КАК СКАЗАТЬ «DOOFUS» ПО-РУССКИ?
DUBIOUS INTERNET COMMUNICATION IS OFTEN REVEALED BY misspellings and other grammatical errors: “This Nigerian prinse have mony for yu.” And, thus, today’s SimanaitisSays title translates to “How to Say “Doofus” … Continue reading
HOW’S NORWAY DOING WITH EVS? PART 2
YESTERDAY, TWO FASCINATING ARTICLES yielded tidbits about Norway and its dramatic rise of electric vehicle sales from 1 percent in 2014 to 83 percent last year as consumers responded to … Continue reading
HOW’S NORWAY DOING WITH EVS? PART 1
DEMOGRAPHICS AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES have a lot to do with Norway’s love affair with electric vehicles. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits gleaned … Continue reading
THE GREENEST CARS OF 2024—OVERALL
EACH YEAR THE AMERICAN COUNCIL for an Energy-Efficient Economy ranks cars on an overall measure. Not just the energy used in their propulsion, but also that employed in their manufacture … Continue reading
EV POLE-TO-POLE!
A TECHNOLOGY REPORT IN SAE International Automotive Engineering, April 2024, caught my eye: Cami Buchholz’ “All-Electric Nissan Ariya Handles Ultra-cold Temps on Pole to Pole Trek.” What’s this? What about … Continue reading
BIG BROTHER RIDING SHOTGUN
ONLY RECENTLY DID AN AUTOMAKER say it had stopped riding shotgun and, what’s worse, tattling on its drivers. Kashmir Hill gives details in “General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with … Continue reading
HYBRID CARS REVISITED
IT’S LOOKING LIKE I MIGHT HAVE BEEN RIGHT (if premature) fourteen months ago when I wrote “Why Not Hybrids?” A recent Automotive News, March 4, 2024, is brimming with accounts … Continue reading
EVS AND THE POLITICAL SPLIT
RECENT ITEMS DISCUSS YET ANOTHER SPLIT between Republicans and Democrats: how best to accomplish the inevitable transition from internal-combustion to electric mobility. Indeed, my choice of the word “inevitable” places … Continue reading
AUTOMOTIVE BRAKING 101
CABLES ACTUATED THE EARLIEST CAR BRAKES. Indeed Ford continued with them until 1939. As you might imagine, maintaining equal actuation at all four wheels was a non-trivial matter. Replacing cables … Continue reading
EV VERSUS GASOLINE—IFS, ANDS, BUTS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, MICHAEL J. COREN began cogent analyses of EV versus gasoline costs, as first appearing in “Is It Cheaper to Refuel your EV Battery or Gas Tank? … Continue reading
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