I could see this being blocked on anti-trust grounds, but we’ll see. My experience with Frontier is that it is somewhat better than the others, but YMMV.
I will say this: when you add normal things like a carry-on and/or a checked bag, you are now in the same price band as Delta and the other major airlines and I…

That’s all well and good, but for my limited energy dollars (and limited dollars for buying a car), I chose the most bang for the buck: installing solar PV on my roof.
This also does not factor in the significant environmental costs of fracking, which is used with particularly high frequency for NG production, at…

I’m not going to quibble over 20 - 25K, I just know that both numbers are out there. But the number of EVs on the road is not a factor in this number. It’s the emissions from building the thing.
And the only other factor is going to be access to renewable power sources to plug the thing into.

Yes, this is another irony of BEVs—a great use case is city driving, except for charging infrastructure, which ruins it.

The charging speed problem is one that’s getting closer to being solved though.... the 800v charging capability on the new Hyundai and Kia vehicles that claim 80% charge in 18 minutes is pretty…

1) It’s more expensive and I don’t have the money.

Easier to buy an EV when your driving radius is usually shorter and your public transportation options are pretty good in most places, among other things.   I’m not belittling Norway here, but I am saying that the US government needs to step it up if they are going to get better EV/PHEV adoption in the US.   Also, um,…

They actually believe this at Tesla because they argue that it is safer than manual driving. The flaw in this argument is: the data is lacking and if you scare people off a new tech, they won’t touch it for a very, very long time, as witnessed by the example in the article. Note that a New Yorker article described a…

Yeah, some are stupid, but a lot of these I don’t have a problem with. My dad, who drives a lot of the year in Wyoming, has a large front end guard on his truck. Since I’ve had the pleasure of having an elk step out in front of me while traveling on a dark mountain pass, I’m not going to begrudge someone that.
And the…

I love the Spark, but it’s not great on highways, and the US has some of those.

That’s not going to play out like you think it will in suburban sprawl land, as much as I wish it would. We just got a $1T infrastructure bill passed. That means we are $9T in arrears. Americans are going to pick big car over a little big bigger taxes.

The only problem with that is that I hate Google, and well, all the FAANG companies with equal fervor.  

I buy Apple accessories when they are in the discount bin--I do this by keeping my iPhone for 4 - 6 years.  Honestly, the fact that Apple supports them that long is a point in their favor. 

I paid ~$13K for an rPod instead of $50K for this...that’s the difference.  I have done about $2k of mods over the years and it will go to about 80% of the places people will take this thing.  That’s quite acceptable to me. 

Oh I know the reasons, but my puzzlement is why I have to point it out. 

This is what puzzles me about these things.   If I can get a pop-top van that sleeps 4, then at least make the bus have a sofa that converts or something.  The vanlife craze seems to be all about couples.   I think any respectable conversion ought to be handle 4 in a pinch at least if not at all times.  To me, bus…

Per my original post: “This is not a general purpose computer.”

The dev/SQA teams you mention you already have as you have other devices. If you are doing TDD, like you should be, your tests are automatic, and CI/CD, then even more so.

I am a dev/architect. I know the costs and the complexity. In most cases you are…

$50K. I paid ~$13K for my rPod. It has a lift kit. I’ve added things like an LiFEPO4 SOK brand battery and a 200W PV panel as well as a Whynter freezer. I can boondock in it just fine. I even splurged for a Honda generator. I’m nowhere close to $50k with my add-ons. I guess my question is if I had a $50k camper…

If they make a camper/weekender and it has decent range, I might be in, even if it’s a bit pricey for that range. We’ll have to see.

honestly, forever—until the hardware can no longer be patched. It’s not that hard. These are not complex devices. It’s not like they designed an entire SOC and software stack from the ground up.

yeah, I read that.  I just think it’s a pretty low bar.  It’s not hard to roll out patches.  You don’t have to add features.  This is an IoT device, the hardware and software stack onboard is almost certainly got very little customization on it, most of the patches they are applying are probably straight from the…