Space flights are tightly regulated. Commercial Space Transportation | Federal Aviation Administration (faa.gov) .

Space launches are extremely tightly regulated. Commercial Space Transportation | Federal Aviation Administration (faa.gov) explains it pretty well. Commercial space launch vehicles have to go through extensive permit application and approval processes, design reviews, testing, etc., before they’re allowed to carry…

‘better’ depends on customers’ needs. Based on sales, Teslas appear to be ‘better’ for most EV buyers, at least within the constraint of what actual cars are manufactured and available for sale in various markets.

Gas cars are 40x more likely to burn than EVs, according to insurance companies - that means EVs are a lot safer. Are you arguing that gas car companies need to make their products less likely to burn?

Tesla can pull data from the car and learn a lot. Of course, there’s more they can learn from inspecting the physical car. Given that the car caught fire without an obvious cause, no collision, etc., wanting to see the car makes sense. But transporting a car that caught fire is tricky - most junkyards put cars that…

That’s the last paragraph in the article. The issue is that it takes time (usually years) to get a new factory location, build the factory, and ramp up production, so they’ll be missing out on the sales tax break, so people will keep using the leasing route for the interim. Leases are still new car sales, just to…

EV’s market share of automotive is expanding dramatically, and Tesla’s share of automotive is expanding dramatically. It’s true that as many more legacy car companies start making EVs that are competitive that Tesla will get less of a percentage of the EV market, but what matters is their share of the total automotive…

She benefitted from people loving her work. If you look at the Harry Potter Alliance, the leading HP fan group for 15 years, they were strongly committed to encouraging reading, and tolerance and inclusion, including gender equality, for many, many years, a part of why her books were so popular with young adult…

It’s not true that radars “couldn’t see” balloons, they were configured to ignore them because balloons are both incredibly common and very low military risk, so it’s a completely waste of money to attack them. There are about 2,000 weather balloons a day launched, they cost around $150, and they drift all over the…

Yes, I can see why the consultants who work for legacy automakers putting out a propaganda piece promoting their clients’ agenda, since they’ve been doing it for a few years now. But it’s embarrassing that Jalopnik would just promote it uncritically, given that this consultancy’s previous report, when parroted…

Except of course that he is wrong. If you have an EV, you pick a plan that’s discounted off-peak. PG&E specifically has a plan that’s 24 cents/kWh overnight.

EVs have been cheaper than gas cars, total cost of ownership, for several years now. That’s why fleet owners, who are numbers-driven, have been going electric as fast as they can. Typically EVs cost 10% more than equivalent gas cars, then cost half as much to fuel and maintain, saving far more than the slightly higher…

You really should switch to a plan that gives a discount for off-peak charging, like Making sense of the rates (pge.com) the EV2-A rate, 24 cents/kWh.

They picked the worst possible plan in order to fake up an argument that EVs are expensive. PG&E has an EV plan that’s 24 cents/kWh off-peak, specifically to make EV charging cheap, and that’s what you’d use if you had an EV and PG&E, not whatever insane plan he is on now.

The national average cost of electricity is about 15 cents/kWh. With PG&E, if you have an EV you’d want to use their EV rate plan, which is 24 cents/kWh off-peak, and of course you’d configure your EV to charge off-peak. At that rate the EV costs less than gas unless gas drops to under $2.14/gallon, and of course if…

Yep. And of course you don’t need to buy an EV charger, you can just plug into a standard 120v outlet and charge for daily driving, zero added cost.

It’s also pretty sketchy that they make up an imaginary ‘cost’ for driving to a high speed charger for EVs, but they don’t include the quite real savings of charging in…

This seems dubious, like they’re cherry picking to try to desired conclusion. For example, they count the distance to drive to get to a high speed charger as a ‘cost’ but they don’t count the ‘savings’ of charging 95% of the time in your own driveway, eliminating the vast majority of ‘trips to the gas station’.

It’s…

Except of course, that total lifetime cost of an EV is much lower than for a comparable gas car. About 10% more to purchase, on average, but then 75% lower cost per mile to drive, and 50% lower maintenance cost per year, on average. What that means is that your monthly car payment is a bit higher, but fuel and…

Perhaps watch the video, or at least read the article, before posting flaming nonsense. The youtuber was in the car, monitoring it and in control, drove slowly towards the kid, and the car stopped at a safe distance, and if it hadn’t the youtuber was ready to stop the car. The car was never “uncontrolled”, and the kid…

Right, two L2 chargers would basically be an extremely slow L3 charger. Given that you can run a vastly faster charge through a single L3 cable, there’s not much point in making charging more complex and expensive (plugging in two cables) just to be far worse than a single-cable L3 charger.

Plugging in multiple L3…