Nope you’re right - they made one Grey. Probably for promo purposes. Looks so much better than the white ones though.

It’s Sony though-it would be like 150k for no apparent reason.

Yep. Used to ask why my parents wouldn't buy an electric car since they commute 50-100 miles a day. Turns out they'd get practically nothing from these credits but I would get the full value. If they're not flat rebates they just benefit the people who don't need it.

Great now dealers can put a 10k plus markup on it, like this Telluride with a 15k markup:

He is - they already announced it last year, though I imagine it has been delayed like everything else:

I wouldn't mind picking one up in a few years as a work commute car. Wouldn't pay more than 10k for it though.

Especially in CA with AC and radio blasting in traffic. I'm really not sure what they were thinking here.

That’s how Tesla swaps tend to work, and they’re way more viable than this drop in currently is for that reason.

Yeah I didn’t check the numbers with a Tesla pack because they’re 2-3x as expensive as a leaf one on a already pricy conversion but I’d guess you could probably get the 150 mile range I mentioned in my first comment by using one, depending largely on the car. Of course at that point using an absurdly efficient and…

My landlord has a Jensen Healey project car with a dead motor, and I’ve often thought it would be a fun rear only hub motor conversion. It’s small, light, and given that it would be used for Sunday drives could probably get away with a 20 mile range. It’ll never see a track and needed a new suspension anyways, so it…

In theory, yes. In practice, the energy density of batteries is far too low to make that practical. Using the Volvo S90 as an example (because it has a plugin-electric and gas version so we don’t have to guess at efficiencies), with a leaf battery pack as a baseline (since they’re the only ones readily available) we…

Yeah this idea is phenomally dumb until energy density goes up. You end up with some junked leaf batteries and 40 miles of range since the ex-ICE car doesn’t have room for a battery pack designed into it. Best chance on conversions is hub motors and filling the trunk and front with batteries, but then it’d handle like…

This is my exact experience. Full signal 5g and it takes 20s to do anything because it wasn’t actually connected because having the modem on kills the battery. Meanwhile you can load 2 pages on 4g before the 5g modem evwn connects and starts downloading the first. I just run 4g now. 5g is shit.

Yeah isn't that just the dissmiss behavior?

I’ve said it before but I want a new Ford Probe. Long-ass hatchback with more cargo space than a crossover with the seats folded down that’s fun as hell to drive. Too bad Ford doesn't even make cars any more.

The past few years even before the 13th felt like they lost the light hearted passion and were going through the motions of the Doctor without the soul of it imo.

Really? I was hopeful for that one.  I'm slogging through S2 on Disc now and it's a SLOG. Was kind of hoping Picard would be a refreshing reminder of trek of old :(

And he was so salty he did this gem/turd:

If you’re ever in a position where you need to replace one of these (for example if you own a Civic and one comes off the $200 engine splash plate) you can do it with some hardware from home depot and a nail to punch (or drill) a hole in the sheet metal:

As dumb as thede markups are, consumers will pay them. A cousin of mine just paid a 5k markup on a RAV4. Like wtf.