Depending on the specific model, your 94-95 Plymouth Voyager has a combined fuel rating above what would qualify for the program... So like I said, it’s not the type of vehicle to end up on CFC lots.

The problem is you claimed your van made 25mpg and hadn’t revealed anything more than that... Since I have no way of verifying or reproducing the details of the claim, it’s a largely pointless for any analysis. The most objective way to have a reasonable argument, is to operate with a standard, and since CFC used…

Your experience is incredibly anecdotal. If your van only cost $600 to buy, requires less than $100 in annual maintenance, and gets 25mpg (EPA rated?), you have zero reason to trade it in. It wasn’t the target of CFC and wouldn’t even qualify for the program, because it was already above the 18mpg minimum. It’s also…

The times of $500 beaters were always a tricky roll of the dice, and a matter of how mechanically literate you were or who you knew. CFC removing 700k cars, out of some 250 million, didn’t suddenly disrupt this.

How cheap is transportation with the number of gas guzzlers on the list of vehicles, during a time when fuel prices were high?

But we aren’t rounding numbers. We’re accounting for actual time that has elapsed, which is 6 seconds and the .93 fractions of a second, afterwards.

It’s accounting for “elapsed time”, which we represent as the whole number before the decimal (6 seconds), followed by the fraction of time, afterwards (hundredths of a second). We can choose to drop the thousandths+ place, etc. but if we drop the hundredths or tenths place after the decimal, what are we left with? 6,…

Yeah, it’s definitely modded.

It’s scary that it has become this difficult to tell. That post was one of the most genuinely stupid and uninformed comments I’ve read.

Police officers seem to be fine (in my experiences), state troopers, less so. If you stand out for any reason, they’ll find reasons.

The short answer is that your tires are the ONLY thing touching the ground, and so it’s the friction between them and the surface which actually stops (or moves) the vehicle. Tires are the most important part of the car, arguably, for that reason— I repeat, they’re the only part of the car touching the ground.

Indeed. Taking a look at some purpose-built Ford vehicles, though, it looks like they would be able to order EV models which take care of much of those items, or even have more engineering flexibility to do so, given less mechanical parts.

“to prove consumer demand for cars consumers want but can’t afford”

That’s definitely a fair point, but you have to tweak it a bit. If you look at much of history, you need to switch “fire truck” with some military application, and you’ll have both the desired effect AND historical context, at the same time. Many of our biggest technological advancements have trickled down from there…

I found the following article interesting. I don’t know enough about fire engines to say “yay” or “nay” on electrical ones, but it sounds as if they operate like any other tool— you choose the appropriate one for the job.

Cars like the Model S offer more storage than their equivalent ICE counterparts, given they have both a front and rear trunk. Looking at a few popular police vehicles, they range from 16-20ish cubic feet of space. The Model S has between 31-63, by comparison. The Model X has 88.

Taking a look at the Tesla boards, the Model S (to pick the current most popular EV) doesn’t lose that much power while parked.

“The owner manual puts the loss a bit differently, at (on average) about 1% of battery charge per day.”

What gun fight do you keep referring to?

Similarly, I don’t even know why “the lesson” would be “more situational awareness”.

I see, and agree, it’s not an excuse. My fault for misinterpreting what you wrote.