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
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 February 2022 14:47 (two years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:07 (two years ago) link
nice
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:33 (two years ago) link
imagine what could happen with bigger subsidies and better infrastructure, maybe this will create a constituency for those things who knows
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:13 (two years ago) link
good stuff
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
the downside of course with a cargo ebike is all the top tier babes who try to pick me up.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:19 (two years ago) link
Solterra reservations went live today
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
slaps seat of cargo ebike: this bad boy can fit so many babes in it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
i saw jamelle bouie on twitter advocating for cargo ebikes a year or two ago on twitter, guess he's an influencer
― 龜, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
stephen dorff advocated smoking e-cigs on a regular bike while wearing cargo pants in 2018
― Bixby in a Samsung I know it's Siri-esque (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
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
― 龜, Monday, 14 February 2022 13:29 (two years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 February 2022 04:27 (two years ago) link
Would love to see the 6000lb limit enforced in the ev erahttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/08/california-s-secret-suv-ban.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 18 February 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
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
― 龜, Sunday, 20 February 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
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
― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, 20 February 2022 16:14 (two years ago) link
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.
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.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
http://www.motorbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tanks-1024x577.png
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 February 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
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/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 March 2022 06:40 (two years ago) link
Front and back view are not bad, 3/4 view not as good.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:31 (two years ago) link
theres nothin like a good eurowagon IMHO
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link
too bad we dont get most of them in the usa
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
yeah, american wagons are horrible.
― pplains, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/0JBLv2k.jpg
gawd, does it have to be so big?
― pplains, Thursday, 17 March 2022 15:58 (two years ago) link
dont think theres an american wagon being built anymore
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
but cmon you know you love it
https://i.imgur.com/5tobzL1.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
https://silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Mercedes-Benz-300TD-Station-Wagon-1600x1063.jpeg
electrify this
― 龜, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
beautiful
there are conversion kits
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
friend of my had a bio fuel conversion for one of those, u cld still put diesel in it tho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 March 2022 16:23 (two years ago) link
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.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
It was an RS6 Avant:https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2020-audi-rs6-avant-101-1574772328.jpg
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 March 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
It looks like you could fit a coffin in the back.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Thursday, 17 March 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 March 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:21 (two years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:27 (two years ago) link
Want some photos when you get it.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 19 March 2022 01:34 (two years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 19 March 2022 12:00 (two years ago) link
I'm getting close to pulling the trigger on a Mach-E. The one thing that's troubling me is -- can I be just about for all intents and purposes SURE that there'll be a much more built-out network of non-Tesla fast chargers in the next few years? If I felt like the current status of charging availability were going to stay constant for the life of this car, it would be an inconvenience to have this as my only car (though admittedly long trips are a very small proportion of the driving I do.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 19 March 2022 15:05 (two years ago) link
if the need to make long trips in the short/medium term is a thing, i would suggest looking at the plug-in hybrid sector where you can get most of your milage electric but have the gas tank for longer trips.
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 19 March 2022 15:34 (two years ago) link
Hybrid the way to go if you use cars for trips more than commutes.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
I drive maybe 4000 or 5000 miles a year. By "long trip" I mean driving up to visit the kids at sleepaway camp, so maybe a 500-mile round trip? I would say I primarily use the car for in-town errands rather than trips or commuting. Then again, if I had a nice new car I might take more and longer trips, who knows?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link
And I mean my 20-year-old gas car still works, it's just old and I keep putting money into it. I wouldn't discard it if we got an EV. But it might self-discard at some point.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
500 miles would probably push it for a lot of EVs, and thats assuming you could fully charge once you got there and then make it back home on a second full charge.
if most of your driving is short trips and you can charge at home, most plug-in hybrids have enough electric range that you could do the bulk of your driving on EV mode and have a gas tank for those longer trips.
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
My tech-loving kid is going to be pissed at me if we don't get a full EV, not that that should be the deciding factor
And yes, we live in a house, can charge at home.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
tell that kid to start going to camps within EV range
― class project pat (m bison), Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link
someone itt should get a rivian and also a lucid air
― lag∞n, Saturday, 19 March 2022 16:59 (two years ago) link