This.  Five years ago, I was on Team Battery Swap, but watching how fast solid-state tech is developing, I’m increasingly bullish that we’re going to be at a manageable range and charge time that renders this approach irrelevant.

When solid state batteries make their way into production electric vehicles, battery swapping will be largely irrelevant imo. Charging times will be quick enough that the added complexity and standardizations of creating a battery swapping infrastructure will be financially unfeasible.

Howdy, I totally understand your questioning. You did not know this, but I had personally encouraged Alex to use his own photography he had happened to take instead of the provided press photos after the fact, but he had not planned on sharing them until I requested them - hence the low selection. In general, we…

I’m on my second Care subscription car now - I was the first Care S60 delivery ever, and two months ago swapped it for an XC40. Both times the only interaction I had with the dealer was purely to pick up the car, outside of servicing of course.

But, a v10 sports car affects the manufacterer’s CAFE satandards as a Car, even though it is less likely to be used as an everyday car than a truck. It is subject to the Gas Guzzler tax. It can’t be fully written off as a business expense. The issue isn’t that trucks exist, it’s that they are treated specially despite…

Pickup trucks are being used as everyday transportation so they should meet the exact same standards for fuel efficiency as other passenger vehicles. The government has created incentives for this arms race by having easier regulations for “light trucks”. Fix the incentives and maybe things will come back into balance.

That was really well written. Thank you.

Did you read the article or just skip it to post that?

The E60 was definitely the best of the Bangle era, true then and true now.

It’s 15" shorter, 5" more narrow, and 3.5" lower than the Atlast Cross Sport.

I imagine that Finland has very consistently cold weather in the winter which means switching to snow tires is fine. However, a lot of places in the United States can have wild swings from warm to cold temperatures. Based on the best information I can find, winter tires are only rated for temperatures below 45°F…

Across a 50 foot median, into a tree, across a couple more lanes, and off the road? With no time to react?  Come on man. 

You comment enough on here to know none of that has anything to do with AWD adoption.

One more because I’m wasting time I should be spending on actual work.

Have you not met the average American consumer?

MCAS has been sufficiently neutered so that it can’t do what it did before the crashes*. Even so, I have no doubt pilots will have their hand ready to flip the trim cutout switches if that thing so much as twitches**.

I haven’t been following the Max debacle but among my friend that do fly it, none of them are worried, they had the proper training prior to the aircraft and now have again been trained with an additional simulator session for the specific issue

I wouldn’t hesitate one bit to fly on the Max. If you have hesitations, research the stabilizer trim runaway procedure. Long story short, runaway trim can technically happen on any plane, and that’s what was happening when the MCAS issues were occuring(which has been fixed). The stabilizer runaway trim procedure that…

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