Burying the Leaf
Nissan is reportedly cancelling the Leaf, its "mass market" electric car. Which says a lot about the "mass market" for electric cars.
Especially in view of the fact that the Leaf is...
The Truly Mobile Home
Mobile homes are the punchlines of many jokes about rednecks, but the real joke is that they're not really mobile homes.
They can be moved, certainly - but that is not the...
Default Tsunami
After about seven years, the average new car is worth less than half what it sold for new. As of the third quarter of last year, says the credit reporting apparat...
The Glaucomic Standard
Here is a thought experiment:
Imagine that traffic laws were premised on the limited abilities of those least-able to drive. Who could barely drive. Speed limits set to “keep safe” people who have difficulty...
Haircuts for Heroes
Apparently, "heroes" - armed government workers - are immune from Corona, both getting it and spreading it. At least, in Miami - where a special exemption has been made for "heroes"...
Battery Apologists
Want to keep your battery powered device's battery "alive and kicking" for "hundreds of thousands of miles"? That's easy.
All you have to do is not charge it much!
Rule Number One -...
AGWs Protecting AGWs
Here's news coverage about the firing - for once - of five AGWs who watched one of their own beat the crap out of someone without so much as asking their...
The Way It Makes Sense
Ford has been losing billions not selling EVs - which are stacking up at dealerships all over the country. It's not just Ford, either. The only EV maker putatively selling EVs...
15 Percent Less Gas – and Money to Buy it With, Too
It's ironic that the Thing responsible for causing the price of gas to double (on its way to tripling) at the same the value of the money we're forced to use...
No More 3G Soup for You!
One of the neat things about “connected” things is they can be disconnected - and not by you. Rendering them useless to you and (best part) making you perpetually beholden to...