From the anecdotes I’ve been hearing for years, it seems the real problem (besides the EV turmoil, which is to be expected as the industry largely transitions away from ICE) is that Wall Street sees a new financial milestone reached and decides that the milestone is the baseline moving forward. RV companies sold…

Here’s a fucking clue for the automakers: When your markets are in the midst of a recession (or on the tipping point), raising prices, adding markups, and just being assholes isn’t the way to LONG-TERM profitability. Sure, you’ll make your quarterly bonuses, but you’re screwing yourselves in the long term.

Fuck em. Feed em fish heads.

My city just dropped the speed limits in and around neighborhoods by 5mph and it’s great. That’s been paired with an effort to de-prioritize cars and re-prioritize pedestrians and bikes. Like, when they redo roads, they use the speed hump style sidewalk crossing where cars have to slow down rather than pedestrians…

I’ll catch heat for this, no doubt, but I’d definitely be in favor of only allowing trucks that are legit commercial vehicles in city centers--like construction and the like--not Bob driving his Ford Super Duty 350 dually to his office job.

This^^ plus the fact that you get a European interior for the price is what makes this a better choice than others. 

If we had a sane court system and SEC, it would be a good argument for imposing restrictions on the trading of Tesla shares - they’ve pretty clearly detached from reality and are being driven overwhelmingly by Musk’s cult of personality and social media hype. 

Or the stock lights on any Escalade. 

Imagine being wealthy enough to buy yourself the government of the United States of America.

I love seeing green come back as an automotive color on more affordable cars. 

Adding lights on your car can be distracting

Are you sure about that? Motors and parts absolutely lose efficiency with wear. Maybe not 10%, but there is loss.

“Representative William Timmons, a South Carolina Republican who represents the district that is home to the Oshkosh plant building the EVs, said USPS should revert to its prior plan to buy 90% gas-powered vehicles, but not cancel the contract.”

1st Gear: I just leased my first BEV (BMW iX) after driving a PHEV for a few years and I don’t see myself going back to ICE cars for daily drivers. Sure, my fun and collectible cars will exclusively be ICE cars, preferably manually shifted, but you just cant beat the smoothness and ease of throttle input/power delivery…

EV batteries have 90 percent capacity after 100,000 kilometers of driving, and at 300,000 kilometers they still have 87 percent of their original kilowatts left

I have a Kia EV6. My next door neighbor has one too. I will always have an AV car in my driveway. They are amazing. I will also have a gas car in my driveway until the infrastructure gets better. My in-laws live 12.5 hours from me by car, I’m not interested in playing the charging game to get to them yet.

Well, that’s because...you do things crooked.

I would like to think that they all apologized to each other, piled in that Subaru, bottoming out the suspension, and then proceeded to bankrupt the local Golden Corral.

That’s the wrong approach to this problem in this day and age. He should have taken out the dealership owner as he was leaving a dealer conference.