Battery-Powered Electric Vehicle Charging: A Primer (Part 3)
In this series of seven blogs, we will cover the information you need to know about charging battery powered electric vehicles (EVs). To make the topic easier to digest, we have broken it into seven short blogs, namely: Part 1 – Battery and battery charging basics Part 2 – Battery performance measures Part 3 – […]
Buying a Tesla Call Option
Galileo Russell is one of the very best YouTube broadcasters with his Hyperchange channel. While Gali, as he goes by, is a brilliant all-around analyst and fan of all things technological, he is perhaps best known for his passionate enthusiasm about Tesla’s products and business strategy. His show is called Hyperchange. The only reason I […]
Detroit’s Big 3 on the Precipice…….Again: (Part 1)
How Desperation Stimulates Short-term Rational Thinking…. and Long-term Demise NOTE: This blog was written in the first two weeks of April, 2020. As such, it cannot and does not anticipate the full effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the US and global auto industry. Stay tuned….. In this series of eleven blogs, we will discuss […]
Who – or What – Will Be Driving Miss Daisy?
Here’s a joke for today that will evolve toward widespread recognition as truth in ten years or less: “We must have been crazy to let humans drive cars!” Let’s consider Tesla’s Autopilot that became available in January 2017 and standard since April 2019, and the ever-increasing sophistication of Tesla’s Autopilot and growing Full Self-Driving (FSD) […]
Solar Power Overpowers the Globe’s Fusion Reactor Boondoggle
Since the dawn of the nuclear age some eight decades ago, scientists have been chasing the dream of a fusion reactor – – a nuclear reactor that once started creates its own fuel and thus theoretically can generate power forever and for “free”. Cynics point out that every decade since the 1950’s fusion reactors have […]
Battery-Powered Electric Vehicle Charging: A Primer (Part 2)
In this series of seven blogs, we will cover the information you need to know about charging battery powered electric vehicles (EVs). To make the topic easier to digest, we have broken it into seven short blogs, namely: Part 1 – Battery and battery charging basics Part 2 – Battery performance measures Part 3 – […]
Battery-Powered Electric Vehicle Charging: A Primer (Part 1)
In this series of seven blogs, we will cover the information you need to know about charging battery powered electric vehicles (EVs). To make the topic easier to digest, we have broken it into seven short blogs, namely: Part 1 – Battery and battery charging basics Part 2 – Battery performance measures Part 3 – […]
Tesla’s Cybertruck – An Untapped Gold Mine
Currently (April, 2020) Tesla reportedly has some 622,000 orders for their innovatively designed and futuristically styled Cybertruck. Even if 20% of this order backlog evaporates, that’s 498,000 vehicles – two years of high-volume two-shift production, and for the sake of discussion, roughly $24.9 billion dollars in revenue for Tesla at $50,000 per vehicle. Given the […]
A Car Love Story
“I love the [Tesla] car…..that High Performance Model 3 may be the best sedan I’ve ever driven in my life – I love the thing!” Autoline Network, Autoline After Hours, 4/2/20, 37:30 minutes in Those are strong words from anyone, but especially from John McElroy, co-host of Autoline After Hours, a superb video podcast that […]
Now Road and Track Magazine Has Done It!
In the sixty plus years that I have been reading every issue of Road and Track (R&T) and Car and Driver (C&D) (and its antecedents) magazines, they both have knelt at the altar of German cars in general and Porsches in particular. Indeed, in their latest April 2020 issue, Car and Driver admits to testing […]