Featured What Drives Us Episode #302

Russell, Tony, Mark, and Patrick

• General Motors is shuttering the factory that manufactures the Volt, a week before Christmas. Is this the end of the vehicle or are they moving production?
• Germans can sleep in on garbage day. Volvo introduces their new EV garbage trucks.
• German EV manufacturer e.GO to introduce new, bare-bones EV for European market.
• Mark drove his Model 3 from Waterloo, CA to Orlando, FL and back. And he stole electricity in OH.
• Hydrogen still sucks.
• Mark has driven his Volt in EV more than 97% of the time over 19,800 miles.

 

Yeah. The announced that they were nixing the Volt. However, it would be a much smarter move for them to replace it with something all-electric and - perhaps - give it a new name. Something less confusing, like the Chevy Kruze.

 

That's exactly what I said! Probably lost in the cross-talk.

At a company dinner, we got into a conversion discussion with international coworkers. Someone asked how many liters were in a gallon and I said, matter of factly, "four, for all sakes and purposes."
Someone argued with me.
I said, "a liter is close to a quart and for this conversation, it's safe to say that there are four liters to a gallon."
Again, that guy argued with me.
So I pressed him: "where are you getting your conversion rate?"
He said, "I just have a gut feeling that a liter is nothing like a quart. Where are you getting yours?"
"The next time you take a leak," I said, "read the top of the urinal. It will most likely say '1 gallon per flush (3.8 liters).' Since there are four quarts in a gallon, that makes a liter approximately .95 quarts which, as I said, it close enough for this conversation. I'll take that urinal over your gut any day."