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Is there an option to have "dumb" cruise control? I really don't like the way my Model 3 drives with TACC -- the random braking is really annoying.
Opening day at Century City (LA) http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetbrent/8618086050 http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetbrent/8616979783
A couple of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetbrent/sets/72157632654160808/
I just walked by a new store going in at the Westfield Century City Shopping Center, said to open Spring 2013. I'll try to get some shots later....
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/11/electric-car-company-tesla-posts-big-loss.html
NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/10/27/27gigaom-tesla-to-open-model-s-factory-76150.html?ref=technology
Active E coming to four U.S. regions next year: http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/bmw-activee-electric-car-headed-for-u-s-trial/?hpw
There must be some good ideas floating around the head of some smart engineer out there: 1) Design charge stations to interface better with the...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/opinion/26friedman.html?_r=1&hp
And then the NY Times comes out with this: I'm not sure what Wilcke means by "flat."
Aren't the reports making the same claim? That is, they both seem to be saying that the greeness of electric cars depends largely on how the...
I seem remember that cyclists use 80 percent of their energy to move through the air at 20 mph, and 90 percent at 30 mph. But I think you're...
Yes, this may be my mistake. I think bolosky said something about food production emitting roughly 4 times more carbon than electrical production,...
Thanks for the link. They're going to be in L.A. about a three minute walk from where I work. I've signed up for a drive.
I've just had a rather unsuccessful try at semi-defending bolosky's numbers on a discussion over here:...
Is there any info on the installation cost per Level 3 charging terminal (exclusive of any real estate costs)? I see that the federal governing is...
Tom Vanderbilt, author of "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do," has an interesting take on the word accident, which figures in its usual sense in...
I'm a frequent pedestrian and cyclist -- this kind of driving makes my blood boil.
It's a good article, but I wish the writer could have avoided this phrase: Huh? Kind of a blanket statement there...
Keep in mind that cooktops, like almost any technical device, vary in price by quality and functionality. Induction cooktops have significant...
[Scratches head] From what I can see at the link -- and trying to compare apples-to-apples -- you've got 1) Induction : $1,610 2) Electric :...
I believe this number used to be 100 to 1. That's it's now 10 to 1 may be largely a function of the difficulty of finding new crude sources -- we...
Joe Romm has also taken up the defense of the scientists. If anything, the emails seem to show that scientists are reaching their conclusions with...
Volt in NY Times The NY Times has some nice things to say about a preproduction Volt.
Wikipedia puts the efficiency of the human body at 18-26 percent, which seems to be about the efficiency of an ICE. Maybe we need to be...
A couple of more issues to consider: 1) A driver consumes calories at a higher rate than, say, a couch potato. The 190-pound driver might go...
Right. How do you solve a problem like Oprah? This is where I trot out the fuzzy math and unsolved problems of why we gain or lose weight and...
I thought this satire was funny:...
I asked this question on Joe Romm's Climate Progress blog. The only reply I got indicated that refineries are net producers of electricity, as...
Good find!
Yeah, what Doug said. For what it's worth, bike racers eat huge quantities of food,* with their evening race meals containing on the order of...
"The Tesla is Here." I was in San Francisco this past weekend for a visit. As I was checking out of my hotel, I overheard another guest say "The...
Tesla Motors - Leadership It seems TM has yet to receive any money from the DOE. In other news, the company has delivered 700 Roadsters.
I think the only extra noise I could countenance on electrics would be some kind of gentle beep upon startup or at low speeds, similar to that...
I'm not impressed with this segment of the show. The track is lame, a cartoon, along the lines of a fairground go-kart course. For that matter,...
I agree with you, but would point out that the general sound level on a golf course is usually much less than in a city.
The article doesn't contain anything on Tesla losing friends. It's a misleading headline.
I read these kinds of sentiments too often ... and wish the authors would be forced to take a two hour bicycle spin on some busy road in their...
I was getting all excited by the appearance of the phrase "Fuel Cell" on this form, and then thought it couldn't possibly mean that...
I think the recent NY Times and Washington Post editorials calling HSR a waste must be from people who've never really experienced trains. We...
I found interesting this comparison between Dutch and American road safety provisions during the last thirty years. Using a different road design...
Funny. But I would rather wish that the drivers who aren't alert enough to drive safely were removed from the gene pool ... like the ones against...
Good point! You won't see me on a bicycle after dark. You aside, however, there are too many aggressive daytime drivers up on the popular routes...
I stopped riding my bicycle through those things after being freaked out by guys like Leno and you! :eek:
Isn't that article from 1997? I might imagine that the twelve years since then have brought more refinements in measurements.
I wonder if that USA-sized crop area statistic factors in the theoretical efficiencies of algae-based biofuel production, which is said to...
A not-very-revealing, but still new, article on EEStor: The Oil Drum | Who Killed the Electric Gas Tank?
Scholarly paper on the transition to LED lighting: The Transition to LED Lighting
Here's an intriguing response I picked up from the Climate Progress blog when I posed the same question: My WorldChanging “Attention Grant” —...
It really eviscerates the long tailpipe argument, which was my hope all along...