why don’t you drive an EV?

this guy says you've timed it perfectly too fwiw

You heard it here first:

Demand at used car auctions has started slowing down.

This will be in the news in 30-60 days.

— CarDealershipGuy (@GuyDealership) January 12, 2022

*Hot take!

I attended the largest used car auction in the world today:

Manheim Pennsylvania.

Here’s what’s happening on the ground floor:

(1/5)

— CarDealershipGuy (@GuyDealership) January 15, 2022

Manheim may be the largest wholesale auction (cars largely taken from dealership trade-ins) in quantity, but by dollar value, Bring A Trailer is utterly crushing all the other auctions including Pebble Beach, Amelia Island, Scottsdale, & Mecum.

I wonder how much Turo has been eating into the rental market since covid turned it all into a clusterfuck?

feel like only a matter of time before BaT changes to a percentage of the purchase price business model vs. what they currently have, which i believe is a flat rate?

wouldn't call this concerning (it should be possible to by a pre-9/11 camry) but looks like the used car boom is wrapping up

This is concerning:

Multiple sources are telling me that Carvana is severely slashing their instant trade-in offers.

One person I spoke with was offered $7,000 less for his trade-in than he was earlier this month.

AFAIK, this is unprecedented.

(1/n)

— CarDealershipGuy (@GuyDealership) January 25, 2022

This guy's got a lot of unprecedented hot takes.

Carvana is hardly a reliable indicator for used car prices. Carvana was founded by an ex-con pal of Charles Keating who dumped $3 billion of stock a couple months ago just before $CVNA itself lost 50% of its value since.

(correction on above, Ernest Garcia III who started Carvana and Ernest Garcia II who was the ex-con)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2017/12/18/how-an-ex-con-became-a-billionaire-from-used-cars/?sh=6776892d6d3f

I mean it’s not even carvana, it’s an anecdote about carvana but the anecdotes there and Carmax at the low end are that we’ve peaked

would be good, considering people need cars

Today was my first time experiencing the frozen door handle of doom. @elonmusk can we add an option to open the door from the app? pic.twitter.com/t8eBWnWFZD

— Matt Smith (@MatchasmMatt) February 5, 2022

ebikes overtook evs in 2020.

The U.S. is climbing toward 1 million in annual e-bike sales https://t.co/EdNkwIpG8t

— Bloomberg CityLab (@CityLab) February 8, 2022

nice

imagine what could happen with bigger subsidies and better infrastructure, maybe this will create a constituency for those things who knows

i've mentioned this but we've gone from 1-2 parents biking to daycare (i.e. true car replacement) to maybe 8 (out of 40) during the pandemic. all the new bikers are cargo ebikes. those in particular seem to be everywhere all of a sudden.

good stuff

the downside of course with a cargo ebike is all the top tier babes who try to pick me up.

Solterra reservations went live today

slaps seat of cargo ebike: this bad boy can fit so many babes in it

i saw jamelle bouie on twitter advocating for cargo ebikes a year or two ago on twitter, guess he's an influencer

stephen dorff advocated smoking e-cigs on a regular bike while wearing cargo pants in 2018

My chart of the day:
*Auto sales peaked in 2017
*Electric vehicle sales keep increasing
*EVs are, therefore 100%+ of sector growth, and have been for years pic.twitter.com/fWPvj8Ylg7

— Nat Bullard (@NatBullard) February 9, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/us/pedestrian-deaths-pandemic.html

cars are getting bigger and therefore more deadly!

and EV cars are way heavier - the f-150 lightning is 35% heavier than the ICE one, i think

Yah, the F-150 Lightning is 6500lbs unloaded. Fingers crossed that something comes out of that battery recycling partnership with Redwood Materials.

With all the fracas about Ford shutting down plants because of chips being held up by border convoy protests, I checked with my dealer and prepared for a six-month delay. Nope, eight weeks out - which is a couple weeks earlier than the initial estimate. I received my VIN number last week and through Ford's tracker site I can watch individual submodules arrive.

Would love to see the 6000lb limit enforced in the ev era

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/08/california-s-secret-suv-ban.html

The front end of the new GMC Yukon. For reference, I'm 6'1". The top of the hood is nearly up to my shoulders. pic.twitter.com/Ls7HVzif9N

— AJ LaTrace (@ajlatrace) February 19, 2022

ban cars, but if we cant get that, ban tall cars (or just put a $4000 tax on a car for every inch they go over x inches) idk but this is stupid and this is texas everywhere, just a bunch of punisher skull blue lives flag coal rollers terrorizing everyone bc they dont know how to dance/cant talk good/have an indistinct jawline/whatever other tangle of nagging insecurities leads someone to buy a truck like this

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/americas-favorite-pickup-truck-goes-electric

Since 1990, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the weight of the average pickup has increased by twelve hundred and fifty-six pounds—thirty-two per cent. A recent post on Vice observed that the largest pickups and S.U.V.s today are as big as Second World War-era tanks. Now pickups are going to get heavier still. The Lightning, because of its lithium-ion battery, weighs approximately sixty-five hundred pounds; in some cases the pickup can be more than two thousand pounds heavier than its gas counterpart. You’ll be capable of assaulting a mountaintop redoubt, even if you’re just driving to the store for milk.

Not only are large E.V.s not as green as smaller E.V.s.; what about all the people who aren’t in big vehicles? Analysis from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has shown that pedestrians who are hit by pickups or S.U.V.s are two to three times more likely to die than those who are hit by cars. In fact, the number of pedestrians killed by vehicles rose forty-six per cent between 2010 and 2019. According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, if you count deaths against vehicle miles travelled, 2020 saw the largest increase in pedestrian fatalities (twenty-one per cent) since nationwide tracking started, in 1975. Even though fewer vehicles were on the road early in the pandemic, more people died.

http://www.motorbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tanks-1024x577.png

ugly but glad they're making it

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/03/slinky-stylish-audi-a6-avant-e-tron-previews-future-ev-station-wagon/

Front and back view are not bad, 3/4 view not as good.

sleek and station wagon is always kind of a weird mix, evs total pursuit of aerodynamics is def doing things to car design, all in all pretty cool weird car tho

I rented a new Audi wagon/estate in the uk in 2018. I’m not a car person but it was probably the nicest car I’ve ever driven.

theres nothin like a good eurowagon IMHO

too bad we dont get most of them in the usa

yeah, american wagons are horrible.

https://i.imgur.com/0JBLv2k.jpg

gawd, does it have to be so big?

dont think theres an american wagon being built anymore

but cmon you know you love it

https://i.imgur.com/5tobzL1.png

https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Mercedes-Benz-300TD-Station-Wagon-1600x1063.jpeg

electrify this

beautiful

there are conversion kits

friend of my had a bio fuel conversion for one of those, u cld still put diesel in it tho

I was at the Audi dealer for service and they had this cool sporty station wagon that caught my eye from across the show room and as I walk up I see the sticker in the window says $130k.

It was an RS6 Avant:
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2020-audi-rs6-avant-101-1574772328.jpg

ha yeah thats one of the craziest cars on the market huge station wagon that goes 0-60 in ~3secs, mercedes has the e class amg wagon which is a similar idea too

It looks like you could fit a coffin in the back.

Audi A6 EV wagon looks like a weird, melting Dodge Magnum. Not 100% terrible, but I suppose there's only so much you can do with four doors and a tailgate. No mention of how much usable front trunk space there is, but it looks like it might have more usable interior space than CLS-style wagons that may as well be fastbacks.

There's someone here in town that drives a Cadillac CTS-V wagon - an insano wagon powered by the Z06 Corvette engine. Alas, I would have loved to have driven one for maybe --- a couple of days.

Folks look.... Let me get the humblebrag out of the way but hfs at the timing. Ford updated the status of my MM-E to a delivery date of April 4 - April 10. Trying not to drive at all until then.

Want some photos when you get it.

there was one parked in front of my office the other day. it was luscious. did slightly feel as though someone had pulled the trigger on an embiggening ray and expanded a normal car by about 5cm in every dimension.