Yeah, I’m trying to picture Immortan Joe’s Half-Life War Boys yelling ‘CANbus! CANbus! CANbus!” and grabbing wiring harnesses from a huge pile before setting off shiny and chrome on the Fury Road...

Sure this is a hard repair, but we shouldn’t let it shake us too much. After all, accidents like this are... An Edge case.

Sort of. It’s more trouble than it’s worth for an insurance company to repair it at a shop to 100% condition. There are times when a totaled vehicle is worth bringing back on the road:

It’s a moving computer. Throw your lappy out a 2nd story window....say, into some grass, and you’ll get just enough damage to bork it but it wont look unborkable. Yet it is, b/c 2.3 million different electrical connections need to be intact and some of them are now in fact tact, and ya don’t know which ones, and you…

Truly, the most apocalypse ready vehicle is one that requires and endless series of software checks and troubleshooting that ultimately doesn’t work.

Try taking a long trip with a woman of a certain age and get back to me on that. I drove 4500 miles around Europe with my mother in a BMW M235i in the heat of late summer. That woman is ALWAYS cold. I am ALWAYS hot. Thank GOD for dual zone climate control, and yes, it very much makes a difference, even in a small…

Don’t have that problem with slab wheels.....

In the article you emphasised “should” cause less damage. What about “less”? They’ll cause “less damage”.

Other than high end sports cars, I couldn’t imagine being locked into a bespoke tire, just so that your wheel covers fit 🙄

Well, yes, that too.

And on top of that, the form is hideous!

The Cybertruck has to be one of the ultimate expressions of form > function. Designers had complete creative freedom thanks to the packaging of the EV drivetrain and lack of precedent for a Tesla truck, and it seems like every decision they made was purely to prioritize the form over the actual function of the…

The best way to deal with a good guy trying to fix the electric grid is... a guy with a gun?

Why?

If you can think of a better way  to fix a problem than shooting at it, I’d like to shoot at it

Nothing to see here... just a bunch of Responsible Gun Owners doing Responsible Gun Owner things.  Move along!

We just are so much better than this.

Sad but true.

The real killer application of PHEVs is long car trips. Long distance charging infrastructure is still extremely imperfect. Even a small battery capable of a handful of miles can eliminate most of some of the most inefficient driving a car makes, the short trips, and you don’t need anything beyond Level 1 charging to…

Just waiting for more PHEVs in the US.  Toyota could easily expand its Prime lineup beyond the Prius and RAV4.