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It was every 2 years until very recently. Tesla Service charges $24 for a brake fluid test. It only gets expensive if they flush and replace the brake fluid. That's a few hundred. Never done that yet, even after 266k. They overcharge for rotation and balance (and replacement tyres), and.also...

Mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere because it doesn't have a magnetic field, as its iron core is solid. Solar wind blasts the atmosphere into space. If you somehow put a new earth-like atmosphere there, it'd last hundreds of thousanss of years, possibly millions, before it's eventually...

Firstly, never lease an EV. They last way longer than you're led to believe, so you're better off owning it, and you can avoid being extorted on lease fees and the higher interest rate, and your finance company won't let you use a car on a novated lease for uber. Secondly, why upgrade? I'm in...

Also road trips tend to occur on days when industrial power consumption is far lower than usual. Sure, your mega consumers run 24x7 but many of the mid tier consumers have most or all of their workers on holiday.

The charging network operators all suggest 100%, despite it being impossible to control where the electrons come from in almost every current use case. Well, maybe excluding those NRMA ones in the outback if someone siphoned out the fuel in the generator...

Perhaps the relevant staff were already offered positions at BP, but one company or the other wasn't ready to make the public announcement yet & thus put the re-hired staff under NDAs? And besides, you don't want staff who dislike BP from having access to corporate IT systems where they could do...

Yes, it's a detour. But sometimes you just have to get those spare jumpers and socks from the K-mart there after you've passed Southern Highlands weather, but before you've reached Snowys weather. Exeter(*) is a good spot. If it's busy, check the Evie app and see if there's a spare stall at the...

Aah cool. I was one of the temps in Project Outlook over at Lumley House. Good times. Trying to make sense of a messy membership database in the very same year as insurance was migrating from BONUS to Huon.

It has to be said...

Don't forget that with DC rapid charging (including supercharging), the car that decides how much power it can take, and the charger will supply whatever it can (up to that limit). When the car and the DCFC/Supercharger work out that they trust each other, the car opens circuit breakers from the...

Does anyone remember "Beyond Petroleum"?

It'll be fine. One of the beautiful features Starlink could potentially provide here is multicasting. The available bandwidth could send software updates and roadside wildlife GPS reports to all cars in a specific footprint. Just keep multicasting it until every car has a full copy. Or close...

Wardenclyffe Tower?

The with abuzz air energy?