The Peugeot 3008 HYbrid 4, BMW i8, Audi e-Tron, Porsche 918 Spyder are all upcoming plug-in AWD hybrids with an engine and motor(s) powering separate ends of the car, at prices ranging from expensive to $845,000. The Audi A1 e-Tron concept EV has a Wankel engine as a range-extending generator, though there's been no…

Folks, help me out. There was a magazine ad, I think for Ralph Lauren Purple Label men's clothing, that had a closeup B&W picture of his two McLaren F1s parked nose to tail. Sublimely beautiful! Surely some well-dressed fashionista Jalopnik can help me find the ad. I offer a reward, seriously.

The Electric DeLorean has a C64 in the glove box to run its motor controller and remaining battery charge algorithms. So if you know BASIC you can reprogram its performance characteristics. But I worry about the long-term reliability of the Commodore 1530 Datasette loading programs off tape!

Yes, power is power, it's not like relating mpg to electricity use or power to bulb brightness. Google for "260 hp in kW", it returns 193.881967 kilowatts. The only asterisk is some EV powertrains can only deliver their peak power for short bursts.

I like my leather seats and milk, but cows aren't green. The first problem is we cut down forests and displace lots of animals to grow the feed that most livestock is partly fed on. Then, most cows AREN'T a renewable resource without a lot of water and fossil fuel inputs to grow those crops. It's far better for the…

I know you think you're being funny, but "The sheer quantity of animals being raised for human consumption also poses a threat of the Earth's biodiversity. Livestock account for about 20 percent of the total terrestrial animal biomass. ... Grazing occupies 26 percent of the Earth's terrestrial surface, while feed crop…

Not just Audi. The BMW i8 will supposedly be a similar turbodiesel plug-in hybrid, the Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4 on sale now in Europe is a diesel, the Porsche 918 Spyder is a gas plug-in hybrid. All are through-the-road hybrids with electric powering one end of the car and an engine the other (the Porsche has a third…

You forgot GTAIII: Liberty City Stories and GTAIII: Vice City Stories, and GTA: Chinatown Wars and Grand Theft Auto Advance that remain hand-held only. All released in the four year gap between San Andreas and GTAIV.

Great car, good game designer (though Yu's no Shigeru Miyamoto) fine (though hard) arcade game.

IIRC, Thailand began by requiring local assembly of cars, so car companies would ship knock-down Mercedes-Benz kits, and assemble them locally with just some crappy locally-made vinyl seat covers. Over time the local parts industry grew and companies transitioned to local manufacture and even for export, primarily…

In the early-mid 20th century USA unions pushed big companies to offer company health plans (I think to make union membership more appealing), rather than uniting for the overall social good of universal coverage. That made union shops less competitive and did nothing for "the other XX%" who weren't in unions. And now…

Exactly. The cyclists irritating other road users are young, eventually they'll grow up and (we can hope!) become less self-centered. When I bike I don't demand the right of way, I never go through red lights, I wave on cars that arrived at the intersection first, etc. I have almost no hostile/dangerous interactions…

The new car has to be more than the last car, but every supercar is going to fall well short of the Bugatti Veyron for years to come. Meanwhile, it's possible that even Ferrari's ultimate V12s will have 0-60 times that fall short of electric cars like the Rimac Concept One. What's poor Ferrari (and Lamborghini) to do?

As @snapoversteer, Arbiter of D'Elegance noticed but Jalopnik editors didn't, the rumored NSX is a plug-in through-the-road hybrid. So the drivetrain is more like the future BMW i8, but that's a four-seat GT. The future Porsche 918 Spyder is an even more elaborate plug-in hybrid ("a third electric motor is connected…

At least someone else noticed the real story that Jalopnik editors insist on burying "The extra herbs [sic] produced by the front-mounted electric motors will make the next-generation NSX a very quick car" (Motor Trend); "a high-revving V-6 displacing 3.5 to 3.7 liters powering the rear wheels. Out front, twin…

Move to Denmark or Israel and sign up for the Renault Fluence Z.E. with the Better Place quickdrop battery pack, and then robots at the handful of Better Place swap stations can swap it for you in a jiffy. The problems are many: swap stations and spare packs are expensive, so BP charges you more than just owning the…

No, why? I'm thinking about the Renault Twizy EV, which is relatively cheap, almost-available now in Europe. It's not fully enclosed, and it lacks the autonomously drive and balancing on two wheels.

And the Mii from Seat.

Nice idea, and supposedly a billion electrified bicycles and scooters are now sold in China every week, but you didn't read the part about "can operate autonomously".

Nice to see the biggest foreign car company in China thinking about alternative kinds of transportation in a place where there are 160 cities with over a million people.