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The Washington Post somehow gives space to Charles Lane to smack down to the e-car hype.

Mass adoption of electric cars, however, cannot occur unless they can do everything gas-powered vehicles can do — including the ability to go hundreds of miles before refueling, and refueling easily — at a comparable total cost of ownership. Otherwise, electric cars will be a niche product for upper-income folks. And government subsidies for them will be a regressive transfer of social resources in return for little climate benefit, given that the U.S. power grid the cars draw from is 64 percent fueled by coal and gas.

Related: from early last year, "Electric Car-Owners Shocked: New Study Confirms EVs Considerably Worse For Climate Than Diesel Cars".

If you missed it, the new record for Manhattan to Los Angeles is 27 hours, 25 minutes.

More details here and here.

Pro tip: You'll make a heck of a lot of people--300 or more--mad if you leave a bunch of screws on a highway. (Link via Fark.)

Looks like yet another government boondoggle.

"Yet this $2 billion yearly “incentive” isn’t taking regular combustion engines off the roads.  Instead, folks with gas guzzlers are taking advantage of the government program to add a vehicle to their collection.""

Funny satire, and at the current rate, not that far from the truth.

I imagine auto production at virtually all modern manfacturers looks similar, but especially if you haven't seen such production, you may want to look at a few minutes of this. It's about 5 minutes until the first human appears. There's a strange beauty in such a high level of sophisticated automation.

If you liked The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, this is a video for you.

If you're concerned about the possible theft of your car get a BMW 3-series.

And what's really nice is that I suspect F-150 drivers tend to vote Republican.

Show it to Liberals who also watch pro football on TV with its ubiquitous Ford truck ads and watch their heads explode.

Related: "All My Loving (Beatles Parody)".