This would be true if they were actually making them narrower. Have you suddenly noticed an increase of room in the aisle? I don’t think so.

Seat widths simply aren’t changing.

The untold parts of this story -

First, you have to be qualified to fly the particular models of planes, which means, for example, to get that $302,000 at Sichuan Airlines, you have to be rated for an Airbus A330 with enough hours to qualify as a captain, not just a first officer. Generally that means that you’re well…

They found a new set of features to look for... that don’t happen to exist much outside of where they made their discovery.

Obviously. However, what you’re forgetting is that reserves are defined as what is known to be recoverable with profit within a window of the current market prices. As seen by oil, increasing prices can lead to new reserves, but new discoveries are actually very small compared to consumption - what is keeping reserves…

So where did the supply of spare parts for old American cars in Cuba come from? They’ve had NO support for decades and managed to keep those cars running.

Look at Cuba and then tell me that Nicaraguans can’t keep this thing running.

You do realize that the discovery in Tanzania is only enough to supply the world’s consumption for a scant 7 years, right?

True, electric cars aren’t perfectly clean - but much of the hype about the environmental impact of their manufacturing process is built upon very old practices - like the Sudbury nickel mine which is MUCH cleaner today than it was in the past - but the anti-EV crowd points at their past as evidence as what it is like…

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…

Manufacturing the batteries and cells is still better environmentally than most other methods of getting power.

The solar panels on my roof took a good amount of energy to manufacture. They’ve been up there just over a year and have produced more energy than it took to make them. Almost 24 years left on the warranty,…

They only replaced the batteries once - and that was simply because they didn’t get the design and operation right the first time.