Cheapest, period? Maybe a nice used 944 or 944 Turbo...? Cheapest new car, meanwhile, might be a Jetta Sport?

They’re Schroedinger’s Astronauts!

“Then low income people have no relief.” Then make it deductible from income tax. Meanwhile, we can still have a road tax, based on weight and miles driven, to raise money for the roads (‘cause you’re right, BEVs should pay too), while the carbon tax captures the cost of pollution currently unrealized in the market,…

What’s the difference if it’s only going to be in your car for one (dis-)charge cycle, until you re-swap?

Should hit the guy on the head.

I’m not sure how smashing his windshield protected her. She shoulda smashed him with the hammer.

Why make it yearly? Raise the gas tax.

I wouldn’t do anything to the auto industry per se. I’d get rid of CAFE, and EV mandates, and all the subsidies for the oil industry, and replace it all with a carbon tax that more accurately reflects the economic costs of greenhouse gas pollution, like at least $1-$2/gallon (on not only gasoline but all carbon…

So in other words... not custard. But clickbaiters gotta clickbait. And I wonder how durable this will be with that rubber constantly flexing... neat idea though.

Yeah, I remember those - why did they go away?

Uh, sure, if someone were buying a million Starbucks coffees, I suppose. I don’t ask that everyone live like an ascetic monk, but at some point it gets, um, sinful?

Yes, by “scrap” I meant shavings that could be returned/melted down/etc. not thrown away.

Why should I have to pay for a data plan for my car when I have a perfectly good phone that runs a nav app that I’m used to, and can preload with directions/destinations from my home PC before I leave the house? And I don’t use Spotify or Apple Music, I use the Google ecosystem. Oh, and I forgot - Uck Feelon, I would…

You still have to buy it as a rectangular billet, though, I’d think.

Add to the others: No AndroidAuto/CarPlay.

A panel has a 3-dimensional shape. The customer wanted each panel milled from a single piece, so each billet has to have the maximum of each of the three dimensions of that panel. Most of which, of course, gets milled away into scrap.

I doubt they’d use pure Al, it would be some alloy like 7075. Which based on quick/possibly incorrect googling is about $13K per ton.

By milling them, they could possibly have milled stiffening ribs into the back side of the panels, instead of welding them onto stampings which could have discolored or distorted the aluminum.

What... an... asshole. Yeah it’s his money and he can do whatever he wants with it yadda yadda yadda... but do you know how many meals for the homeless all those cars’ worth of money could have bought?

Are there actually people who don’t know this? I guess so... I mean, just this morning I was behind some idiot at a traffic light, who was pulled up where they were supposed to be, but then tried to back up (with me behind them); I guess because they thought they shouldn’t be right at the line or something...?!