What about the environmental impact of resource extraction to create the battery technology? Cobalt, lithium, and other elements that need to be mined from the Earth in (commonly) unstable (politically) countries? Is that included in the calculation? We need to change our lifestyle and car culture, but lubricants and…

I’m wondering what the average life of an electric car will be and how that will compare to gas cars.  Today I would be very nervous to rely on an electric vehicle from 10 years ago. 

I don’t think any of the charges against Ghosn are for embezzlement. He’s being charged pretty much with tax evasion in Japan. Yeah, there’s shady shit going on; but it’s pretty clear from what’s been coming out that Ghosn wasn’t a lone actor in this thing. Nissan was giving him the money willingly. They just did it…

is that what the winged eyeliner look is about? I always wondered

I’m completely okay with AV testing as long as they aren’t testing on the streets I use.

3rd Gear: The wife and I just added to the heat in the used car market. Picking up a 2017 Audi A6 3.0T Premium Plus S-line for less than 45% of sticker tonight. It only has 25k miles and 11 months left on the factory warranty. It’s crazy how much sedans, especially near premium and up, depreciate. And it’s crazy how…

I’m on the fence. That all it takes is one catastrophe, e.g., a child dying, and the whole sector is set back for years

2nd Gear: The whole Ghosn saga is an object lesson in what rich people can get away with just because they’re rich. The dude embezzled millions of dollars from a company and managed to just run away scott free, while an average person would go to jail for shoplifting. It’s absolutely absurd.

Nissan board room - “Gentlemen, project ‘a floating roof in every garage’ has failed. I’m out of ideas.”

Three biggest metrics to a non-Porschephile non-Teslarati performance EV buyer in the United States (me):

/rant  well thought out, rational comment for 2020

It’s the new knee-jerk mentality of society...if you’re not 100% with me, then you’re 100% against me. There is no middle ground or even a desire for compromise anymore. Same though process that makes it so if I mention I support stricter gun laws, then it’s assumed I’m a bleeding heart, pagan or atheist liberal who…

It’s because identity politics are easy.. Regardless of which side of an issue you’re on, it’s less effort to paint everyone who doesn’t agree 100% with you as the enemy.

That’s not how you get clicks, tho...

Apparently you are not from the US.. because that logic doesn’t work there.

Jalopnik is such partisan trash now, and I say that as someone who has never missed an election and never once voted republican..

I’m always amazed by the binary thought process that seems prevalent today - If you’re “this”, you cannot be “that”.

I have a similar resolution... I need to build a new motor and get this rolling again.

That’s a beauty!

Top priority is keeping this thing alive another year. She turned 40!