But we’re limited by our source for fossil fuels. Our involvement in the Middle East is far and away due to cheap oil, and Obama’s driving point about the limitation of fossil fuels comes from leaving our energy requirements vulnerable to outside forces.

If only we had a spare $4 TRILLION lying around. If only. Didn’t we just spent that looking for something we never found.

I think the key benefit of going electric with vehicles is that almost anything can be used to generate electricity. Whatever the future fuel turns out to be, or not be, it will generate electricity. It is a sort of universal translator for energy. Coal, ng, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, oil are all currently used to…

Ford really has a thing for photographing cars from that perspective where the camera is practically sitting on the floor. I know it’s their trademark, but I wish they’d stop doing that because it’s really not flattering to the cars at all.

I sat here staring at this image for a good minute waiting for it to fully load. Old 56K expectations of slow loading images die hard apparently.

Not sure about what the masses want, but the fewer cars that have a faulty unit placed firmly between the steering wheel and driver’s seat, the safer we’ll all be. People suck at driving.

Your projections would make the initial Model S close to a decade old, which these days is pretty ancient. About the only vehicle I can think of that has that long of a model run is the tacoma, which seems to have a decade between redesigns. Then again, maybe it isn’t as pressing seeing as the Model S is still a very…

I love Tesla but one thing I see as a potential future problem is in how quickly they can come up with model redesigns. The Model S probably has another 2 years in its current design before a redesign would be expected per your typical model life expectency. Seeing as how it takes Tesla years just to come out with a…

Better margins. They’re wanting to see a path to profitability, which is still somewhere in the future for Tesla. The thing is, it’s getting harder and harder to call Tesla a startup when they’ve sold a lifetime total of vehicles in the low six figures and have been around for over a decade. (Additionally, almost any…

They are three years late on their luxury minivan?

The U.S. didn’t depose Qaddafi; the Libyan people did. Coalition forces just protected civilians from aircraft and heavy weapons attacks at the request of the Libyan people. Your conspiracy theories don’t seem to have any connection to reality.

You don’t need the extra power/torque while moving even when towing. It is the acceleration where you need it. I could see a small displacement turbo engine with battery/electric motors.

This is why you have to focus you HIDs or you will be that guy.

Why would Michigan politicians ever want to “get over” a successful program that saved tens of thousands of scarce jobs in their state?

Neutral: Ben Carson was allegedly offered a full bailout 40 years ago, but turned it down. He denies the whole thing and there’s nothing in writing.

Neutral: Will People Ever Get Over The Bailouts?

The fact is that modern manufacturing means the cost of labor is a small and decreasing portion of the cost of production of an item, especially for more expensive items. There just isn’t that much labor needed to manufacture car parts these days, and final assembly is already frequently done in US/Canada/EU, so we…

But seriously fuck coal rollers, preferably with a rail spike covered in pissed off fire ants.

No good reason for you not to buy a Ranger or Everest.

Have you looked at many Americans lately?