And if you failed to do so, spend $15 on Amazon and get a seat heater pad that plugs into the cigarette lighter. Best thing I’ve bought for my car in years.

My 2014 Cruze can idle for 10 minutes and not have warmed up enough to move the temp needle. Thats with the cabin HVAC off. It makes so little waste heat driving that with the fan set as low as 25-50%, the temp gauge often goes backwards. A lot. It also averages above the EPA highway rating in my 60-70% city driving,…

The difference is mainly two things: Active heating and cooling of the battery, and how much of the battery is actually used. Most will run a heater or AC as needed to keep the battery within the designated temperature range.

The final design is probably cheaper to produce both left hand and right hand drive versions. Can’t think of any other reason to make the interior so bare and non-intuitive.

People also say that about the more affordably priced Volt, Bolt and Leaf. It’s less a Tesla feeling, and more an EV feeling.

This. If you’re going to buy what’s essentially an economy car(based on size), why spend so much? I’d buy the Volt or Bolt over the Model 3, even despite the fact the front of the Bolt is ugly as hell. The 3 is styled nice, but the interior is way too spartan, the no key thing is silly, and no gauges in front of the…

I would have to pass. I don’t want to be standing at the car door in the freezing cold, pulling a glove off so the touchscreen works, entering my passcode on my phone so I can turn on the bluetooth, making sure I’m logged into the the Tesla app, etc.

The point of a sprinkler system here wouldn’t be to put out that fire, it would be there to suppress the fire from spreading. That’s why most buildings have fire suppression systems, not fire extinguishing systems.

Have you worked at a pharma company? I have. You might be surprised...

The entitlement of the bikers in this video is astounding.

Uhh. This is how a lot of businesses work. Product changes are requested by marketing; engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain work out how to do that.

Most new cars don’t need regular greasing. Out of the 5 cars I have, one has two greased bushings and they were aftermarket.

79mph trains are near the upper end for the US. Only the Acela line between NY and DC is faster iirc.

I would argue the opposite. People know how to file taxes, and a network of professionals exists for those who can’t or don’t want to do so themselves.

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This. My operating cost for my 20mi commute is $3.44 a day or $0.17 per mile, including fuel, and all maintenance, insurance, and registration costs. Even If you include the monthly payment (which ends in 18 months), it’s $12.18 or $0.61 per mile.

MSRP caps would have been a good idea. If you can afford the payments on a Model S or Model X, you didn’t need the tax credit.

“program that either pays manufacturers to develop them or citizens to buy them” 

Yeah, but it only costs that much because of the manual hands-on conversion. GM could sell it for way less since they have the efficiency of the assembly line, but only if they chose to do so.

I thought I was covered for that with the under/uninsured rider on my Allstate policy. Guess what they did when I filed a claim for that... Denied!