Or ask Australia their thoughts on the matter. They are developing / have developed microgrids with batteries located as consumer residences, and then large scale battery fields that take the place of peaker plants.

Not only will EVs get better over time, but so will the power grid. In just March of this year, the US hit an all-time record of 18% of the entire country’s electricity generated by wind and solar. Personally I normally generate all of mine with solar, and in times when I don’t, I trade renewable energy credits, so…

Current EVs are far cleaner over their lifespan by every measure. Engineering Explained has a better video explaining it. People ignore all of the oil production, farming for corn for ethanol and all the ancillary stuff for ICE that they try to cram in when comparing an EV. Getting Oil out of the ground, processing it…

Unless I missed it, this doesn’t seem to account for building the BMW. Just because it doesn’t have a huge battery it doesn’t make manufacturing process CO2 free.

Nitrogen doesn’t contain moisture. Ambient air does. A pure nitrogen fill would provide more predictable, and less likely increases in tire pressure at higher temperatures (i.e. a rolling tire). Water will evaporate and convert into a gas. Also, oxygen is a smaller molecule and will permeate rubber tires quicker than…

One of these days the finance guy is going to convince me that I actually need the extended warranty. And then I’ll cancel the sale contract and go buy a car that’s reliable enough and/or offers a good enough factory warranty to not need an extended one.

I fill my tires with a custom blend of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% secret sauce. Only costs me $198 though, because I do it at home.

This glitch could have affected Subaru radios too, but we would have no way of knowing.

Anyone know where they get their alignments done?  That looked solid.  Every truck like that that I’ve driven is floating all over the road.

.3? Remember, that was 7 hours after his last admitted drink. The body burns off about .015 per hour. His BAC was probably over 4 at some point that morning. 

In the 3+ hours it took for them to administer the test, his BAC would have dropped .05 or more.  Almost enough for a DUI on it’s own.  The cops know this, and yet it took them a super long time to administer the test.  Even after being protected by his fellow officers, he still blew way over the limit.

This dude breaks four laws at once and admits to doing it nearly a dozen times previously, and he gets reinstated.

Just-in-Time doesn’t work when you lose control of “time”.

Basically, they make electricity with hydropower. They’re like 98% renewable.

Cops complain about their negative public image, then go on to do bullshit like this.  Hey, Pig!  Stop protecting the abusive assholes on the force and public perception will improve!  You have no one to blame but yourselves.

Hell, instead of paying out-of-pocket (I bet you’d see a lot of cops with no assets in their names declare bankruptcy), make them carry insurance against it, like medical malpractice insurance. At some point, we would hope insurers would charge so much or drop crooked departments/cops often enough that it would clean…

Revenue-generating sports. I’m goddamn sick of the sexism. Maybe we stop paying college coaches so much? Just a thought.

That’s not the issue. At all.