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Misinformation and disinformation is rampant. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/la-fires-burn-california-fema-false-rumors-misinformation/ We're not immune to brush fires, floods, tornadoes, etc. Risk mitigation is a fine balance. The downsides (if nothing else, the cost) of any countermeasures...

I use it in traffic jams. Turning that mode on or off is one physical button. I don't like one-pedal drive outside of traffic jams. The Bolt has a "paddle shifter" - more like a thumb brake - that slows it down with regenerative braking, and the car holds stopped if you stop it with this (no...

Interview with a local news reporter:

The pending insurance situation in LA (which hasn't played out yet) isn't necessarily claims being denied, but policies being cancelled over the last few months. A CNN article about it was posted above. Here's more...

Couple reminders here. Yes, these fires affected the properties of some rich people. They also affected thousands and thousands of properties owned by regular people trying to get by, who have now lost everything. It's understandable that there will be charities involved. That's what they do...

Aye but Stellantis has its own set of nightmares to deal with already!

BMW already builds motorcycles, but doesn't have a dirt-bike lineup. I can see BMW considering almost everything in the street-bike lineup to be a competitor to what they already build, thus redundant (even if it really isn't). One interesting aspect of this, is that it would buy BMW into...

That shipment starts soon. Week 3 in January is when they pack for the Sepang test, and the shipping crates don't return until the first European round (Jerez). The creditors meeting is in the middle of all this.

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Season starts 28 February in Thailand. Let's see if there are any KTM bikes (and badged as such) on the grid! My guess is "no". And if it gets pushed that late, barring a "hail-mary" bailout, there's going to be a shortage of bikes on the grid. Not a good look. (Dorna takes care of...

They're under administration ... it's sure not me making the decisions. None of us are privy to what's going on inside.

At this point, there is still at least a theoretical possibility of a hail-mary from Red Bull or some other party interested in buying out the MotoGP operations without incurring a penalty. If they shut it down now then that penalty becomes guaranteed. And, yes, can't get blood out of a stone...

That order may not come until the creditor's meeting, which is supposedly sometime in February, and right now they're operating on hopes and dreams that someone will buy out the operations. KTM is under contractual obligation to Dorna (MotoGP) for a certain time period, too, so they can't just...

Terrible. Hopefully, rebuilding will involve more fire resistant construction. Tile or metal roof, brick or concrete or other non flammable exterior walls, tougher windows (or shutters). Earthquake is a consideration there, too.

It's almost certain that the real problem is something else, but it is not being properly diagnosed. A few people in the Bolt facebook groups have had nasty looking faults come up which turned out to really be due to low coolant level or improperly "burped" battery cooling systems leading to...

A very, very long time. Years, maybe. We built a specialised machine for an OEM supplier to build a specific vehicle cooling system component - the machine was a variation of a somewhat-standard design, but of course it has to be tailored because one vehicle has a part 200mm long and another...

Appears that this was a foundry (castings). With the KTM name on them, this is probably a wholly-owned subsidiary which is a sole-source supplier to the mother ship. Pierer Mobility Group is a tangled web of corporate entities. My observation in the automotive world has been that the mother...

It isn't quite that simple. Here's a completely random google streetview from the residential area of a town in Sweden. Street View · Google Maps If you go to the map view, you'll note that this is a dead-end neighborhood unless you're walking or on a bicycle, and that's an offshoot from...

Bajaj "we bid for all KTM production equipment on our plant floor and the rights to keep using it, €50"

Yeah it's hard to see any existing auto or bike manufacturer taking on more combustion-engine production capacity (bike or car) when there's already overcapacity in the industry and an end of viable production on the foreseeable horizon, except possibly the companies that are already somewhat...