No one in the Stellantis line up makes a competitive EV. Everything Fiat, Opel, DS, Peugeot and Citroen offers is two full generations behind Tesla and at least a generation behind what Hyundai, Kia, VW, Nissan, Ford, GM and Mercedes will have on the road in 2022.

If I were sitting on the Stellantis board, I’d be looking for some hot M&A action right about now. Nissan (for all its issues) has been in the EV game as long as anyone and picking up their patents and processes seems like a relatively cost effective way to jump ahead in the EV game.

Depending on which nerd you ask, a CyberPunk future is post-apocalyptic. If Elon is imagining a world were corporations have replaced governments, the earth is fouled with pollution and technology runs rampant with no regulation the CyberTruck fits right in.

The answer can only be Bean Dad. Only someone who had to delete their account truly knows the power and the horror of Twitter.

NFTs are here to stay, and some of them will have real value but this is pretty far into the realm of non-sense (or as others have speculated, money laundering).

Despite the raw power numbers coming from the Lucid Air and Model S / 3 performance variants, nobody has really made an EV muscle car yet. I hope Dodge finds a way to make a big, brash vehicles that keep the look and improve the performance of their current offerings in a way that wins over the hemi faithful.

So far so good. She’s seeing about 38 mpg on her commute over the Fiat’s 25mpg, and insurance went down $70 a month. That puts us at a net $350 a month to be in a car that she likes.

4th Gear: If a company can make a good proprietary chipset, there is a real opportunity to open up a competitive advantage. Your chip architecture is a significant influence on cost, processing power, usable inputs and battery efficiency (for EVs).

I just traded in my girlfriends 2013 Fiat 500 with 130k miles on it for $3700. That may not sound like a lot, but two years ago, dealers were only willing to give us a $600 pity fuck for the trade in.

Getting off a 14 hour flight and getting to refresh my shoes sounds fantastic. I hope this makes it to production.

You have to separate the outcomes to do a good regression.

The magic of well constructed studies is that they can correct for demographics like income and age. If you live in a walkable area, you have a lower incidence of disease, live longer, spend less on healthcare, and spend more locally. These things remain true even after you correct for outside factors.

Kind of. There are standards for how much give a hood needs before you hit the engine which can make hoods taller. Jag / LR / Volvo have chose to take on the same problem with an airbag that deploys ahead of a pedestrian impact. 

I’m sure lots of them were distracted and at least some of them were drunk. It’s annoying, and in lots of places you can get a ticket for it.

There is a big omission here in tech for pedestrian and cyclist safety. 6700 folks were killed on the road in 2020 who weren’t in cars. It would be nice to see specific call outs here to address distracted driving, and vehicle design that would lower that body count.

As religious affiliation and church attendance dropped through the 90s and early 2000s “fandom” seems to be one of the things that has taken its place. People look to pop-culture niches for the same sense of identity and community that they would have gotten from from religion in a bygone era. There is an innate…

I borrow one of these on a semi regular basis, and the real world fuel economy is appalling. As soon as you start getting into the turbo, expect to see 19 MPG. It seems insane that they haven’t rolled out a hybrid option to get this thing out of full size pickup gas mileage numbers.

BF1 was my favorite as well. What worked for me was straightforward mechanics and clear class types after coming out of the chaos of MW. There were problems (grenade spam, a few OP weapons); but for the most part they got ironed out over the lifecycle of the game.

2nd: The valuation of EV companies and the valuation defies conventional investing wisdom. With a P/E of 335 Tesla would need to be bringing in ~15X their current revenue in order to justify their valuation under traditional measures.

My cousin has exclusively bought used LS’ for the last 10 years and it was eye opening for me to see just how well these things hold up. He’s taken two of them over 300k just following the PM cycle in the book and they have been quiet and comfortable right up until the day he traded them in.