The total grid power used by 100 cars slow charging for 100 minutes is the same as 100 cars charging for 10 minutes each, 10 cars at a time

Musk’s wording I would consider more accurate that RJ’s. Sustainable transport is the ultimate goal and probably inevitable. Where I disagree with that though is the method of getting there. Everyone seems to think EV is the only answer to sustainable transportation, but I think that’s too narrow minded. You could…

That’s maybe not as much of a fix as you might think though.  A typical gas station can fill maybe 12 cars with 300 miles of range each in probably 5 minutes or less.  If you want to charge 12 EVs at 500 kW each at the same time, that’s 6 MW going to that station.  Maybe you can spread that out so it’s not all at one…

I wouldn’t disagree there. Efficiency means a lot of different things to different people too and can be achieved in many different ways, but I don’t think anyone can argue that “efficiency” is bad. I would rather tune my car to be as efficient as possible than to just leave money on the table by letting it run rich.…

A removeable steering wheel and aftermarket suspension on it, but no mention of any engine work or anything like that...  Why would you need a removeable steering wheel on a minivan?  I would have thought those had tons of room to get in and out, unless you just wanted a very specific wheel and you could only install…

You know 100,000 out of 2.7 million actually sounds like quite a few until I did the math.  That’s just shy of 4% of GMs total vehicle production being EVs.  So I guess they share a lot in common with manuals, lol.

The problem with that is you have to buy the new car, so depending on what you currently own, the rate of return might be a lot longer than you think.

It kind of reminds me of the Alfieri concept car that still hasn’t happened all these years later...

Depends how you want to classify age. My current daily duties are split between my 04 Viper (so 20 years old), and my 67 Dodge Dart (58 years old) depending on the weather (ironically the Viper is the weather car since the Dart leaks in the rain, though neither handle snow, so I have to borrow stuff for that). I did a…

Cool!  I used to have a 96 Magna as well for many many years.  I mostly got it for good college campus parking, but it was a hoot.  Only ended up swapping it for a Victory Octane here in the past couple of years.  I had debated trying to do a fuel injection swap off something like an Interceptor, but ended up just…

The even trickier part about it is that as it sits the car is probably not something you should drive.  I’d be very wary of any rubber parts or fluids that haven’t moved or circulated much in 20+ years.  You’d pretty much have to be buying this to park it just like the previous owner, which is a thing I guess, just…

I don’t know about printing money with this one.  It’s a very niche use case and has quite a bit for compromises with the axle reduction.  It’s effectively a race car, just for a different kind of race.

Jaguar is in the midst of an enormous re-brand that will see it relaunch itself as a desirable, relevant car brand once again

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it until they finally get it. Autonomous cars won’t work until we control the environment they drive it. You cannot program for every possible occasion that a vehicle might meet and don’t even try giving me AI as a fix to that. The solution if you can’t account for all the…

Good points.  I think it’s probably also worth noting that unless you’re actively in a large scale war, the military deaths are probably also going to be lower.  Not that we haven’t been “at war” to some degree for a long time, but not like the World Wars of yesteryear (thankfully).  The nature of military action has…

It’s funny because the second picture in your grouping is really just a stack of boxes all lumped together, but in an interesting way.  So it’s simultaneously boring in some respects and novel in others.  Could at least be a nice stepping stone between “cookie cutter” design that’s easier to build and something that’s…

I thought they were more just renowned as being one of the ugliest cars ever made more than being outright bad.

I wonder how much of that comes down to just pure mindset though.  In the military you are likely going to be more aware of danger around you and well equipped/trained to handle it.  In the general workforce people think stacking forklifts to reach higher is a good idea.  So while the odds of death might be higher for…

I actually wanted to do my Master’s project on internal combustion hydrogen, but there wasn’t enough available supporting equipment for it where I was.  I don’t think you would have to limit it to hydrogen though.  Ultimately any “clean” fuel would serve the same purpose.  If we can find a true gasoline compatible…

I hate these.  Let me close my own dang door.  Too many times I’ve reached up to yank a tailgate down only to have it resist my pull hard enough for my hands to slip off.  It takes less time for me to close it on my own than to wait for the dang motor to do it for me.