In all likelihood, the vast majority of traffic stops would go away. Just take down the plate number & get a picture of the vehicle operator. Send the fine/notice to appear to their address & you’re done. Almost like other places do this

And the Ram SRT10 (aka the OG Hellcat)

Two investigations...

You mean to tell me Ford et al. finally realized that the top engineering talent doesn’t want to work in the Detroit area and by shifting to at least a hybrid WFH model they could dramatically increase and improve their engineering talent pool? Took them fucking long enough

“Failed to spot the racist elements which made up the entirety of the video.... We’re racist is whet we’re saying. Very, very racist.”

A recession is a pretty good time to launch a next generation compact vehicle with a load of government incentives helping push its volume...

Obviously not the issue here. Issue is whether or not you have enough cooling capacity in that environment to keep an air cooled pack in range for the duration of a flight. Again though, still possible. Would just require a lot of analysis & testing to find out.

It’s a fine balance of improving charging time/methodology without reducing the utilizable use-cases really. i.e. you can make them swappable packs, but then you have additional weight & you need air-cooled packs.

? No it’s just optimizing the weight of the system

This smells much more like being completely unreasonable for the sake of trying to drive investment rather than actually trying to innovate

There are for sure use cases that electric aircraft make sense for that don’t require a magical 900 mile plane, I agree 100%

More practical approach would just be to use an aircraft catapult (i.e. what the Navy uses on aircraft carriers)

Worth noting, the necessity of the above is driven by the fact that even lightweight aircraft like the Cessna with passengers &/OR cargo on board see range additions diminish to zero at ridiculously low ranges (Typically under 200 miles, with this strategy of “just throw batteries in the belly and get it in the air”…

Issue of integrating into aircraft is definitely tricky, but given some of the newer battery strategies & a number of other EV improvements, there would appear to be a few pretty clear routes forward.

I’m sorry, but hearing Ford, the company that’s spent the last few decades socioeconomically violating the greater Detroit area & pointing it’s employees to the suburbs to avoid consequence from their neglect, talk about how they support the cause without showing details for how they plan to, ya know, stop abusing the…

I’d use Infinity as a proving ground/figurehead for Renault-Nissan electrification efforts & push for incentive/investment from the Japanese gov. into assuring funds for realizing the initial MEB style platform(s) were delivered in short order (ideally sub-36 mo. to market, similar timeframe as the BMW i programs…

Make it the ultimate getaway vehicle/camper!

That’s pretty dependent on how much money is paid into such a fund, how long a time passes between periods of drawing from it, & the effectiveness of resiliency measures it mandates member companies take... When the alternative is apparently, “Wait for the government to save us despite not taking any steps to prevent…

To a degree sure (though the wildfire fund is also likely to be drawn from at a much higher occurrence rate). The main implication though is really the control over each companies resiliency such a fund creates.

Rather than a nationalized company, I’d like to see publicly traded OEMs in the US be roped into a federalized loss-insurance program. i.e. something structured similar to the California Wildfire Fund. This way companies are continually placing funds into an insurance pool which will then serve to prop them up when…