Yes, it is important for Ford to recognize that factory workers have been working in person through this pandemic. It seems obvious but it has created tension at the automakers including the one I work for.

Buying a project car, buying all the parts you want to update, tearing the car down to pieces, and then losing interest or finding hidden issues that stop the project. This is usually followed by the car sitting in pieces for years and then being sold off for pennies on the dollar.

He was good enough to be one of the very few people paid to play a game. That is impressive alone and he played for more than a decade.

I’ve said from day one that Lordstown motors was just a shell company to off-load the failed Workhorse W-15 project.  (Steve Burns is the former CEO of Workhorse.)

Car companies collect all sorts of data from your car’s computers including location and they scrub data from your phone when you connect to their infotainment.

If you have a relatively new car it is likely tracking way more than you think. From a Washington Post article:

They are known to be reliable and inexpensive mid-drives. A larger motor is also underutilized compared to a smaller one. I would much rather have a large motor working at 50% of peak output than a small motor giving 100%

How is giving everyone that buys an EV the same $7500 tax credit a moral hazard?

2nd Gear:

Two problems with tax credits

E-bikes can really help to make bicycle commuting more viable over longer distances. A reasonable commute doubles when you can cruise along at 30 mph instead of 15. One of my co-workers commuted 25 miles each way on an e-bike he made.

The first thing to know is that a 1000 watt hub motor is much less powerful than a 1000 watt mid-drive motor. What matters is torque at the wheel. With a hub motor the rated torque is the wheel torque. With mid-drive the motor torque is multiplied by the drive ratio. So if you had a 10 tooth front sprocket and a 30…

These (and electric car incentives) should be a point of sale rebate. The seller deducts the rebate from the purchase price and then files a form with the Feds. This is no different than a lot of dealer incentive run by manufacturers.

Mid-drives = good

That really depends on where you live. My wife an I moved to Portland, Oregon about 7 years ago and this is the first place in the 5 states that we have lived that has bike lanes Where we lived in AL and TN didn’t even have sidewalks so driving was the only option to get anywhere safely.

I agree means testing is counterproductive but for different reasons.   Means testing takes a simple idea and make it time consuming and costly to administer.   It also almost always turns these into a income tax credit - which is stupid. Instead of paying full price and then filing taxes to get a refund at tax time…

Multi-billion dollar corporations already required this out. EV battery cell usage by type:

You left out the Ford Escape PHEV. Lots of top 25 vehicles have hybrid options but PHEVs are still pretty rare.

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The trademark images already leaked: