When I left a cubicle job, I promised myself that I would turn to one of several considered criminal careers before returning to such a thing and I was even able to spend some time on the production floor, so it wasn’t like I was stuck in the cubicle all day every day. Still too much.

I don’t see why cars would be any different—it goes back to the guy who filed the theft report unless insurance paid out, in which case, it would be theirs. This Miami guy should be SOL, plain and simple. You’d think someone buying a 7-figure car would have it looked into, but oh well. Now he can go after whoever he…

I wish we lived in a world where electric velomobiles were a viable form of transport.

It all depends on what you’re looking for. IMO, hub motors (there are geared and direct-drive versions) are better for a simple, cheap build of lower power (especially if you’re putting one on the front wheel). Mid-drives are more efficient, more expensive, and can not only put out more power with better control, but…

What about DIY jobs? That would greatly offset the cost of a good motor and battery and can be cheaper than buying for someone who isn’t as wealthy and has a cheap/free bike they can convert.

Wow, that truck is a steal! Even I like those and that would likely be close to double the price in the Boston area.

Under 1k miles. So, once all the dry-rotted parts are replaced, it has about 10k miles before it needs a transmission. I kind of liked the looks of the Eagle Vision version when they were new, but they were all junk and all but disappeared from the roads years ago, well ahead of their contemporaries. Only thing this…

Which tax bracket do I need to be in to eliminate people and the government won’t unfairly hassle me over it? I’ve been pretty content with where I am, but if there was something to aim for, maybe I could be motivated to really get ahead.

They could have even just bumped it inadvertently, maybe reaching back in across the seat for something after it was hooked up. I’m a bit paranoid and would check that thing at least 30 times before climbing into the RV (not that I’d ever own one), but a moment of distraction for someone less so and I could see that…

Isn’t the challenge the point? Should nobody race in the rain, either? Adaptability of the drivers is what separates the good or the one-trick ponies from the great. And not just the drivers, but which team can come up with the best compromise package for the conditions without shaking apart and then something very dif…

This! Great, they won’t have to worry about getting complicated things right like oil pickups or mechanical fuel pumps that don’t eat cam lobes with the move to electric, but electrical systems are also pretty damn far from their strong suit. Maybe they could do become consultants in panel gap alignment and lending a s…

Was going to post about the same thing. There are already a number of zombie brands, but once everything goes electric, there will be even less to set them apart from each other. The ones that are stuck with an identity based on the long past and soon to be outdated tech with little to set themselves apart now don’t…

While this is true, most people also want range. To get range, you need a big, expensive battery (or a vehicle of a form factor and compromises that nobody but me and fifty others would want and only six would actually buy). When you have that big battery with its high cost, it makes sense to throw in a bigger motor…

Right, I added that after and didn’t edit the last sentence to fit.

I think the blue might be down to the coincidental introduction of mass market blue LEDs and they kind of got associated with each other as an indicator of modernity. I prefer the other colors, partly because the human eye doesn’t see blue light with the same clarity as colors with longer wavelengths within our…

No problem. I know ICE really well, but this stuff is fairly new to me, too, and I had to kind of gather this stuff together from different sources while figuring out an electric kayak build. Jalopnik should probably be looking into doing a tech article on electrics as I see a lot of comments similar to yours and it’s…

There are plenty of oversized trucks for everyone else—in fact, it gets harder every year to find anything else. This is finally a truck I not only wouldn’t be embarrassed to own, but actually like, minus that fad tablet. I’ll need something to tow a small boat that almost any car could do except that nobody will rate…

Our shitty last house in a nicer city on the north coast of MA we sold almost 3 years ago for what I thought was a ripoff to the buyers at $500k is now evaluated at well over $100k over that. It’s nuts, but our new house is doing the same.

Average new car prices keep rising, a number of people are ditching public transportation and/or moving from the cities, and production was constrained by COVID and computer chip shutdowns, all of which contribute to inflation in the used car market, which is not necessarily representative of anything else (of course…

I was heavily rear-ended twice in under 24 hours and couldn’t sleep well for over a year and a half (first crash would have totaled the car for expense to repair exceeding value, the second for the extent of damage—I drove off the hood of the totaled Camry that hit my Focus, his front license plate paint was on my…