July 2010
69 posts
“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two...”
– O.R. Melling, in The Summer King
Or C., There will be fuel to burn, and roads to drive.
x LV
Volt Gets A Price Tag →
The Volt, G.M.’s Plug-In Car, Gets a $41,000 Price Tag.
The Volt connects to a standard 120-volt outlet to charge its 400-pound battery. G.M. said each charge would cost owners $1 to $1.50, depending on electricity costs. The battery is covered under warranty for eight years or 100,000 miles, three years longer than G.M. guarantees its gasoline engines. Nissan said it would offer an...
So sometimes I like to learn about the cities N. is playing in. You know. I’m smart for a car. I do research. And I need to know as much as I can about these North American cities so I can be good and ready when it’s time to finally go on the road for realz. And sometimes, I find out some crazy shit. Like this:
In Minneapolis, red cars are not allowed on Lake Street.
WTF? I...
Good Morning Blog!
Check out today’s LincVolt Gazette … N. was testing my communications systems from Canada last night! God knows I love to communicate. But oh dear. Things went a little haywire. The internet connection was fragile. How on God’s Green Earth am I going to blog from the road if there’s no internetz? Cell phones work, but what good is that going...
LV Sings Lucinda Williams
Lonely girls, lonely girls Lonely girls, lonely girls Heavy blankets, heavy blankets, heavy blankets Cover lonely girls Sweet sad songs, sweet sad songs, sweet sad songs, Sung by lonely girls Lonely girls, lonely girls Lonely girls, lonely girls Pretty hairdos, pretty hairdos, pretty hairdos Worn by lonely girls Sparkly rhinestones, sparkly rhinestones, sparkly rhinestones Shine on...
I'M HITTING THE ROAD! (Kinda) →
No, Blog, I don’t think that was misleading, I am hitting the road, kind of. I mean, it’s my communications system, isn’t it? See the latest news from today’s LincVolt Gazette, reprinted here. How exciting! x LV
LINCVOLT COMMUNICATIONS TEST
July 21, 2010
We plan to test Lincvolt communications during the next few days from the road in Canada. This will be the first...
The Anatomy of A Picnic Basket … For Rolls Royce.
Wha?! I want one. But hmm. I don’t think this will fit in my trunk, since I already have a lot of junk in my trunk. Not junk, really. More like actual thunder. (Well, I mean, they think they’re thunder “sky batteries,” not actual thunder, and we’ll let them keep thinking that. Only you know and I know,...
Live To Ride, Ride My Dream Machine
Never let a dream machine gather dust in your garage.
Please File Under: Favorite Neil Young Lyrics.
x LV
Show Me The Way! →
New app connects iPhone to In-Dash GPS.
Thank God. I am smart for a car, but am forever getting lost.
x LV
THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT TV
Hello Blog!
When they don’t need my help in the garage, and I’m looking around for things to do, and I’m not busy googling myself, sometimes I make lists. Here’s one I just made:
My Favorite Things …
Being on the road with Neil
(Being anywhere with Neil)
Being on the road, period.
(This is getting confusing)
Thinking
Reading
Writing on my blog...
Honda to Introduce Plug-In Hybrids and Electric... →
“In contrast to Chevrolet’s compact Volt, Honda’s plug-in technology would first be used on midsize and larger vehicles”
Larger vehicles? That has a nice ring to it. Larger vehicles comme moi! Bienvenue to the party Honda.
x LV
The Fox: Turned All Inside Out →
“The Leaf will obviously run out of range eventually and need recharging, no...”
– “Driving the Nissan Leaf Electric Car Reveals Range Variability”
MALIBU, Calif. — Test driving a preproduction version of the Nissan Leaf electric car here this week, I was reminded of the old story about the guy who installed so many fuel-saving devices on his car that when he started...
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Oh hi there, Blog. Yawn. I can’t sleep, even though it’s shhh so quiet in here. The doctor gave me Valium, but I still couldn’t close my eyes. Still couldn’t close my eyes. So I’m just sitting around here in the dark, wonderin’. Thinking about my new turbine. My new heart. And reading the comics. (Batgirl, of course.) Yes, the comics. Well what would you do if you were sitting...
Hello, lovely Blog!
Oh Blog, my new turbine! I am spinning! I am so excited! Like a little girl who couldn’t — I can’t wait. I wonder if I am really going to sound silently spooky now like the Bat Mobile? Speaking of which, I got a postcard from a friend - one of my best friends - this morning:
Dearest LV,
I saw this Exit sign in my travels, and thought of you. As...
“As soon as you come home, your plug-in Prius would start talking to other...”
– “Electric Cars Coming, But Can California Take Charge?”
This is cool and everything (and wouldn’t it be nice if humans had had this discussion with each other centuries ago about how not to overwhelm the planet) but … wha? Don’t they know that we are already all...
“So gradual in those summers was the going of the age it seemed that the long days setting out when the stars faded over the mountains were not leaving us even as the birds woke in full song and the dew glittered in the webs it appeared then that the clear morning opening into the sky was something of ours to have and keep and that the brightness we could not touch and the air we could not...
