I have no real evidence or studies for this opinion (so I probably shouldn’t state it), but my suspicion is that if there is higher customer satisfaction for Apple products, that it is a result of confirmation bias.

People think their Apple products are way better, so they report being more satisfied with them.

My…

Mini-SUVs/CUVs. Glorified and lifted FWD wagons that are 99% likely to never go off-road...and probably aren’t that capable when they do go onto rougher terrain. They’re playing off of buyers’ insecurities about safety and that a bigger vehicle = higher safety or needing a vehicle for northern snow when you really…

Enough with the touch screens!! Remember back in the 80’s, when car manufacturers threw tasteful design out the window to make room for digital LCD displays on everything, just because they could?

That’s simply not true. Especially for solar, where peak production generally lines up with peak usage, which also lines up with the highest real time price.

U paid for the hardware to produce that energy and u pay for it’s upkeep, and any energy u do not use goes to the utilities which now they do not need to produce. This means less wear on their equipment and less cost to them to produce energy they require to keep the grid running.

Honestly, I don’t think this has anything to do with completely shaking up the clean energy market. It’s more about finding an alternative avenue for sales of the batteries that Tesla already makes (sure these are bigger but I’m sure that’s worked into the profit analysis).

The market may not be huge - but it doesn’t…

you sir get it. i wish more people did. if you want to make the move for the sake of green consciousness, then fine, this or any other solution that is already out there (there are several) will do. But purely in terms of economics, the power density of even the most modern batteries relative to the scale most…

If this was Costco, that'd be an amazing deal...but we are talking about a company owned by Walmart.

If this was Costco, that'd be an amazing deal...but we are talking about a company owned by Walmart.

How did they get one of these off the track in Epcot?

s someone who has seen it and dealt with it from outside of the OEMS, this is what happens every day at all of the one’s I’ve dealt with (Including Non-NA OEMs). It is all about making yourself and your responsibility look good up the chain. Even the ones that don’t admit it...

Neutral: redesign the interior and get rid of the centered instrument layout.

You have to consider that at least $7500 of that depreciation is lost in the federal rebate. It’s not like used buyers are going to compare the used price to the new price before rebates. They will see that 35 - 7.5 is the actual cost of a new one. So depreciation really starts from that point. The buyers who buy a…

Are you sure the European numbers are computed using the same gallons?

I’d still be suspicious. What if the Russians discover a Russian-speaking minority on the other side of the station?

I didn’t understand what was the point of the train. Couldn’t they use the same power station to just heat up a building?

I JUST put solar panels on my roof (haven't even turned 'em on yet, waiting for the electric company to pull their thumb out.) For me, the cost was pretty much a wash. It was a $250 deposit to get the ball rolling. About 1/3rd of the cost of my setup will be covered by the Federal tax rebate. The remainder will be…

The latest dispatch from the Department Of Unintended Consequences comes from CMU's College of Engineering, which found that there could be a revenue loss of between $200 and $900 million by 2025 based on projected EV adoption rates.

So a loss of 1Billion in a scenario where we already spend $155billion a year on roads. And currently the gas tax only pays for half of that.
http://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/01/23/dri…

Financing roads through gasoline taxes was a good idea when gas was cheap and most people didn't care that much about fuel economy. Very 20th Century.

I'm not aware of a single state that collects enough in gas tax to cover the amount it spends on roads. Since money is fungible, by what rationale can it be said that gas taxes are robbed to pay for other programs?