Well, there’s this article which credits the electric motor and hybrid drivetrain for minimizing wear and tear on the engine of a Ford Escape Hybrid being used as a taxi. In other words, what’s “hard” on an internal combustion vehicle, isn’t really that hard on an electric one. They don’t idle at stoplights. Regen…

The plan is to use solar power for charging these cars. But if you’re talking about the city’s power, it comes from all sorts of sources. We’ve gone from getting less than 2 percent of our power from renewable sources (not including hydro) to over 20 percent. By 2020, LADWP is on schedule to meet its 33 percent goal…

You think that’s dark. So much further down that rabbit hole to go...

The maintenance cost on electric vehicles should also be low. It’s a pretty good economic decision if maintaining charge on vehicles is practical.

They might have built them. You don’t know. They just might not have gotten around to this part of the galaxy yet, because the pickins are slimmer. The galaxy might be quiet, because the Von Neuman machines ate all the civilizations already.

Since we’re in the less habitable zone, if aliens were looking for signs of life they wouldn’t be looking here. Also, they won’t receive our radio transmissions for thousands of years.

Definitely would require substantial retraining. Wherever that thing hits, it will knock the crap out of you (literally if it hits the right place). So they have to take the first shot and wait a beat before continuing fire.

I’m guessing the heat is distributed over a much larger surface area, imparting more of the heat to the surrounding air. The heating elements could be heated to a much lower temperature as a result, using less power.

From June 19, 2012

Out of the 4 Harleys we’ve bought new so far, only the police bike come complete with a ton of air in the front brake system that needed to be bled. This sounds like a consequence of that. I was once told it’s because Harley riders (other than apparently my wife and I) are terrified of a front brake that works too…

Easy solution: before the poem (or other art in other cases) is reviewed, remove the author’s name. Then all poems (or art) would be evaluated strictly on merit alone.

At least driving enthusiasts have the prospect of manual override autonomous vehicles.

For people who always claim the progressives are tearing up the Constitution, they sure are good at tearing up the Constitution.

Deflategate Redux.

First use trumps later perversion of terminology. “Bagger” is a Harley originated term. Baggers with trunks are still baggers as the general taxonomy, with the sub genus “dresser”. Sounds like riders of other types of bikes have been appropriating Harley nomenclature for themselves. But it didn’t start with you guys.

Doug, in your case it’s kind of a mental illness. But the question of why people buy Range Rovers new is entirely different. It’s the luxury market, and they don’t keep them long enough typically for the reliability issues to become a major problem. People buy them used, and keep them, for entirely different reasons…

Tesla. Because pickup trucks need torque, and Teslas have lots of it.

Who made you the standard setter for nomenclature? Ultras have been called baggers for as long as there’s been an ultra.

When you’re riding cross country on the two lanes, and you’re far from a city, do you know what you don’t see? Sportbikes.

If you buy a bagger and don’t put at least 3K miles a year on it just for road trips, you’ve wasted your money.