Unfortunately our founding fathers didn’t have the foresight to write sawzalls into the constitution… ergo we cannot have catalytic converters and we must eliminate all property taxes, dismantle the Department of Transportation and the EPA.

If VW and BMW really wanted to get into a price war, they would have the cash in hand to sell cars at a loss until Tesla implodes, and they wouldn’t even get into big trouble with shareholders if the owner families were in on the plan.

I didn’t see it as ALS at all.

By the time of those scenes where Frank is clearly symptomatic, he’s both in their late-40s/early-50s. By that age, ALS has either rendered the sufferer almost completely infirm (think Stephen Hawking), or they’re long dead (think Lou Gehrig, who died within 2 years of being symptomatic,…

You are all wrong, NWO was a Hulk Hogan/Scott Hall/Kevin Nash thing.

that strawberry scene totally smacked me back of the head with some emotions.

I’m in agreement. “The average residential electricity rate in the U.S. is 16.09 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh).” [1] A Nissan Leaf uses about 30 kWh/100 miles [2]. Let’s say charging efficiency is around 85% [3] so it takes about 35.3 kWh to replenish the battery. That means the “fuel” cost for 100 miles would be…

Yeah. Dan Harmon. He says his name right up there.

Money is a helluva drug.

Kind of like Tesla did when they changed their prices overnight, right?

The Fuego threw me because I first thought it might have been a Euro or south American spec. I’d never seen one in the US with flush composite headlights, but a close look reveals those are sealed-beams but with covers. Aftermarket covers were a thing in the 80s, so it’s plausible. I also remember Fuegos as having…

I love how people say things like “there are still the dirty parts about EV’s no one wants to talk about” when literally every article and comment thread about EVs is chock full of misinformation about how batteries can’t be recycled (they can), or how lithium and rare earth mining is uniquely harmful (it isn’t), or…

What is up with the fucking 4 foot beds? I own an old Tacoma with a 6 foot bed and its SUPER useful.... and I use ALL 6 feet of that bed. Anything shorter would be useless. Its like every time one of these small trucks come out, they get it about 75% of the way. Make it a 6 footer? Take my money. A 4 foot bed? What’s…

Hear me out... small electric pickup - shaped like a triangle.

Renault wants to change that, with two electric crossovers targeted specifically at U.S. buyers.

Look, stop trying to prevent us from reaching Mars by 2029 with full self driving cars that will be ready by the end of 2020. It’s like you don’t get science!

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No one is going to “force” anyone to buy an EV. Just like no one is going to come and take anyone’s guns, force anyone to be transexual, or make them stop celebrating Christmas.

Very unpopular car opinion: We should heavily dis-incentivize owning large vehicles: require extra licensing to drive them, tax them extra at time of purchase and tax them extra on license renewal.

Owning an SUV or pickup truck should cost significantly more than a normal car (with cut outs for businesses owning…

There’s no shortage of “rare earth metals”. Its a misnomer. These metals are, however, expensive to get out of the earth in this country, but cheaper in other countries. We have plenty of metal in the US, just no will to get it from the ground in a sustainable, practical, economical, and humane way.

I know concepts are just a glimpse at what a manufacturer is aspiring to... but concepts like this help to convince me that most, if not all, manufacturers are aiming to build cars for people that hate driving. I wish federal and state governments would put more money and energy into public transit to give people…