Of course it doesn’t. While some people have been talking about massive savings, it is readily apparent to those who paid attention to the specifications and costs that these simply won’t come close to paying for themselves, and that there are much cheaper alternatives for backup power.

Heck, for a price premium of…

Good grief. They didn’t lose $45 million. They lost $154.2 million. You shouldn’t support their use of voodoo non-GAAP accounting in order to claim that their losses are much lower than they actually are.

Red vinyl but no red velvet seats? So sad... :(

You would think. But the industry isn’t exactly rational.

When they first started talking about imposing the increased mpg requirement, the manufacturers screamed bloody murder, saying it would kill their pricing and the industry and they should let market forces rule instead. Then, barely two years after the…

The solar panels don’t mean you have to tow the same trailer. You can have them connect to the cab just like you currently connect lights on the trailer to the cab. A simple MC4 connector would make the job easy and quick.

I disagree on this one. With any vehicle if you want to get high mpg, you need to learn its quirks. These are no different. The quirk here is that if you mash the accelerator, the turbo kicks in. However, on most, I’ve found if you ease into the gas, you can bring the rpms up without the turbo engaging, then you can…

That’s exactly what I thought at first - but now I’m not so sure the shadows aren’t playing tricks on us - and that we might be looking at the drivers side - if you look at the rear door opening, the upper half looks like a depression for the door to fit into, but the bottom half looks raised, like what you’d see from…

Several parts of the profile (such as the bumper cutline, and general shape of the c-pillar) are right, but the rear doors look far too short. When I first posted, I thought this was the passenger side, but perhaps it is the driver’s side? The passenger side would have a fuel door cutout, which is what led me to…

I can’t place this car part, but it certainly isn’t for anything made at Ford’s Chicago plant.

I was about to point out the Blackwood when I saw the Mark LT here. Ford sold 36,187 Mark LTs in the US over its 4 model years. That’s a higher average monthly sales rate than the MKS or MKT is at currently.

By comparison, only 3,356 Blackwoods were ever sold. I completely geeked out one day in the car when I spotted…

Probably won’t happen. When Ford was designing the 96 Taurus, they found a door mounted mirror design that beat the pillar mount ones for fuel economy, but more importantly at the time, for noise - there was a *dramatic* difference in noise level, with the door mounted ones being as quiet as not having a mirror at all.

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That sounds similar to the current Ohio setup that I have. We get credits for surplus which we can use in later months, but if you continually produce long term (annual) surplus, they reimburse at a rate much below the normal per kwh rate - meaning you never want to buy a system that goes over 100% of your…

This might not be a bad deal, depending on what dealer discounts end up being. You could already get the current model for $22,633 after federal credits (and no state credits) through truecar. So if the dealer discounts aren’t as steep, the net price could still be higher on the new model.

So while I would never jump into anything without heavy research, there are some bits that look very nice on the surface. First and foremost, it appears that they’re willing to purchase all the power you generate for 12 cents per kWh. If they’d be willing to write that into a contract, you could be in decent shape.…

Check with your local power utility to see if they offer net metering. Tennessee is one of only 4 states in the country without state-mandated agreements, though federal law does require them to offer you net metering. The quality of the agreement, however, is going to vary since the state doesn’t have a mandated…

Power doesn’t have to be terribly expensive for solar to pay off. Around here it costs us about $0.11 per kWh (weighted average over the year, higher rates in summer, lower in winter). My system should give us a tax-free return of about 6% per year. That’s not too shabby.

Big problem with this pre-owned program: While most certified programs will provide a warranty that the powertrain will work properly for a fairly long period of time, extended from the original warranty, all Tesla is guaranteeing here on the battery is the same thing they guarantee in the factory warranty. No…

Someone needs to check their math. If you had two of these, fully charged, the best you could ever possibly hope for would be to shift 20 kWh per day from peak to non-peak times. That’s assuming 100% discharge and no degradation. 20*365 = 7300 kWh per year shifted.

So to save $8000 per year, the peak prices would have…

To me, its a bit of a question of whether you want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat or a mace. Neither is pleasant. :)

Still ugly.