Buick Envision - only made in China.

I wish you were right, but let’s look at history.

Karma is a bitch, ain’t she?

Industries die all the time. Please remember that.

That’s it. People realized that no job is often better than a shit job. And having no job qualifies you for public assistance that magically goes away the minute you take a low paying job. When having a job requires you to have transportation, child care, and such, you have to make the money to cover those expenses,…

The best thing is to do away with ‘classifications’ that are so loose as to allow all kinds of exceptions and just have one standard for vehicles. If pickups and SUVs that are sold as passenger vehicles, make them meet the same rules and regulations. Period.

I see your point, and certainly agree now that you raise the point. Hydrogen as a fuel, created using water and fusion generated electricity, would be a great form of fuel for most transportation. Planes, trains, ships and automotive engines running on hydrogen would be ideal.

Well, the North American way may not be building fission nuclear plants, but France is a prime example of a country that invested heavily in that form of energy, and yet it still is not energy independent. They realized early on that they had “no oil, no coal, and no choice” and went all in on nuclear. They even are…

Interesting that the news is talking about how nuclear fusion is finally at a point where it gives out more energy than it takes to produce. This has been the goal of clean, sustainable energy for some time, and it may well be a viable commercial option within the next 25 years (hopefully much less time).

The problem is that Volvo did bring it back - the C30.

Do you realize that if you go online to shop for any car that the dealer who gets the lead has protocols for the internet sales team to call you three times a day for the next 2 days, email twice a day, and text once, along with follow ups weekly for up to 6 weeks before they will close the lead? That’s quite a few…

1st Gear: Hyundai and BMW are Planning New U.S. Battery Plants

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Wow, somebody got a nerve touched.

Wait, you hate CFA but you especially hate the breading on a chicken filet that you obviously don’t eat since you hate the brand. I guess you don’t hate the politics enough to never patronize the company. -s

Eh, Ford made a bet that a lot of dealers would go with the EV push and even gave smaller franchises the option of only upgrading partially while still getting up to 25 units per year allocated. That’s a safe bet for a lot of smaller franchises. Are they going to get 25 or more sales of EVs in a year in the next few…

I used 5 blocks only as an example. “Close by” is all relative, don’t you agree? I don’t want to piss in the cornflakes of those who are physically able to ride or walk longer distances, but as one aging out, you don’t find it easy to hop on a bike to ride a couple of miles to pick up food and medicines needed for…

I agree, but the premise of the question was “whether you’ve hopped on a bicycle to do some of your commuting or errand-running. Why or why not?” and I said “here’s why not.” It’s not an either/or situation in reality, but the idea of the masses doing a lot of transportation via bicycles for anything but casual…

Neutral: What Would it Take to Get You on a Bike?

Good insight from someone who was there, and had skin in the game. Yeah, Yugo was far from perfect, but then, in 1986, there was not a lot of small hatchbacks that were that much better for the price. And the people buying them knew what they were getting at that price point.