The impact of building a battery is pretty trivial compared to the impact of all the fuel a gas car consumes in its lifetime. That battery only has to be made once.

Well said.

Battery degradation is largely solved, if you buy any EV other than a Leaf. The problem is in the design of Nissan’s in-house batteries, not EVs in general. Even the early Model S suffered far less than the Leaf, and they’ve all improved with each revision. A modern EV should experience little to no range loss (as…

I have one of those old Leafs. The range is down quite a bit - it’s not useless, but it’s pretty much limited to within the city. (It’s still a nice car to drive, though - much quicker and more fun than any gas or hybrid econobox.)

No single technology is going to save the world. Cars are a factor, ships are a factory, electricity generation is a factor. We’re going to have to fix a lot of things to actually solve the climate crisis.

Thank you for writing this! The total emissions of the two are actually closer than I expected, but I’m glad someone has finally done a full, detailed report. For a long time, every attempt at comparing the two I could find would completely ignore the production of the gasoline, then proclaim them to be on near-equal…

take your star and get out of here

That’s salmon.

Porsche now uses “Turbo” as a name for the higher trim level of all their cars. It doesn’t necessarily mean it actually has a turbocharger.

Seriously? What does Pen mean? Paintbrush?

HELL TO THE YES - GOOD COLORS ARE BACK! Car color selections have universally been 50 shades of grey (almost literally) for far too long.

As if we needed any further proof that $kaycog is a genius

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Good satire, maybe, but I’ll be incredibly surprised if this turns out to be good. I’m not familiar with the writers, but everything about the premise of movie screams violent Republican fantasy.

We need an electric MR2 called the MR3.

Going to movies alone is awesome, especially if you go late at night when there’s almost nobody else there.

Making light of a scary outbreak is normal. Making racist jokes at the expense of an entire nationality (many of whom are victims of this outbreak, and none of whom are personally responsible for it) is not.

This is also your daily reminder that the regular flu kills far more people per year than the coronavirus has so far. The worldwide total of coronavirus deaths just hit 1,000 today. Flu deaths are estimated at between 12,000 and 61,000 per year, and that’s just in the United States.

“as long as two cars lined up bumper to bumper”