The Consolidated EV Hater’s Checklist What will we do what the batteries? They cost $80,000! Who can buy one? But we don’t have any place to plug them in! They don’t work in my particular use case, you know, towing my eight kids and a trailer across the desert every day! Lithium is mined by […]
The upcoming 2024 Chevrolet Equinox EV is due to have a list price of “around $30,000” in the United States, undercutting the cheapest Tesla available by a good margin. The Equinox EV, which follows the dull naming pattern of Silverado EV and Blazer EV, is to be launched in fall 2023. It will use GM’s […]
Did you ever spend the day in a wrecker’s yard, searching for the perfect parts for your old car? Did you reclaim and restore-on-the-cheap an old $200 junker given up for dead? Gary Platz and Ed Dreistadt, longtime Slant Six Club writers, illustrators, and meet hosts, have put together some of their old material and […]
The Ford Mustang Mach E, an all-electric car that just entered production, has already managed to beat all of Alfa Romeo and Fiat in sales. Ford has sold 6,614 Mustang Mach Es so far. Last quarter, Fiat eked out 815 US sales and Alfa Romeo, with its three models and a 25% gain in sales, […]
Bruce Springsteen’s Stellantis ad, which urges Americans to unite on common ground, is back on the air after a drunk-driving charge was dropped. The singer-songwriter, associated with New Jersey’s shore since the 1970s, was pulled over by the police after he was seen accepting a drink from fans. He pled guilty to drinking alcohol in […]
The new site MoPower.com had a busy first day with two new stories. The first covers a thread in the JLWrangler forums site which claims the Wrangler 392 will start at over $77,000—a claim which seems to make sense when one considers that a similarly equipped Rubicon with the V6 engine would come in at […]