Oh shit, you don’t say.  What could possibly have blinded people to this fact?  (the answer is greed)

Reading the comments here I think a lot of people have no real grasp of just how monumentally huge the output from China is now.

There’s a reason that bike company is opening a factory in Bulgaria and not, say, Germany and lot North American production is moving back to Mexico.

Its on a car blog. There’s very little connection to cars aside from him being found in one. Id say he made the news. His story is certainly more out there than most cases.

Iron Maiden called them wankers, since THIER lead singer couldn’t fly the airplane himself:

Hold my 4 beers.

1) It’s more expensive and I don’t have the money.

With the cockpit upstairs, that left plenty of room up front for seating — usually business class or first class seats. It even has a pretty pronounced taper as you get closer to the nose.

If you’ve got 700 grand to refurbish, how hard could it possibly be to swap out the airline toilets for some RV/Marine flush units?

Look, there is ONLY one acceptable livery for a 747 party plane...

Exactly. You always get this comment when a country that isn’t the US succeeds at something. In most cases, it’s utterly irrelevant.

It’s far easier, and less expensive, to build new infrastructure for 6 million people, than it is 350 million.

You both likely have states that use fuel taxes to pay for road maintenance. Whether they do that well or not is a different story. Whether those monies are firewalled or are 100% fungible is another story.

Well, yeah. There’s only 6 million people in Norway. Cue the idiots saying “SEE, THEY DID IT, WHY CAN’T THE US DO IT NOW?”

These are the 2 statements I keep seeing bandied about as if they were simple solutions by people with no real understanding of the realities behind them. They are definitely doable, and I hope they will become the norm, but we are nowhere near accomplishing them at anything close to the scale required any time soon.

Once it goes on sale, I give it one day before someone gives it a “The Mystery Machine” vinyl wrap:

This is a good thing and would help in the shorter term but it’s not a permanent solution. Ultimately, every battery that’s made will still need to be dealt with someday. Obviously getting the most possible out of them is ideal but repurposing them doesn't stop them eventually degrading beyond usefulness. A way to…

My sister had that feature in her 4Runner and boy it was atrocious

Automatic speed sensitive volume, that shit is annoying. I don’t want or need help adjusting the volume of music.

Why would you compare the Mach E to the Model X and not the Model Y?