Having a successful company(ies) is not proof against the claim that they could have been far better if the CEO had better impulse control and a modicum of humility

From a Land Rover dealer website:

“1994: The Rover Group is acquired by BMW.

I think the bigger problem for them is that while traditional automakers have always been happy to eek another 1/2 mpg out of their new designs and stay just barely ahead of EPA standards, Tesla went all out to make the most aerodynamic and efficient design (that was still interesting enough to buy) from the very…

Okay. So, being young and bored in the military is a historically bad combination. Back in the mid-90's I went through all of the training to become an M1A1 Abrams tanker at Ft Knox, KY only to be stationed at.... Ft Knox, KY... in a training unit where we operated and maintained the tanks that officers  would train…

I have a lot of nostalga for the bodylines, However, anyone who ever worked on them knows that really means they were a pain in the butt because the parts that were computerized were proprietary (Pre-OBD-II) that didn’t learn or self-diagnose the way today’s computers do. They were a blend of crude electronics,…

Cherry-picking results from the most expensive electricity in the country and pitting it against some of the cheapest gasoline and then making up numbers for “the opportunity cost of waiting for vehicles to charge at stations” is not an apples-to-apples comparison. Just because someone can find numbers out there to…

Literally every form of propulsion in air travel shares the “You can’t just pull over and fix it” constraint. That said, reduced range is easy to measure and calculate for an EV, but it won’t suffer from carburetor freezing, finicky oil pressure, fouled fuel injectors, water in the fuel, etc, etc, etc.....

Did you really just reject hydrogen as replacement fuel for air travel because its ...... highly flammable?

Had my 2007 Ridgeline for over 12 years, and only sold it because I finally actually needed something bigger. Best “not a real truck” you can buy. It did respectable off-road for what it was, amazing on the road, towed well, and made hundreds of trips to the home improvement stores.

Ugh. Someone just build me an EV truck

It’s clean, but holds no sentimental value for me. Unfortunately one of my least favorite bodystyles, and although the brown was all the rage for the period, wouldn’t want it in my driveway now. I prefer the 6th Gen (‘73-79) for classic rugged looks, and the 9th Gen (92-96) for the headlight corners that tied together…

Somehow you missed the part where Jon Stewart handed the show over to Noah AND THEN chilled out for a few years while Trevor was already busy grinding away.

“We literally have power outages if the wind blows too hard.”
You realize those aren’t outages from damage? Those are shutdowns to prevent wildfires from cables that might come down in the high winds in rural areas. In fact, we only have those preventative shutdowns now because of the massive lawsuits from the…

“BuT eLeCtRiC cArS wIlL cAtCh FiRe”

In the end, it’s more of a self-own than a slam against Tesla. Elon has grown into the role of brash, eccentric billionaire, but his stated mission since the very beginning was to dispel myths around EVs and make them so attractive that it spur the other major automakers into mainstreaming them, which would have major…

This is the rallying cry of the crowd that opposes the upcoming & impending conversion to electrified vehicles. In that Venn diagram, there is a strong overlap with groups that a: Only care about the environment when they can exploit it. b: Think the free market it the solution to any problem. Imagine the irony of…

So I’m reading “stock up on canned soda” and “Don’t sell any of my aluminum recycling until March”

Something tragic like accumulated/unexpected storage fees that the owner couldn’t afford...

The 5.0L V8 swap is common enough for these to have full conversion kits commercially available, and you could find 4.0L V6's with matching drivetrains from Rangers and Explorers all day long. The value in this truck is the size and the garage-kept clean body and low-mile interior. Even with the Maverick coming out,…

I’m baffled as to why, considering this is an issue with EVERY Mars mission, they have yet to install a small rotary brush tool on these rovers (or even just a brush?) to aid in cleaning the panels. Any Martian probes that survive the landing die a slow death of sunlight asphyxiation. How is this not a priority?