I realize he doesn’t have an engineering degree, but the man is an engineer in my eyes. As I understand, he helps solve technical problems by offering his insight, just as an engineering manager does. 

Why stop at convertible, go full speedster

That was the least exciting fake drag race I’ve ever watched.

wait...what?

what are you , 18?

What’s next? Combat kit, aluminum wing, NOS bottle under the seat and a decal of a flying knight in armor trailing flames?

I feel this is Musk’s dream:

I fucking hate Jalopnik. This is not a website for car enthusiasts — it’s a website for people who recognise good things 15 years after the fact.

That’s gorgeous

Later on it was for keeping out Jehovahs Witnesses.

Traditional business models show that labor is the biggest expense in just about any operation, and that’s probably true in traditional taxi businesses as well. A driver (as we saw from a post earlier this week) might cost $30,000 a year and drive a car that costs $6000 a year to fuel and maintain. An electric car…

...and David Tracy has just five months to get them both ready for Moab!

Tax income does not equal actual income. That 58 cent per mile assumption is going to be way higher than actual expenses for your car because it’s based on averages for work vehicles, most of which are big trucks/vans, not a tiny cheap sonic. Your fuel cost is probably ~7 cents per mile. Your repairs at 6K over 50k…

true.  I’ll never defend Uber, but they are better than the taxi companies (who still won’t join the 21st century).

“and destroying the profitable and sustainable career of taxi driving if it’s not going to fund some quixotic pursuit?”

Lucid already builds its own packs from 2170 cells made by LG Chem and Samsung SDI. Lucid is the street name for Atieva, which is the company that has been supplying batteries to Formula E since 2018. 

Not really “mind blowing.” This is how ship builders have been refurbishing and retrofitting large vessels for over a century. Replacing coal fired boilers with oil, removing and replace nuclear reactors on subs and aircraft carriers etc. I’m guessing you’re just new to the world of large ship maintenance. 

involves cutting a giant hole in the hull.

I’m assuming one of the owners was a guy called Davide D’Trace.   Still owns 37 of them, but the count goes down daily.

Ahem. I came out of the 80's and I’m ageing just fine.