I was initially thinking that actually wasn’t that bad looking of a job, until I saw those headlights... The engine note would also be woefully sad compared to what most would be expecting it to sound like.

One of the many awful side effects of mass fanboyism is that movie franchises now feel compelled to tell you the origin story of not just a character, but of EVERYTHING that character owns or interacts with. Where does Porkins get his helmet? The answer may surprise you! I don’t need to know all that shit and neither…

I’m highly guessing this is more for FCA to get a European wing than adding things to the US market.

that’s one-fifth of the weight of—and five times as strong as—steel

Right, but odds are I didn’t run out of gas pulling it into my garage. My point is more that I can at least alleviate stupid by going to the station first thing on my trip without losing much time. If I’m stupid and don’t charge my EV that’s a good 30-60 minutes of time you lose, assuming you have a fast charger…

That’s funny because I live in the midwest and feel like I still see it all the time.  Might not always been no cars in the garage, but have seen plenty of cars in driveways on houses with enough garage space to park all the vehicles in the house.  I think a lot of people have a “work side” of the garage for small…

I wouldn’t necessarily say that all EV fear comes from long road trips. It ultimately boils down to convenience I think. Sure, 100 miles might be more than enough for most people on a daily basis, but what happens that one night you forget to plug the car in? With a gas vehicle it means I’m 5-10 minutes later to work…

I have butted into a few conversations (design related) because I overheard them and knew what they were talking about, but I agree.  I would have likely heard the same stuff in a cubicle environment and just swung my chair out to listen in.

Pretty much true of 90% of corporate press releases if I had to guess.

Haha, not quite.  I design industrial trucks.  The holding company is European, which is where a lot of the office ideas come from, but our actual office site still has a more small town feel to it as far as how it is run.  What never makes sense though is they push all the European ideas at us, but they don’t let us…

Yeah, at least we don’t have glass fronts on our meeting spaces.  The booths are fairly private, though the ventilation in them is not great so you cook with any more than two people in there for an extended period.  I do like being able to lean back and ask a colleague a question from time to time a little easier,…

I’m sincerely hoping it doesn’t get to that here. Our Sweden office does that I believe, but I also think a lot of the jobs there are more mobile to begin with like sales or work from home/the road type things where you aren’t in the office all that much to begin with.

Yeah, I think there is a balance in cube height.  Too high and it feels like a maze, but too low and you have no space.  My setup is a desk with a tall cabinet on either side (everyone gets a desk and a cabinet), so it’s semi-personalized in a way, but I miss having the space to hang my reference charts and stuff I…

Yep, we’ve got the booths and small meeting rooms as well, but as you said no one really uses them.  I only wish we actually got sunlight.  We don’t have much for windows on the front of the building (the only side with windows, there’s a manufacturing plant on the back).  I wanted a skylight-like setup at least to…

Right, but those pods are going to have to takeoff and land somewhere.  Pretty sure you are going to have to have designated landing zones for them, and I’m pretty sure flying stuff like helicopters into the middle of a city of skyscrapers isn’t exactly easy from what I’ve heard.  The winds that can whip around those…

As someone whose office just got renovated recently to a more “open concept”, it’s really not as good as a lot of people want to think.  I do like that we actually refreshed the interior to a cohesive theme instead of the years and years of additions and moved walls and mismatched carpet, but open concept means you…

True, though that in and of itself is going to be a whole other problem.  Where do they think they are going to be landing all of these taxis?  I don’t think it’s going to be on a street corner to say the least.

The interesting this is that to me, automotive guidance systems will eventually need to leapfrog aviation to some degree.  Aviation is a fairly well constrained environment, all things taken into account.  Sure, you have wide open area in the sky, but it’s pretty highly regulated and you are constantly broadcasting…

I really like what Indian has done with their bikes since the latest reboot.  I’m a cruiser guy, so if I was ever looking to replace my Magna I think an Indian might be up on the list.

You are going to have hubs of fast charge locations eventually, if you want to think of them as battery gas stations then that’s fine, but if every vehicle on the road is a BEV you are going to have a huge drain on the local grid at some point as that is a huge amount of energy to be generating, even if it’s not all…