It looks like I am busy plugging my clients – and one in particular. Yes, I’m getting double pay this week! New Scientist reports about an ongoing project at IBM’s Zurich labs where scientists are testing a prototype of a Lithium-Air battery that shows an energy density level similar to that of gasoline, making electric [...]
Archive for the ‘Cars’ Category
Facebook on a car‘ dashboard? SoMe junkie as I am, I am pretty sure FB will stay out of my car for the foreseeable sure, and for two good reasons: I do need more distractions and certainly I do not need any visual ones; if I absolutely need to check my FB page, I will [...]
Gas prices shooting through 1.6 euro per liter. Great news! Especially when one thinks that extracting crude + transporting it to refinery + refining it costs about EUR 3cent per liter – this price then grows to about EUR 53cents per liter when traded on Platts; add distribution company margin and huge tax load (around [...]
The reason is NOT the 700 horsepower, mind-blowing acceleration, stunning design (even though I am surprised at how similar the Aventador looks to the Murciélago), badass wheels that are 1 meter wide and 5 cm thick, engine’ glass panel or throaty roar. No. The reason is the ignition switch you see @1:41
I have known this for a long time and, in a way, have learned to live with the realization of this shortcoming. This morning I collected my car from the service workshop; I took advantage of the lengthy stop to have it fitted with the iPod interface who will finally allow me to do away [...]
Returning from St Raph, I knowingly select the stupidest schedule to leave, but there are few or no alternatives. Needless to say, if I walked the stretch between Albenga and Savona I’d go faster, so there’s plenty of time to kill. Driving a truck I have an unusual viewpoint: a Playboy writer would immediately find [...]
I meant SLS. So my mind is made up – THAT’s the car I want; now I only need to figure out the 200k detail…
This business of a six-month delivery term for a car drives me nuts. Today I decided I’d write a complaint letter to the good folks at Mercedes-Benz; I therefore went to their site and, with some effort I dug out a form (do people really still use forms? so ’80s !). The idiot who designed [...]
I don’t get it. The papers are full of the crisis battering the car industry, right? Overproduction, layoffs by the thousands, companies being saved by governments when they are on the brink of bankruptcy; in our country the government has spent several hundred of millions of euros to incentivize people to swap their old cars [...]
I thought nothing could be worse than realtors’ websites when it comes to lack of usefut features, disregard for what users may want / need, command of technology and plain old common sense (lack thereof). But I was wrong. Today I needed to look up the available colors for the car I am ordering; sounds [...]
