To piggyback on this, even within the Mountain region, excitement is likely widely varied. Here in Denver, EVs are all over...sure the infrastructure is more robust, but also destinations are simply closer together when talking about the Front Range. I can drive from Denver to Breckenridge and back in the dead of…

What about something like a Rivian Quad Motor? There’s no mechanical coupling front to back or left to right? However, with a motor powering each wheel, it can effectively send ~200hp to each wheel regardless of the slip or torque being applied to any of the other three. Additionally, while not a feature at the…

Get off “OF” Vance’s couch, not get off “ON” Vance’s couch.

Or even “hey, we have a new propulsion method that is quieter, faster, requires much less maintenance, and you can “fill up” at home every night”

So a 2-door Rivian.

I was born in Germany to US citizens (dad was in the Army) and moved back when I was 2...this should be fun...

Regarding the 911 HQ: I was in high school and had the opportunity to visit Stuttgart (my mom had to go for work, so my dad and I tagged along...because MB/Porsche obviously). It was during that week I learned a very important lesson...Europeans have a summer “holiday” that they take very seriously. Entire place was…

Our 6yr old is fine aside from a booster that we can either bring on or check. It’s our 2yr old, and his stroller, and car seat, and diapers (sometimes hard to find diapers at a resort in Mexico, for example), and clothes, and toys, and sound machine, etc etc etc.

Work Travel: Carry-on only

I do not disagree with you in the slightest (also own an EV...2 actually). However, we absolutely must be cognizant that a very large population in the US currently rents, so being able to install or have access to a home L2 charger is not feasible. Until we see both higher saturation of public fast charging and…

And Rivian. Tons of stories of Rivian owners using the A2Z adapter with pretty much zero issues.

Happened to us in our brand new XC90 with my pregnant wife in tow. Guy drunk off his ass at 11am on Sunday drifted right into my lane. Thankfully was able to pull right enough that he clipped our side instead of smashing us head-on.

(Thankfully everyone, especially unborn baby, was okay. He’s 6.5 now and just as…

BMW i2i

These aren’t mutually exclusive. You can require more of drivers, while also making cars themselves safer at the same time for when human drivers decide to be...human.

It should be categorized as a commercial vehicle (CDL and all), since it’s only true application is for commercial purposes.

Since this is generally a car-focused site, if you’re of the camp “but I don’t want to take transit...I want the freedom of driving as I please from A to B at my leisure”, you probably still want to be an advocate for public transit, as it reduces the number of other cars on the road, and allows you more of that…

I acknowledged that...use your best judgement with that.

Related, window tinting also helps tremendously. We have the rears tinted to 20-25% (I can’t remember exactly) and windshield to something like 60% (I know, there’s likely legality issues on that one), it makes a huge difference driving down busy streets with headlights glaring from the front and the back…

Car wash mode, as others have mentioned, just disables most of the automated sensors so your car doesn’t freak out in the wash. My Land Cruiser would try and open the tailgate whenever I took it to the self service bays and triggered the sensor juuust right. I actually wish more modern cars had this functionality.

But Tesla would still have to provide notice to the state (CA EDD in this case), and I don’t see them listed.