As someone that went to school along the central California coast back in the 80's and visited LA a few times I have to say that the improvement in air quality in the LA area has been amazing since those times.  My roomates from LA told me stories of not being able to practice some high school sports due to air…

She should have rented a Tesla. The extensive supercharging charging network is why I purchased a used Tesla 3+ years ago. Road trips are no problem. It does take longer to charge than gas up but by the time I factor in our stops for food and restrooms the time difference is not that much for trips of 500 miles or…

Now might not be the time to support Russian Youtubers by clicking on their videos.

If Rivian wanted to right by its customers it would allow the early reservation holders modify their build to get a prioritized trim if they did not want to wait for the exact set of options that they originally ordered.  Some might not want to change their original order but others might want to get something sooner…

Everyone should consult the IIHS safety information before buying a car. 40,000 people were killed in auto crashes last year and many more severely injured. Driving the most crashworthy car you can is an easy way to reduce the risk of driving which is one of the most dangerous things that the average person does.

“I’m concerned primarily for the health of our kids because I’m a mom, and my kid suffers from asthma and nosebleeds for no apparent reason,”

At the stop sign at the end of my block cars treat the stop as a yield sign over 60% of the time and nearly 100% of the time when traffic is light. It is not a bike or car thing. It is a people thing. People don’t like to stop if they think they can get away with rolling through. The big difference is that the cyclist…

I purchased a used Tesla 3 years ago.  In those 3 years I have always gotten a notice on the dash to limit charging to 80% when I arrive at a busy Supercharger.  You can override the notice and charge over 80% if you want but unless you have a urgent need, I don’t know why you would.  Electric vehicles charge very…

Check out those panel gaps on the 70's car. If they made that today that is all that folks would be talking about. Reliability, fuel, economy, price, etc. who cares, but panel gaps, those are bad.

This is not unusual for electric actuators.  All of them have a “duty cycle” and you can’t run them continually.  If you want to be able to run a motor continually it would require a bigger and more expensive motor.  https://www.firgelliauto.com/blogs/news/what-is-a-duty-cycle-in-a-linear-actuator#:~:text=Duty%20cycle%…

Besides carburetors that constantly had problems on the old junkers that I drove in high school, I won’t miss distributors and having to adjust the ignition timing.  I was always a pain to hook up a timing light and go through that whole timing process.  Now my primary car has an electric motor which has reduced my…

100% agree.  Yesterday I got notification that Fedex had delivered some parts from Rockauto at “the front door” in the afternoon.  I look at the front and back door - no package.  Finally I go go down to the street and find the package literally sitting on the sidewalk curb.  I’m surprised it was still there after an…

I was able to have the 3G modem in my 2014 Tesla Model S upgraded to 4G during another unrelated service. It was something like $200 or $300 so all my remote heat, controls, and location services will still intact. I a bit surprised that more companies are not offering this same upgrade.

I could not help but notice the amount of rust and rot already on the body of this car.  I’m kinda thinking this treatment is about 40 years too late.

I’ve raced bicycles for over 30 years. I’ve ridden steel, aluminum, titanium, and carbon bikes. The only frames I’ve broken in all that time are steel and aluminum. I would never trust an old lightweight steel or aluminum frame.  

I have had the misfortune of driving behind one of those diesel mini Japanese vans and watching the clouds of smoke and carcinogens leaving the tailpipe convinced me that they should never have been allowed to be registered in my state. We all have to breath the air and these things are a hazard to our health.

I used to work for the largest and well known name in oscilloscopes, a measurement tool used by electrical engineers. We had a huge infrastructure to build analogue oscilloscopes. As digital oscilloscopes started to gain traction the company resisted the transition because we had amazing capabilities to make analogue…

Subaru Outback and VW Scirocco. I would never own either in real life but would probably take the gravel roads, autocross in the mall, the luggage, and commute. The reliability of the VW would be bad but it would likely still be driveable after 6 months of commuting.

The lithium only has to be mined once. You have to continue to pump the fossil fuels out of the earth for every tank of gasoline.  The electrical grid is slowly getting more and more renewable.  Gasoline is not getting any greener and all the bio fuels use food products or cropland that could be growing food to make…

I owned a 2013 Nissan Leaf for a few years. It was reliable and quiet but even in the pacific northwest the passively cooled battery pack had an unacceptable amount of battery degradation. Chademo chargers are getting harder to find. Nobody else in the US uses that standard any more. Until they have an actively cooled…