Planning The Road Trip

 Here are a few miscellaneous notes on the latest in electric vehicles and worthy destinations to which to drive said vehicles. 

Vehicles

Alpha Motor Corporation

It just sits in your garage while you admire it. When it's sunny out, you can pull it into the driveway, and admire it. But do not drive it anywhere.

Meet the Alpha Montage! It's a neat-looking car, but the fine print indicates that it won't be a street-legal car, which is good, because it means you don't have to worry about someone scratching it in a parking garage. On the other hand, you can't drive it anywhere except your driveway. Maybe you can afford a ticket, given that this car will cost $500K. 

Fortunately, the company has other options if you don't have a half mil burning a hole in your pocket and you like to, you know, drive your car places and do stuff. They will offer the more down-to-earth REX Utility Vehicle ($52,000) and the SAGA Sedan ($48,000). These two will turn plenty of heads and you'll still be able to retire at 65.

None of these cars appear to be for sale yet, but you can reserve one today, and cross your fingers that Elon Musk doesn't buy the company and run it into the ground before yours is delivered. 

Rivian

Rivian has a development center in Plymouth, MI, as well as other places in the US. Amazon has made a deal with them to create a fleet of delivery vehicles. I saw one of them the other day, so it's becoming a reality. 

The Rivian R1T, pulling a trailer full of gasoline and unrecyclable plastic.

Not gigging as an underpaid Amazon delivery driver? Consider one of Rivian's cool R1T pickups instead. At night, with the lights on, they look like spaceships. 

GM

Driving a Cadillac Lyriq is like having a really expensive watch - the rest of your wardrobe better match, or you just look like a doofus. 

I love the look of the new Cadillac Lyriq. Their commercials indicate that its drivers must be young and rich and super attractive. I may be super attractive, but I'm not young or rich, so I'm going to call GM and ask if it's OK for me to buy one. It's not cheap ($63,000 and up), but I could own one and still retire at 65. 

Places to Go

I didn't know that the Belle Isle Aquarium existed, but it does, and it remains completely waterproof thanks to the efforts of the Bell Isle Conservancy. 

Do you need a place to "go"? Swing by the two-story outhouse in Cedar Lake, MI, and pick your level!

I'd like to drive my Cadlillac Lyriq to the House of Automata, but unfortunately, it's in Scotland, so unless these new electric vehicles can float and paddle, I'm out of luck.