I think you have it completely backwards. The zero will fit the needs of about 10% of bike owners, those that commute to work on bikes. It’s the other 90% that use their bikes for fun that would be let down by an 80 mile range.

I went to Baja on an R1 with a passenger, and not working cell reception, although GPS maps did work. Now that is some range anxiety.

Ya man whatever job lets you support your household of a wife and 2 kids in your own home and send your kids to college without them taking on debt, its just not worth it! Be more like the rest of us that dont make hard sacrifices to support a larger goal.

I sold thousands of cars. ‘Kicking the trade’ is an industry term used in the sales managers office, that means “Get the person to remove this trade in variable from the deal altogether.” They person can sell it themselves for more, keep it and sell their other car, who knows. But not once in my life have I ever heard…

It actually is within what you said. You say your slow car stays within its limits without speeding, but since I know your car can do 55 within about 10 seconds, I think you could enter a school zone in your slow car and cause some damage. Thus, your slow car should not be driver near its limits in many if not most…

You’re telling me your Geo Prizm cant go 55 in a 25 school zone?

I understand what youre saying in your unique situation of having to take these side streets and wanting them for yourself only. But my point is, spreading out traffic and making it suck mildly for everyone allows more people to travel because we are ok with a ‘mildly sucking 60 minute commute’ but would not be ok…

I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe that that small amount of solar panels can create enough energy to create hydrogen at the levels needed to power that boat. If that was true, that would be a no brainer and done on pretty big scales. I think the lack of technical data makes this article likely to be vaporware…

Number of drivers doing a commute seems to expand up to everyones general pain threshold. Smart maps started diverting people onto side streets, making commutes and traffic a bit easier to deal with. Thus, more people started driving in those locations because it was bearable again. Eventually even the side streets…

This would be considered a poor quality rant on a forum. I expect a little more from an actual professional blog/site.

Dealerships make great money selling 5 year old cars everyday. The problem here is that new car dealerships are strongly tied to the manufacturer, and the manufacturer bank for new cars. The manufacturer bank doesnt want anything to do with leasing nonstandard cars as those things are <1% of transactions, so there…

I hope they fire this unpleasant POS writer soon.

I do about 12k miles a year on SF Bay Area highways, on a motorcycle. I have not had one person try to kill me, and haven’t even had one close call. Either semi-loud pipes really do save lives, or you are a magnet for shitty drivers, which makes me wonder if you actually arent the problem.

9/10 of the people charging Teslas on Thanksgiving road trips have ICE vehicles at home. They CHOOSE to take the Tesla because the experience is pretty nice, other than this charging issue I suppose.

This was the WeWork CEO’s business model.

Car salesman are not hired to know product. Although it obviously helps. But its not a requirement. Following sales processes are. I studied mechanical engineering, have worked on cars since I was a child, and love reading about cars. I can do finance calculations while walking backwards talking about something else.…

People forget that cars prices are set by supply vs demand. They see we have 9 on the lot, and they think “OMG dont you want to sell me yours for close to cost?” It’s almost like they dont realize we have 9 per X unit of time, and there are Y leads on that car per X time, and we know the distribution of how often…

Some dealerships will only get 1 a year. If they sell it to you, they have nothing to show off all year. They will keep it with this crazy markup and make people buying a different model feel special, like Toyota has some in demand stuff. Once the next allocated unit is close to showing up, the salesman will call the…

I spent 9 days in Baja on an R1, with a passenger. Did 1800 miles, carrying my backpack and with her backpack on my gastank the whole time after the 2nd day. If you’re close enough, its a must do someday. Roads aren’t bad at all, and going from western coast, to desert, to cactus fields, to eastern coast, within…

It gets worse than that. Ive had friends that bought toy haulers and wanted to use them all the time. A weekend camping trip turns into an ordeal with prepping the trailer, packing it all safely, driving the gigantic heavy thing, PARKING it in the camp site, dealing with it in the camp site, LISTENING to the generator…