Mostly they just don’t want to have the NSA and CIA on their ass. 

Sure but there are ways around this, whether you put up your own solar panels or just run a generator. Much easier to come up with electricity yourself than to try and refine your own gasoline. Maybe a diesel with biodiesel you make yourself would be the only other DIY fueling I can think of. 

Yeah honestly after I bought the Model 3 we had a kid and now we’re looking for a larger vehicle because the car seat takes up quite a bit of space-much worse when they’re rear facing but we want to have another kid. Have been looking around but honestly I don’t want to go back to a non-BEV. Originally I thought about…

They should either get rid of the subsidy for everyone and incentivize EVs through some other manner (tax breaks for R&D and production spending?) or just give every manufacturer a smaller subsidy. As the technology matures manufacturers just putting out cars now probably don’t need the full $7500 subsidy the early…

In a true socialist society they’d tell your ass not to ride at all since trashing yourself means higher healthcare costs for everyone else to pay and individual bikes pollute far more and waste more resources than public transportation. Instead you’re shitting on a business for trying to bring the upfront cost of a…

Dammit kinja, triple posting

Dammit kinja

Batteries, even those in phones and small electronics, are much more likely to catch fire if they’re storing large amounts of energy. The more charged they are the easier it is to ignite them. So most of the time if you’re doing something as simple as replacing the battery in your smartphone the recommendation is to…

Yeah the manufacturer of complex and pricey components needed to keep ICE vehicles relatively clean and efficient not wanting simple vehicles that don’t require their expensive components to take over isn’t exactly shocking.

How many buyers of brand new cars are going to actually keep them 10 years? So far the depreciation on Teslas have been excellent so how does the cost of replacement matter at all to the first buyer? That new buyer is using it under warranty and then selling it.

It’s not any one particular thing, it’s all the little maintenance and fuel expenses combined that raise the total cost of ownership a significant amount. But nobody on a budget should be buying a TRX anyway

It has a seat sensor but the data is only used if you unbuckle your seatbelt. If you have the seatbelt fastened the car assumes that you’re sitting there since a normal human being not going out of their way to abuse this system would be buckled in. That way if you shift your weight or are turning aggressively and…

Yeah I find this rather ridiculous. You could likely do this in everything form a Honda with Honda Sensing to Hyundais and Kias with the Highway Driving Assist feature. But only a complete moron would go out of their way to try and kill themselves like this so how is this really any different from some idiot turning…

Well, I guess I really did learn something today. Namely that the Bentayga Hybrid is actually a plug-in hybrid that qualifies for this tax rebate. Until now I thought it was just a regular hybrid since...you know, it’s called the Bentayga Hybrid.

There are plenty of affordable lightly used $12,000 cars, it’s just that people will talk a lot of smack about these cars that would have been considered near-luxury vehicles just a decade ago. Something like a 2015-2016 Chevrolet Impala can be had around that price range and it’s a great car. It’s not a fire…

If you have Tier 1 credit there can actually be some pretty good zero down deals backed by the manufacturers from time to time. Actually, when I got my first car loan my credit union was also willing to do 0 down loans up to 100% of MSRP on new vehicles and the interest rates were 2.25% back then so it’s certainly…

To run a super lean production style like Toyota and not run the risk of just freezing up your production lines for months on end requires that you maintain excellent relationships with all your suppliers and then you stay on top of every little detail like Toyota does. The other way to run super lean like this and…

They’re separate companies though Geely owns a stake in both companies. But they only have a minority stake (~15%) in the trucking company whereas they own 99% of the car company. That said, 15% is enough of a stake that they have been trying to get the two Volvos to work with each other on newer projects, especially…

Given all the inflation in cars and inflation in raw materials like steel and aluminum there’s essentially no chance that the base is really going to be $35K. Aluminum is up 20%+ over the pre-COVID pricing from 2019. So unless Nissan made the rest of the car out of recycled cardboard there’s no way they’re hitting…

Give me a break, these are going to be bought by the exact same people buying loaded Cybertrucks and Rivians. Most of the folks I know who’ve reserved these new higher end EVs from competitors are folks who’ve already owned a higher end Tesla before and want something new and unique now that regular people are buying…