Everyone involved in this has forgotten the golden rule: never tweet. 

The frunk should be filled with glittery confetti and streamers, so if you do have a front collision it’s fun and festive.

The BMW cut over in front of the work truck before the Tesla could do anything.

It’s interesting but there are many challenges with this approach. First, 50% efficiency of the ICE is not the same as 50% efficiency of the system. How much is lost when some of the energy makes a round trip into/out of the battery vs a traditional drivetrain?

Yes, you can actually buy just a black coffee there. 

Electric E-brakes. It’s a solution in search of a problem. The regular manual e-brake works just fine, and didn’t get in the way when driving.  Aside from the general sense that “making everything electric” automatically makes it better, I don’t understand the rationale.  Also:  makes winter driving less fun.

Easy.  An instrument cluster that is backlit even when headlights are not on.  Because of that, I often see people driving down the freeway with no headlights or taillights on because they have no clue they are off.

“You know what our customers can’t get enough of? Beeping. All the fucking time, about everything. Ideally paired with cluttered-ass UIs that obfuscate the cause of the beeping. Fuck yeah, beeping.” - Every automaker on the planet, apparently. 

Start/Stop technology, and the inability to permanently turn it off.  You have to disable it every time you drive your car (at least on Toyotas).  It is annoying as fuck and I’m not getting any better gas mileage than my old car of the same model without the “feature”.

That Chevy can’t just list the price of the car in the neighborhood of what you might actually pay is a huge issue with how Chevy does business and also hurt the Bolt’s chance of success. It meant a lot of people who might not be familiar with how Chevy operates simply didn’t even look at the Bolt. 

GM has a long history of screwing up the launch version of a car, only to make a much improved follow up but by that time the brand equity has been compromised to the point where nobody cares anymore. In this space, both the Volt and the Cadillac ELR were WAY better in their second versions, but sales had fallen below…

What do you need to see exactly? It’s another jacked up hatchback two-box blob. This particular one will have Maserati badges on it, to differentiate it from the jacked-up two box blobs with Porsche badges, or KIA badges, or Ford badges. Whatever.

Alright, who wants to tell him?

“Mercedes and BMW have an annual contest in the U.S. in which they try to best each other in sales, because Cadillac is a sadness and the Germans — including Audi — have been on top for years now, in addition to Lexus.”

Spreading a lean team across massive corporation will effectively put an end to the wild stuff we're seeing now and the industry wide shift to EV will likely make it difficult for those ICE engineers to shine.  Certainly some will continue to push for crazy engines, let's hope I'm wrong.

Sounds funny, but I refuse to click on deadspin articles due to how G/O media destroyed their own site and screwed over all those great writers.

Here’s my 60 second fix. Excuse the laughably bad Photoshop.

There have been a number of variable ratio steering gear designs attempted over the years. They ranged from purely mechanical steering racks with different teeth spacing in the center and the ends to systems using planetary gearboxes and electric motors to complete steer by wire systems as you describe. None of them go…

It should have been, just like the Model S, but Elon was too obsessed with his one-piece roof glass to make the compromise. It’s one big area where the Polestar 2 takes the cake:

I never understood this. The fuel pick up doesn’t move if it’s full or empty. Then you have a strainer and a fuel filter to filter the crap out of that crap.