The unfortunate thing is, there’s just not enough surface area on a car to make a meaningful dent in recharging more than a mile or two each day. Using a structure over that parking lot space would have double or more the efficiency, and a quarter of the cost, of trying to put little panels all over the car.

No. You can’t gain more energy from the airflow than you lose from making the airflow go through the turbines.

From the article, it started with a dealer installed update for some earlier vehicles, but was also factory installed for a period of time on newer vehicles. So it sounds like you just never got that update, and should wait for the new update. 

But the thing he maybe influenced isn’t even in game yet, so the claim is still invalid. (Even if an “idea” could be copyrightable, which it is not.)

This is not like the “DMCA lite” takedowns that YouTube has. This was an actual DMCA request, which legally mandated certain action by Valve. They didn’t have a choice. It's a bad law, but it is the law right now.

If they are basing this on a 2009 law which was only passed in 2011, then doesn’t applying it to earlier models make it “ex-post facto”?

But if you use the term “sports car” and assume they can all reach a speed of 200mph, then your assumptions are outside of the term’s usefulness. Same as if you assume a “Category 4" food is strongly linked to obesity or cancer. Instead, you need to find a different way to categorize things in a useful way.

But innocent until proven guilty does not rule out a protection order. Restraining orders are given out with far less evidence than this.

I think the question is once you polish it, how do you keep it from corroding? Aluminum is no big deal, but most kinds of steel will rust, unless you pay the premium for stainless steel, which is much more expensive than plating. But that means you have to make the entire piece from stainless, not just a coating. So…

Different process, and in that case the chemical was being released into groundwater. Chrome plating at least keeps the liquid contained, but has the problem with vapors.

I try to do some hard braking every once in a while to keep it smooth. The brake controller mixes the regen and the brake pads, and the first half of pedal travel usually doesn’t even touch the pads at all, unless the battery is too full or motors too warm to accept any more regen. There is still a physical action…

Then what would you have done differently, if you were a coworker of the deceased? Keep in mind that they COULD NOT shut down the engine, because of an inoperative APU. Until they hooked up ground power, they need electricity inside the plane.

But the RATE of wear is substantially reduced, even compared to a much smaller ICE car. Regenerative braking by itself does not use brake pads at all. EV cars still have brake pads, because sometimes you need stronger braking than regen by itself can perform. But those are exceptions, unless you drive with a lead foot…

The quoted sentence mentions both tires and brakes. He says he agreed about tire dust, but not brake dust.

Exactly. Some families will always want something bigger than a car, and if the middle category is eliminated, (see station wagons) they will go up, not down, to meet their needs. So make sure the costs scale with the harm.

Only one state has a significant portion coming from coal. In most other states, it’s a mix of gas, solar, wind, hydro, and even nuclear, and if they have coal at all, it’s a tiny fraction. And even when/if it does come from just natural gas/methane, that still produces less CO2 than the equivalent energy from gasoline…

Most break-ins occur without using the key. Hence the term “break”-in. Plus, if you’re in your house, then they can’t get your hand until after they break-in, so what’s the point?

The poison pill makes it unpalatable for any new shareholder to try to gain control of the company by just buying stock. If somebody increased their holding over a certain limit, then everybody else gets the chance to buy more stock at a substantial discount, which would dilute the share of whoever was trying to go…

Neutral: We also have a small pumpkin that seems unchanged since October.

Some of them are even fingerprint driven: