Chevy is paying new Bolt/Bolt EUV buyers up to $1200 towards the cost of installing a charge outlet at home. Including permit fees.

Do you think Florida is buying $88,500 base model S Teslas on their low bid fleet contracts? Come on now.

And the reliability of “base model simple ICE vehicles” varies wildly, as anyone with a base 5.3 GM V8 truck can tell you, between the years of rapid oil consumption and repeat catastrophic DOD lifter failures…

How long does the state of Florida keep their cars in service? Agencies often retire and replace their non-specialty vehicles on a time or mileage basis, or when a major component like an engine or transmission fails on an older vehicle. One FL state agency recommends replacing at about 10 years old and ~150,000…

L2 chargers are destination chargers anyway. Nobody is using an L2 charger unless they’re stopping for the night, they’re too slow. Which is not to say they’re not useful at workplaces and places like hotels and motels, or on city streets for overnight charging.

But if you’re road tripping and need to charge up before…

Another Big Government Republican, no surprise there.

Dunn0, but my 2005 Dodge 3/4 ton diesel (long bed crew cab, rwd) gets about 15mpg unloaded at 70 mph and 10 mpg pulling a 4,500 lb camper trailer at that speed, or about 12 mpg not towing but with 2300 lbs of gravel in the bed, a nearly full load.

PA “repair towing” plates can be put on any business-owned vehicle (even if used for personal use of the owner or the owner’s family) and swapped between those vehicles without individually registering them.

Interesting, thanks for the info!

For people interested in why there are so many low bridges around the NYC/CT area parkways:

Moses was definitely a racist, there’s plenty of evidence of that. And he did make those bridges extra low, even moreso than the earlier parkways he copied. And he knew and was quoted that laws could be changed easily, but bridges were expensive and difficult to rebuild once built.

You don’t need “multiple languages” on buttons. That’s what symbols and colors are for.

+/- for volume
red-blue for hot/cold
the standard symbol for “power” for on-off

Nice hardware and size, shame about the interior and (lack of) information in front of the driver, where it belongs. Also, fuck not having touch bullshit and not physical controls for common, important things like radio volume and HVAC.

Kia/Hyundai decided in 2010 to stop installing immobilizer chips in their low trim level cars that use physical keys. They reversed that decision sometime around 2021/2022.

Unfortunately if you want to do this stuff in places with restrictive residential zoning, you really need to do it inside a building. Even if it’s a basic steel building, it’s got a roof and walls and a door to close and lock to keep from the all the prying eyes in the sky (helicopters, commercial satellite photograph…

Been dailying a 2019 Bolt EV for 4 years now. $28k new.

Perhaps, but Ford has more than 3,000 dealers in the US, and Ford sold 5,407 Mach -E’s in 1Q 2023 total, which comes out to an average of a little less than two Mach E’s per dealership over a 3 month time period, or ~ 7 per year. Considering the size of most Ford dealerships and the number of vehicles they sell,…

“Buyers are not willing to compromise”

*You’re* not willing to “compromise”. You’re not “Buyers”.

I hate to break it to you, but the Model Y is the top selling car in the US and in the world at this point. US - 1Q 2023 - 85,000+, outselling the next 3 most popular cars - the Rav4, the Nissan Rogue and the Honda CRV,…

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They know they won’t sell a bunch of them, and that the people who want more will buy something else. I don’t think a cheaper option is a *bad* thing, for the people who can live with that range and power.

4th gear - fair competition depends on a level playing field, not something China is know for with its’ government sanctioned and government forced manufacturing partnerships resulting in rampant IP theft, massive and total currency manipulation, enormous market manipulation by government and government owned and…

This is just how it goes when Republicans have the power to obstruct nominations; they aren’t capable of doing the work of governing and they actively don’t want government to function, which is why Trump never nominated anyone to the post, especially anyone competent.

When one party believes government is the…