HOW TO SAY “VROOM” IN VULGATE LATIN? PART 2
FASCINATING IMAGES—ONE FEATURING POPE LEO XIV—attracted me to the Ferrari Luce. Today in Part 2, Automotive News’s Luca Ciferri reports on this car’s redefining ultrahigh performancee for the prancing horse. … Continue reading
HOW TO SAY “VROOM” IN VULGATE LATIN? PART 1
AN INTERESTING, IF UNEXPECTED, JUXTAPOSITION OF ARTICLES appeared in my Automotive News recently: One is titled “No V-12 Rumble for Ferrari’s New EV, But the Sounds of 1,050 Electric Horsepower,” … Continue reading
A CHAT WITH CHRIS: “PUTTING THE HEART BACK IN TECHNOLOGY”
CHRIS BORRONI-BIRD HAS APPEARED SEVERAL TIMES here at SimanaitisSays: Along with Larry Burns and Bill Mitchell, he’s coauthor of my much-cited Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st … Continue reading
MONDIAL DE L’AUTO PART 2
HERE IN PART 2, WE CONTINUE OUR TOUR of the Mondial de l’Auto in Paris’s Porte de Versailles. We move from the practicality of a sub-€30K BEV to a contrasting … Continue reading
MONDIAL DE L’AUTO PART 1
APART FROM TOYKO, PARIS WAS ALWAYS MY FAVORITE international motor show. They both had plenty of glitz, though the latter also had the cutest young ladies accompanying the displays. (I’d … 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
CES AND THE AUTOMOBILE
THE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW is typically a whiz-bang of silicon-based wonders, so it’s no surprise that Artificial Intelligence pokes its way under the edge of the tent. On the other … Continue reading
SERIES HYBRIDS: GOOD ENOUGH FOR LOCOMOTIVES; PICKUP TRUCKS TOO?
THOUGH WE CALL THEM “DIESELS,” railway locomotive wheels are actually spun by electricity produced by diesel-powered generators. That is, they’re “series” hybrids. This is contrasted with automotive “parallel” hybrids like … Continue reading
TOYOTA ENTHUSIASMS
WHEN A GUY IS A CAR NUT—and his name, sorta, is on the building—enthusiasm filters down. And so it seems with Akio Toyoda, current chairman of the board and past … Continue reading
A REALLY SOLID IDEA NEARING FRUITION
BACK IN APRIL 2022, SIMANAITISSAYS wrote “Solid-state Batteries” When? If? Whose?” Today, only 18 months later we can forgo the “if,” give the “when” a 2027-2028, and, as suggested, associate … Continue reading
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