I totally agree here - I think it’s a bit shortsighted by Tesla, owner of the only reliable and well-regarded charging network, to no longer be that.

Their “allowing” use of NACS, while good, isn’t out of the kindness of their hearts. It’s because there are massive subsidies for running a charger network in the inflation reduction act, and Tesla was going to get cut out if they kept their charger proprietary.

There’s a couple other factors working in their favour:

Back in the days of 2% financing and the stock market consistently going up, letting the dealer eat the opportunity cost is/was financially rational. Let them find the cash and lock in a relatively low return for it, and you got to keep your cash invested with a higher rate of return.

I just got a Tucson PHEV because the top trim level with all the fixings started $10k under the lowest-range Model Y (a range that wouldn’t quite be sufficient for a common trip in my family). Also in Canada we don’t have an equivalent of the IRA that really helps out EV pricing.

To steal someone else’s joke:

I love the elon fans trotting out that 2 million people put up $100 when they were promised a $40k truck with a 500-mile range. In 2019.  When no other trucks were on the market.

Every team that has ever had a cheaty part or strategy has changed the complexion, order, and events of a race. Teams pitted to cover them, teams strategized or sacrificed a teammate’s strategy to force the cheaty team to respond.

Where’s the rule for “if one team cheats, everyone loses their points”?

Worth mentioning that part of why he lost so many places in the pitstop was because this was the pitstop where he drove off with the fuel hose still attached.  Maybe he’d have scored 2 more points if Ferrari weren’t such screwups?

A normal 120V plug will usually be capped at 15A, which is why most toasters, hair dryers, etc are 1000W-1500W. The most you’re ever going to get out of a totally bog-standard plug will be 1.5-1.8kw, though I guess you can put slightly bigger breakers (30A?) on the circuit to go to 3.6kW.

Your daily 60 miles would only use 20 miles worth of gas. You’d one-third your gasoline usage. You’d plug it in with a bog-standard extension cord at night and it’d be full in the morning.

Well you can always pre-build a bunch of hot spares of a key satellite type, even if it takes months per bird. Keeping them and the rocket prepared for launch on short notice is the hard part.

The big NRO spy satellites are usually multi-year, multibillion dollar devices.  Probably the most expensive things that go to space.

Eh, the moron is really good at raising money.  So they’d probably be like one of many dead or nearly-dead EV startups.

This is true, but while we’re battery-limited, the 200kwh+ of batteries could’ve 2-4 normal-sized EVs and replaced 2-4 people’s commutes. Or like 20-30 PHEVs. GM likely could’ve made more revenue if not more profit selling those additional cars.

Huge rock haulers even have the advantage of if the rocks are going downhill, they get charged while hauling the rocks riding the regen brakes downhill, then can use that charge going back up.

Doubtful - you’d have to not get scammed, not lose your keys, not lose interest.

Don’t think it’s missing - you can see the flaps/spoilers are deployed on the rear of the wing which lets the camera see through the wing, but there’s still wing structure extending to the left visible in a couple frames.

Dan Olsen (Folding Ideas) on YouTube did a really good video about the scam of hiring a 3rd-world ghostwriter to do a trending book topic, with no regards to quality.  Obviously “hiring” an AI to do the same is even more profitable!