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Eric Peters
Personal blog · ericpetersautos.comculturepolitics
Eric Peters writes EPautos, a personal blog at ericpetersautos.com about culture and politics. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link Eric Peters's car blog for its articles on classic cars, including a Corvair piece and a 2014 post cited alongside a GPS tracking story. The posts cover American cars and the 1970s.
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What Hacker News says?
This story reminds me of this: http://ericpetersautos.com/2014/05/13/heebie-jeebies/
Comment linking /2014/05/13/heebie-jeebies/
on “GPS tracking device found on an activist's car”Submitted The Almost Muscle Car: Chevy Monza, 1975-1980 as a story · 30 points
HN discussion> the end result is the same. Absolutely not. This completely ignores the relatively high initial range of ICE (especially hybrid), and the poor real world state of the EV charging infrastructure, compared to petrol. A 30% drop in range would be an extra 5 minutes at the nearest gas station, almost guaranteed to be within a couple miles. And, that 30% is usually cheap to get back, usually just by some combination of…
Comment linking /2023/11/10/the-stat-that-says-what-96-percent-wont-admit/
on “EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars”Submitted The Tesla 3 and “Shit Talkers” Like Me as a story · 15 points
HN discussionAlso on that site, a pretty good article about the Corvair (the original Monza): http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/02/14/chevys-better-beetle/ However, while both articles touch on the 1970s energy crisis, neither mentions the other elephant in the room back then: primitive, power-robbing emission controls. More than anything else, they were why 1970s cars sucked so bad, and why the Corvair wouldn't have made it into…
Comment linking /2013/02/14/chevys-better-beetle/
on “The Almost Muscle Car: Chevy Monza, 1975-1980”Submitted The One Electric Car That Makes Some Sense as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Won't They Send Me a Tesla to Test Drive? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Syclone That Came… and Went as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted EPAutos is Deay-Ud - due to an unexplained Google de-listing as a story · 1 points
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