The cold weather issue is being largely mitigated by cars with heat pumps that are massively more efficient. also, 10-80% charging times are dropping like a stone, with some cars nearly reaching parity with gas fill-ups. After 200 miles of driving I’m definitely taking a little more time out form behind the wheel than…

Even worse, he doesn’t want the contract to end, but wants to end the “mandate”.

I still can’t figure out what the point of the new Land Cruiser was in the first place. The 4Runner was already just a special Prado for the NA market. I don’t really know what they are going for by having both of them in the showroom other than SUV’s for their own sake. 

Yeah, the folks at Oshkosh must love him. Esp. since corporate types typically vote Republican... (not that any amount of cognitive dissonance will get thru to most conservative voters).

“Representative William Timmons, a South Carolina Republican who represents the district that is home to the Oshkosh plant building the EVs, said USPS should revert to its prior plan to buy 90% gas-powered vehicles, but not cancel the contract.”

1st Gear: I just leased my first BEV (BMW iX) after driving a PHEV for a few years and I don’t see myself going back to ICE cars for daily drivers. Sure, my fun and collectible cars will exclusively be ICE cars, preferably manually shifted, but you just cant beat the smoothness and ease of throttle input/power delivery…

Guys like Timmons (R-SC) are why I hate that party so much, and congresscreeps in general. He wants to end the USPS contracts and the “mandates” but the factory in his district should be spared.

Based on what I have seen in reviews, the 4Runner has a better interior and available 3rd row for cheaper than the LC with equal off-road capability.

In the suburbs of my large metropolitan area the off-road trim seems to be mandatory for trips to Target.

McKinsey isn’t nearly as smart as McKinsey would like you to believe. Their advice is mostly boilerplate cost-cutting, layoffs, reorganizations, and the like. I’m somewhat ashamed that one of my (former?) friends from grad school works for them.

The McKinsey study used data gathered in December of 2022, and if you dig into the data says a lot more than just a headline. 

A banger of a morning roundup, Owen.

The other day I was thinking, I bet Jalopnik would love to find a transportation angle on this story.

Nah, he killed someone in the wrong tax bracket and the wrong color.

On the same day a NYC jury acquitted that guy of the chokehold strangulation murder of a poor, mentally unstable black man. Your G-damn ‘effin right this better be jury nullification.

You’d think Job #1 is cut/shave your hair. #2 is grow a beard. #3 is sunglasses and mask everywhere for the next 3 months. #4 is make it back to Hawaii, where no one could imagine you’re a NYC suspect. He appeared to do none of these.

Jury nullification.

Stanford is also where Brock Turner went to school.  The rapist Brock Turner.

Streisand effect

Glad that asshole is getting fucked, twice.