It’s 100% culture war, and being that Toyota has such a stakehold in Texas, I am shocked this is even flying. Outside of the BZ4x which isn’t doing well, there are still many plug-in options and I’d be surprised if there wasn’t even the smallest amount of resistance from the folks in Plano over this.

Make up for taxes at the pump... doesn’t texas own their electrical grid? Aren’t the making 100% of energy cost that goes towards running EVs already?

Absolutely fucking wild.

“Electric vehicle? Okay Mr. Tesla moneybags, give us some of them there greenbacks”

The 9-4x died because Saab was out of money. We had ordered a handful of units that were bound for a third production cycle but they cut it short at the second cycle. When Saab was sold off to the chinese holdings company, GM was unwilling to part with the technology licensing for all the products and it left them…

I would imagine this has to do with the pure volume and hands off selling process that allows them to do that. As a traditional dealer, every trade in or purchase is a gamble. You don’t generally look at the whole years worth of profits when you decide whether you’re going to pay 7500 or 9500 for a car. You look at…

Insurance isn’t stupid. Higher power cars always have higher premiums than their more pedestrian versions, and not just for parts cost either, risk factor is something that is 100% considered in premiums.

Good luck getting that one past the auto industry lobbyists

Remember Fisker? How well did that work out, exactly? I think each car built cost the taxpayer like a million and a half dollars.

12%? Where is the other 20% of my income going then? Ugh.

Yes, victimless, right. You know that insurance premiums are determined by actuaries and if your particular zip code has had high rates of catalytic converter theft, you can expect your comprehensive coverage premiums go up.

Insurance adjust here, getting absolutely overrun with these types of claims in NYC, suvs, trucks and crossovers are prime targets but they’re hitting up small cars too.

I love how police departments often refer to their officers as the “finest”.

They must give them a hell of a deal for developers to decide to put themselves in that particular walled garden. Do I want a large market? No thanks, give me the smallest one possible please!

It will also have a resale value of $14,000 in 2022

yes, doing good things like selling BUNDLES THROUGH A LOTTERY SYSTEM.

The amount of hate it got at the time was enormous. It gets a pass now because it was successful.

You’d think the “head of playstation studios” would have a better looking television setup than I did back in college in 2007 (with a more modern tv, obviously)

This is a zero star? Maybe the standards for a zero star have gotten raised quite a bit, I remember those old Daewoo NHSTA videos that were horrific, and as an insurance adjuster I am not super familiar with how bad a hit at this speed should look but I have seen a lot worse things in my time and these look pretty par…

Seems like a lot of things need to be done to make electric motorcycles mainstream, the biggest one being infrastructure but secondly, safeguards from disaster like the 12v battery allowing itself to drain completely. Surely there is a body control module of some type operating all of those lights where if the voltage…