Nope.

A competition is a competition.  The medium used doesn't matter, if it was a competition amongst sportsman, it's not "just a game"

People pay people to play games for them. First that comes to mind is Runescape. Im sure most MMORPGS have a healthy group of players for hire.

So if he cheated playing basketball you would give a shit? Seriously? How about if he was playing e-basketball?

A professional race driver cheated in a competition. Just because it was in a simulated environment as opposed to in real life doesn’t make it any less relevant.

If it’s just a game, why did he hire a ringer?

Can you show us on the doll wear GM touched you Erik? Because you basically found a non-story and made it sound like GM intentionally drummed up the interview and then gloated, neither of which appears to be the case based on the actual read of the Freep article.

Mazda does make beautiful cars. I really think an electric Miata would sell like crazy if they can price it under 30K and make it have a range of 200 miles or so. I mean they put so much money into Wankel which is FAR more complex to fix/troubleshoot/refine the sealing issues. Compared to that an Electric Miata should…

Level 1 and 2 on non-Teslas are cone through a j1772 connector. On cars with chademo, there is a second port on the car that is a female j1772 connection. The Combo charger is a single port, but it is built around the j1772 port, so you can plug a j1772 connector or a level 3 CCS connector to the same port (there are…

My bad; the chargers I’m used to seeing (and that my company installs) have built-in cables that are permanently wired in. They usually go on private homes or in parking lots, though. It makes sense that in an environment like what these are intended for you’d want to have vehicles supply their own cables. Otherwise…

Well, one end of the cable is permanently wired into the charger. You’d have to ruin it to remove it. Unplugging the car it’s plugged into though takes just a second.

Whatever Ghosn actually did, I do not trust the Japanese justice system, so I can understand why he would go to such great lengths to get out.

Having talked to Hyundai and Kia dealer reps for corporate, they know. I hear from people in Marketing and Sales that it keeps them up at night knowing that they are going to hit the spotlight for a shitty dealer doing outrageous shit and the brand take the hit.  Its not for a lack of trying to fix it either, they are…

Considering the constant evolution of tech (battery + “traditional”), and decreasing costs that go with it plus how tech-heavy their cars are, I’m willing to bet that it pays off long-term. There are more Teslas in my neighborhood than any other single brand, except possibly Toyota if you sum up the Tacos and Tundras.

Weren’t those swapped out after an abusive amount of fast charging, and up to 100%, against all recommendations? I seem to remember that they were pretty well abused, yet swapped out every 150k miles or so. Seems acceptable.

I think for the average driver who isn’t zap-frying his battery 3 times a day, it should last…

“Those cells you build in Asia are a whopping 500 KG CO2 for every KW-hour.”

I’m not convinced you are literate at all. The motherfucking conclusions, in big bold letters, are: “Electric cars are much cleaner than internal combustion engine cars over their lifetime,” “Battery manufacturing life-cycle emissions debt is quickly paid off,” and “Incorporating electric vehicle life-cycle…

Did you even read that article before posting it?

According to those Tesloop cars? A lot.

Over the life of the car, practically all EVs will emit fewer tons of CO2 compared to an equivalent ICE. The “astronomical carbon debt” for almost any given EV is offset within a few years of driving, depending on your source of electricity.