A model 3 in 2022 started at $47k. Now it’s $42k and qualifies for $7500 federal rebate. At $35k it absolutely competes directly with a camry hybrid. 

I live in Southern California and yeah, no shit.

I've made this comment elsewhere, but when you drive mostly in a rural area you can feel the range anxiety and definitely plan ahead. My town had one pump open until 6pm on weeknights, earlier on weekends. Next pump was probably 20 miles away and also not open that late. Always good to have a can of gas in a pinch. 

I had the pleasure of borrowing a vehicle capable of handling 350kW of charging for a week or so last year. On the flip side of this, I pulled up to a charging station with different chargers (EVGo), and even I, a person who knew about charging speeds and the vehicle I was is, found it impossible to identify the…

That Tesla situation is rare, though. In my northeast experience, all of the Tesla stations are almost always empty. Maybe 1 or 2 cars charging with 10-15 spots open.

I’m really surprised there hasn’t been proper EV stations yet with a convenience store attached + maybe a restaurant. If it were attached to a business they would be highly incentivized to keep the equipment working so people come in an buy snacks etc.

Saturation also fixes that issue, which is the same issue that used to show up where costco style lines for tesla chargers could be seen at the halfway points between SF and LA. 

I see them often too but you’re probably just seeing the same ones over and over again. According to the state’s Energy Commission on 3,392 Polestar 2s were registered in California in 2022. They don’t sell many.

“Unless something more is done, the region will continue to be bogged down by warehouses and choking exhaust.”

The Jones Act is terrible in so many ways. During the last(?) devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico (I’ve lost count, sadly) the US literally could not ship aid there because we did not have Jones Act compliant ships! Our own hostages people, and we could not even help them thanks to a terrible century old law that…

If the Jones Act was actually encouraging US shipbuilding (as it was intended to do), that would be great, but it isn’t. I suspect the carbon emissions are considerably higher than needed, too.

I think generic / lowest price batteries are still a problem. They may have lower quality cells (??) and almost certainly lower performing charging circuitry. Maybe they also drive the battery cells to higher charge levels to get that extra 1000mah on their Amazon advertizement. E-scooters are becoming a huge issue in…

Gandhi’s actual statement could reasonably be summarized as that, but it was more complex:

A real life “airborne toxic event”...

I believe it was Gandhi, no the Dalai Lama, no wait, Buddha who said that. Nobody said it. It’s an “inspirational quote” that can be attributed to nobody in particular, but probably close enough to something Descartes said or may have said. 

Both springback and crumpling problems are the result of faster work hardening in stainless steel relative to carbon steel. The crumple zone thing is just a math problem. You can certainly account for decreased plastic energy dissipation in the structural design. But if boy wonder already had a product launch before…

I mean, as cool as it sounds, Jalops who want a hot Prius + the engineers who want it probably only makes like 30 people.

Who is this information for? Certainly not prospective purchasers of a Maverick, given that they’re sold out for the foreseeable future. And I’m certainly not paying $5k or more over MSRP for a base-spec Maverick, which is what dealers seem to be fetching.

ctrl+f, $

ah well never mind