Just as with anything in life, there are limitations. Yes, there are some areas where solar doesn’t make sense. Hell, even here in sunny Florida, if your roof is too shaded due to trees, solar panels won’t really work. (The trees shading the house reduce the need to cool it in the summer, so don’t say cut down the…

I really like your idea 3) regarding solar panels and such becoming required for new construction. But I think you miss an opportunity as well.

Think about it this way: would you want to negotiate your groceries? Or your pants? Or just about anything mass produced, like computers, televisions, etc? Or do you assume that the store is selling you the item at a fair price, at or near the MSRP given out by the manufacturer?

Maybe the Lucid and others like it will bring back the idea of real luxury is an executive sedan, like in the days of the past. No CEO wanted to be driven in a station wagon or wagon like pickup truck, they wanted to be in the rear seat of a limousine, or luxury sedan like an S Class, 7 Series, or such. I could easily…

Bonus: the customer is responsible for mistakes while ordering. No comping stuff because the customer claimed they wanted a chicken sandwich and they got a burger instead. Who punched in the order? Why, you did, Karen, so no, we don’t need a manager, do we? Want a burger, no problem, go to the kiosk and order one, and…

Well, they are likely to do with the existing ICE fleet what European cities are doing. Not banning them, but making it almost impossible to use one as a daily driver. Most larger EU cities already ban ICE vehicles in city centers, or charge the drivers a fee to go into those zones in their ICE vehicles. It’s fairly…

It was 1960 when JFK famously stated that the USA would, by the end of the decade, go to the moon. NASA landed the Eagle in July of 1969.

Stellantis needs to take a step back, look at branding, and then hit the chopping block and kill off more than a few names.

This is the conundrum caused by not requiring trucks to meet all regulations and requirements as passenger cars, all while being sold as passenger vehicles. The loopholes and lack of requirements that we take for granted in cars never really got enforced on pickups and truck-based SUVs, which the OEMs loved and used…

The problem with your idea is that the court, no matter how it is populated, is going to be populated by people who were put in office by the grace of the corporate overlords. Congressional approval is required, along with nomination by the POTUS, and they are both beholden to the money provided by corporations. The…

Citizens United doomed the current constitution of the United States. As long as a corporation has the same rights as a human, then we have no chance of ever reigning in the will of large, rich corporate entities over politics and governance.

Well, really, if they just would have not called a driver assist feature autopilot, or called it fully self driving they would be fine. They were basically told not to call it what it is NOT. And please notice that every other OEM that has some driver assist feature does not call it something that makes people believe…

The problem with selling in Europe is that the pesky EU overlords tend to want the product being sold to be produced in Europe. By Europeans. Expensive European workers. In expensive European factories. That are often overly overseen by EU officials. Does GM own any more factories over there? No. Does GM employ any…

The issue with the old Dart was that it was, like almost every other Mopar product of the last 30 years, a recycled old product of the current European owner of Chrysler. Going back to the Concorde/Intrepid - a reworked Renault 21 - to the Dart - the previous generation Alfa Gulia, Mopar sedans were largely not…

This does not mention in the article whether the defaults are mainly with subprime lenders or with non-subprime, regular banks and other lenders. Because if the issue is that the subprime loans are the ones increasing, that is almost expected. The default rate on those loans are still lower than “normal”. If the…

The Toyota Sienna hybrid would be a great choice. Tons of room for passengers or luggage or both, and the hybrid version gets really good mileage.

Ok, question. What was the cash burn at Tesla when it was in it’s infancy? How close to bankruptcy was it before it ramped up production? And how hard did Wall Street judge it at the same point of development as it is judging Rivian?

It’s like when a tornado goes through a trailer park and does $1 million in improvements.....

China used the “we finance anyone” game with Kenya and a host of other countries. Poor countries, with limited budgets, who wanted new infrastructure but could not finance it on their own. And China knew that like most situations where someone is a bad credit risk, the end result would likely be default. But China…

I would assume it is because the Japanese Rail companies are asking for their true worth in the cost of contracts, and that price scares away damned near everyone.