Personally I think the whole EV usage should be a paradigm shift from the traditional model of 3-7 year average vehicle cycling.  The drivetrains, battery, and components should have plenty of utility and value compared to their ICE counterparts.  Perhaps vehicle leasing/subscription, powertrain refurbishment and…

I’ve taken close to 200 flights in my lifetime and have never come across a smelly passenger (including babies). Buses, shuttles, subway, trains, and boats are a completely different story. I can understand if these 8 folks all came from the gym or had a sporting event, but the information so far sounds like they…

In California, telepresence has saved sooooo much money and time for lawyers.  My wife is an employer defense attorney and pretty much stopped going into the office 2 years before the pandemic.  Court hearings are tedious and on a first-come-first-serve basis and not necessarily based on time.  If you had a 11:00am…

Seems to me there are a number of things that could help balance the economic issue for the smaller teams and that is for the bigger teams such as Penske to pay a luxury tax similar to the NBA/MLB/NBA.  There are no home team advantages so ticket/venue sales shouldn’t really play much into it.  But in the end,…

I would love to see a simulator be programmed for either consumer vehicle manufactured loaded up with various programs/scenarios of the most common causes of collisions and fatalities so that people can train to prevent these situations in real-life. I would think this would greatly reduce death, injuries, accidents,…

I bought an off-lease 2013 Fiat 500e back in 2016 when auctions were flooded with them; might have been my best auto purchase ever! Bought it for $7,300 out the door and added 75K miles to it with essentially free fuel from my roof-top solar array (and my wife had free EV charging at her office garage when she used…

It really might not be a bad way to go if you are of the belief that brain activity continues for a short time after the heart/lungs stops and the body fails; it is in this state that science seems to support the idea of “heaven,” at least for those who believe or expect such a thing. But to have your brain…

Yep.  Same is true for just about any race with laps involved whether it’s karting, F1, or swimming.  You can take the longer route and cover more distance, but it’s the number of laps completed and in what order the competitors finish at the line.

Selfishly, by folks finding value in keeping their vehicles longer and using them more means that the secondary market will not be as fruitful. I’ve had some ridiculously good deals buying 4-5 year old cars for less than 40% of their original MSRP. Here’s my list:

That’s funny you say that because that’s been Mercedes Benz’s justification for selling the downmarket A-Class models.  They’re more attainable for the entry-level buyer (since C-Class got $$).  MB says they want a current A-Class owner to be a future buyer of their E, S, and G vehicles.  Who knows if it’ll work but…

Here’s my tale of buying a CPO 2013 Tesla Model S85 w/ 59K miles from Tesla back in December 2018 for just under $40K:

Good point, but the someone has to buy a new car and part with it in order for someone else to get a used car. My wife and I are self-made philanthropists (well, she’s a high-generating litigator too) and we’ve never owned a new car. It’s easy for us to say folks should be like us and buy used, but that’s…

The sad truth is that we as a society have gotten to accustomed to luxury, convenience, and developed a lack of curiosity into learning and doing things ourselves. In short, we’ve become far less resilient than previous generations and I don’t think it’s by mistake or individual laziness. Instead, there are so many…

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It’s not even the making a profit is good enough these days, but it’s about profit growth.  If you’re not sucking out the husk fast enough then the investors take their monies elsewhere to suck someplace else.

Haven’t heard about this at all but I would not tolerate this kind of behavior one bit.  I’d mount a cannon on my ship.  Seems so odd that harbor patrol or fellow boaters wouldn’t help if they just got their VHF radios or walkies...channel 16 should work.

It was refreshed around 2000 to look like the 1990's vision of what the future would look like rather than the 1950's vision. Personally, I love the old futuristic art deco look of the original “space race” concepts. 1990's vision was like modern-retro that produced such cars like the PT Cruiser, HHR, New Beetle,…

Meanwhile, my wife and I bought a used off-lease 2013 Fiat 500e for $7,300 out the door with 20K miles. The car now has about 95K miles on it and by my calculation, the car paid for itself in fuel and toll lane savings in less than 1.5 years. We spent $10K on a 4.8kW solar array and my wife had free charging at her…

I went with NP since I can see a practical purpose with a variety of scenarios with some points below:

Perhaps because it’s been on my mind lately, but I really love the C1 Corvette, along with late 50s-early 60s British roadsters.  Didn’t appreciate them in my childhood but love the look now.