I believe the Nevera is the fastest stock production car of any kind ever at the Goodwood hill.

“toe the line into sporty”

Most financially successful people got there because their parents were wealthy. It's that simple.

“a few other countries where Hongqi sells its cars”.

Pro tip: that little “’d” in your “No way I’d spend 2 mill on this” makes it a meaningless counterfactual.

You’re mistaken. If you buy a more efficient car such as any electric, the gallons consumed by the car fleet will go down, and that’s where most of the lifecycle pollution and CO2 emissions from cars lie. (Two ton recyclable car vs. 10 tons of gasoline burnt by a 35 mpg car over 120,000 miles, it’s no contest.) lf you…

The faux crocodile tears shed on the Internet over “Oh noes, won’t somebody think of the manufacturing pollution of batteries?!” are pathetic. A 35 mpg car burns through 10 tons of gasoline over 110,000 miles, every gallon of which was dirty to drill, refine, and distribute, and it all goes up in smoke. Compared to…

I wondered about that too. Apparently there are 10,0000 solar installations in PR, but most are grid-tied and so they don’t operate in the absence of grid power, because... safety and regulations? (I have grid-tied solar in California and this was news to me, I thought you could pull the big disconnect switch on the…

Dozens if not hundreds of people will die early due to VW’s criminal, intentional, and wholly unnecessary cheating. Countries regulate emissions for a reason! “America’s 11 million diesels—buses, trucks, trains, ships, and construction equipment—emit pollutants that lead to 21,000 premature deaths each year and create…

Tesla has forced the major car company to commit to building electric cars. Seeing that commitment and reacting to the diesel cheating fiasco, governments are encouraging or mandating future electric car sales, which encourages additional investment by car companies. That’s the threat to oil companies.

Tesla has more batteries for less than everyone else (outside China) put together. That is a huge competitive advantage for the next four years or so. If it meets its commitments VW will somehow be installing more batteries in EVs by 2025. So Tesla has about five years to get good at making and supporting $30,000 cars…

VW has teased us with four Kombi concept EVs (Bulli, Budd-E, i.d. Buzz, and ... whatever), and still hasn’t committed to building any. VW and Audi (seven e-tron concepts?) are the queens of concept electric vehicles.

The CCS combo plug is the common standard for fast charging, supported by every car manufacturer but Nissan and Tesla (and Honda and Toyota still futzing with fool cells). VW will install fast DC chargers with both the CCS plug and the CHAdeMO plug; Leafs can use the latter, as can Tesla owners if they buy a CHAdeMO…

VW talks a good game about costs. From the Bloomberg article, ‘the German company has made “huge progress” in reducing production costs, Christian Senger, head of the VW marque’s electric-car project... The division reiterated a target to deliver 1 million fully electric cars a year worldwide by 2025. ... has pledged…

You’re mistaken. VW’s plans includes fast charging stations. Go read “California ZEV Investment Plan: Cycle 1" ($800M over 10 years) and “National ZEV Investment Plan: Cycle 1" ($1.2 bn over 10 years). In California: “A deployment mix of L2, 50 kW, and 150 kW chargers will be offered across these use cases to help…

dupeGuru now says “Windows used to be supported, but it’s not anymore” :-( The developer is asking for a Windows maintainer to step up! The last Windows version available for download is 3.91.

You mean peddle. You pedal a bicycle.

No you're not human, you're inhuman (and you can't spell) as AlexCarillo_ patiently explained to you. Someone only slightly worse than you "chased the dog and hit him intentionally." This wasn't the news focusing on some tearjerker accident where a pet dies while ignoring human traffic fatalities.

Quit bitching. As the Atlantic article points out, many Millenials don't want to own cars and don't want to live in suburbs. Why shouldn't they demand support for that from employers and elected officials, including cheap bike lockers and shower facilities that are far cheaper than another parking lot, and transit…

The conveyance I use to buy groceries and go to work is a bicycle. Read the Atlantic article Zac Estrada mentions, there's similarly less interest (and ability) to own a home that strands you far from your job. The younger people I work with all get housing near their job or near public transit. They may be living in…