pshaw, they got nothing on SC. Moved to SC (from NY) back in the 90s. Went to get my car inspected to register.

Or as a friend from New Orleans calls it Missapissy.

Hilarious fact, when I stayed at an Air Force base in Tuscon, AZ, I learned that when choosing housing, they may get to choose a house with either natural (i.e. desert) landscape yard or a grass landscape.

Unfortunately scale needed just doesn’t make those viable. They will be useful for niche and edge cases though.

If Honda was intelligent they’d simply slap a battery in a Civic with 100 miles range. Absolutely would sell far better than most EVs.

The problem is we *have* to get off fossil fuels. The only palatable option in the US is EVs. We’d be farther along if we’d started this in the 80s but we didn’t.

Let me call up my 3 consultants, 2 UX engineers and this guy George from SpaceX and we’ll have a 3 hour ppt that could have been an email.

f’n kinja

Sorry, this always wins

4th Gear:

If Lucid ‘under produced’ demand they’d be *buying* cars

We have central heat but a wood fireplace as well. The one thing that helps is our fireplace room on main level is a vaulted ceiling open to the 2nd floor. So we turn the fan on high to blow ‘up’ and it moves the heated air through 2 full stories.   Basement though is ice box territory as it doesn’t get much from that.

Fuel air vents reduce this a fair bit. Especially with an enclosed insert and fuel vent, then basically zero inside air is being lost.

Yeah same. Maybe it’s actually some sort of air vacuum setup to ensure the brushes don’t mold up?

Definitely not mechanically inclined but I would always run the engine to empty (with stabilizer so even the drop left weren’t dangerous!) and drain the oil every year. Mostly b/c you’re told you should, and I’d rather do that then pay for engine work.

Hah. I rented my first ‘house’/TH back in the late 90s. One next to us was vacant but I could see a manual push mower left there.

about 4 years ago, I was prepping the mower for winter, and mid oil drain it fell of the bench splattering *everywhere*. Walked into the house and told my wife “that smell in the garage? is us going electric next year”

Or like my retired Aunt....the PHEV has never had gas in it.  lol   I think she filled it for the first time after 2 YEARS of ownership.

Only if the party spends major money against you. The DMCA/230 was written *by* the big media conglomerates for themselves.

Exactly. The problem is the gap between longer EV ownership and enough turnover for the used market.