Here’s the audio of this week’s Wheels Up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, OR. We talked about people preferring engines over batteries, on two wheels and four:
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Bend over, here it comes again — another EeeVee pickup nobody asked for:
‘Twenty years ago this month, Tesla introduced itself to the world with the electric Roadster, the $100,000 sports car that kickstarted the modern EV era. Now the company’s two original founders are betting on TELO, an EV startup with an aesthetic rebuttal to Tesla’s brutalist Cybertruck swagger.
‘Rather than start with another compact crossover chasing Tesla’s top-selling Model Y, San Carlos, California-based TELO – located in the same Silicon Valley office park where Tesla was headquartered when it launched the Roadster – is coming to market with a whimsical truck roughly the size of a MINI Cooper. Priced from $41,520, the MT1 looks like something from the world of Japanese anime, with none of the militaristic menace of Tesla’s pickup.
‘But TELO is borrowing one important page from Tesla’s original playbook: start small and build slowly. CEO and cofounder Jason Marks told Forbes the company initially plans to make just 500 units, and then scale up to a 5,000-vehicle-per-year run rate after a year or so. And even at that relatively low volume, he thinks the company can turn a profit.’ — Forbes
https://archive.ph/9V6Wp#selection-4623.0-4639.208
What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’! Say it again …
The Repuke party prepares for its inevitable loss of the House in November:
‘Despite Mike Johnson’s odds-defying performance as Speaker given the slim majority and rebel culture, Republicans widely assume a midterm loss would result in the Speaker exiting from leadership altogether. Johnson recently told The Wall Street Journal he wants to stay in the post if Republicans win but demurred when asked about if Republicans are relegated to the minority.
‘Steve Scalise, as the current No. 2 Republican, is an obvious contender to take the No. 1 slot if Johnson departs. It helps, he said, that Trump is engaged in the process. The president will ask Scalise to give him names of members to call to get on board — and while some might see the attention from Trump as a treat, Scalise insisted: “That’s not a call you want to want to have.”
“He’s our best closer for a reason — because he also knows what he wants to do, and we’re all helping each other achieve the things we ran on,” Scalise said of Trump.’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5984168-steve-scalise-trump-gop-leadership/
Hitching their wagon to the mentally ill, warmongering foreign agent Trump is the kiss of death for the R-party. May it sink beneath the waves without a trace! 🙂