“Daddy, why does that car have a Hitler moustache?”

The perils of too much Botox.

Honda has also got to make better electric cars and hybrids. The Clarity Electric is brand spanking new and has HALF the range of the Leaf despite being MORE expensive.

Blame the Confederacy for ruining the perfectly adequate concept of a “confederation” by associating it with the evils of slavery and treason. Doesn’t excuse the company for making the doltish decision to choose that name, though. Reminds me of caught neo-Nazis objecting that the swastika is an unfairly maligned…

This is great news! Anything which raises the profile of electric drivetrains and gets people thinking about motors as a viable alternative to engines is a good thing.

Sweet Jesus, it looks like the Hoffman, but made of wood. I only hope that’s where the similarities end.

Aside from “handsome,” arguably.

The i3's primary problem is that it’s too expensive for not enough range. The thing is fun to drive, the interior is cutting-edge, but it would make overwhelmingly more sense at $25,000 than at $45,000. That’s just excessive.

I don’t care if he has a face like a Greek god, a vibrating dick, and shits solid gold. You deserve better.

The correct answer is the solution being devised by Google’s Sergei Brin in a secretive hangar in California: giant Zeppelin luxury liner.

It need not even be a plug-in hybrid. The Voltec Malibu is a normal hybrid with a small 1.5 kWh battery and 183 horsepower. It carries a cost premium of about $2000 over the normal non-hybrid model, which is less than the damn diesel. It would probably get better MPG than the diesel, too.

The Voltec Malibu has 183 horsepower, making the high-strung little diesel an even more baffling decision. It’s got to move 3700-4000 pounds, for chrissakes.

I forgot about the Voltec Malibu. That makes it even worse!

Yeah, part of the reason that diesels can go half a million miles in some cases is that they’re half a ton of pig iron pushing out maybe 150-200 horsepower. This, by contrast, is a highly compressed, highly stressed little thing, with lots of complicated bits that would probably love to break. I’m not expecting it to…

Chevrolet Equinox 1.6 Diesel: 137 peak horsepower, 240 lb-ft peak torque

I cannot be the only one to see the resemblance to those big orange lobe-headed fish.

HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE. HATE.

I don’t understand how you can hate something so cute and guileless. It has pop-up headlights!

Ask and ye shall receive. There already exist EV conversion kits for things like the Beetle, Bus, MR2, Porsches, and... well, Things. The latest ones are starting to use salvaged Tesla modules—though those are still selling for about $260/kWh (Tesla’s building them for about $100/kWh but doesn’t sell the modules…

Are you kidding? Mr. Regular sounds like Frank Sinatra compared to some other YouTube voice “talents.”