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wow... folks are triggered by the label? I live in WA, and I'm fine with my tax dollars going to this, for just the reasons stated in the article. It won't stop the hand wringing though... A small minority use a disportionate amount of resources. What wrong with figured out if there's a...

A friend of mine had this same vehicle, same condition, 105K miles on it. We did a full cooler line fluid exchange on it. Zero problems. He put another 50K on it and sold it, trans was still running strong. That said, a single drain and fill, and then another after a thousand miles or so is...

yeah, it may have to do with the fact that no one here has actually driven the Ioniq 5, and almost no one has even seen one. As a result, we're left to talk about bicycles...(maybe I'll bring pitbulls into the conversation and really get it derailed...). Back OT, Hyundai clearly has a winner...

well, the blind man is a "taker", clearly......

I do: the vast majority of cyclists also have cars, and they do in fact "pay for the roads". And those that don't? Good for them (my wife was one of them for most of her life). The impact on the wear on roads and the impact on the use of resources is infinitesimally less when someone is on a...

from a big picture perspective, I find the hand-wringing over EV's by some to be funny and entertaining, because it's the exact same tired tropes that were constantly trotted out on hear 15-20 years ago over hybrids. The Prius was more vilified than the Model 3 at that time. Anything that...

Funny enough, I saw once of these today about an hour ago. I applaud them for making something unique. The exterior kinda looks like a cross between a Delorean and the Lost in Space robot. It's interesting, but I could see it looking pretty dated very quickly. The interior just doesn't do it for...

The post of this thread was about the Ioniq, and then you launch into a diatribe about CA's power grid and how a state in which you don't live is stealing your freedoms. I get it, "they'll pry your pistons from your cold dead hands" or something like that... Newsflash: auto manufacturers are...

"If it doesn't have 1,000 range and charge in 30 seconds, it's just not a valid product". The goalpost shifts will never stop. I'm sure some folks felt the same way when these new-fangled things rendered their horses obsolete.

While it may depend a bit on the truck, I can't see how that's possible, since lowering the tailgate is going to encourage at least some laminar flow (unless the bed is impossibly short). Removing it entirely seems to hinder aerodynamics, but based on this research lowering it seems to help...

Interesting--but honestly, not surprising. The XC40 looks like a legacy product through and through to me, akin the the E-Golf ("hey, let's stick a motor and batteries in a gas car!"). That's the result... The new RAM is clearly designed with an eye towards aerodynamics. And of course, we're...

The RAM info was very estimated form an older video from a guy who did a pretty rudimentary CFD analysis on it: Note that the drag numbers on that era RAM were so bad that the mfg never published them. I'm glad to see they've improved it (which I think all mfg's are doing these days)...

Yes and no. Yes, there are challenges when you cut holes into the front of the car, but if you manage the air flow coming in (keep it as laminar as possible and provide a place for it to go), it's certainly possible to mitigate the big hole in the front. The A Class and some other vehicles have...

I had to pill a very retralcicant cat, and I ended up using one of those pill shooters. It was the only way to pill her. No amount of disguising in food would work. It actually worked OK, and I lost far less skin that I would have without it.... Meanwhile I have an epileptic dog who eats his...

No Hyundai bashing here. I think they make some really nice stuff. I just find that Elantra to be really ugly, and most of their models just don't appeal to me. To my eye, the KIA arm of the company does a lot better on the styling front (the Forte looks a lot better to me this car).

I think it's pretty key. A 10% reduction in drag= a 5% increase in range. Take something like Volvo's XC40, which is basically a legacy product that's been electrified, and a Cd of .34, and compare it to a ground-up EV in the same category, a VW ID4. The Drag is Cd is .28, and front area is...

style is subjective of course, but man.... At first I thought it was a nod to exceptional aerodynamics, but there are a lot of funny things on that car that inhibit laminar flow. Sure enough, the drag coefficient isn't that great (.28). Compare that to say a Mazda 6, which is more aero and...

it's pretty useful. Frontal aero doesn't very that much among categories of cars. I mean, you're correct,you can't measure CdA without "A", but the reality is that if you're comparing similar cars, the one with the lowest Cd is almost always going to have the lowest CdA. CFD has completely...

what are tubes?? seriously, just go tubeless. I've had one flat that didn't seal in the last 15K miles of riding. That flat took me about 30 seconds to fix with a Dynaplug and a co2 cartridge. About 1/3 of my riding is in goathead territory, and tubeless excels with that sort of puncture. I've...

to get this a bit back on track... we're now in the PHEV club. Honestly I always thought of these as "worst of both worlds" sorta thing, but my wife test drove a Volvo XC60 T8, used, and loved it. The reality is that most of our trips are either less than 15 miles, except for the three 1,000...