Brno

Aimee’s got ya covered:

inspire New Yorkers to stand in lines that wrap around the block.

sure, why not?

I’ve seen her live twice. 

I was surprised that Sohla El-Waylly wasn’t at Serious Eats for very long. Wonder if BA made a bunch of lofty promises that turned out to be a bill of goods.

CATL looks like they have eyes on becoming the 800 lb gorilla in China, as far as battery suppliers go.  And I’m sure the Chinese government will make sure they have an advantage over foreign competition. 

the new USMCA North American trade agreement is causing some problems. That includes strangling American aluminum production due to cheaper metal flowing in from Canadian suppliers.

gotta love advertising artwork back then. like the old Pontiac “wide track” ads from the ‘50s.

you’d think after 80 years Goofus would have got his damn shit together. 

the inverse of

They are making money on them.

that’s not it. these insane valuations come from two possible things:

That is in part because investors apparently don’t believe legacy car companies like GM can pull off an electric car.

You think that Spark is costing anything to produce now?

yep, “loss leaders” are fine, except when they still cost you billions of dollars to develop. 

I have never been to Nebraska and don’t see myself paying it a visit anytime soon,

That just means Jaguar didn’t announce it until it was almost ready to ship.  Cadillac announced these at the concept stage.  I doubt it took Jaguar much less time to develop it, other than the time save of basing it on an ICE model.

It’s funny, people crap on GM because of their misses and stumbles over the years, but fawn over Jaguar who made nothing but literal shit until Ford bought them.  But hey, it’s British shit so it must be better even if it doesn’t work, right?

Yeah, that’s why they sell 3 million vehicles a year.