20 or 30 days? Probably the same thing :)

It was around the year 2000 (thanks, Conan...). Anyway, I was staying LA for a few nights. Even then, decades after CARB was established, it was fairly smoggy compared to where I live (which isn’t super great, either, but it’s not as bad as LA).

If anything, Texas, with its power grid vulnerable to extreme weather, is closer to “third-world” than California. Of course, they’re both still pretty far from actually being third-world. Third world means you get electricity for two hours a day and cook over a non-electric heat source.

@reverse: Is it lust for power, or were they just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Oh no!

It would be better as a donor shell for an EV conversion.

Came for this...was not disappointed.

What really confuses me about Range Rovers is that they’re supposed to carry you out to remote, hard-to-access locations. Which is exactly where you’d want a reliable vehicle like a Land Cruiser, not a mechanic’s dream like a Land Rover.

@1st: Full self-driving in six months, maybe; sixty years, definitely.

I can’t wait to pick one of these up for $15,000 in two years :)

It’s probably a function of the bigger wheel/tire combo, bodywork changes, and different gearing.

That’s not how that works. Also, that’s the same battery in the 310 mile-range RWD version.

I’m guessing the rear motor is capable of putting out 576 HP by itself. In drift mode, it’s likely just sending all the amps to the rear motor.

If the rear motor is capable of 576 HP by itself, AND the inverter is capable of delivering that many amps, it’s more a matter of diverting amps from the front motor to the rear motor. So, yes, while “sending” all that power to the rear motor is kind of a weird way to phrase it, it’s more likely they’re just…

I wonder how much of that range drop (274 -> 208) is due to the bigger wheels with more open space and any bodywork changes?

Manual only requirement basically wipes out like 98% of what’s available.

Astronomers should really rename that planet to get ride of that joke. I nominate “Urectum.”

NASA is hedging its bets in case one platform suffers major setbacks. You can do more than one multi-billion dollar contracts when you have Uncle Sam backing you.

I prefer a space escalator. Then you don’t have to wait for the car to stop at every floor along the way.

Why would they when they were selling as many Jeeps and other SUVs as they could make?