Holy Cow, great article, but I didn’t know when getting into it that it would be a whole oral history on Car Talk.

In Alberta we have a regulation that you have to pre-pay all of the time. I believe there were a few deaths a couple years ago from people dashing out of the station without paying.

The electric concept car isn’t the 03, as explained in your link.

There is some confusion here about the delineation between Polestar, Cyan Racing, and Lync & Co.

There isn’t info for the 330e yet, but on the BMW Canada site, they have the 530e rated at 3.3 L/100km, which is equivalent to 71 MPG. I would assume being lighter, specced to a longer electric only range, and with a smaller ICE, the 330e would get better mileage than this.

Where are you getting 45,000 pounds of CO2 to produce a tesla battery? I assume you’re parroting that Swedish study that found Li-Ion battery production is ~150-200 kg/kWhr, then taking the worst case scenario (200 kg/kWhr), applying it to Tesla’s largest battery, then rounding up to the nearest 5000 pounds? i.e. 200*1…

Quirky vehicle that can haul beer and or kids? $5000? You answered your own question a couple days ago.

It’s actually ridiculous how many time Chevy Astro / GMC Safari is the correct answer to so many of these.

Holy cow. So Tesla drops prices on almost every model, and we get this article complaining how confusing everything all is. But there is an unsubstantiated report about manufacturing problems at the Fremont plant and you can’t help but dive into every last minutiae of how Tesla may be failing.

Instead of calling it a Hybrid system, brand it as a High-Voltage Electric Turbo (or something more marketing friendly).

Hmmm, Ubear would probably still be safer than Uber.

Battery degradation isn’t really as bad as many people think, with the Model S/X still seeing more than 90% capacity after 160,000 miles. Lots of the fear is due to the terrible performance of Nissan Leafs, which loses range much faster since it is an air-cooled battery rather than liquid-cooled.

Not sure about the Bentley, but it looks like the Start/Stop button is exactly the same as the one on my X5.

The best argument is the Mazda CX-3 vs Mazda3. The Mazda3 is actually much larger than the CX-3 which is based on the Mazda2, with the only exception being height (and related to this the cargo volume, which only applies if you’re stacking everything to the ceiling).

When I first moved out to BC as a kid in the late-80s, I noticed these all over the place between the Okanagan and Vancouver, I believe through Manning Park on Highway 3. I asked my dad what they were and he let me know they were Runaway Lanes for out of control trucks. But looking at them, they were in pretty rough…

Yeah, when the title said “Cadillac is already fixing SuperCruise”, I was expecting to read “and it will be rolled out in the next software update.” But I guess buying a new car instead works just as well.

Oh yeah, all the brake dust that regenerative braking produces. That’s the real reason why EVs don’t work, people keep converting the engines into dust.

UEV: Unmanned Electronic Vehicle

To be fair, that one comes with the following highly desirable options:

But where is the money coming from? There isn’t enough money coming in from the customers to pay the drivers a decent wage, even with Uber subsidizing it with VC money. So your App would have to charge more than Uber does just to make up the VC-funded subsidy, and then throw your $3 on top of that. At that point, why…