Europeans used to laugh at us in America for buying SUVs, and now the Tesla Model Y is their best selling car, so the tides sure have completed turning!

I think the issue at lower speeds is just that they’re in a place where they’ll be hitting curbs and speed bumps and things like that

It’s a neat idea and efficiency improvements are great, but I question the cost-benefit factor. Doing some napkin math I predict this would save $65 to $85 in electricity savings over the first 100,000 miles of the vehicle. I’ll bet you that having durable electronically deployed active aero costs quite a bit more…

I’ve only even heard of these Stanley tumblers because of the car fire thing, and then outrage articles like this. Pretty sure I’ve never actually seen one in person. If articles like this didn’t happen, wouldn’t that serve their own purpose of quieting down the hype?

Yeah, that part is kind of a bummer. I picked blue for mine. I should’ve gone red but I’m kind of a blue car person so I just had to, even though the blue isn’t as vibrant as I would’ve preferred. The wife went white, yes boring, though it looks good on the car, and was the default (free) color option, with plans of…

Yup, down with the dealership scum. I once flew many states away and drove 13 hours home just to get the car I wanted in the color I wanted (stryker blue Pontiac G8). Fortunately my most recent two new car purchases were direct sales so I spec’ed the color when ordering.

Absolutely wild that there was only one fatality and the plane was still able to land after that

Very timely. Just last night I fired up the hose to just spray off what I could, but after a few cylindrical ice cubes emerged, water pressure really didn’t. Currently the hose is sort of thawing in my garage. My goal is to pressure wash off the absurd amount of New Hampshire salt leftover from last week, so bad you…

Interesting question about Tesla Stores, I’m not sure how that all works. They obviously don’t work on commission because all sales go through the corporate ordering website. And they don’t have the traditional scammy dealer add-on pinstriping, and don’t even do the loan office stuff on-site so there aren’t local…

I’ve only used a non-Tesla DCFC once, in Los Angeles, and the first plug I tried didn’t work, so I had to move over a stall.

I keep a jacket on the back seat and if I’m going to need it at my destination, I turn on the rear seat heater in advance. Work smarter, not harder!

Automotive News polled over 1,000 dealership employees, of which 85 percent were men and 13 percent were women. The survey showed that 82 percent of men polled were in manager/owner positions, while just 56 percent of women polled were in that category

Some day we’ll look back on news articles like this and be like “people used to wear coats in their cars?”

Cold builds character. You know, back in my day, we used to walk to school uphill both ways, in the snow

2015+ Fiat 500 is pretty cool. It’s a digital gauge cluster that changes when  you turn on Sport Mode. The eco gauge because a throttle position sensor, the RPMs turn into a checkered flag, and the font because italics. Because italics are faster! Also apparently on some of them, it even shows a G-meter.

Here’s the Clark County Nevada commissioners’ approval, almost a year ago, of the expanded transit map, where they are saying the red lines just got approved, and the green lines had been approved previously. My original post was a newer copy of the same map where the red had already been updated to green.

Me: Here’s a map of a transit system. Here are some statistics.

You seemed to go off the rails pretty quick. They make medication for that.

I don’t have the time to keep going back to every article I’ve read and read all the comments over and over again multiple times per day to see if there were any new ones in every thread. Once I read an article once, I only go back if I get a comment notification.

There are about 124 million households in the US. Each household has dozens if not a hundred electric outlets. That could mean actually billions of possible places to plug in.