I’m so tired of the EVs vs. ICE debate. It’s become so political and mirrored to the Democrat vs. Republican division in this country. I drive both an EV and a ICE SUV. There are enormous advantages and disadvantages to both vehicles. We do need cleaner technology, less tail pipe emissions in the middle of cities and…

Traditionally, resale is a real concern to automakers. Resale governs both consumers’ perception of value (and thus your pricing power as an automaker) and lease residuals (which has a huge impact on the economics of what kind of lease deals you can offer). Now, different automakers are concerned to different degrees…

I know this will sound not nice and I do mean this sincerely.... but if you have any form of financial difficulty affording a vehicle then its probably not a great idea to buy it. Take care of your retirement fund, pay off debts if you have em’ and when the time and place is right, maybe revisit. You’ve also got to…

Ask and ye shall receive

You didn’t teach me anything that I well know, and you didn’t answer my question, either. By how many degrees over what time period will the temperature change.

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Huh, who’d have thought..... The EPA yet again making demands with no valid plan on how to achieve them.

MPGe is stupid. Fix:
1) Switch to energy per distance. (ie liters/km, gallons/mi, kw/mi.)
2) Include an energy cost assumption. (already done.)
3) Annual Fuel Cost for 15k miles (already done.)

MPG is stupid and its been discussed forever. Just google it. Eliminating inefficient cars, trucks, vans, SUVs from the road is…

I’m 73 and have never owned a new car. I couldn’t see paying that much on an object that depreciates so fast. Instead, I buy used cars (mostly Mopars) for cash and drive them far past 200,000 miles. It makes for a low cost per mile. When I was young, people traded in their old car for a new one every three years. My…

1st Gear: I’m gonna guess that Lordstown Motors will be dead by 2024 or sooner. Between the F150 Lightning, Rivian trucks and the upcoming trucks from GM, Stellantis, Tesla and others, they’re fucked.

2nd gear and 5th gear is clearly writing on the wall that all is not rosy with car makers taking the plunge into a pure EV strategy. If it was, Polestar would not be posting operating losses of nearly $1B. Sure, some of that is still incurring the initial costs of R&D, new platform development, and tech to productioniz…

Neutral: We haven’t bought an EV or a hybrid because we don’t need a new car. A plug in hybrid is very likely in our future, but it will be at least 2 years before we make our next car purchase barring any unforeseen circumstances. Even then it will be because the spawn will be getting a hand me down once he has a…

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this. It seems all these EV companies were vastly over valued and now everything is coming back to earth. I’ve said it a million times here that I hope Rivian and Lucid survive, but wouldn’t be shocked if they don’t. Making and selling cars is super fucking hard and expensive and there’s a reason only one American…

“At the moment, Wyoming has all of 330 EVs registered in the entire state.”

I’m seeing prices from $10k less (for a little older but similar mileage) to $10k more (for a little newer with 40-50k miles).

Pop rivetted fender flares is a look that needs to die.  Like yesterday.

In my opinion Tesla is where its at because the CEO has lost interest in it. Their entire product lineup looks very dated. They should have been rolling out new designs per each new model launch. As it stands now their current design overall is approaching 12 years old. And its not like the original design was…

May I present a counter argument.

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