From what I’ve seen, the EV station would be cheaper. The CNG filling stations generally require 240V, so you’re looking at the same wiring costs, but the CNG also requires natural gas work, something the EV doesn’t. The general equipment price seems to be much more expensive for CNG, too.

From what I see, a level 2 EV…

You can get a refilling station to put in your home for CNG if you have natural gas service to your home already. They aren’t cheap or fast, though - they’re generally comparable for refueling rate to a 120V electric charger for an EV.

As for public stations, there are actually 942 public CNG filling stations across…

Of course, those large ships and trains actually have significantly lower emissions per freight ton-mile than trucks do. It’s just concentrated in a single point source.

Actually, it is one of the largest components of your household carbon footprint. According to EPA data, for a family of four with two vehicles in my area, the average total annual CO2 emissions is 57,838 pounds, of which 20,968 pounds are from the cars.

Simply by driving less than average (~7000 miles per year per…

I’ve still got a landline, too. While ubiquitous cell phones have certainly squashed the landline market, part of the problem there was the also the inability of traditional phone companies to see the market changing and adapt. The baby bell in our area is still trying to charge $32 per month for basic landline phone…

Getting the pattern is EASY.

Liability is the really stumbling block there....

Of course, people are irrational, too - most people I know don’t actually consider the total per-mile or per-trip cost of the car they have. Until they understand that, they won’t reach a logical conclusion with the cost comparison to a cut-price robo-driven Uber.

Same thing happens when my coworker goes out and buys…

“In either case, though, Christian told me Tesla replaced the drive units free of charge with 24 hours, so he didn’t lose any money while waiting for repairs to his source of income—something he said was a big issue with his previous car.”

24 hours? That would be unacceptably slow in New York City...

If you watch the videos on this story, it is pretty obviously an eyesore. I can understand the neighbors not liking it one bit - and if the trailer owner was a respectable fellow, he would have consulted his neighbors to see if they could find an amenable approach to the whole issue before just saying “screw you, I’ll…

To the company. The service model Tesla has currently is much more expensive to Tesla than the model that BMW has is to BMW, Mercedes to Mercedes, etc.

That has to get baked into the cost of the car if the company is going to survive. If, say, absent service/warranty costs, a model 3 costs $34,000 to build and deliver…

As I’ve said before, I think how Tesla is marketing this is reckless. It isn’t autopilot, it’s a driver assist feature. That can make people too blase about what they should be doing.

In this case, I don’t have a clue what the driver was or wasn’t doing. However, they did say they were going 60 on a stretch of road…

Call me odd, but I love how they’ve used some of these to make class B motorhomes - I’ve even seen a few that slept 4 and still had a kitchenette, bathroom, and “living room” on board - things were IKEA like transformers.

Centuries of inexpensive oil reserves? On what planet?

The entire world has about 1.5 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves. The world uses about 96 million barrels of oil per day. That’s ~40 years of proven reserves at current consumption rates.

Now, you do have to consider that proven reserves are based on what is…

Even if you get electricity from petroleum, industrial scale power plants are much more efficient and cleaner than IC engines, and there is a significant efficiency boost overall using petroleum to create electricity for EVs than just using it in your gas tank.

We’re much closer than you think. Teslas are pushing 300 miles in range, and many manufacturers are now stepping up to meet them at the plate for that sort of range. IMO, when you’re up to 4-5 hours of driving, you’re probably looking for a rest stop anyway. At least I am. Maybe I’m just old and crotchety and have a…

Separated at birth?

“This diversification is something that a car company, or at least a company that started in cars, has never really done.”

Oh, good lord. This Tesla love is absolutely absurd.

Ford Motor Company started with cars. Did you ever notice a striking similarity between the Ford logo and the Carrier HVAC logo? Not exactly a…

It may not save on plastic during construction, but it may save on energy use (agave fibers being lower energy consumption than making glass fiber). And then after that, if the components are 15% lighter, that’s saving on gas, which “doesn’t support the oil industry”.

I can easily get in and out of the PO in just 2-3 minutes.

Unless someone else is using the automated kiosk - for some reason the average intelligence of people using that in front of me in line is abysmally low. It’s like they’ve never used an ATM before.

2nd:

If the car can tell how long you’ve had your hands off the wheel, then it would be pretty straightforward for Nissan to program it such that if it sees this behavior repeatedly from a driver, it could simply disable itself for some period of time. Pretty easy ways to give the company cover from inattentive…