I’m assuming it comes standard with an accelerator pedal? It’s often so hard to tell with Toyota drivers.

Also, does the brake pedal come with a hook that leaves it in the half-depressed state so that the brakes lights are always on and the effect of the (optional equipement?) accelerator pedal is further diluted?

There’s no WADA in popstardom, why not just sauce on EPO?

Dwight Schrute: INACCURATE, insufficient Es 

Where is paying honor to our servicemen (there are four: pregame edition, 1Q edition, halftime edition, 3Q edition)?

I mean, I’ll do one standing ovation to whitewash the morally troubling nature of our mercenary imperialist forces and recognize the troops on the ground are just doing their jobs in a nation that often…

I’m a Tesla stan, by all accounts.

But Tesla needs to put up or shut up with self-driving demonstrations and certifications before he gets to say this shit.

And putting strangers in your car depreciates the car. They will spill, spit, piss, shit, bleed, vomit, and sweat all over your car.

Once self-driving is cracked,…

Yeah, but right now EV range is all about picking up integrated efficiencies, and future cars will need to exploit as many different tricks as possible to reduce weight of the batteries and get as much range out of them as possible. So pick up 5% here, drop weight 4%, reduce aero drag 2%(rearview mirror removal?),…

What’s the issue with CAN bus? I’m a programmer but don’t know anything about it. Is it low bandwidth, can’t multiplex communications, unreliable? 

If it’s really 5% more range, then it will probably justify its expense in a lot of EVs.

Of course that is a mealy-mouthed stat. What are they comparing it to, the best-of-breed current market motors (which I think the Model 3 is pretty close to the best of the mass market), or some other cherrypicked model?

By “not…

This is why the war hawks in the republican party can undermine the value of diplomacy and sanctions. It doesn’t really work when you need to get a few, expensive things.

Now, denying the entire populace food to survive? That is something that sanctions can accomplish.

When self-driving cars automate highway driving, the easiest self-driving to automate, the airlines will have a reckoning. Oh, you want to do a ton of bullshit for a more expensive trip to save me an hour or two (possibly) on a trip?

The airlines have been reorganizing themselves to smaller hop flights too. When…

I only hedge with Ethereum, and only when my buddy at Goldman Sachs clues me in that they are *allegedly* going to manipulate the currency.

Aren’t VWs atrocious in reliability? Or did they fix that?

What really sets apart Sanders is the fact that he never got hurt and never fumbled.

And it wasn’t because he was superhumanly tough or had grip strength. He was so impossible to tackle that no defender could ever get straight shots on him.

As I heard it, defenders never trash talked Barry in the least. They were…

Oh, you again.

Their shipments are through the roof, their product lines are expanding, their battery production infrastructure leads the industry still by ten years, their battery tech is 5 years ahead, and they have the Supercharger network.

If you did stock speculation, you’d love Musk tweets.

Sounds like they are clearing out inventory and stifling demand before they announce redesigns that they’ve announced they won’t annouce.

THIS. Supercapacitors will be in play at hypercar price points. They might not help much at top speed (and who really will ever take this to top speed), but it will help for each and every depressing of the accelerator.

100-200k might not be able to, but I’d guess above that you can do them.

2,000 HP combined...

Oh look, I called this not just a week ago in the corvette hybrid option thread.

You’d think the EV system alone could get it off the line to a 2.0 0-60.

You want a PHEV with good all-EV range (100miles for code).

Really almost all new car models should be legally required to transition to this in the medium term. Full battery EVs will just race what battery resource supplies there are on batteries that won’t be used more than 25% on a given day.

It’s called the free market. Power companies can either beat consumer rooftop solar + storage, or not. Right now they can.

Grid will be an infrastructure fee.

But that will be so niche it might as well also be only manual transmission.

My #1 thing I’ll miss when going EV will be the third pedal. Thus I might as well go to one pedal.

I just wish there was some supercapacitor bank you could be manually playing with that would make the stick useful. They’d just make it buttons…