HURRAH FOR THE PISTON FOUNDATION AND ITS SCHOLARS!
AUTO JOURNALIST EXTRAORDINAIRE (and another Lithuanian!) Judy Stropus shares information from The Piston Foundation describing its awarding 20 scholarships for 2024 to aspiring auto restoration technicians. This brings the organization’s … Continue reading
PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE
AH…. THE FIFTIES.… THE REACTIONARY’S DREAM…. HistoryFacts posted a tantalizing question, “What Did Gas Cost in the 1950s?” And, to its credit, the website’s answer of 27¢/gallon isn’t just wowed-over. … Continue reading
TIDBITS FROM AUTOMOTIVE NEWS
I’VE ALREADY CONFESSED TO GLEANING the authoritative Automotive News for tidbits, not for incremental details of following this industry. It’s one of the benefits of ten years’ retirement after 33+ … Continue reading
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
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