$100 fine plus whatever pound-you-in-the-ass fee the tow company is going to charge.

$100 fine is painful, but the inconvenience of tow really drives the message. The moment you need a ride or Uber all the way across town to get your car because it’s been towed treats an inconvenience with an inconvenience. 

First Offense: $100 fine. Vehicle Towed at owner’s expense.
Second Offense: $500 fine. Vehicle Impounded for 2 weeks.
Third Offense: $2000 fine. Vehicle Impounded for 6 months.

The fine is…fine, but throw in some “towed at the owner’s expense” and you’re getting somewhere. I’m guessing that $100 might not be that big of a deal to some, but the hassle of dealing with a towing company would be. Plus, it could free up that EV parking spot quicker.

Math adds up. $100 for illegal parking, $900 for deliberate douche asshat behavior.

Please - shit 100 bucks isnt nearly enough 1000 might teach them to not do this shit again. Hell a 1000 dollar fine might just be the thing that causes that Challenger or RAM owner to miss their next payment ... and that would be too bad wouldnt it.

Or the auto manufacturers chose a pump supplier that didn’t meet the requirements of the fuel.

BUT at the end of the day Bosch did not design a suitable pump to meet the requirements of our fuel.  It would be nice to have better fuel, but that is not the case.

Your headline reads “Why the American Tanks Going to Ukraine Run on Gasoline”, but then you go on to say that they run on Jet Fuel or JP-8. Did I miss something? Gas turbine does not mean gasoline.

Gas turbine doesn’t mean gasoline turbine. You might have misunderstood the engine nomenclature. 

I have over 4 years left on a 100% renewable contract...at 14 cents for power and delivery charges. Looking at the market place now, there is a 3 month contract for 10.8 cents (again power and delivery). YMMV.

Seriously?

This is an anti EV thing that AEG’s been pushing for years, even Jalopnik’s sister site has an article debunking this https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/26/about-that-scary-evs-cost-more-to-fuel-study-not/.

Maybe they were looking at least efficient EVs in the most expensive electricity areas, and comparing that to a Prius in a cheap gas state.

Uh, what? This smells like bullshit to me.

My Chevy Bolt uses about 29Kwh to drive 100 miles.
I pay .25 per Kw to charge at home. That’s $7.25 for 100 miles.

My gas car gets about 22 mpg combined, for 100 miles that’s 4.5 gallons @ $4/gal = $18 in regular gas for 100 miles.

Um, that was mentioned in the article.

The dry air density at 14 degrees f is 13.3% denser than at 77 degrees f. Both of these are very normal temperatures for the midwest, depending on the season. When you account for humidity, the difference becomes even more pronounced. Not negligble.

Most, if not all EVs allow you to precondition the battery or the cabin on a set schedule or remotely when you want from your phone with the app when it is plugged in.  Yes, this gets you better efficiency when you start driving.

I still can’t figure out why heat pumps are considered a “costly” technology, but air conditioning isn’t. It’s literally the same cycle, just in reverse.  Yes, it means you have to have add a few more components to your AC and size it differently but I can’t figure out why this is somehow a huge financial hurdle in…

If it’s hot out, AC can still find cold to pump. “Freezing” is relative. Just like 115 F is “Cold” to a 200 F coolant loop. Even if it’s very cold (for humans) outside, there is still lots of heat, relatively speaking. Heat pumps lose efficiency as temperature drops but it doesn’t go away completely. My home heat pump…