Recent content by SByer

Lloyd, I'm afraid I need you to qualify that more. The first PDF doesn't specify anything about the percentage of road work that is funded by gas taxes, and the second implies that the recent changes are quite insignificant. The recent changes by the board of equalization might boost the...

Gas taxes are extremely low historically and don't even make up for the upstream subsidies given to the oil industry. In California, gas taxes cover less than 1/3 of needed ongoing road maintenance, and none of needed new construction. The rest comes from the general fund. And, as for use the...

Indeed - though I don't know of any that have GLONASS yet. But there are differences among the devices in terms of how well they keep a lock. A Nexus 7 is the best of the ones I've tried (as good as the Garmin 500/800 cycling units, not quite as good as the new 510/810), a Nexus 4 is better than...

I'd much rather have chademo through an adapter, as the standard signals on the CANbus, and knowing an adapter is in there providing a firewall for potential viruses is a happy thought. I shudder at the thought of chademo native car letting the charging station talk directly on it's own bus...

I practice what I call asymmetric hypermiling. Using the friction brakes is a last resort, but I'll use the go pedal all the way, every day, any chance I get. Though I still have yet to have the mythical friction-brake-less commute.

Neroden, please follow up when you get the car, I want to know.

Given how biased most media is against change, and especially the change that EVs represent, take it as a win and move on. The number of times I've seen 'articles' which were basically derived from press releases still get things wrong, this article is amazingly 'together'.

If you oversize the wiring in the extension cord the voltage drop is minimal. With 10-30, the key is to know if the source is really two-phase or just two-phases of three-phase (the voltages will be different - in the latter case, an extension cord could drop the voltage into a zone the car...

Coming back after a few months off (because my previous habits weren't going to scale with the influx of Model S folks), the new landing page is indeed less overwhelming. Much less so.

Range anxiety is an affliction of the gas-powered neophytes who haven't owned a 'real' EV for at least a week or two. The problem of the charge shuffle at work is the number of not-quite-EVs (PiP, I'm looking at you!) that have waaaaaay small batteries. (And I'd say something about other...

Wow, I saw Forbes, and.. well, I assume we all thought the same thing. Nicely done. Nice bit about the SF-south commute (I got to work this morning at 9:30 and almost all the charging spots at my building were filled - I didn't 'need' to, of course, but, well, free juice...).

People still have twitter accounts? What year is this again? ;-)

Wow, people still use wax on their cars? Is there a summary page of this somewhere? I think would be ideal to add to the wiki somewhere. I've been using Zaino, but find it takes me at least 3 coats to get the gloss somewhere reasonable. I can only manage the time once a year.

That's clearly not TOU, and, what, Tier 5? I bet there are some easy negawatt pickings there. Yes, without going solar or TOU, an EV might not make strict financial sense. But then, you're also not factoring that the Prius is kinda icky to drive, while the Model S, is, well... so, so not.

I've avoided speaking up because, well, I do know ASCII is a super sucky low bandwidth information transfer, and I like to assume best intentions. And, frankly, I waited only 2.5 years for my car, and some Model S folks have now been waiting longer. But there is an incredible sense of...