Not just borrowing money - if you’ve got a high valuation, you can issue a ton of shares and raise a ton of money without diluting the existing shareholders as much. If a share price is overvalued, it’s not just outsiders that’ll be selling: probably the company will be selling too in order to capitalize. Cold hard…

I imagine to claim the trudeaubucks you gotta have a social insurance number. But I did double-check because my memory is bad, and the Tucson hybrid indeed starts at $42k CAD.

In Canada I was shopping for a Hyundai PHEV, and the car-builder initially starts with the simple hybrid. I clicked PHEV trim, and the price ... didn’t change. I was like “wtf”, and it turns out they priced the PHEV trim upgrade to be exactly the value of the federal green-vehicle rebate.  So I went from $42k straight…

“Florida Man” is apparently due to some quite strict FOIA laws in Florida that make it really easy for clickbait journalists to search for the weirdest thing that happened in Florida this week. It’s a big enough state that the weirdest police interaction each week will be truly bizarre, and it’s all easy public record.

They’ve absolutely slashed prices in 2023, so their vaunted 2022 margins have disappeared.

The thing with EVs is that high-power electrical motors are easy. But the amount of hp the battery can output scales with the size of the battery. So if you’ve got a big battery, you’ve got the ability to have a huge power output and a long range. A 150hp, 300-mile EV is not going to sustain the same MSRP that a…

Isn’t there a standard where you just plug the plug in and it bills it to your car?  Why the hell would you need an app?

The Ioniq 5 isn’t really an SUV.  They just call it that because SUVs sell and cars don’t.  Also regulatory reasons.

Lets them evaluate Yuki against another known-quantity driver. Yuki seemed worse than Gasly last year but better than NDV this year. If Yuki wipes the floor with DR, then he likely gets promoted. If DR destroys Yuki, maybe he moves up.

It blows my mind that after all these traffic stoppages, CA/SF doesn’t just mandate that Waymo and Cruise have to go back to including a safety driver. Call them an on-site tech. $25-$30/hr to just sit in the car all day and unblock traffic when the software gets screwed.

Aircraft can actually be pretty damn efficient. The latest generation of narrowbodies (737max, A220, A320neo) hit 2.5L/100km per passenger, which is 94mpg.

It’s the perfect “enrage to engage” reporting technique. Go on Twitter, find people angry about something (everyone on Twitter is angry about something at all times, I guess they find it fun), and report on it. Then you get three responses:

They probably didn’t want to reveal and confirm or deny the bottom range of their sub-detection capabilities. Revealing that they did or did not hear a very tiny sub going pop would be a good way for adversaries to test theories about the effectiveness of the ASW listening devices nearby.

“If they’d just lost comms they woulda certainly surfaced immediately”

Red Bull managed to make a ground-effect car that didn’t bounce. For the first half of last season, Ferrari was faster in quali and nearly a match during the race. But the Ferrari (and the Mercedes) was a bouncy castle on wheels.

Likely Japan or Europe ranges vs the EPA ranges.

“bZ4X battery’s range of 382 miles”

I wonder if there’s a way for cops to know you’re actually allowed taking your eyes off the road.  If you’re blatantly watching TV or copulating or whatever, surely a cop would take notice and pull you over.  Might get tedious explaining each time “no no no see it’s SAE Level 3 and this was legal”.

On highways, but also max speed 40mph

Just about every EV is recyclable - if you have a junkyard full of EVs, what you really have is extremely high-grade ore full of lithium and other battery-making elements.