Yeah, even just regen braking on heavy vehicles is lots to recover.

Challenge accepted: https://insideevs.com/news/734936/thor-harbinger-erev-rv/

Don’t forget about how the sound of buzzing generators compliments the sounds of the great outdoors!

It’s an outrage! there is nothing on earth that improves the great outdoors like the clouds of diesel exhaust pouring from a slow moving, stuck in traffic RV as it ponderously blocks traffic and slowly crawls ahead in an endless ant-column of vehicles all wanting to see the glory of our state and national park system.

We live in a nation of spoiled toddlers. Banality of evil indeed.

It’s hard fixing soil like that, but very satisfying once you get there. Seeing our first earthworms was a pretty exciting day. Good luck with your own situation. 

I have much the same situation. Completely flat property on a floodplain in what was once a very successful agricultural area before it turned into city, so I know the soil wasn’t always this bad. Previous owners put a plastic tarp over the whole front yard and covered it with three inches of lava rock. The back yard…

For this year, IBonds are a good idea.  Indexed to inflation, they’re going to have a near 10% return, zero risk, cashable only with the loss of 3 mo. interest. $10K max per year per IRS filer. 

I’m in California and had purchased a ‘92 F350 and a couple years later it needed to be smogged. In CA in order to sell a vehicle, the seller is required to obtain a smog cert prior to selling. It had one when I bought it, so the expectation was that all was well a couple of years later as I had changed nothing in the…

Step 1: Buy an EV.

So, was this article meant to be in “The Onion?”

Lets go 1 by 1 of how incredibly stupid and wrong this article is. ON EVERY SINGLE ONE.

Test with a hot car - this has absolutely nothing to do with that the article cites. It has to do with the catalytic converter being hot and functioning optimally.

The rest of it does too

This is directed specifically at you @americasstephenjohnson.

A hotter engine means more fuel is burning, so less gunk is coming out of the tailpipe.

I’m having a really really hard time thinking of an oil seal that alcohol being used as a fuel could cause an oil leak. Mainly since the fuel and oil systems never meet up.

Seriously wtf is this article? It has pretty much all useless info. Does this person know anything about cars at all? And which state hooks up cars to chassis dynos? And to check stability?  Lifehacker demand your money back and the f’ing articles before posting them  

Lower octane fuel burns faster and therefore more clean?  Too bad you don’t have any car experts at a sister publication to fact check your work.  This is shameful.

I feel like much of this needs citations. 

“Turn your check engine light off right before you get tested” will result in an instant fail anywhere that does OBD2 tests, which is... nearly anywhere that tests emissions.  Your car’s computer might not report any faults, but it will also report that it hasn’t fully tested your car, so they’ll flag it as failed or…