Is it actually a local manager calling in a theft or is it more of an automated system, notifying some “faceless” person overseas, in a “support center”, who makes the call?

I find it unlikely that a local branch manager would fail to check with staff about a car rented out, just minutes ago, before calling the police…

Have you ever worked for corporate America? Your comment probably hits close to true.

Most people I know with overland rigs use them far more often than the people I see with semi or fully-built Jeeps who never take them further than the inclined grassy strip at the mall which they all park on.

There’s an argument to be made for the entire current BMW performance lineup (outside the 2, which... it’s fine), but the iX is the greatest offender.

Insurance companies live & die by statistics. If loud pipes really did save lives insurance companies would offer discounts for having them.

Maybe they could move to Texas, I heard they got this thing out there called ERCOT.  Sounds real cool and futuristic.

Peak usage is the only issue. Electrical demand at peak is over 2x the amount at around mid-day. BEVs mostly charge off peak hours. Total energy usage if everyone traded in ICEs for BEV would only go up 30%. Obviously all the cars on the road aren’t going to be traded in overnight. California generation goes up ~3%…

All trivial problems.

Which part? Where Newsom said like 2 years ago they were going to ban new gasoline vehicle sales?

That isn’t surprising.

Mass exodus of...checks notes 0.3% in one year after a 5.8% increase over the previous decade.

OK.

This kind of law is mostly grandstanding. When the time comes, if the market is not ready yet, you know the deadline will be pushed back. Just like back in the 1990 when CA enacted a law mandating that all carmakers start selling EV’s in 1998, and that 10% of all new cars must be EV’s by 2003, only to repeal the law a…

Note to self, start checking the LAPD impounded vehicle auctions in a couple of weeks.

I hope they towed it that way on purpose.

I doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile... you’re getting towed away and fined.

Nissans and Dodges. This is my shocked face. :|

Works for me--eff the scofflaws completely.

texas will counter that by mandating all vehicles sold in texas roll coal 24-7

Its laudable - but laughable. Not because we shouldn’t shoot for the moon, but we aren’t able to meet that target right now with current battery tech. And before people say that 2035 is a long way off...it isn’t. We have basically 5 years to figure out how to make WAY more batteries and/or figure out how to do more…

Hot damn, take your damn star!

No one will be rolling in those blackouts...