If you’re driving across the country and stop at a battery swap station, you get a different battery, one that might be more or less degraded than the one you leave there.

They made 118 million of these. This is fine.

As the grid (theoretically) transitions to non-fossil fuels and gas production is sunset, it’ll be less cost effective. That’s all this is, because legislation is a market force.

Somehow, this is worse than watching open wheeled cars play follow-the-leader through a street circuit for two hours

You’re so close!

My dad’s Mk6 Jetta needs a new driver seat, I wonder...

My main takeaway is that Tesla uses a first in last out storage scheme for at least battery packs, a curious choice given their vertical integration

Chrysler built the PT Cruiser on the well-regarded Neon platform

Eh, not really how that works. Unless you want to idle your car for 45 minutes before you leave, sensible people scrape their windshields, and you can’t really scrape/yank the frozen down wipers without damaging the blades.

You did the conversion to your brother’s (your? I’m out of the loop) Mustang, are you planning to do so on this? Please do

I said it in the original article, but I’m gonna say it again, because this article sucks:

Oh, I totally forgot those. You’re right. Did VW ever release a complete breakdown of the fates of all the buyback/recall cars?

It’s fun when you’re in an empty parking lot. Not so much when you’re in traffic.

It was no exaggeration. 70/30 is pretty much the average for FWD passenger cars. It really isn’t a big deal 90% of the time.

Not really accurate. The earliest TDIs didn’t require AdBlue to pass emissions tests because the test requirements were not low enough to require it- those cars got a NOx catlyst and a retune and were able to meet the requirements for their model years. Those cars are currently emissions compliant and on the road.

The really dumb thing about dieselgate is that the cars were completely capable of meeting and exceeding emissions (gaseous and particulate) without cheating, but it required a slightly higher consumption of AdBlue, slight ECU reprogramming, and associated slightly higher running costs. The fact that they’ve been able…

Yeah, they’re not THAT expensive, and really you’re spending the same money because the life of your non-winter tires is extended. But it makes more sense to put two in back, since it’s the side of the car that’s going to be at a worse traction disadvantage.

Damn, those are some ugly wheels.

Putting wipers up is still a good idea. Yeah it wears out the spring, but guess what? It’s just not that expensive, or hard, to replace the spring or the whole wiper arm. I would rather do that than have my wipers freeze to the windshield. Anyone who thinks otherwise either drives a Subaru with windshield wiper…

Get off the brakes and point the front wheels where you want to go, and don’t look where you don’t want to go. Nine times out of ten you’ll be fine.