FCEVS—TODAY AND TOMORROW PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 we began reporting on experience with the first-generation Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle that’s briefly residing in the SimanaitisSays fleet. This car is about to … Continue reading
FCEVS—TODAY AND TOMORROW PART 1
I HADN’T DRIVEN a fuel cell electric vehicle since the introduction of the TOYOTA MIRAI back in June of 2015. Recent news of a GEN V hydrogen refueling station being … Continue reading
AUTOMOTIVE NEWS TIDBITS—THE LIGHT SIDE
I GAIN LOTS of industry insights from Automotive News, even though this is often peripheral to whatever I feel like writing about these days. Nevertheless, it’s fun to encounter the … Continue reading
LE MANS 2020—PANDEMICALLY MODIFIED
TRADITIONALLY HELD MID-JUNE, the 24-hour race at Le Mans is being held this year on September 19-20. Here are tidbits on implications of this pandemically modified event gathered from a … Continue reading
TESLA TIDBITS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE FOUND Teslas inexplicable stopping at Burger Kings and the automaker’s stock doubling. (I hasten to add, there’s no obvious causal relationship in this.) Today, in Part 2, Automotive … Continue reading
TESLA TIDBITS PART 1
I’VE BEEN READING a lot recently about Tesla and its mercurial Elon Musk. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits gleaned from Automotive News, July 13, … Continue reading
AUTO NEWS—THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE DOPEY
FOR AWHILE THERE, the world’s pandemic put something of a hold on automotive news. Now that we’re reopening and, not surprisingly, occasionally reclosing, there seems to be a lot of … Continue reading
A GIANT AWAKENS PART 2
THE GIANT HERE is the U.S. auto industry. Today in Part 2, we continue with tidbits of its awakening from pandemic lockdown, as described in the past six weeks of … Continue reading
A GIANT AWAKENS PART 1
THE U.S., the second largest auto producer in the world, is awakening after a Covid-19-induced slumber. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits about the automakers’ … Continue reading
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TECHRON!
PERHAPS TODAY WHILE washing your hands thoroughly, you can sing “Happy Birthday,” twice, of course, to Techron, Chevron’s gasoline additive celebrating its 25th anniversary. Here are tidbits on the auto … Continue reading
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