And the solution is regulation? What we really need is more good guys with sawzalls to protect us from the bad guys with sawzalls!

Tesla would be the only winner

Here is a car and driver article with some info along with links to the data they seemed to use. The nerd wallet link is more detailed. Just looking at my state, a Model 3 is on average $700 more per year to insure than my current two cars, but that is not a fair comparison as my two cars together are only worth maybe…

I mean Levi.  Peterson is absolutely fucking terrible.

Some of this sounds like extremely online people drawing conclusions based on out-of-context statements, but I can’t respect anyone who willingly follows Jordan Peterson. He’s not a “deep thinker,” he’s a crybaby.

I have over 4 years left on a 100% renewable contract...at 14 cents for power and delivery charges. Looking at the market place now, there is a 3 month contract for 10.8 cents (again power and delivery). YMMV.

While competition is growing and there is a list of things to knock Tesla for, aren’t they literally the bestselling brand in their segment?

Tesla’s valuation…

Listen, you’re focusing on the wrong thing. Look over here, it’s TWITTER!

i know she’s a Bad Person, but we don’t talk enough about how, almost more importantly, she’s a Bad Actress. i’m so fucking glad i don’t have to see her in star wars anymore.

At least give a link to McMansion Hell....  come on.

heat pumps break thinking on conservation of energy a little, at least it did for me until I looked into it. It’s important to think of them as moving heat, not making it. They are measured in COP or coefficient of performance. The short explanation of COP is KW in as power to KW out as heat. A COP of 1 means you are…

If it’s hot out, AC can still find cold to pump. “Freezing” is relative. Just like 115 F is “Cold” to a 200 F coolant loop. Even if it’s very cold (for humans) outside, there is still lots of heat, relatively speaking. Heat pumps lose efficiency as temperature drops but it doesn’t go away completely. My home heat pump…

It blows my mind that a lot of people are shilling out $60-$100K for a lightning or mach-e. Must be the poor inside me mad about it. 😄😥

There’s no shortage of “rare earth metals”. Its a misnomer. These metals are, however, expensive to get out of the earth in this country, but cheaper in other countries. We have plenty of metal in the US, just no will to get it from the ground in a sustainable, practical, economical, and humane way.

The coming EV competitors will be very good.  Hard to justify $60k-70k for a Model 3 when a Lyriq can be had for similar money or an ID.4 for 30% less.

Maybe only for Japan, but Japan is a very distant 3rd in automotive sales (1/10th the size of pack leaders; China and US combined). This strategy suggests a circling of the wagons and only serving the home country if they get left behind in the electric market that other countries are pursuing.

Telling people why their team is wrong makes me really fun at parties. This whole thing isn’t helped by the fact that money buys elections. I believe it’s ~90% of the house seats and ~80% of senate seats are won by the campaign that spends the most (at least federally), so the people who write laws are the mercy of…

“Monthly housing prices for many are not very high”

That’s a pretty huge macro-econ question. The value of the dollar depends largely on the price of good (consumer price index), how many dollars are in distribution, and how much of a different currency it can be traded for. How much of it is in circulation is by far the easiest to manage and use to manipulate the…