Well that kind of happens with Ed Bolian, Tavarish and Hoovie with the Car Trek cars lol. They tend to get sold around to each other or other CarTubers, heck even the Car Wizard has ended up with a handful. Frankly it’s the only way doing something like this makes sense cost wise. It’s going to cost an arm and a leg…

Shit I would take it one further, I would bar anyone in the house and senate from sponsoring, participating or voting on legislation that benefits any company they own stock in. If you own stock in say Boeing voting for say a military bill that helps them gives you incentive to support that bill since if their stock…

That’s what annoys me with EV’s and performance, like that additional torque is ALREADY there, but they are locking it behind a paywall. With ICE cars sure you can have a higher performance version, like the variations on a Camaro or Vette, but those are different ECU tunes, and sometimes engine modifications at the…

Funny this popped up in my YouTube feed at home last night, haven’t watched it yet.

The REAL question is who finishes first this guy or Tavarish with his P1

They don’t even need to ask your zip code they get a LOT of information about your location just based on your IP address and yes airlines charge you different amounts based on where you are. Linus Tech Tips did a video on it ages ago using a VPN to move their virtual location. And it’s not just cheap airlines a lot…

putting in an aftermarket chip is different than the factory just clicking a box, boom more power. Also no where does it say the battery or motors are changed in this car, they say specifically say the battery is the same. EV makers have been using over sized/powered motors for quite a while. I was watching an ep of…

Disagree, like aside from suspension modifications they changed nothing what so ever on the “internals” they literally just clicked a button in software, boom additional 100hp. Meaning it could have had, again aside from suspension changes, 615 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque from the start, this is no…

I mean that’s neat but it’s an EV, power in an EV is simple.

That’s kind of my position.  It’s not quite paid off yet, but hell if I can trade it in for something like 20k might not be a bad deal to get something newer lol. Especially having driven it for 5 years, at this point, it’s not quite driving it for free but it’s darn close for a regular ass car.

LOL right, it I had the money and more importantly a way to charge at home I might look for one.  Unforutnately while I do own my home I have no garage not a single outdoor outlet and what is almost certainly asbestos tile in the outside LOL, so mounting a charger would be an issue. I’m in a rare situation with a…

It is, and I have the V8, it’s got the pep when you need it and it can cruise at highway speed like it’s nothing, power really kicks in about 2500-3000 rpm. It’s big its comfy has the tech I want, and the V8 still carries a premium. The local CJD dealer called me trying to buy it for used inventory, and I was like the…

“This is pretty much the poster child scenario of why it’s NOT good for people to be as armed and paranoid as the GOP establishment wants them to be.”

Well good, we need a breakthrough it energy density so we can have a usable real world 300 mile range in not an almost 5000 pound car.

Oh yeah I dig the look, and they actually aren’t massive, we have a couple in town. But like you I don’t need a truck, always wanted one, but I have no real use case. If I could afford one and had a way to charge I would totally trade in my 2020 300S, even 5 years later it’s still worth damn near what I paid, I…

Good luck convincing a sitting president, the member of the house and senate to decrease military spending, doubly so with Russia doing what it’s doing not to mention China testing the waters literally and figuratively in the South China Sea. I’m not saying the money isn’t there, but convincing the people in Washington…

That just bolsters my point, though for different reasons lol. Even if we subsidized like crazy we are already starting from a losing position just in terms of cost. And unfortunately new commercial roll out of new battery tech is a bit like fusion it’s always seems a few years away.

Investing in it’s future is fine, and should the US have subsidized EV tech, probably, but even then we still couldn’t compete on a cost of production level with China, that’s the primary problem. And frankly no developed country can compete with China on that basis except maybe an India or other country in the area…

Well the problem is, first China is massively subsidizing their EV industry to the tune of about $15 billion US a year, they are also well know for stealing IP, I would be curious how much of their EV tech is stolen EV tech from other automakers, versus fully home grown, and second the pay difference for employees in…

LOL I have done the same thing. Looking at the local Ford dealer the F-150 XLT, the step below you start getting special names, are in the mid 60's in that SAME price range you can get a BMW 3 series, a 530i and a M340i so your average Ford F-150, non special named models, are BMW 3 series prices now. And if you go…