It’s apparently a pretty involved job, and that’s probably what priced it out of your friend’s range. Rack is about $500 + core, and from the inter webs, seems like a full day for a competent home mechanic. You are far more than competent so should be a piece of cake.

Blow it up and start over. Create a single advanced EV (or PHEV) brand under the new umbrella co.

This is an excellent case for reuse of “expended” EV batteries.  When you don’t care about weight, and you can tightly control charge/discharge cycles, why not have several tons of them in a parking lot soaking up the sun?  I love this idea.

Ha! The asshat dealer near us has a standard L2, which was only putting out 2kw, when they forgot to charge my wife’s i3 after service.

I’m not surprised. People instantly ran out of things to keep them occupied.

I can squeeze about 4.7mi/kWh out of my eGolf, which is an outlier but lines up with trying to hypermile a regular Golf.  Just an FYI if you’re keeping tabs. It’s much better than my friend’s Leaf (at about 3.5).

Maybe Amazon is giving these away to all the in-fill delivery drivers I see running around in thrashed Camrys and Rav4s ... (those people bust their butts, and clearly thrash their cars in the process)

Some parents (I am not one of them) prefer to sit next to their infant while someone else drives.  This makes a lot of sense, under those circumstances.

... and it’s inaccessible once assembled.

THAT IS THE ONE.

Like was Kinja’d ...

DO. IT.

Peregrine falcons are cool.

I really should get negative stars based on my last crash. Nothing like sticking a huge high speed drop, slow down to a crawl to see if your friends are still ok (their first time on that particular track), while you lose the front end because you’re not watching where the hell you’re going and land your hip on a…

BMW 135.  I just love them.

Elon Musk is a genius, but he is also a f*cking sociopath, and it’s about time we start treating him like it the danger to society he is.

That’s a great description, thank you.

Little Caesars is not pizza, it is an abomination in pizza form.

Generally 25% more than CA prices, which run about 25-50% higher than the rest of the country. So assume double. 

Owning a car in Hawaii is FAR from pointless. Unless you’re 100% living off your land (and very few are), you’re going to need wheels.