It could be too much, since that was just based on tesla’s sizer asking average electric bill. My winter electric bill is under $400/month, but in the summer it can hit $700 like it did last year. But if generation was lower in shorter daylight hours, that aligns with consumption.
We have central A/C, but a new enough…

Yes, standing seam metal is superior. I haven’t gotten a quote for that yet, but when a friend did 20 years ago, he couldn’t find anyone in our area. He ended up with plastic slate (authenticroof.com), which is a great product. I ended up buying that house, and 20y later, the shingles still looked new.
I’ve since…

I’ve been considering tesla’s roof for a while, but while it was marginally justifiable before the price increases, it now isn’t. In addition to the price increase, the other issue I have is that they won’t be able to fit enough power generation in my somewhat complex roof shape. (it’s a hip roof colonial with…

Manual quoting, because kinja:

Homebuilt extended unibody? I dunno...

I should trademark fredliner.

WDKYMYB was the best book I read last year. I look forward to the next.

This is exactly the right take. It’s important to be comfortable and as low effort as possible.

More republican projection.

The question here was capital cost. I didn’t include insurance. My cars are all around 500-600 annual cost each, except for my 18yo son who added US$2000 for the year. Motorcycles are oddly cheap at a bit over $100 each.

Exactly right. Just for fun means logic needn’t apply, but dividing by years seemed easy enough, and helped relate experiences over decades.
It’s like the “gearhead metric” of how many pistons in all of your engines that comes up periodically. (I’m at 34 on that)

Geezers will obviously have higher totals. Divide by total years to normalize to annualized capital cost per year would be a more useful comparison.
Perhaps also subtracting trade/sale return of the old car, but this seems more of a bar discussion, so it needn’t be an accurate measure of lifetime depreciation costs.

> Press down a key and you’ll get a click to confirm your input. That differs
> from today’s more standard membrane keyboards

> Press down a key and you’ll get a click to confirm your input. That differs
> from today’s more standard membrane…

Look, I appreciate Pape’s science chops—but I’d wager that the average Black person could have told him this to begin with, or at the very least something close to it.

That looks awesome.

Both of those things happened in the attached video: They pulled the windshield, and removed the back window, and proceeded without either.

I used to be pro death penalty and changed my viewpoint on that maybe 15-20 years ago, mostly because I realized I viewed the DP as revenge more than justice.

I’ve only got 150 miles on it so far, so my observations aren’t particularly deep. The suspension is very soft, but is still ok through corners if you’re smooth on the throttle and don’t upset the balance.
I can see why others would say a bit more power would be welcome, but I think that’s only on the road and at…

I can totally believe that. The video I linked has high production values and is stunning, and there others I’ve been obsessively watching as well. :)
Maybe someday after retirement, but right now with COVID, I can do day trips, and look forward to longer trips up into the canadian maritimes and newfoundland.

They also lengthen the viable commute distance. There is lots of empircal data online, but it seems common to change your 12MPH average into a 20MPH average. And if you’re already at 20mph, then this could be faster than a car limited by congestion bound traffic.