Richard Hammond’s Workshop, but keep your expectations low. 

Beyond that, IP doesn’t come for free. They didn’t simply build two products - they designed a platform which they will refine and use in the development in whatever the next generation of its EVs are. They will come out of this with more engineering expertise than they had when they went into this. It takes money to…

They do have upgradable modems - it’s a Telit unit, on it’s own tiny little daughter-board.

Dirt is an amazing paint protector. Makes so bird poop and tree matter doesn’t stick and protects from UV light.

They’ve been pushing really, really hard on marketing in Vancouver. I’ve seen dozens of test-drive events, advertisements of all sorts, media events and so on. I’ve only seen 3? VF8s on the road so far - compared with maybe 5 Model Ys per minute on the road.

We’ve got plenty of them in Vancouver - but that makes sense, as there are so many residents who live in towers, which don’t have car wash areas. There’s no such thing as a DIY car wash at home for many (most?) Vancouver residents.

Insert the entire Honda HR-V rear window fiasco, here. 

I’m a firm believer that the horn should be as loud inside the car as it is outside of the car. Use it when you need to, but don’t be a fucking jerk to everybody around you with it. 

See my reply, above.

If you know of any very large fleets which use hybrid vehicles, try to find out what dealership they use. A local fleet of ~2500 vehicles uses Prius C and Prius near me. They self-insure their fleet - when one gets into a huge crash, they take all of the remaining useful parts from the car and use those parts to…

I’ve done this swap three times - it takes under an hour with no special tools. Removing the interior trim panels takes longer than the entire battery swap!

Absolutely none of them are used in any sort of off road use case. They could be FWD and it wouldn’t matter.

Let’s keep in mind: the Prius Prime and RAV4 Prime have two-year wait lists. It’s not that consumers don’t want them: it’s that they can’t buy them.

https://www.translink.ca/rider-guide/transit-accessibility/handydart

They pick you up at your doorstep and bring you to your destination, round-trip. 

You can almost bet they were in a container by 5am and loaded onto a ship at 6am, with a 7am departure.

Why ruin a Brabus over this? The Brabus features were a lowered suspension, improved shocks, nicer wheels and a different exhaust. This removes nearly everything that makes a Brabus what it is (and it really is by far the best version of the 451 Fortwo!).

Yeah, many times. It’s a lot more punchy than the numbers show. In typical EV fashion, that 160hp isn’t tied to gears or RPM. In real-world, its very Tucson-like in terms of acceleration. 

Theta II, Nu and Theta III (aka SmartStream) are all shit. 

Widening of Highway 1 throughout the Lower Mainland region in BC worked really well - for about six years. It was great from ~2009-~2015 and its backed to being the same gridlocked hellhole as it was in 2008, as people sprawled out into the Valley.

Absolutely nobody bought a Nexo at or anywhere MSRP. The group I work for owns one. When we bought it, it involved a conversation with Hyundai corporate where we talked about how we will promote the car by sharing it between a large group of people. They made it pretty clear that they’re losing an absolute ton of…