“Im not buying it new, let all the suckers take the depreciation hit, and I’ll buy it a few years later. My plan it fullproof!”

A Prius V, obviously

You’re assuming that people paying these prices will still have the money left to put down on an EV. Even if I got one i’d have to own it for YEARS to make up the cost of the fact my car is already paid off and all I need is gas/inspections vs dropping thousands for an EV.

As a former Element owner, I can assure you that there was nothing “fun” about driving this thing. It’s the only car purchase I truly regret and was thrilled to get out of it at a minor loss. And a stick would not improve it at ALL. It’s one of the few truly incompetent Hondas ever made.

I had so many things wrong with his response, or lack thereof, I wasn’t sure where to begin. He was quick to gloss over the glaring fact that the company hasn’t delivered anything (including in Vietnam). I was (rightly) corrected for comparing the Intel chip site in Ohio to Foxconn in Wisconsin, but this Vinfast plan…

They do exist!

Furthermore, who in their right mind would take a road trip and travel the interstate? That is for amateurs. Experienced travelers take the back roads and see the country, meet the people, visit the towns, hit the flea markets for treasures from their travels.

“If I have to wait behind you to get a shower that means I need to move on as time does not let me wait, which means the business will lose out on a 500 dollar fuel purchase.”

Furthermore, who in their right mind would take a road trip and travel the interstate? That is for amateurs. Experienced travelers take the back roads and see the country, meet the people, visit the towns, hit the flea markets for treasures from their travels.

Those pressure’s aren’t really all that crazy. I mean, if the highest pressures you’re familiar with is the 120psi cycling tire, sure, 10k sounds like a ton. I regularly work with pressurized fluids and gases at about 5x higher than that range, in substantially higher volumes, for primarily combustibles. In some cases…

I very much doubt EVs will follow the price curve of consumer electronics. The technology to make a plasma panel back then was expensive - but the materials needed to make one were not - it’s fundamentally sand, plastic, steal, and a bit of copper and whatnot. An EV need s crapload of VERY expensive materials to make,…

A 2.0T with 9 trillion pounds of boost is going to be more reliable than a relatively lightly stressed big-ass V10? Yeah, right.

Good. The sooner we get away from the EV stupidity, the better. EVs are a dead end. We should instead be focusing on making carbon-neutral synthetic fuels that are a drop-in replacement for gasoline. That’s how you make transportation carbon-neutral immediately, by just switching what’s coming out of the pump, instead…

Who died and made you the arbiter of acceptable vehicle size?  Speaking of which, what size is acceptable? Are Teslas OK? I bet a Nissan Leaf would be OK but that could obliterate a toddler as well.  It seems that 65,000 people feel this vehicle makes sense for them.  I hate it and would never consider one, but I…

Back in 2014 J.B. wrote a short blog that summed it up;

Big EV bad. Small, compact, 4-cylinder hybrid city truck bad.

The Jalopnik Snark knows no limits.  Even if it means they have to go against the very things they hold dear, they will find a way to be negative about everything.

Jalopnik: We hate people with money, cars, trucks and EVs But we love brown stickshift wagons, reposting 7 year old posts and slideshows.

I think some politicians just do things to say they did them. This may not change anyone’s party vote, but may help solidify their base and give them a chance to say “look I did a thing!” without actually doing anything. More important to get a popular tweet than do the hard work of crafting actual legislation.

I always thought these (and some of the other S-Class/Maybach) wheels looked like absolute dogshit: