Tom Westmacott

@timpitt100 Strong Hoggar vibes

A few more of the Callum Skye, on display in Bishopsgate, London. Think of it as an Ariel Nomad with added luxury (and +2 rear seats). Glass lower panel within the doors means you can see the road while driving. It will also be possible to remove the doors altogether.

@stekkerauto @perplexity_ai Reminds me of when Nissan had two 276hp I6 turbos (RB25 & RB26), 276hp V6 turbo (VG30), a 276hp V8 (VH41) and a 276hp I4 turbo (SR20VET) all on the market more or less together. It took le Cost Cutter to sort that mess out.

I asked @perplexity_ai to break down Nio’s battery chaos. I still don’t get how this is supposed to ever work out 🫠 Nio Main Brand - Battery options: 75 kWh, 100 kWh, and 150 kWh packs - Latest ET9 flagship uses 120 kWh battery, priced at $112,000 - Fourth-generation stations hold 23 batteries - Third-generation stations hold 21 batteries - Second-generation stations hold 13 batteries - Swap process takes 3 minutes Onvo Brand (Mid-Market) - Price range: $25,550-$38,300 - Battery options: 60 kWh and 85 kWh - Monthly battery subscription: $85 for standard range, $128 for long range - Can use Nio's 3rd and 4th generation stations - Station retrofitting costs: $28,000-$42,000 per station - Access to over 1,000 stations by year-end Firefly Brand (Entry-Level) - Price range: $12,800-$25,550 - Will have dedicated smaller swap stations - Container-sized stations with coffee service - Cannot use existing Nio/Onvo swap network - Separate infrastructure from main Nio network Infrastructure Strategy - Nio needs 60 swaps daily per station to break even - Each station costs approximately $420,000 to build - Company plans 4,000 stations globally by 2025 - 25% of stations planned outside China $NIO

@TheDanProsser Gen Z are currently aged 12-27 yo. If Jaguar are counting on them, they'll sell about as many as Rimac did Neveras.

This is really good.

@_theintercooler @Jaguar I'm also seeing some CyberTruck in the sharp box-edges, and some videogame car vibes from how plain and straight-edged it looks.

@_theintercooler @Jaguar The 'fastback' shape rear but with no glass, just vents, reminds me of Tatra

Well this is a surprise. This just dropped on the @jaguar Instagram account. Appears to be part of a car. If it’s the new concept, we were not expecting to see it until Dec 2nd. A reaction to the response garnered by its rather courageous new video? Anyway, what do you think of it?

Listening to @evomagazine podcast earlier about GT3s and was surprised to hear @evoJB mention my name (I used to have a GT3) and the GT3’s possible influence on Project 8. Actual true story is that after weeks and weeks of disappearing up my own backside failing to get a steering tune for P8 I knew I needed to drive a GT3, but I’d sold mine by then. So a quick call to a friend and that weekend we took out an RS 4.0, 996 RS (and a Mac 650S) for a drive, and I immediately knew what to do. The next week we did P8 the steering tune in 2 days. So when @DickieMeaden says the P8 has that same GT3 feeling straightaway, it’s real. There’s no better benchmark.

So it would seem that after 7 or 8 years dedicating myself to a company I believed in and gave everything I had to, that relationship is coming to an end.

@jweinraub @wongmjane Where do you think the rubber duck learnt all this helpful knowledge from?

@wongmjane The fact the rubber duck can talk back and have a conversation, is able to understand data I dump, images I upload, and offer new suggestions when the updated function didn’t work as expected all in real time without sophomoric jerks makes SO unnecessary.

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@Ben_A_Hopkinson We have learned from our mistakes with HS2, and we can repeat them exactly.

East West Rail is building two tunnels in Cambridgeshire to try to ease local concerns. In unrelated news, the cost of the project has risen by £700mn.

Excited to share the news of our Series A and a peek into what we've been working on: odyssey.systems/learning-from-… 🚀

@samagreene Which combo of Biden, Harris, Trump, Vance and Musk are you referring to there?

I’m old enough to remember when the United States only had one president at a time.

@GeorgeWParker Good 😀

The Blair gang are back in No10. Not just Jonathan Powell (Blair’s chief of staff, now in charge of foreign/defence) but also Liz Lloyd (Blair’s deputy chief of staff, now leading on domestic reform). And Matthew Doyle, head of comms. on.ft.com/40zjZLW

@wearetherace Time for another trip to...

2025 #F1 driver news! Sauber announces it's splitting with Valtteri Bottas, meaning Gabriel Bortoleto is set to be revealed as his replacement imminently.

The UK immediately needs to: - Increase defence spending rapidly (rather than shrinking its army) - Focus its military strategy on deterring Russian aggression in Europe (rather than confronting ‘global threats’) - Work with European allies to defend Europe under a NATO that doesn’t have US support (rather than assuming that America guarantees European security). Anything less would be a government dereliction of duty.

@wongmjane It's a flying carpet

Update: DHL mistakenly shipped my rug from Cincinnati to China lmao It’s then magically sent back to Los Angeles and now out for delivery The rug itself is made in India. It really did a world tour 💀 The carbon footprint is gonna be enormous..

@CalumDouglas1 Better watch out, Keir Starmer has a notoriously poor sense of humour when it comes to explosive jokes on twitter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_j…

Every year without fail I find it progressively harder to conjure up any negative feelings about this chap.

@Mr1000CR Real range at 70mph? Does it ride? Does it handle? Is the cabin as austere as has been reported? Does it cruise quietly? How good are the smart cruise features (ACC + lane following)? Space for a bicycle with rear seats down? A-road overtaking ability?

Morning #CarTwitter. I hope you're enjoying your Sunday morning. I've got this Brand New Electric Ford Explorer for the day. So, if you have any questions about it, then drop them down in the comments below. I'll be doing an initial impressions video on it later. Keep it nice!

@RestIsPolitics The tax rises per se aren't the problem, the lack of hope for the future is.

@RestIsPolitics Labour 'plan for growth': 1) Take £40bn out of the economy 2) Shovel it into the black hole of health/care 3) Push up interest rates with borrowing (thus making all investment more expensive)

How do you feel about Labour's new budget? 💼