The 3 cylinder Geo Metro in the 1990s achieved over 40 miles per gallon. 30 years later you're telling me we lost that ability?
Yes, but only because most Americans are unwilling to drive a Metro-sized car anymore. They've been conditioned to think small/lightweight cars are unsafe or unmanly or etc.
The fact that the government is mandating fuel efficiency means that most people don't care. If they cared, nobody would buy the inefficient cars so the manufacturers wouldn't make them, no need for government intervention.
The invisible hand of the free market solves a lot of things, but it's never quite figured out how to avoid the tragedy of the commons. Everybody wants to live on a livable planet, but nobody wants to pay for the technology required to keep that way.
I traveled to poor countries where traffic is 90% scooters. This is all they can afford. I hope we can do better.
Being inexpensive to purchase and operate is one advantage scooters have over automobiles; the other is that they are small enough to maneuver quickly through heavy traffic and easier to find a parking spot for in congested areas.
one of Toyota's executives said that every model would be offered as a hybrid in about a decade. That might happen after three decades.
Really? The only ones available without a hybrid option that I can see are the GR 86 rwd coupe and the GR Supra.
We could include the GR Corolla and Hatchback Corolla if you don't consider them "Corollas."
"We were ahead of them by a mile, by 10 miles, on the internal combustion engine. They went into EVs, and then they convinced the Western world to go into EVs and play their game," the freshman Republican lawmaker from Ohio said during an auto industry conference. "That was just irrational, dumb policy."...
"I pushed back on the premise that EV somehow is about innovation," he said. "Electric vehicles were around in 1910. It's not like this is new technology."
Here's a guy working hard to ensure the US not only loses the global competition for auto production, but becomes the last bastion of tailpipe emissions.
Shuddup or I'll eat your cat!
like to see some substantive evidence that the Azure division's profits have increased as a result of AI.
HAL doesn't like scrutiny, Dave. By the way, I have your helmet.
If you are looking for logic in a President with a cartoon brain, you've come to the wrong ballroom.
let's just roll over and die?
I'm too fat to do the first part.
It might not be a sustainable economic model once engineering employment returns to normal there. They may be tuning the bots to fit the current car model, but changing models later may result in problems similar to Tesla's, when they no longer have low-wage engineers to de-glitch them again. Time will tell...
"Crapitalism"
Or worse, snippets of my midgets-in-peanutbutter soft porn when guests walk by.
It's was caused by Somalian transgender DEI AI! Hannity has proof!
but reviewers say it blows chunks.
Mar-a-Lago already has a monopoly.
There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us
