Nailed it. It’s a bluetooth connected remote control for your phone that still requires it’s own 12 volt power.

This is just a phone accessory. You have to plug it into your cars 12 volt power. Then you have to pair it with your phone. THEN you have to pair your phone with your car (or use an aux plug). It does not connect to your car itself.

All joking aside, the only people I know that have experience with old british stuff are all of the age where tomorrow isn’t a guarantee. These things are going to be harder and harder to keep running unless you can do it all yourself.

The towing capacity of these excursion are legend. And like most legends the truth is somewhere in between.

Based on the diesel and the tow hitch maybe towing is the only reason I could see owning something like this without hauling more asses. My guess a camper.

This glass is half full

Hold on, liberals hate Musk? Did I miss something?

The weight of a vehicle itself will cause a roadsurface to wear as a vehicle rolls over the top of it. The other forces related to the vehicles that can cause wear and damage include lateral forces at the tires. The amount of force at play includes acceleration forces. This causes buckling and wear at stoplights and…

The could have made an actual comparison but its just that an actual comparison wouldn’t prove their point. Hard to have reasonable discourse with illogical people or people that make gross generalizations.

I was going to mention the same thing. To see that happening in front of you and not be able to do a single thing about it has got to be terrifying and traumatic.

Gas taxes fund the Highway trust Fund. What diversions to other non-road expenses are you talking about? Actually, money had to be diverted out of the General Fund to the Highway Trust Fund to keep it solvent not too long ago. So it’s actually the other way around if anything.

A majority of the gas tax is earmarked for road infrastructure. Which is not in any way related to the fuel itself or its manufacture or distribution. Petrol consumption is being used as a stand-in measure of road consumption.

As a civil engineer I can tell you that the mass of a vehicle is directly proportional to the force it puts on the road. It’s a law of phsysics F=MA. And those forces are part of what causes damage to it. Washboarding, rutting, etc. So, yes, a model 3 which is 33% (1,000 lbs) heavier then a comparable sedan will do…

I understand the effect removing the tax will have, but that does not make it s subsidy.

so comparing a 4 door sedan to a truck and a CUV proves they are not heavier? That makes no sense. EV trucks and CUV are not going to be heavier either because they weight about as much as a cement truck and school bus.

At some point we’re going to need to rethink the whole gas tax anyway, since that is part of how road and bridge infrastructure is funded.

good god, I missed that one. What on earth is going on? These things should not be randomly catching on fire. 

Laws and regulations are the “fun police” to entrepreneurs especially. Entrepreneurs want to run fast and loose, do what they want if it advances their vision and forget the rest. In the worst cases they are a sociopath who has no empathy and doesn’t care if there is a human toll. I know, I’m the one that has to…

“ Also considerably more likely to catch fire in an ICE vehicle than an EV anyway.”

Telsa, GM, Stellantis. The industry needs to figure this out already. I don’t want to be afraid to park my car in my garage. But, I still would like an EV.