The maintenance schedule on my 2016 Spark EV:

I lot of people have heard stories about people having huge battery replacement expenses. I haven’t actually talked to anyone with even 2nd hand knowledge of a real failure.

It would be a surprise. I suspect that would trigger the maximum $500 cleaning fee.

If you are travelling to places were there are hotels then the numbers on a RV don’t really work. Especially if you are driving from KOA to KOA spending $50 a night for a site while getting 6 mpg driving place to place. The place my wife and I camped 2 weeks ago is 40 miles from the closest hotel. That is quite the…

Nope. This is a Juicy rental and that area under the cushions is a storage bin that extends down into the front stow-and-go compartment.

Every RV or boat I’ve been on had this rule

Our campervan doesn’t have a toilet and I don’t miss it.   If we had a huge RV a toilet would be find but RVs don’t fit down narrow forest roads to interesting places.

UPS is one of those fleets.   When you learn to drive the “UPS way” you learn to never back unless you have to followed by always back into a space, never out of a space.

It isn’t about convenience it is about visibility and safety.

I guess that works if you drive a vehicle that is higher than the cars on either side. If you drive a car and are parked next to a truck, van or SUV you have zero visibility and have to blindly back into traffic and hope someone stops. 

The tow and auction costs exceed the scrap value. That is why the cars are still where they sit.

I leased a 2016 Spark EV. That low end torque is addicting. Acceleration is traction limited - the Spark will light up the tires at will below 25 mph.  They are a fun little hot hatch.

I’m guessing there is a lot more to the story.

Yes. One of the many reasons that it is her former employer. She wasn’t directly effected by this change but it was just another example of how poorly they treated employees.

My experience is very similar. I work as a manufacturing engineer for an automaker. I’m in corporate so more focused on product development than day to day manufacturing. Before COVID I was working from home on Wednesday with permission from my boss. (his rule was WFT can’t be Monday or Friday)

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown voted for the USMCA agreement - NAFTA with a new name so Trump could say he got rid of NAFTA. Now he is pretending to be surprised that Ford is building vehicles in Mexico?

It really depends on the plant dynamics even within the same company. We have some plants that are very hard to work with with the union acting as if management and all non-union workers are the enemy. Others there is good collaboration.

I’ve had co-workers leave to work for Tesla and we share lots of common suppliers and vendors.

The company my wife use to work embraced work from home in September. They told everyone that was working from home at the time that they could do so indefinitely. Then in February they changed their mind and said weekly team meetings must be in person - no exceptions. People that had relocated and refused to return…

We just finished a 2 year renovation to move from cubes to an open office at the end of 2019.