HEVs, yes. PHEVs no. The RAV4 Prime is still supply-constraint, even after all this time. It would be easier to take Toyota seriously about their support for PHEVs if they actual built them at scale in vehicles we Americans can’t get enough of. Looks like Jeep and Ram will beat them with a pair of PHEV pickup to…

When I purchased my Prius Prime in 2021, I was also considering the Chevy Bolt. I went on Plugshare to see what was available for charging in the typical areas we travel. When traveling from Upstate NY to Maine, charging stations were slim to none as we take the scenic route through Vermont instead of the Mass Pike.…

Toyota’s attitude more mirrored the general public’s:We’ll just wait until the charging infrastructure makes this more practical for daily driving, thank you very much.

An EV run to 200k or 300k will be waaaay more efficient than any ICE vehicle.

You are right about Nissan’s odd financial decisions there. Interesting that this gen of the Cube came after Nissan’s cost-cutting started. Nissan in the 90s made three completely unrelated low-volume sports cars on three totally different platforms with different engines (Skyline GTR, 300ZX, Silvia). Super cool for…

Funny, we got a cube when cash for clunkers happened. I traded in my $500 dollar Jeep Cherokee and my sister got a shiny new 2009 Cube.

The most interesting part of the cube is the wraparound rear window. The wraparound corner was on the corner opposite the driver, to give better visibility when they looked behind them. The end result of this is that the window is flipped between LHD and RHD cars, meaning Nissan effectively had to make two completely…

Sometimes you just gotta do a little eco terrorism, ya know?

*a whiteboard in Tim Sweeney’s office*

This is the corporate PR Zen koan:

Okay. Hear me out. If Big Oil wants to make petroleum cool, all they need to do is force Capcom to make another Dino Crisis. And at one point, a character can say to a t-rex “I’m turning you into fossil fuel”.

One of the first things we learned in graphic design class and they used penisland.com as an example. Heck I’m old and I read it as “shell station sus”.

Tim Sweeney allowing propaganda geared towards children!? I would have never expected this from the man who misunderstood 1984 and shoved that in people’s faces while pretending he was some kind of champion of consumer rights. Surely the open “metaverse” will limit this kind of behavior from other companies. 

It’s time to fight back. For the planet.

Fuck every bit of this. Everyone involved should be locked in a garage with a running car powered by Shell’s ‘new & improved premium gasoline.’

Shell manager who came up with that line was probably like:

Already hated this based on this headline and this just makes it even worse

I would take a Corolla hatch all day over this thing.

I dunno. Some ugly lumpy penalty box with horrid rear seat visibility.

The name is unimportant, just like the car.