Tesla was quoting the owner $16,000 for a repair on a $40,000 car, at that point what value does the warranty have?

These ships are run like condos. The captain/staff and perhaps a small group of owners would come up with a plan for navigation, operations, and maintenance. The owners generally have a vote in how the ship is run, although the extent of what is voted on can vary.

I think that anything more than battery packs and electrical interface in the trailer would be too expensive to implement, relative to the provided range increase.

Only in a linear pattern, however wheels are radial pattern. How could you get this so wrong when the article has so many pictures?

You can still buy a brand-new Rav4 with steelies and hubcaps. I think the steelies look great with the black plastic fenders and bumpers.

In a word: emissions. The additional features needed to bring diesel engine emissions anywhere close to gasoline engines are so expensive that the efficiency gains are only cost-effective for heavy duty vehicles.

To what extent is the crew responsible for the damage to the vessel, whether through negligence or malicious action? I haven’t seen any investigation findings related to this, so far.

Bio-diesel has slightly higher NOx emissions over diesel, and it doesn’t eliminate soot production. So, simply replacing diesel with bio-diesel won’t do much to help solve the air quality problem plaguing cities worldwide.

That’s not exactly true. When I moved away from my home state I never returned my tags, and then when I switched my insurance to my new state I was flagged as uninsured by my home state. They issued me a fine for $10/day over 3 months (~$950) that was canceled when I returned documents showing I had insurance coverage.

It’s an extremely important distinction, that these protesters do not have the support of mainstream German political leadership.

This might be the first time I’ve ever heard somebody say that Chick-fil-A is more expensive than Popeyes. Where I live its the opposite.

In my state, and I believe in most others, a learner’s permit is issued without a road test. The only requirements are a written test and the learner must then always be under supervision of a parent or guardian. So, most teens already hit the road without taking a road skills test, before they are issued a full…

The computer will run the engine for tune-up from time to time but this only uses about 1/10 of a gallon every 1000 miles or so. 10000 mpg sounds great to me!

This should only happen if you let it downshift and then back off the throttle causing the engine to lean out and dropping rpm. Show me a dyno curve on a modern car where power decreases as rpm increases. Even in the FR-S, with its famed torque dip, power stays more or less constant from 3200 to 4000 rpm and from…

Torque * Rotational Speed = Power. When people talk about torque being important, what they really mean is that the car’s ability to make power at lower engine RPM is important. Power is what actually makes the car accelerate.

There’s a 3rd option, which is “unwinding debt from the balance sheet during a period of sustained profitability to provide resiliency against an unexpected economic downturn”. Instead, American Airlines management thought they would never operate at a loss ever again, loaded up on debt, decreased cash reserves, and…

A typical 53' dry van trailer can carry 22.5 tons of material, so rail is more for when you need to move several hundred tons of stuff someplace.

Take a step back and think about how absurd your take is. All of the teams that are not based in Italy are effectively based in the UK, so unless the FIA is looking to repeat the farce of the 2005 USGP with six cars on the grid then any quarantines against Italy or the UK are going to cause races to be canceled. 

The world economy has become so dependent on Chinese supply chains that quarantining the entire nation would hurt us more than it would hurt them, economically speaking. On top of that, the authoritarian Chinese government can ride out economic fluctuations better than any elected western government.

Why is jeans pronounced “jEEns” and bean pronounced “bEEn” but Sean isn’t pronounced “sEEn”? Because English pronunciation is a mess and phonics don’t apply. I’m sticking with soft g.