My guess is homeowners will cut them a check to fix the garage, auto to buy a new car and they’ll both use subrogation to recover the loss dollars from GM due to the recall.

Their website is still up, but last I heard of Elio himself...

I love every bit of this.

The confusion here is that you’re thinking about energy capacity during normal recharge/discharge. The electric potential energy. This case is a matter of combustion of the battery materials - which involves a different exothermic chemical reaction than the simple electric potential energy transfer between anode and…

This is apples and oranges comparison. You’re comparing the normal electric discharge energy of the battery to the thermal combustion energy of gasoline. In this case we’re talking about the thermal combustion energy of the battery. It is normally equal to or greater than what’s in your tank of gas.

It’ll be funny to see the first fully electric Ferrari go on the auction block with only 500 mi in 2040. And while its sitting there with bids reaching a million dollars it spontaneously catches fire.

“When parked, the fire risk is far less, a situation that does not seem to be the case with electric cars.”

Seriously. I read this somewhere last week and people returning to ICE were apartment dwellers, which is the majority of Californians, which is sort-of mentioned here.

There was a dark time (the mid-2000s) when the absolute fastest production Toyota for sale in America was a Rav4.

I’m pretty sure the the Ford Frontenac was the most eventful car ever sold in Canada at the time. Marketing literature confirms.

“more road hugging weight” - Yes, the new Pinto had way more road hugging weight than all those cheap Japanese compacts so it would be both slower and get worse gas mileage. Brilliant.

Exactly! The real headline is that one salesman accounted for over $165 million in sales for FCA.

Pretty sure they still made good money selling all of those cars, this was just a discount after-all (one they should not have received, but I sense a number of those people would not have bought FCA cars otherwise so it worked out)

Is GM just supposed to not re-tool any of their international plants to support next-gen vehicles? The GM response highlighting domestic investment seems spot on.

The only thing dumber than VW’s “Voltswagen” April Fool’s joke is the SEC investigation VW for their “Voltswagen” April Fool’s joke. Except maybe for anyone who speculated on VW’s stock price based on their very dumb “Voltswagen” April Fool’s joke.

Porsche is killing it with colors lately...

3rd Gear:

None of that is grift, you moron. 

Moron: “Gee, they should just can the car business and sell credits.”

LOL...the level of ignorance on this site is actually entertaining - to a limited degree, of course.