20 years ago was 1999, I had a after school job at the local Target a couple of years later in 2002 where the starting salary was $7/hr (the federal minimum wage then was $5.15). The current federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr which is an increase of just less than the 2% per year target inflation (minimum wage should be…

Maybe they’re keeping it around until it’s old enough to drive itself. Self-driving cars are all the rage.

Don’t tell Nissan that they have to release new generations of their models every decade or they might cancel the GTR and 370z (which debuted in 2007 and 2009 respectively).

EV’s tend to charge overnight or during the day so they only serve to flatten electricity demand (during daytime renewable generation peaks and reduces overall demand and overnight most industry is idle). Many power companies have things like “unlimited nights and weekends” plans since there is excess production in…

I live in Texas currently, I’ve lived in rural areas in the past. If you live on the farm, you probably have an easier time charging an EV than if you live in an Apartment in the suburbs.

There are lots of companies that’ll convert them, or you just keep them but finding gas is more difficult and expensive (like cars that run on leaded fuel).

You can always rent. You don’t own cabins/condos/hotel rooms either but you just rent them where you need them. Cars can work the same.

You could always rent a road trip car with all the savings you have from running your EV for nearly all your trips. It is less convenient, but you also saved tons of time not pumping gas or making a special detour to fuel your EV.

The Tesla batteries have retained more than 90% capacity, the only EV’s that have problems don’t use thermal controls on the batteries (1st gen Leafs were notoriously bad).

Cars spend most of their time parked, a charging unit in parking lots is all it takes (they’re already popping up at retail stores and municipal buildings but it won’t be long until apartment complexes and office parking lots have them too, just takes the demand).

I’d probably call it a $10k price difference, but even with high electrical rates the EV running costs are half that (or less) for an equivalent ICE vehicle. It’d still take a decade to recoup the price difference but that’s entirely tied to gas prices (I ran assumed $3 per gallon and a 30mpg average to help the ICE…

The average consumer has no idea what’s under their hood or who made it. They want it to work, be cheap to run, and be powerful and they don’t care how that’s done. The biggest compliment engines usually get are about them being smooth and quiet which are hallmarks of electric motors.

That is an infinite decrease though, so he’d have gotten infinitely better.

Good to know that some states allow more creep than others. Most teaching contracts (I’m a HS Physics Teacher in Texas) have a “moral turpitude” clause that says the district can fire you for any act they deem “immoral” even if it isn’t illegal.

If you are in a position of authority, like a teacher, having sex with a student would be statutory rape regardless of the age of consent. 

The Barbary Wars were the Founding Fathers freaking out over what’s going on in wherever. They literally set the precedent for foreign wars and American intervention.

This is entirely on brand for Arby’s since it’s almost as disgusting as their sandwiches. 

You don’t have to explain a natural disaster to your own people or others. So, if there is one other group of Aliens then there should be many (see the Fermi Paradox). If one of those groups wants to destroy us for any reason, it would be less troublesome to do so deniable than overtly.

Close, F=ma shows that force is directly proportional to both mass and acceleration and that’d tell you the force required to accelerate the asteroid, you’re more interested in its energy which is K=1/2mv^2 (which more directly proves the point I think you were trying to make). Also, near the speed of light you need…

I missed the part about accelerating the asteroids to nearly the speed of light (which is unnecessary and gives away the fact that it was an intentional attack and not just a natural phenomenon).