Every time I’m shocked at how police can get away with killing a fellow human who was not an immediate threat, with the worst penalty being forced to go work at a different police office a few miles down the road.

Thanks for correcting me — I wish I could got ‘strikeout’ the text above, but edits never get registered here...

They *definitely* design cars. They can cover just the manufacturing of low(er) volume cars that a corp does not want to build internally, or they can assist with a design, or they can fully design a vehicle based on a set of requirements.

I pasted this a bit lower, but except for the leaf, I think most battery degradation is reasonable — I see values like ~10% range loss after 5-6 years and 150k miles. Here’s a Tesla chart from some EV website:

Compare the 2013 Model S to a 2013 MB or BMW sedan from 2013 — their tech is also going to look pretty obsolete today, they will not be getting any new software updates at the dealer, and if you have to replace a the most expensive part of it’s drivetrain it will also cost >>$10K.

The battery in the EV is part of the drivetrain. It’s like saying, “imagine if my 10-speed automatic transmission was trashed and I couldn’t go to Walmart and buy a replacement in an emergency”

Thanks for the suggestions — I’ll add them to my list. I wish I had known about Simmons earlier since I’ve been reading scifi since I was a kid, but I just found out about them from a coworker a couple years ago. Even more recently I decided that should be less cheap (lol) and pay for Audible occasionally to get good…

You have to pay the power company to install a higher capacity connection to the main line?

In a decade will my electric car be as obsolete as an iPhone 5?

Let me guess, highway range with off-road kit & roof rack: 110 miles?

Prigozhin’s net worth is estmated >$1B, he’s in control of a large mercenary army, and he’s got lots of enemies both inside and outside of Russia. It is very unlikely that he’d keep a “public” travel schedule that would allow various enemy agents to target him.

ah ha! I’m just (listening) to Hyperion for the first time — these days I got more spare time for audiobooks while driving than real books while at home.

RWD?! I might as well just park it in the ditch!

He threatened Putin with a coup, and has an international reputation as a brutal mercenary leader / terrorist. Lots of people and countries hate this guy. Why would he ever list himself by name on a passenger list?

It’s pretty hard to drive kids to school or take the guys at the office to lunch with the standard cab, and since most of these are used for commuting, you got to start at the 4-door. Also, no Real ‘Murican who drives a truck would buy 2WD because you’d have to be scared of losing traction in a little bit of rain or…

tripled in value

expensive car like a Tesla

Overall it’s impressively less tacky than many modern Rolls, except for the WTF triangle patterns... and this is just horrible:

Exactly lol, just needs a teal edition to match!

OK I’m really trolling here, but I couldn’t resist... “Shock Yellow”: