How does an employer offering free charging screw up the incentives?

They have the option of OBDII or a phone app. I’m using the OBDII option right now as my 2004 van doesn’t have bluetooth to connect to the app.

CAFE system is basically a cap and trade system. There are caps of fuel consumption that get lower every year. If a manufacturer reduces fuel consumption faster than required they collect credits. Those can be used in later years or can be sold to someone else. In any case the system as a whole is still meeting the…

Class 2B - Class 8 trucks are covered by fuel economy standards that were passed in 2011 and went into effect in 2014.

Nope, China produces about 1/2 the carbon pollution per capita.   You can’t just compare raw numbers when China has 1 billion more people than the USA.

China is on the same page if you actually read their policy.

I’ve never been to the Daytona 200. Maybe I need to go haul my BMW GS down to Daytona Bike Week to see what all the fuss is about.

The S-10 used a 3-Phase AC motor very similar to the motor in the EV-1. The 1997s had lead acid batteries which where upgraded to Ni-MH in 1998 for a 95 mile range. (better than the first Nissan Leaf)  GM made 492 electric S-10s.

If Best Buy lists a TV for $1200, and Walmart has the identical model for $1000, how stupid do I have to be to buy from Best Buy? The same principle applies to Ford dealer #1 vs Ford dealer #2.

CarMax made 5.03% net margin - which seems fair to me. (They have average a little over 4% for the last 10 years)

Makes sense. We are planning to do something similar when we go international. Rent an apartment for 3 months and then move on. It makes visas simpler too compared to trying to get residency in one place.

Nope. Dying is part of life.   Also I’ve had two EMTs in the family so “shop talk” was part of dinner conversation.

My wife and I are planning on travelling full time starting in 2023. We originally were going to use a van but I decided we needed a bit more room. An RV is too big (and they are built like crap even the high-end ones) so we are going for something in the middle. I’m currently shopping for a Freightliner M2 Ambulance…

I don’t buy new cars because I don’t like throwing away thousands of dollars to enjoy the smell of outgassing plastic.

Rivian was founded in 2009 and first showed their concepts to the world back in 2018. That is far different than a lot of start-up EV companies that show a rendering and claim they will start production in a year.

No vaccine is 100% effective. Give 100 million people a vaccine and you will still have thousands of plenty of people getting sick. However, there is a huge difference in the severity of the infection in vaccinated vs vaccinated population. Even then in the latest data breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated people…

That completely goes against the idea of free K-12 public education for all regardless of income or social status.

An early 00's car is 20 years old and past it’s useful life. There comes a point were replacing makes for sense than fixing.  (I say this as an owner of a 2004 Chevy Van which runs fine right now)

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Cut spending not related to education - like sports.