Yes. If I recall correctly, nuclear plant builders came up with a whole list of improvements from TMI—standardized builds, standardized control panels, redundant cooling, etc—that made nuke power much more cost-justifiable and much lower risk from failure.

You have to hand it to the willfully blind Repub-nazis...when they go delusional, they go delusional.

And the reason United is jerking off with this literal pie-in-the-sky bullshit instead of ensuring their current planes fly on time with enough pilots to make it happen is WHAT exactly?

If readers haven’t watched The Queen so they haven’t been gobsmacked by Helen Mirren’s stunning performance as QE2, they are in for a treat.  It’s a tour de force for the ages.

All I see is a whiny bitch who “thinks” she deserves to have it both ways--ogle her since she’s a looker (and why she gets cast in the first place) but if you arbitrarily ogle her too much, she’ll bitch her head off.  Christ.

Take someone’s 35-ish year-old partially assembled(?) kit car off his hands for “only” $40K....

The Jaguar XJ220:

If someone has to combine those two logos into one...that’ll be quite the round peg going into the square hole.

Yeah, leave it to the saber-rattling racist Chinese to come up with such a cartoonish POS.  No surprises there--it’s in their DNA.

And don’t forget the bitter icing on the cake: EVs are 20-25% heavier than the equiv ICEmobiles—new roads or not, they will all deteriorate at an even faster rate otherwise “thanks” the punishing loads they’ll be taking.

This is something I commented on month’s ago: there needs to be Moon Shot emphasis on batteries getting away from lithium while still performing well enough. Maybe this is the beginning of a whole new branch of battery tech which can be a cost-effective solution for the car battery supply issue.

When it comes to public ceremonies and it’s time to pour on the pageantry and Do It Right, no one beats the Brits. It’s a fact of life.

Motor Trend is lukewarm to the EV:

The Charger Daytona EV—duh. Course it’s one thing to have a cool looking concept, it’s another for when the production version hits the dealerships’ floors and it’s a letdown. Given the strong ‘69 Charger look of the concept, I doubt Dodge will pull the rug out—like how Chevy did with the Volt concept versus the…

And you can get your Equinox in Chrysler B5 blue...even Chevy knows a good thing when they see it.

Flying nowadays...passengers must have developed incredible masochistic tendencies to put up with these ungodly hassles. Off to LA next month which could’ve been a flight, but no effing way—I’ll drive the distance.

Given how American Hitler 2, the gov of shithole Florida is more of a fascist than Donald (“You DARE to be tolerant of the LGBTQ community! I shall punish your business!!!), I’m not surprised.

Take heart: at least Disney is running out of cartoon movies to go the pointless re-do route.

The more I think about it, the more I believe a blue Challenger with a white vinyl roof would look terrific.

You win--COTD.