Why don’t they design the cars and trucks to be stowed vertically so that they can then hold more cars on the rail cars? I want to give this idea a cool name like Vert-A-Pac.

“Inflate” is the wrong word. Odds are pretty good in these states if somebody walks onto the lot to buy a car they’re looking for a hybrid or an EV anyway.

Ahh, yea. I don’t think that is happening. Plus the difference from ICE to Hybrid is negligible in most cases. It has been decided that EV’s are the best and only way forward, hybrid subsidies most likely are not happening. 

That’s great for the commercial sector. 99% of EV drivers are fine with 300 mile ranges. I would perfer a piviot to minaturzie the existing capacity to get weight down and increase range via weight reduction.

I mean... I, the armchair auto-enthusiast, think that Toyota is picking the right path here. Hybrids and PHEVs in the short term and let everyone else eat massive R&D costs into some technological dead ends. Solid state batteries (soon) and super caps (further out) were always going to be the long term solution. Both…

GM needs to have a GTI-like hot hatch and everyone was surprised that the Bolt was as quick as it was... and that wasn’t even trying. GM can make a good performance vehicle if it tries and this EV platform would work.

Building EV’s in a quantity that is enough to largely replace all ICE’s isn’t possible right now. Using batteries to make Hybrids and PHEV’s now and working on battery tech is a better idea. We can produce more Hybrid/PHEV’s to replace more ICE’s more quickly and reduce emission faster than going full EV.

Now the bot isn’t even trying. I mean come on! A ChatGPT API subscription can’t be that much money.

Bad bot.

Unions created the middle class.

Or you know, you could just put more money down and finance less.... 

They aren’t, they don’t pay the tax credits and rebates, residents do. 

I’m curious what the Big Four are putting together for EV motorcycles. I know they are working on a swappable battery standard, and will like come out with scooters first, but I am waiting on something equivalent to a 400cc-600cc dual-sport.

Or you could be like me: evicted the second the moratorium lifted, then ended up having to call in all my chips,beg borrow, steal and buy. Now I’m so house poor I couldn’t afford a car payment anyway.

I put a refundable $500 down. And am purchasing at MSRP. 

Reminds me of the Terminator Analogy: Do you want to be the last horse and buggy salesman, or the first automobile salesman?

Could one of the reasons for their pushback be also that a large amount of their business is not selling you a new car. Its servicing your new car. For non warranty stuff. That they have control over how much to charge you for. And an EV is going to have potentially less of that (Or at least they fret it will).

At the…

Is Bud back in favor this week?

If you want the new Scout to be ‘Merican as possible it better run on coal mined, without safety regulations, by small children.

You mean the BRAT? Hell yeah, I’d take a clean BRAT if I could get one. Either way, I’d certainly want to resto-mod it with more up to date running gear to make it go and stop better, but keep that glorious lack of infotainment and other farkles.