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2-5 times per week for busy weeks and I have to do it early in the morning sometimes before heading to a job site. I also go multiple weeks without filling up if I’m not traveling much. Fuel stations are out of the way where I live too, so it’s just a pain with the u-turns and navigating intersections as I try to get

The less time I spend at a fuel station the happier I am. I just don’t like having to detour to get gas for my regular driving. If I could “fill up” at home, then that would eliminate frustration and time from my week. We have our first kid on the way too, and I don’t relish the idea of driving into a gas station to

Autopilot has a serious flaw that I can’t get past. Someone has to program basic operating principals into the Autopilot software, and that is where Autopilot falls apart. There is no way that one person alone is doing that, which leads to “Auto-pilot by committee”, and we all know how badly “Design by committee”

A stage one turbine wheel on a 7-frame GE gas turbine spins around 90 buckets (blades). Each blade at max RPM has a centripetal force equal to that of 9 suburbans. How’s THAT for a metric?!

Damnit, she’s a Marge. She’s a Tesla-Marge.

This lady is a “Stan”, or is it a “Starla”? I checked out here Twitter and this is what popped up.

The earth lifted the car into the path of the plane.

Agreed. I hope he’s being facetious so that someone can make a joke about me missing the joke, but I’m not holding my breath for that.

This guy is amazing! I love that he’s opened the tech up to whoever is interested in building on it or just building it. The first place my mind goes with pneumatic drive is to incorporate a turbo to the engine and use that turbo to provide the compressed air to drive the free valve tech. A separate “starter”

When are you driving this to Colorado?

How about an ammonia-powered V8? Some of the best wind resource in the US is stranded in Wyoming. In fact, it’s some of the best in the world. There’s no way to transport the electricity without $Bs of investment, but there’s rail readily available to haul solids or liquids. Take a little wind electricity, mix in some

I like to think that the fuel filler cap on the outside was to help vent fuel away from the passengers in the event of a crash. It wasn’t though. It was an accommodation of convenience instead of having to lift the driver seat to fill the fuel tank.

Do you know the scientific name for a group of Chads? It’s a “Brad”.

How are modern shocks at that temp? I remember my 1970 Olds Cutlass felt like it was riding on steel bars instead of shocks at -34F.

My US steel suppliers got hammered by a 25% steel tariff that increased their costs dramatically. I had to shift to overseas suppliers to stay relevant in the utility scale solar market because overseas suppliers all had workarounds for the tariff by exporting finished products and complete systems to the US. There

I really like my Frontier. 

You’re doing better than a friend of mine with a new Tesla 3 driving in 40-70F temps. She got the extended range battery and is lucky to get 160 miles from a charge with a mix of city and highway (under 75MPH). The range was quoted around 350 miles or so.

If I was in her position, then I could see blaming myself for a week, or two, or three. However, there’d come a point where I’d just be pissed and ready to lash at anyone. Especially if I was being ridiculed for it, in pain, etc. I hope she doesn’t go through with a lawsuit, but I can understand her desperation.

Again, you’re painting with an awfully broad brush. There’s far more nuance in reality than in what we read in the news. 

You’re painting with an awfully broad brush.