That is weirdly high pitched for an EV motor. Very high RPMs. That tells me that Hyundai is making its own bespoke motor rather than borrowing a larger, slower one from Bosch, for example. That’s great news, of course, but it does sound like a quadcopter.

but I’ve got a pretty strong hunch they’re not, say, harvesting these fluids and using them for mind-control devices or sending them up to HAARP.

The front-engine Porsches are on my bucket list. Not just to drive, but as EV conversions. They’re 2+2 liftback coupes with surprising amounts of room under the hood and trunk for batteries, and they’re designed for low horsepower so you don’t have to shell out for a Tesla motor.

Five minutes later and I’ve already one-upped myself. Presuming Kinja attaches the image, this is a Lite Industries crawler carrier. Oh, and the little truck bed tilts like a dump truck.

I should probably not enable you, Torch, but you should check out government surplus auctions. They’re an absolute gold mine if you like weird, dirt cheap utility vehicles. For instance, this lovely little tug that looks like a cabover kei truck. Who knows, maybe a Talet-30 will show up someday.

You practically need a ship to cross that C.

Sure, it might be Yet Another Electric Crossover™, but I’m pretty stoked to see what Volvo can do here. The XC40 is expected to share the Compact Modular Architecture with the Polestar 2. If this means that it inherits the 78kWh battery with 150kW charging, it could leapfrog the Niro and undercut the Ipace and EQC.

5th: Live in S. California, pretty congested area, have yet to see a hydrogen refueling station.

Can we all just stop for a moment and appreciate how someone came up with the idea of using a subscription app to lease camper vans to gig-economy Californians who can’t afford apartments?

By cursory reading, it looks like you’re right! In any case, the EPA’s timetable is 18 months after noncompliance, so the EPA can’t actually force a change until after the election.

They’re only devoid of character if you never care to look under the hood.

Far, far away.

“Dynamic” just means that the aggressive sportiness has been synergized with premium disruptive innovation.

I’m sorry, but there’s a ton of nuance in a service economy. High paying service jobs can be outsourced just as easily — see what happened to tech support. I’m not sure I can articulate any of this, but I’ll give it a try.

I’m afraid it might also be the crux of the argument against UBI. If automated production is taxed enough to provide UBI (i.e. considerably), what’s to stop the execs from moving their plants out of the country where they’re not taxed? For AI, they don’t even have to move physical machines.

When an EV battery is “spent,” it can only charge to 80% of its former capacity. That’s still plenty of usable life for storage, Ebikes, and other low-power applications, just like how a “dead” AA battery won’t power a flashlight but works fine in your TV remote.

Neutral: I don’t really see a good way out of the woods, for the UAW or America. Unionize, and executives automate or outsource your job. Go without a union, and you end up with the hellish conditions/pay in Amazon distribution centers. Allowing automation and compensating with universal basic income means you have to…

there is no way we can hit 54.5mpg by 2025, we can barely hit 40mpg and its pretty much 2020 now

Holy crap.

It’s times like these when I appreciate just how close the Clarity is to bubble-era engineering. A large, luxury sedan with (early) Prius-beating mileage and a punchy electric motor and all the tech Honda can muster and ultrawide tires with 5-link rear suspension and a full aluminum chassis and zany aero features and…