For a straight hybrid, there often are still benefits to them on the highway, compared to conventional powertrains.

You know, when I suggested the 2016 X5 40e to my wife, she said...”I’ll never plug in a car”. Now, after nearly 35,000 miles, half of which have been full electric...she is is a true hyper-miler. She plugs in even if she’s home for a half an hour. If I even attempt to drive the car outside of Eco mode, much less…

A neighbor down the street has a Clarity Plug-In with all his HOV stickers appropriately placed on the car. However it is always, and I mean always parked curb-side and I’ve never seen it plugged in.

You just wrote this to get a plug in for hybrids, didn’t you?

Speedtail LaLongtail.

You know, I hear this sort of complaint a lot, but I just don’t know that I buy it. Sure, pretty much every game or piece of software you buy has patches to install immediately. But I think software on the whole is much more reliable than it used to be. My computer is much more reliable than when I ran Windows 3.1 or…

Government spending is our income. Do you understand that mechanism? Any govt debt is money going into someone elses pocket. As a sovereign issuer of fiat money the govt is uniquely positioned to subsidize things that benefit wider society - like everything Bell Labs did 50-60 years ago. Like the internet, like…

We do have a universal EV charging standard. J1772/CCS is the standard US and European OEMs decided on ~10 years ago.

Do it. We got one - unless you need two independent vehicles that go 60+ miles on short notice (which is fine, this is a perfectly normal requirement for some people).

Marshknuclehead...

Tesla is made in America. Battery plant is in Nevada. That is about as good as it gets. Your typical car has components made all over the world, so I don’t know why electric cars would be any dirtier in manufacturing than any other car on the road.

The EPA settled with U.S. manufacturers of heavy-duty diesel truck engines in 1998, with a then record $1 billion dollar fine, for violating clean air standards.

The point is that the theif did not need the Rolex and had the option of not having a Rolex rather than stealing.

No.

No. This is such a stretch, its ridiculous.

No, because they had a choice to not use diesel engines; and when they did so, they also had a choice to spend an extra $300/car for urea injection. I mean, during the study that outed VW’s cheats, they were compared to a MUCH LARGER BMW X5 diesel which had very well controlled emissions. VW just straight up cheated…

I can drive about 400 miles with one ~45 minute stop in my i3.

Maybe because we’ve seen about 247 different iterations, we just can’t believe it might be real this time.... also, LED’s are still kind of a weird light for us humans.

So what? The government has decided to subsidize certain kinds of industry to incentivize its growth, accelerate technological development, establish market leadership, and create jobs. Lots of other businesses get the same kind of help for things that are a lot less radical in their effect. And yes, the government…

Why? Because he wants to bring an ide he suggested to life? You realize this “dickbag” is allowing other companies to use the trademarked Hyperloop name with no intention of stopping them. This dickbag opened up Tesla’s patents to other companies to further the advent of electric cars. There are so many unconventional…