Tesla’s Battery Day is slated for Tuesday, September 22, so it was not entirely surprising to see Detroit’s last two domestic automakers (General Motors and Ford Motor) roll out a series of EV (electric vehicle) announcements. Call it counter-programming. Not that I think any of it will work to any great effect, as I’ll explain. …
Take a drive or take in an NFL game? I’m driving.
Forgive me for deviating from the usual here. But like so many of the car nuts I’ve known for decades, I’ve also been a football fan most of my life. On that note, I see the NFL started play this week. I’ve read a game was played on Thursday and many more are planned for …
Even V-8 purists will praise this high-performance Mustang fastback
Purists might argue that a Ford Mustang isn’t a true Mustang if it’s not a hair-on-fire tribute to Frank Bullitt and the Steve McQueen who played him in the famous movie that set the standard for cinematic car chases. To be fair, Ford Motor has not tried very hard to dissuade us of the notion …
What’s the future of EVs? Follow the billions
As always, if you want to know the future, follow the money. The money today says that EVs (electric vehicles) are on track to reach price parity with internal-combustion engine cars by 2024, less than two year away. That’s according to the research firm Wood Mackenzie. “The projected price of battery packs keeps dropping,” says …
November 13, 2020 | Commentary, First on the Grid 1 Comments (0) |
Mazda puts the Germans firmly in its sights with 2021 Mazda3 Turbo
Jay Chen peppers his conversation with references to the turbocharging death spiral, charge scavenging, the flapper door, and high and mild intentions of A-pedal impressions – A pedal as in accelerator pedal. His colleague, Dave Coleman, also digs into the horse-and-rider metaphor. It serves to describe what he, a veteran Mazda Motor vehicle dynamics engineer, …
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