A Tale of Two Sales
BMW announced the other day it is cancelling production of the i3 - its first and so far only electric car.
The reason is pretty straightforward. They’re not selling well.
Correction: They’re not...
The Red Queen Rules
One of the truly scary things about living in The Homeland, as it is officially styled nowadays, is that you are subject to punishment prior to conviction. Merely to be accused...
More Buzzers – And Costs
Just as it wasn't enough to force everyone who buys a new car to buy just one - or just two - air bags, it is no longer enough to force...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED 4/27/203
Here's the audio of this week's Wheel's Up! segment with Bill Meyer over at KMED Radio in Oregon! We talked about the Tucker Thing as well as some other things:
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If They Can’t Get Traffic Lights to Sync…
They can’t even get automated traffic lights to work - to sync the green/red cycles in order to smooth the flow of traffic - but we’re supposed to believe that millions...
Tasered 11 Times Over Turn Signal
Here's a particularly awful story and video out of Glendale, AZ - with implications that are national.
Armed government workers followed a car into a parking lot - over an alleged turn...
Seepage Part II
EVs have a seepage problem.
They lose charge (and so, range) when they're not in use, if they're not plugged in while they're not in use.
It is a problem I've personally experienced...
Quantifying What “Electrification” Costs
How do you put a price on "electrification" - this bum's rush to a zero-alternative future? Ask the 1,400 people at what soon won't be Jeep's Belvidere Assembly Plant in Illinois...
Time Bandits
"What's the big hurry?" - Clover's standard refrain. It is the peal of the left-lane hog, the cry of the slow-motion merger; the eructation of the guy who refuses to even...
A Preview of the Newsom Thing
Apparently, you also have a "shared responsibility" in California to pay the government for not paying the insurance mafia for the health insurance policy the federal government says you must pay...