I had a 2002 Quad for 14 years, and put 170,000 on it.

True, but even in the carbureted era (I think a ‘91 was throttle body injection, with the “Magnum” era of multiport fuel injection a year or two in the future), the A/LA -block engines had a reputation for doing their underwhelming thing unfussily for a long, long time in between repairs.  Also, decent torque coming…

That’s the downside. The upside is that it is so understressed that it’ll run forever.

The auto industry uses only 9% of all chips. The largest is gaming, 30-40%. It’s not because Trump put tariffs in place - never mind China’s tariffs on U.S. made vehicles - it’s because China knows it can push the current administration around. When China, the country with the most human rights violations in the world,…

It isn’t about Trump being right or wrong, just that the trade war is a small part of it. It is helping to drive prices up, but it isn’t actually causing the shortage.

**Loudly Clears Throat

Wow! There is so much misinformation in this post I don’t know where to start!

Oh boy, I can’t wait for my 44hp, $25,000 EV! What a thrilling prospect. Drive free or die, amirite?

Mm financially comfortable white people, who likely identify as liberal or moderate (it is Austin), calling the police on Chicano/Black/etc., folks because they don’t like something they’re doing peacefully. As MLK said, ‘

BTW, I think your use of urban sprawl is incorrect in this blog. Austin is and has been a…

Is anyone else here of the camp that - if your car got stolen - you hope to hell you never see it again? (And/or it gets set ablaze?). Stolen cars get destroyed and if they’re not totaled, are usually never the same again.

California is a state with a modern and robust electrical grid that definitely could handle millions of EVs plugged in overnight.

God, you guys don’t read so good, do you?

Of course I have electricity. However, you missed that infrastructure part. Below is Electrify America’s charger map for my area. I live, roughly, in the center of the map.  Would you have a gasoline car if the only gasoline was at your house, and at a friend’s place way the hell away from you? 

Ah, yes, thank you for jumping to conclusions about how I have my mind up. Apparently you glossed over a few key items, such as someone showing me a study, which you did, but it was only one, and it was biased towards electric vehicles in general. How about something UNBIASED?

Yes, let’s discuss how we’re killing the planet.

Until someone can come up with a study that shows how my F-150 is hurting the planet more than battery production and disposal, I’m calling bullshit.

California said in September that it would be banning the sale of new cars that aren’t zero emission by 2035, which it should probably just do right now instead of waiting. Anyway, there are now calls for the U.S. as a whole to do pretty much the same thing.

It’s all just political posturing. ICE vehicles wont be banned in CA by 2035. CA’s electrical grid can’t even handle the load on it currently. 

California didn’t say it - Newsom said it. And it could just as easily be “unsaid” by the next governor after he’s recalled. That said, the political appetite in CA might see that order stay in place until it’s enacted.

Did you seriously link to Raph’s much-maligned article from last year where all he did was show that he doesn’t spent much time researching the subjects he writes about and also has zero understanding of the dynamics and intricacies created by the intersection of massive infrastructural change, government regulations…