Apparently, Elon Musk has decided he wants to be the next Steve Jobs.

By opting to go with a unique, proprietary charging connector, Tesla Motors will be forcing buyers of its new Model S electric sedan to also use its proprietary home charging station or rely on being able to hunt down a public version somewhere, assuming anyone installs one in a public place. Tesla will offer [...]

Given what a "huge roaring success" both the BMW X6 and Acura ZDX have…

Given what a "huge roaring success" both the BMW X6 and Acura ZDX have been, I'm stumped as to why Mercedes-Benz, Audi and probably others are all working on similar competitors.

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Mercedes investing $350 million to produce BMW X6 competitor in Alabama | egmCarTech Mercedes investing $350 million [...]

Opportunity knocks…

There’s a tap on the door, the phone rings, a message in your in-box, you bump into someone you haven’t seen for a while. Who knows how it will happen, it just does. For whatever reason sometimes you don’t feel like getting out your comfy chair, other times you respond. Sometimes you’re looking for [...]

Jewish and/or Gay and meeting Brenda Priddy

As we were leaving the media center the other day, I had the opportunity to finally meet the legendary Brenda Priddy in person.  For those unfamiliar with her work, many of the photographs that appear in automotive magazines and newspapers of cars where bizzaro tape jobs or big clumps of black camouflage are the [...]

SAE Congress

Yesterday I attended the 2006 SAE World Congress in Detroit. SAE is the Society of Automotive Engineers of which I have been a member for 17 years. The congress is basically the annual convention of the organization. The gathering includes dozens of technical sessions on all kinds of automotive engineering related topics. There is [...]