“a blatant violation of the separation of powers”

My parents have the Ioniq 5 so I’ve driven it a bit.  I dont feel like I’m driving an SUV (which is all I currently have).  The storage space with the rear seats folded down feels pretty ample but it depends on your needs.  The lease deals on them right now are nuts too, so you could sell your Model 3 and drive the…

We decided to lease a Chevy Equionox EV. So far its been great. And in light of Elon... glad we didn’t get a Tesla.

This law is exactly why Biden was forced to pay for some of the border wall.  Law was passed by Congress and Biden had to spend the money on it.

Hood scoops are mostly for top-mount intercoolers. The top-mount makes some functional sense for something like a rally car where a low-slung front mount intercooler is likely to be damaged. Rally racing was the first racing series where street-like vehicles embraced turbocharging and a lot of the earlier turbo cars…

What the hell are you talking about? Not a single mention of top mount intercoolers in the article? Since when are hood scoops routing to air intakes?

This is a psychological issue not a practical one. You get to fill your car at home and have anywhere from 100 to 300 miles to exploit daily. Do you really think you will find yourself in a dangerous part of town after driving around for 300 miles in one day?

Nope. They will drive their F-150 on their daily, 60-mile round trip commute AND bitch about the price of gas.

That doesn’t seem to be in our cards.

Much as oil-barons and their toadies in DC want, EVs are not going away. EVs are FAR better as appliance-like personal transportation (less maintenance, instant acceleration, smoother operation, no gas station visits) than slow, noisy ICE vehicles.

Hey Red-Hat dipshits! Know what would be a great way to keep costs for working folks down?

My observation is that there’s a not-insignificant part of the population that just likes being angry all the time and there’s a whole media ecosystem happy to cater to them. They’re agitated about whatever they’re told to be agitated about which is why, for example, they complain about EV subsidies rather than billion…

So many anti-EV arguments are simply idiotic, like factoring in the R&D costs to develop an EV but not doing the same for it’s ICE equivalent (yes, there’s an R&D cost to developing a new ICE vehicle). I remember a decade ago reading a moronic screed in “Reason” that compared the TCO for a Prius vs. a Hummer H2. Among…

The actual inconvenience is rapidly becoming perceived inconvenience, in my opinion, since you can get to 80% charge in 15 min these days. On a road trip it is not imperceivable to spend that much time stretching, getting something to eat/drink, use the bathroom. Of course there needs to be enough chargers to handle…

Back when I leased a Volt in 2011, some people on the automotive forum I read lost their minds. Suddenly, everyone was an ‘expert’ on CO2 emissions and whatever. Also, Total Cost of Ownership compared to a Corolla or similar.

I once really wanted a Tesla and now its a non-starter.  Less than zero interest.

“The value of Tesla’s brand dropped for a second straight year”

I replaced my Model 3 with an EV made in a country where Musk could have been arrested for that salute. Irony. 

No company is completely innocent (just look at all the banks accused of fraud or robbing their own customers). But these days I will settle for the companies whose CEOs aren’t making “awkward hand gestures” during public appearances.

Not that General Motors is a innocent lil’ angel of a company... but I’m pretty glad we chose to get an Equinox EV instead of a Tesla. In fact- I’d say Elon just helped GM and probably anyone else who makes an EV a lot.