the standards for licenses in the US are an absolute joke.

I’m thinking a simple solar concentration would easily provide enough heat. Whether direct or via heating a separate thermal material.

I’d just like Northeast Senators to filibuster any aid relief until Cruz and Rand Paul resign

forgot dog sitter

They actually need a lot *more* storage than just what’s needed for the trip. You don’t want to be fully discharging/charging frequently.

Seems like really rare use case no?   It’s definitely something perfect for ‘software’ but how many people would actually have this scenario?

Well the horses Elon bribed them with should help out.

One thing that I see as new...is that the ‘upper tier’ market has grown enough that entire brands can forego even making ‘cheap new cars’.

Parents told me of a trip they took to a conference in the 60s or 70s

Yep. I just realized I was at probably 16 months on the last Honda Insight oil change...and the minder still hadn’t gone off yet.

Buffalo winters say hi

I still remember an early 80s boy scout trip and climbing into the trunk of Volvo 240 sedan to pack it. Damned cavernous. Also I was a wee bit smaller

Or more importantly, you generally weren’t going 200,000.  So a 3,500 odometer on a 7 yr old car was obviously 103,500!

I’d caveat that pandemic allowed significantly less use of vehicles so it was in some cases almost a literal pause.

EV’s are going to make it even longer. Less important stuff to break and the important stuff they do have is plug n play replaceable (almost).

Up front ask for separate checks.

“Given what we know today, there is no reason to panic or for most people to have any worries”

Downhill flow is equated by input pressure no?

I actually wonder if you could build a series of ram pumps to do something like this. The ‘waste’ from each pump would be collected routed to the lower pumps.

‘contingency plans’ reminds of The Who story