Last I checked, aluminum wire is also approved for use in buildings, and 3rd party tested by testing labs like UL.

You don’t think 0-60 mph in 4.2 seconds is fun?

Shrug. If the EV has pretty strong braking regen, then the driving experience is actually pretty similar to a manual, except for the whole choosing your own gears and doing the clutch pedal thing.

Same here. Grand Rapids is decidedly not close by to me, but I was trying to rationalize buying it, doing a 90s road trip with my wife and taking it to Radwood...

Just FYI:

Depends on the motor, but yes. The higher gears will theoretically give higher speeds, but of course, the power systems (motor, controller and battery) are going to need to be able to deliver the power and torque to overcome the friction found at those higher speeds.

They probably did it because its the easiest way to convert a car to electric and change as little as possible about the donor car. All you have to do is build an adapter plate between the transmission bell housing and the electric motor, then throw in all the controller/charger/wiring spaghetti under the hood with…

and you have to plug the fucker in like it’s the family iPad.

Thanks for the update! I’m in Oregon, have a bro-in-law with a diesel dually and a tow dolly, and family in the Bay Area. Was considering helping, but its not easy from where I am. Benbow is at least 8 hours from me, plus another 4 to SF from there, plus another 9 hours back home.

I love that sense of discovery when you dive into a brand you’re not familiar with. Its like learning a new but similar language.

Ug, this is so defeatist.

Oh god, yes.

See, if you had been thinking, you would have led with some other random topic but left the Kinja post autogeneration screen up in the background for people to sleuth out and “discover”.

Actually, pretty much everything else on the planet is closer to Oregon than the Maldives. 

Once you were in Kuala Lumpur, you should have just kept heading east to get home! (Probably would have required flying a different airline though...)

Yeah. What adds to this on the Tesla is that it has an electrically operated rear hatch, so it opens itself, and does the soft-close thing as well. So, you pull the hatch down to the latch (or have it close itself), it grabs the hatch and then cinches it down tight. So, if you adjust one of the pads up to where it…

This is what competition is. You *compete* for customers, either in price, or service quality or both.

Shrug. I do a lot of flying, and sometimes I can get the time/cost formula to weigh out ok by driving to PDX. But most of the time, its just easier to use the local airport which is tiny, and 20 minutes from my house. The parking is way cheaper too.

Took a travel deal package that left out of SFO. The SEA option was way more expensive, more than our airfare between Oregon and SFO.

Meh. You’re going from one side of the globe to another. That’s a journey that’s going to take time, no matter how you slice it.