Uh, sure, if someone were buying a million Starbucks coffees, I suppose. I don’t ask that everyone live like an ascetic monk, but at some point it gets, um, sinful?

Yes, by “scrap” I meant shavings that could be returned/melted down/etc. not thrown away.

Why should I have to pay for a data plan for my car when I have a perfectly good phone that runs a nav app that I’m used to, and can preload with directions/destinations from my home PC before I leave the house? And I don’t use Spotify or Apple Music, I use the Google ecosystem. Oh, and I forgot - Uck Feelon, I would…

You still have to buy it as a rectangular billet, though, I’d think.

Add to the others: No AndroidAuto/CarPlay.

A panel has a 3-dimensional shape. The customer wanted each panel milled from a single piece, so each billet has to have the maximum of each of the three dimensions of that panel. Most of which, of course, gets milled away into scrap.

I doubt they’d use pure Al, it would be some alloy like 7075. Which based on quick/possibly incorrect googling is about $13K per ton.

By milling them, they could possibly have milled stiffening ribs into the back side of the panels, instead of welding them onto stampings which could have discolored or distorted the aluminum.

What... an... asshole. Yeah it’s his money and he can do whatever he wants with it yadda yadda yadda... but do you know how many meals for the homeless all those cars’ worth of money could have bought?

Are there actually people who don’t know this? I guess so... I mean, just this morning I was behind some idiot at a traffic light, who was pulled up where they were supposed to be, but then tried to back up (with me behind them); I guess because they thought they shouldn’t be right at the line or something...?!

Thanks to the folks who described what the aluminum oxide/ozone issue is - but you’d think that the “author” of this “article” could maybe have bothered to write at least one sentence of their own about it, rather than just “here go follow this link to which I have added virtually no value except for some clickbait FUD…

Maybe it likes trains.

So he was physically using a phone, like, hand-held? WTF? Um, Teslas do have smartphone integration, at least for calls, don’t they? (I know they don’t have AndroidAuto/CarPlay which is totally st00pid...)

“Visually, the EV3 comes across as a mini EV9 both in the front and rear designs.” I’d say it comes across as a butchier, more digital-looking Soul. (Which is fine.)

It has to move it enough, fast enough, that it doesn’t just fall into another, possibly more eccentric/less stable, orbit around the earth. I don’t know how “small” that is...? If it were that simple, I’d think we’d be doing that with all the satellites, already?

Um, ‘cause that would not be a “small” booster. And that booster would then need to be launched along with the satellite, making it heavier and requiring even more fuel to launch it.

Just FWIW - Town of Huntington, NY still doesn’t let you pump your own.

I hate to say it (only cause Trump is the one who said it) but... I actually agree we should not have hard-and-fast EV mandates. What we should have is a carbon tax high enough to make burning carbon hurt (i.e. capture the currently un-captured economic effects), and an elimination of subsidies both for EVs and the…

2017 GTI center stack - I have the same in my ‘19 GLI and... yup. I’m even hesitant to get a new VW ‘cause of what they’ve done to the infotainment and interior controls.

ACABadDrivers?