Which from what I read, required 3 warnings before grounding. This had 2. So, procedures were followed, but weren’t up to snuff.

Now don’t get me wrong, I LIKE this wagon.

Although the take I had a week ago was that heavy = needs more energy to get from point A to point B and had a ton of people that didn’t take a 400 level class in Road Vehicle Dynamics try to prove me wrong.

Something to watch for on this is hindsight. At the time, nobody was looking for the door plug being loose. It had never happened before. Now people are going back into what data they did have to see if they could have spotted it. In the future, they will look at this data to watch for this.

I’m not sure, but I would assume that miles driven follows a bell curve. People on the extremes of very low and very high mileage aren’t good for EVs. EVs are getting to the point where they make sense for more and more people in the center of the curve. Maybe from the 40th to 60th percentiles.

Yeap.  I have at least a decade of having 1-2% below inflation raises on a good year.  What I could buy 10 years ago and what I can buy today is dramatically different.

Yes, but changing the method of shifting without considering the human factors, particularly since we have an aging population of drivers that are used to the old shifters...

Which leads to one of the unlisted, extremely green options. Drive what you got. My current car gets 22 mph the way I drive it. Which sucks when a hybrid version of it built in 2024 gets 44+. However, the energy to scrap my car and make a new one is more than the energy saved for at least a decade. So, as long as my…

Yes and no. I agree that a Prius Prime is a great option, but given that a Prius Prime is more expensive than a similar sized EV (Bolt EUV or example) AND doesn’t get the $7500 rebate (it could if made in America), it might not be the most green option for the same amount of green.

Telsa’s price cuts have brought EVs into the realm where the are merely stupidly priced instead of plaid priced. At the same time, inflation has been driving normal cars towards Plaid Pricing.

Right now, I think the Camry Hybrid makes more sense than the Prius, but ironically, I like the Prius better because it looks so much better.

It’s a math problem and YMMV.

Having a PLAN is the first step. I can’t reach my headrest. I’m older and less spry than you. However, I can reach the passenger head-rest. If I drove in an area with more lakes, I would consider a hammer in the car, but I would want to make sure it was easy to find and wouldn’t just end up under the seat with the old…

Yeah, but remember two facts:

Yeah, but, most EVs have a $7500 tax thing that can be applied when you purchase it.

I think Benz is in a different place. Nobody that is shopping for a $80k Benz is going to cross shop a $12k BYO. But someone looking at a $20k Chevy, Kia, Honda, etc. might.

First gear. We already beat this story to death a couple days ago, but here is a new take from me.

Reverse. You must have had a sheltered childhood. We were chuckling about Uranus in 4th grade. And I went to a small private Baptist elementary where we got soap put in our mouths for saying damn.

If it has a lever, there is a plastic trim piece near the shifter that pops out. You pop it out, use something pointy and push down and this allows the gearshifter to be moved without power. Had to do it a couple times on other cars.

Some of those props flew pretty high. One of dad’s stories was a B377 flight across country. It cruised at 25,000 feet and 300 mph.