How on earth is “flyover country” a racist comment? I’m really looking forward to hearing the explanation on this.

The weight and complexity of modern cars is a symptom of crash/safety standards, luxury/tech/convenience features, and ever-increasing vehicle dimensions infinitely more-so than it is a symptom of emissions equipment. All things that the vast majority of people paying money for said cars continue demanding more and…

Demoting climate change/environmental destruction from a “human issue” to a “political issue” is evidently what a lot of that lobbying money from Koch Bros. & Co. has been going towards.

For how much these things cost, is there any reason for it not to look great? Functionality/looks don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

Then explain the myriad of racing sanctions where V8s have been used? I think you’re mistaking your logic for extreme bias, which is totally fine, but at least don’t pass it off as the former.

Yup, the highly educated guy who has to be an expert on the Arctic ecosystem to do his job, which happens to be in the Arctic, has explained to me in detail how his research coincides with other environmental research he has had first-hand exposure to in the area, including and up to why polar bears are starving en…

Again, they’re only not a match because ICEs have had an entire century’s worth of R&D, economies of scale, and infrastructure development behind them that EVs received almost no effort on during the same time. Electric cars were actually more successful and regarded as superior to gas cars in the very early days of…

Okay troll, I happen to have personally had discussions with a geologist working on temperature data in the Arctic who could tell me the exact same thing I just told you because, uh, he saw the evidence plus gathered the data to make that call, but you do you. Nevermind that every major organization that employs…

If electric powertrains would have received half the R&D effort and the heavily subsidized fuel infrastructure that internal combustion engines were given over the past 120 years, we would have largely stopped using gas and diesel engines decades ago.

1. The bear’s not old, it’s starving to death because sea ice in the Arctic is melting so quickly that areas the bears could hunt in just years ago are now open ocean. This is happening on such a large scale we think up to 25% of their population may be dead now. 2. It doesn’t, but that doesn’t change the fact that…

Ironic statement, considering how much debt we’re in because Zionist neocons thought launching two major wars with several smaller involvements thrown in, all with absolutely no exit strategy was a good idea. If they had to reach into their own pockets, I bet Kennedy’s line that “The United States...will never start a…

What (affordable) ICE cars these days actually have that visceral, authentic experience though? Much of what you’re describing has already been destroyed by electronic nannies, suspensions and cabins designed to appeal to NVH targets instead of allowing the driver to feel what the car is doing, and otherwise great…

For a company that didn’t exist a decade ago and is still only on their first car developed completely in-house, Tesla is pretty damn impressive. Not sure why so many Jalops are so salty about an American auto company that’s doing awesome work getting recognition and praise for doing so.

A lot of it is the fact that marketing/branding has a significant amount of final say in which designs get chosen for production, which almost always pushes the final product away from something more unique to something more “universally appealing” (Read: what everyone else is doing these days).

Actually, the amount of CO2 emitted to construct a single car is still equivalent to the CO2 emissions several years’ worth of driving that car will create. Even though many of those raw materials are transported in bulk for parts of their manufacturing processes, creating something as complex as a car is a huge…

All those raw materials still have to be extracted, transported around, assembled into something, and transported/assembled several more times before you have a car in your driveway, however. And guess what is ultimately powering the vehicles and machinery that do those jobs...