For Pacifica guy - consider a) getting a Hybrid, and b) waiting till the 2020s come out to either i) buy a newer model or ii) get a discounted 2019.  The hybrid is PHEV and depending on where you live, can save you a lot in electric cost vs. gas (probably not in MA though.)  Also, the $7500 tax rebate (not credit,…

The force along the slope is 1/2 * sqrt(2) or ~0.707 times the weight. At the same time the normal force towards the slope is reduced to 1/2 *sqrt(2), also ~ 0.707.

I’m a mechanical engineer and I have absolutely no idea how the heck his school was ABET accredited.  He’s so bad at everything.  Literally everything.  

It got worse in the “dynamics” follow-on course sequence. “Now imagine the G-Wagen is on a spinning carousel at 47 RPM on the top of a Falcon rocket accelerating at 6 Gs as it performs a 3 degree per second clockwise procession left. How fast will the vomit exit the car? With what force gradient?”

The thing is, the cost of building a level 3 charging station is 10X cheaper than a gas station. So it is actually easier to compete.

Way out on I80 in the middle of nowhere? The prices are going to gauge you until there is ample competition.

The only places I can see it becoming a probability is in the southwest where you have a lot of open, unimproved land where starving coyotes chase speeding road runners in hopes of a meal. So you may be right. I just see the high prices coming in on the other side of the business. You lure them in with the reasonably…

Yeah...but don’t you DARE say it out loud! That might make other automakers (re: campaign donors) look bad!

A lot of the reasons for fluctuating gas prices around the country have to do as much with the infrastructure needed to deliver processed gasoline and diesel as much as competition. You won’t need that for charging stations as they’ll pull off the existing power grid. I don’t see the cost rising too much over what the…

I have said many times before that Tesla deserves a great deal of credit for actually investing in a charging infrastructure for its EVs.

I am 100% serious here: ANY system beyond Level 2 should be heavily regulated and placed under extremely strict scrutiny. Especially once we get into the territory of Level 4/5 where people stop paying attention to the road.

I seem to recall a warranty that was titled “America’s Best Warranty.”
Was it, though?
Who decides what is ‘best’?
What, in the actual heck, is ‘safe’? Total absence of risk? It is a bit nebulous, I would argue.  That is why they are just collecting some data to see if they should drag Tesla back into court.

5th: So, Ford forgot to install a trim panel. Ford designs, builds, and sells to the public a transmission that doesn’t work and goes into Neutral on the freeway, and there’s no recall or administrative action. Ford forgets to install a trim panel, and there’s a recall.

The Model 3 has achieved the highest crash test safety rating available from all of the international regulatory testing agencies. If their claims are inflated, its not by a large margin. Fact is the car IS one of, if not THE safest car tested globally. They should honestly be praised and not torn down......especially …

Part of my commute to work is mass transit. Unless I’m driving in, my round-trip daily commute is about 2.2 miles.

Yeah, competition makes a difference. There is a relatively small VW dealership near my house. I’ve bought two cars from them (1 new, 1 used for my kid). The service is awesome, all the staff are polite and helpful, and they bent over backwards to make both purchases easy and enjoyable - no games, no pressure for…

Seriously. What did they sell? Steve in Accounting’s old Camry?

Lead by example, then ask the same for countries making or interested in making business with you.

Yea man, leading through action is overrated. America has never done it before, and we sure as hell shouldn’t do it now. It's not like we were in global pact to address this or anything, where every country had signed up to cooperate

I can’t get over how only one person can be convicted for bribery. Unless one bribes themself, it’s a crime of at least two.