Here’s the problem: if your propulsion energy gets drained you won’t have a control system anymore, either. You might need that to coordinate charging.

“Never” is a long time. I’m kind of inclined to agree that transcontinental trips won’t even be possible via HSR in North America anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean there will never be a market.

And that’s a technical issue. HSR is much more mature and reliable now. In fact, Canada’s Bombardier has North American rights to produce the French TGV trains.

It’s kind of an engineering principle that the control system not be powered by the propulsion system, though.

This car, in this condition, for $3k is ND.

Was that Datsun? I thought it was Isuzu.

It’s a... Ridgeline? Really?

I get that you’re gonna wanna throw things at me, but a pristine SEMA show car stuffed with high end audio gear probably IS worth $30k.

Is it just me, or is it getting really fatiguing as more of these pre-announcements accumulate? How many cars have we been shown that we’re still waiting on, again?

I’d take this over the Supra any day. Hope they do another drop-top.

People dismissing the lack of a toilet clearly haven’t seen the kinds of prices old VW Westfailias demand. If there are full maintenance records this isn’t a bad deal. NP.

I’m sure it will sell. It’s better-looking (to me) than the Model Y and I’m sure the VW brand alone will pull buyers. I suspect they’ll have to discount fairly heavily, though.

For many companies it will work, for many it won’t. But I think it’s safe to say we’re going to see fewer commuters in the coming years.

I’m sorry, anyone who’s taking shots at “unsprung weight” isn’t paying attention to the intended application here.

While this isn’t being made available to consumers (and probably shouldn’t), it would be interesting to see some entrepreneur with the requisite expertise start doing conversions. If not with this I have no doubt there will be multiple “crate motor” style conversion setups come to market in coming years.

The automaker plans for about half of total sales to be fully electric by the end of the decade, it said on Wednesday.

This was one of Chrysler’s best designs, and the Concorde was an especially nice rendition. This kind of time capsule is... interesting but not “10 large” interesting. 

I really want to believe in Alpha but so far as I know at this point they haven’t even built a running car (all we’ve seen are renders, cool as they are). 

Rivian is positioning themselves as kind of a luxo-truck. Range-Roverish, if you will.

Nice, clean, basic truck of the type a LOT of truck-types claim to revere. Nothing flashy, not a lot to break, but that price is some serious “I know what I got!” energy. ND.