I could be wrong but I don’t think you can make inductive charging work like that. I mean Apple couldn’t even make the Airpower thing to charge 3 stationary devices at once. I think the coils need to be lined up properly for it to work, no? With a moving car it would be constantly going in and out of the fields.

The Tribune article also says “The vented design was used on a limited number of cans over the last several years, and has not been used in the vast majority of the product sold”

You don’t? It’s much better than other ways.

Wow the Chicago Tribune article is much better than USA Today. I read this article, was confused as heck about what u shaped vents you were talking about as I have never seen those on a can. Then I read the USA Today article, also confused...

I absolutely love that at 10:15 a.m. Jalopnik posts the Morning Shift with “4th Gear: More Bad News for Mazda.” At 10:50 a.m. Jalopnik posts “Mazda Challenges BMW and Mercedes, Shames Toyota With Development of New Straight-Six Skyactiv-X Engine.” 

It would be great if you could use AI to imagine such a world, too bad this guy’s software just makes the cars more noticeable by making them flash and glitch...

Earlier today, President Donald Trump tweeted that “subject to a UAW agreement etc., GM will be selling their beautiful Lordstown Plant to Workhorse, where they plan to build Electric hideous, non-beautiful Trucks.”

I’m a bit of a critic of EVs and don’t generally buy into the hype... but all that aside I love this car and would give them all the money for it.

Unpopular opinion here, but this actually articulated what I have been trying to very well, despite the fact that you, and others, think it’s stupid.

What this article missed is that maybe it’s a good thing that they are behind in Electric cars. It was a smart decision to bring hybrid cars out because, as you note, they are now widespread across the car industry. True EVs represent a tiny fraction of new car sales and it would have been silly to waste R&D money…

I’m sure lots of business minded folks using Uber as a side-gig will jump in to offer rides today. I don’t consider these companies to be “employers” though, so I guess that’s where we have a difference of opinion. I don’t see this as a strike. I see it as people that are unhappy using a technology company that…

I totally respect that GMG is union now, and I don’t take rideshare anyway because I have a car and live less than 1 km from where I work, but I am curious if there can ever be a place for tech companies that just facilitate individuals to act as independent contractors?

I agree the future may end up being electric, but all the timelines are hopelessly exaggerated given how few electric cars are sold today and the fact that even though we have the best batteries we’ve ever had, they still suck. I think there are plenty of smart manufacturers that would do well to focus on the types of…

I wouldn’t be too worried. Despite the hype EVs aren’t actually taking over very quickly at all, ICE still makes up virtually all car sales.

Why does not preparing for EVs mean a company is hopeless and should be acquired? FCA sold 125,000 Jeeps and Ram Pickups just last month. I’d be interested to know how many electric cars all manufacturers combined sold in April... I know Nissan sold 951 Leafs and Tesla probably made 20,000 cars or something.

I really don’t think it’s true that buying a bunch of brand new electric drivetrains and retrofitting then into a bunch of random used cars would somehow be cheaper than purpose building a reliable vehicle that they will use for at least 20 years.

Absolutely correct take. We need to make the conversation about the real barriers to EV take-up and not on the fictitious. As someone in the market for a new car in the medium-term (3-5 years) I would love to go electric but almost certainly will go gas. The reasons aren’t climate change denial or that the electrics…

Nope. Gas isn’t that expensive in Canada and this video certainly isn’t filmed there.

I’ve often thought it would be great for their to be truly private freeways, but put them outside of even the state’s ability to enforce speed limits, etc... Basically make a “Linear Raceway” under the same rules that govern track days at racetracks. Except instead of driving around in a circle, these “racetracks”…

I just meant if you want to avoid the chaos of a city...