ten billion in profit? That’s pretty good, man. You can fix a lot of problems with ten billion dollars.

Looks fantastic and like nothing else. People will say it’s too expensive, but I think It’s smart. No other $300k+ luxury sedan offers this level of modern design; they all cater to old school luxury. I bet there’s plenty of new-money crypto bros who would rather have this over a Rolls. Though we all know the ultimate…

Finally, a Chevy Volt for DIY masochists!

And as we all know, petroleum manufacturing is so green.

I would say 99% of the time, ICE cars have less ease of use. Like you’re telling me you have to stop once a week or so to refuel your car, standing outside in the cold in winter, and you don’t just have a full tank every morning? And it costs HOW MUCH? and you can’t schedule your car’s heater to turn on before work on…

Exactly. I imagine the average EV owner spends less time refueling in a typical year than a gas car owner. It’s like asking someone how long it takes their phone to charge. Does anyone even know? it happens overnight, why should they care? When people realize it’s the same use-case for an electric car, it will be…

Exactly. The ‘practicality debate’ around EVs always seems to lack a big of nuance or honest reflection.

I mean even when we include enivronmental impacts of EV materials it is still better than ICE and Diesel vehicles. Not to mention battery recycling is far ahead of pretty much any other recycling since it can actually be profitable to the recycler. (Tesla uses old vehicle battery cells in their Power Walls for…

What’s stranger than reading ‘second-generation WRX’ and realizing that it’s technically correct (since it’s the WRX - not the Impreza WRX), is realizing that there will apparently only ever be a single generation of WRX STI.

Hey Jalopnik, hire this guy. This one comment was more engaging than anything I’ve read on this site in a while. 

So Pepsi will get a truck that Tesla rushed into production in order to avoid missing out on tax breaks? I’ll make sure to keep my distance if I see one out on the road.

So with Cyber a no-go, I guess Tesla is left with a S3XY Semi? Hope the sales aren't flaccid.

Had you just told me you drive that, I could have guessed with... say 90% confidence that you lived in the PNW.

This is great Kinja! Amazing ride sir.

My father in law and I went on Saturday. While it was still fun, it was a shadow of its former self. My father in law has been to many shows and debuted many cars through his career. Seeing how empty the floor was caused him to mourn the demise of the auto show. We talked about the glory days of the auto show. So many…

Yup.

As someone who lost their fledgling AV business in 2001, I wonder if the recovery curve for the Trade Show industry will be like post 9/11. Or with inflation, VR, and green initiatives there will be a permanent shift in in person marketing.

I’m noticing conferences in general are all underperforming. I’ve been to a handful of industry related conferences and trade shows, and pretty much all of them are a ghost town.

I’m noticing conferences in general are all underperforming. I’ve been to a handful of industry related conferences and trade shows, and pretty much all of them are a ghost town.

NAIAS was awesome on industry day. Seeing everyone running around with measuring tapes and cameras, benchmarking each other, disassembling things as far as you could get away with. In 2019 I did laps of the floor trying to do a survey of which supplier’s seatbelts each OEM was using