Yeah, no. That’s not been my experience nor the experience of anyone I know. If you can keep the vehicle garaged and plugged in when not in use, true. But that’s not an option when not at home, and range collapses, which is what I see and what others report, to the extent that they have traded in and gone back to ICE…

1998 was offered a blue VW Vanagon Weekender Poptop in excellent condition--1991 model year I think.  I had driven it on a road trip previously, a friend owned it.   But I had just moved to the city and I was tapped out.  I could not afford it.  I regret it to this day. 

it’s naive because you assume they will be static

Also, you seem to think that 300 miles is acceptable in winter climates with current tech where range commonly drops by 40+%, which is not only unacceptable, but life-threatening.

With all due respect, that’s a really naive thing to say when it comes to new tech. We already had the Michigan company get 750 miles out of a Telsa by doubling battery density in the same space as the original battery and Mercedes had their 600 mile test.
But the reality is, it will have to be the case. The US and…

I’m waiting until 500 miles becomes the relatively common.   Given that I drive in cold climates and commonly tow, I consider about 250 miles to be the minimum range I’m willing to deal with in those circumstances and I’m just seeing too many examples of problems in those conditions.   Until then, PHEVs for me.   

Jeep will care when people skip the Grand Wagoneer b/c it looks like the Wagoneer with some lipstick. You want upmarket, you gotta at least make the Suburban into an Escalade, which they really did not do, at least on the outside. And the L looks like a bad photoshop of a stretched normal version.

True on the fuel prices.  I mean, everyone around me still drives like it’s the Indy 500 and their house is on fire, so they apparently aren’t high enough for the masses to take notice, though I feel bad for those at the bottom.  

My suspicion is that you had a hardware/software issue specific to that scanning activity. I watched several seasons of Battlestar Galactica on that device. Played games. Used it for turn by turn nav, and had other serious apps installed and stability and battery seemed normal for the era. Again, MS could not have…

that was the norm for the time. Again—to my point. The UI was designed for a stylus. They had all the pieces and they could have evolved them into a better device and beat Apple to market if they had given a damn.

This violates my “when it costs more than a good airplane, just buy the airplane” rule.   Not that I’ve ever had enough $$ to put it into practice, but yeah.   An entry level used but good quality bizjet can be had for less thank you very much.    I’ll bizjet pls. 

The problem with Microsoft was not necessarily that they put out the occasional flop. Every company does that. The problem was that they couldn’t do anything when they had a potential hit on their hands. I had a Dell Axim X51 PDA with Windows Mobile. It was absolutely great and ahead of its time it would seem in many…

While the person you’re replying to is a bit extreme in their position, there’s a respectable argument to be made the observational studies on nutrition, even when attempts are made to control for other factors, are just extremely difficult at doing so.  Just witness the last several decades of shifting nutritional…

I’m firmly in the “if you use stimulants daily, it will harm you” camp. I was never a coffee drinker but did have a diet soda/energy drink habit for years. I stopped that after my BP was borderline high. It returned to the normal range a few months after I stopped. I know, YMMV, but that was proof enough for me. Plus,…

If they give you a compensation package/buyout or risk being laid off, I would take the compensation package in most cases unless you think you will have trouble getting a new job at similar pay.    This is them wanting to get rid of you and you should see the writing on the wall.   You may be able to negotiate…

The FAA has been “studying” minimum seat space for I think upwards of a decade. If we had the FAA dictating minimum seat distance on all planes and then, pray tell, a minimum size for overhead bins, flying would be a considerably more “human” experience and all this griping would largely disappear.

But since every…

She was closer to Bernie Sanders than the right when she started, but then she became a pragmatist, then she basically got addicted to power and as they say in the movies, her transformation to the dark side was complete. 

just post the metric(s) being followed and then everyone knows

I will say that the problem with government incentives is that it’s too tempting for manufacturers to eat them up. This is why, IMO, any incentives should be flexible. If a car looks like it is priced noticably higher than its class or if price hikes are a lot higher than inflation, then the incentives should be…

I thought E63 engines have a head bolt failure problem.    IIRC, you’d want to know if they had been replaced, which is a serious job.  

I want to believe, I love these things.  But unless you have your own shop and a ton of time, I don’t see it happening.  And it will never be economical, even in today’s craziness.