VANCOUVER, B.C. – I drove Toyota’s best hope and dream for a “green’ transportation future on the very day President Donald Trump signed a U.S. executive order that could prove disastrous for the planet. Climate change deniers are now in charge in the White House. As a result, Trump has instructed the EPA to kill …
Trump goes to Detroit: setting the stage for the next bailout?
President Donald Trump brought his usual chaos to Detroit this week, promising to review former President Barack Obama’s decision to lock in a timetable for stricter fuel economy and emissions standards through 2025 and gut the Environmental Protection Agency that enforces them. The President also toured a Detroit-area research and development centre — car company bosses …
The luxury car for the super rich is actually a pickup
Large pickup truck sales have been on fire for years now. Hot, hot, hot. So blistering, you might be tempted to think that every skilled trades worker in Canada is driving a new Ram, or Ford F-Series, Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra, Nissan Titan or Toyota Tundra. Indeed, Statistics Canada says we have about 1.1 million …
GM wisely sheds Opel and looks to the future
When General Motors went bankrupt seven and a half years ago, the Ayn Randers argued that it was time to strip the rotting General to the studs. The chorus of critics and GM-haters said GM must kill Pontiac, abandon Saab, shoot Saturn straight into the sun and put a do-not-resuscitate sticker on Buick, grandpa’s brand. …
April 7, 2017 | Commentary, First on the Grid Like Comments (0) |
The cult of Tesla explained
The typical Tesla bull is an optimistic cheerleader who celebrates the self-proclaimed genius of founder and CEO Elon Musk. The Tesla true believer can in fact be expected to re-charge a Model S off the solar panels he or she also uses to juice-up a laptop that tracks the soaring price of Tesla’s shares. Those …
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