Neutral: If Ford Doesn’t Want To Make Electric Cars, What Should It Make?

Around here, most people default to 1-hour meetings scheduled on the hour and tailor their meeting content to fill that time. It makes it more difficult to pad appointments in this environment, but I often schedule half-hour blocks for myself earlier in the day if I need time to work or prepare for meetings.

From 5000k to 2700k is ‘slightly’ warmer?

From 5000k to 2700k is ‘slightly’ warmer?

I think LEED 4.0 has removed a lot of the loopholes present in the older versions. Their stated goal is to stay ahead of building codes, so that over time the ratings become more strict.

Actually to earn the extra point for a LEED AP you don’t even need them to inspect the project. You only need an AP on the “project team” (they can be in any number of different roles which may or may not involve site observation). There are so many APs out there that the point is typically a given on any project.

Around 4 years ago I figured my then 4-yr old laptop was on its way out so I built a budget desktop machine. AMD FX-6300, 8gb, gtx570 and ssd. All told it might have been a $500 build. Still plays modern games reasonably well, runs revit and navisworks perfectly. My wife and I occasionally do architectural engineering…

Yup same here. Shame, it keeps me from justifying a new laptop when my 8-year old MBP is still a perfectly serviceable machine.

I’m intrigued. From what I’ve read they seem fairly equal. However the barrier to entry may be lower in LEED’s rating system. Where I live, the minimum standard for all government buildings is currently LEED Gold, which is two steps above the minimum certification level, which is our way of making it more strict, I…

...But it has an option to buy it now for $28,900...

I prefer cost per mile, as it is a better and more intuitive indicator (to me) of the cost of the vehicle. I remember that cost every time I drive anywhere I didn’t need to.

They are those things you put on your water bill because the damn water department can’t be bothered to create an online payment system.

I mean, BREEAM is older but in the west everyone goes for LEED certification.

The best brevity is in aviation weather reports. Here’s today’s for my area:

They for sure have side and rear lightbars.

In my ‘13 DSG I drive about 90% highway and make 39 MPG real-world. I’ve done some road trips where we hit 42 but its quite difficult to hit the EPA numbers with the automatic Jetta in my experience. Far from the “you’ll be getting over 50 on the regs” spiel the dealers used to give.

MPG is such a backwards measurement as it is; we are quantifying fuel consumption per unit distance (what we really want to know) with a unit showing distance per unit of fuel. The standard measurement of L/100km is a much better measure and we should use that. That way, differences could be quantified logically.

That poor guy in the white Corolla is going to think of this every time he wants Panera now.

Everyone should just use LEDs from now on. The technology is sufficiently mature to replace (and outperform) all the old tech today, including HID.

And I can’t even get the local dealer to re-lamp my Jetta correctly. They literally installed the headlamp crooked (you can see it inside the housing), then basically called me a liar when I said the beam pattern is all wrong.

Yes, the classic 900s were a different transmission. The engine was mounted longitudinally with the transmission being chain driven from the front, and all the belts conveniently located at the firewall where there is approximately 2 inches of space to get to them...