That’s the extra shady part of it, like I can kinda sorta, if I really stretch, find a justification if they never said the financing was approved, like just let you take it without saying anything. However if they say it’s approved, and take your trade, sell your trade, congratulate you and let you drive off the lot,…

The latter part is the only crucial part here, did he launch an unproducible concept as a “production” car?

Wow, a Hyundai dealer acting like total shitbags, who would have guessed?

That’s a detail of decentralized storage most people don’t understand. In an outage, my neighbors aren’t drawing from my solar panels because the whole grid is disconnected, so short of hucking an extension chord over the fence, we’re disconnected as well. Batteries can help reduce the un-green generation requirement…

I think that last part is the important difference, two incidents were caused by ATC, the people specifically in charge of making sure they don’t cause incidents, the winglet bonk was a couple of tug drivers with no sense of spatial awareness. Less damage occurred in the near misses, but they’re a symptom of a much,…

It’s going to be massive!

Have you looked t your usage? 500kw isn’t very much, especially if you have an EV to charge. Best case scenario the Leaf gets 3.3 miles per kwh, 55 miles/day in a Leaf would use every bit of his 500kw/month.

Holy shit, you’re right, WTF? No wonder nobody ever buys them

The mid tier work trucks are probably more in demand in multi color so they match corporate color schemes. Where as the high end buyer is likely planning to keep the truck for a long time, or counting on high resale value and will want to stick with a color they know they won’t get tired of or struggle to find a buyer…

Been there more times than I’d prefer and agree, it’s an easy city to walk, or would be if it weren’t so damn crowded.

That grill is just weird, there’s all sorts of shapes in this world, and they chose that one. Why?

Dear BMW, contrary to popular belief, there are still people with eyes in this world, please stop assaulting us.

Your comment makes entirely too much sense, stop that.

Started going down that road, but decided to hold off. Realistically if they’re in the 2s today they’ll be in the 2s in a few months and prices will have shifted. Hell, even new trucks are now being advertised at less than MSRP. 

As long as they have battery plants Tesla will remain a very valuable company, whether they remain independent or not remains to be seen. We always talk of Tesla like a car company, when in reality, they’re a battery company that also makes things those batteries can be used in. Their cars are okay as best, but their…

You want an uninhabitable world, or a mine-shaft in the middle of Nevada with some scary shit sealed in the bottom? You want an Armageddon today, or a problem we can slowly solve over the next few centuries?

You want electricity? I got electricity, so does everybody with solar on their house, and the desert is littered with stationary windmills just waiting for power demand. As long as any plant they build can meter it’s production based on availability of green power this is a perfectly reasonable way to make eco…

Interest rates certainly aren’t helping Carmax move that inventory at inflated prices either. I’ve been wanting a new/used truck, and could almost stomach the prices at a 1.9-2.9% rate, but Carmax is financing in the low 6s. The payments are just insane.

Airplanes are money pits, if you can’t afford a brand new 747, you probably can’t afford to operate one either, even if it’s free. If you could justify the operating cost, you’d have already ordered your own years ago, or did what the US did and cancelled the order, bought un-delivered planes for a discount then spent…

This is the issue, as weird as it is that you can’t take what is essentially the same airframe and swap some parts around, you indeed can’t, and nobody is even going to bother trying for likely another 10-20 years. The operators who have the cash to do a passenger interior conversion for commercial service have…