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I've got a GMAC kit from ebikes.ca, highly recommended. The integrated torque arm, 10mm axle and cassette freehub are important improvements to traditional hub motor and you really can't beat the power/weight of the MAC motors. Grin Tech has lots of cool motor options. Great company to do...

Can't move over seas to avoid a VAT unless you just decide to stop marketing your products in a country that has one and many countries already do. In fact, corporation won't pay the VAT. Consumers will, it just gets passed right along. The more they spend, the more they pay. The higher...

The other dumb thing about pilot programs is that they don't answer the harder question(s) about UBI. We just get an answer to the question "do people who don't have money need money?" Of course the answer is yes, they do. What nobody really knows, and what should be "studied" is: -How do we...

I agree that "pilot" programs should not be called UBI. Outcomes will not be the same as they would if the recipient(s) know that they will receive the payments in perpetuity. Instead of being able to plan to move it a LCOL area or start a business based on the continuous support, you basically...

Water water everywhere, not a drop to drink.

There's also this one. A few people I've sent that link to claimed it wouldn't open for them. It's the "AmpereNext 30kW DC MPPT" charger. I emailed them and was given a quote of "around $10k" It would be perfect for me because I do maintenance on utility scale solar plants and I drive a Ford...

Even the mobile connector will do 7.6kW (~30 MPH) at 240V. That is as much as some bigger EVSE like my Clipper HCS-40. You don't need to install a 14-50 though. Just get a 6-50 and the appropriate adapter from Tesla. Saves you having to buy however many feet of white 6awg THHN that won't ever...

Somebody tagged a bunch of cars in my shop parking lot about 10 years ago. The body shop guy up the hill just buffed it right off in about 5 minutes. No solvents or anything like that required.

negative externality, in economics, the imposition of a cost on a party as an indirect effect of the actions of another party. Negative externalities arise when one party, such as a business, makes another party worse off, yet does not bear the costs from doing so. See: CO2

Seems like they have enough thermal processes at that plant to make use of that heat. More heat is the last thing Austin needs.

My car hole is full of bikes and scooters.

I sure wish Tesla would count potholes, manhole covers and speed humps as "static objects" to be avoided. There is a brief circuit of 6 manhole covers on my work-home route. They're easy to avoid and it's amusing to watch every other car around me bash right into them but when my own car does...

Why don't you just put them back up once the new roof is on?

My kids (8 & 10) have gotten into fights about who "gets to" sit in the back row. They love it. So glad I got the 7 seater. We use it all the time.

Stop the steal?

How does buying Bitcoin help someone pay their bills? They don't have the money to pay the bill. That's the problem. Some people have literally no money. And if they do have a job & income then their job gets automated away, they stop having money. How are these people going to buy Bitcoin? And...

I feel the same way about sunroofs on cars.

I think maybe the reference was to regular solar modules. Flat roof usually just gets a ballasted system. No penetration required. I guess Tesla doesn't want to mess with concrete bricks.

The actionable solution is...teach grandma about crypto?

So the one that was supposed to pick up the sweater tried to hand it on the peg in the meeting room but obviously missed and just dropped it on the floor. Then just stood there for like 30 seconds until the gal asked to have the cup picked up. And the one wiping up the puddle of soy sauce or...

I can not understand why anyone would buy a Vinfast.

Yang called his UBI a "freedom dividend". The idea that, as citizens, we should all benefit from the productivity of our economy. He often said, paraphrasing, "it's not socialism, it's capitalism where income doesn't start at zero" In other words you're free to earn as much as you wish on top of...

Would and will.

It's diesel.

"We have prototype one and two being assembled in our factory. 6 passengers plus a pilot. To get the prototype off the ground it still needs a bunch of motors and our batteries. First assembly trail of the full pack was completed last week. There a few bugs to fix, but nothing major. We need a...

My best friend is leading the design of the battery enclosure for Lilium. Crazy challenge. He's basically inventing a new material. We were talking about how to perform a dielectric withstand test on a panel of the substance the other day. Stock has been doing well. He said it's because Lilium...

In all my years watching the stock, I don't think I've ever seen it move in such an exact inverse of VTI as it has today.

Yes, yes we all miss him very much.

Well I also have an 11 year old leaf 😃

I dunno. I tried my best to justify, economically, the cost of buying a Tesla and it just doesn't pencil out compared with keeping my old golf. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m-HU4LNLfjbo3FOZk6SbNv3R_Ro7cM2N/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=115126032459488159390&rtpof=true&sd=true

Unless you're Subaru. Their PZEVs have partial zero emissions. Partial zero. 🙄

Anybody know how much these things weigh? Optimus, Figure01...?

Thanks

Looking at buying a 2017-2019 Model X. Trying to figure out whether the USB ports in the car (for charging phones & stuff) are USB A or USB C. Thanks.

I've been attending the 2024 NABCEP conference all week and it's batteries batteries batteries

Eh, it's closer to 3 acres per MWdc for fixed tilt. https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/lbnl_ieee-land-requirements-for-utility-scale-pv.pdf

Also, NOx.

I'm late to the climate change party but I'm surprised nobody mentioned Elon's frequent advocacy for a carbon tax and his, correct, opinion that it an unpriced negative externality. I sure wish this idea would get some traction. In fact I think I prefer that approach to handing people cash to...

Where did you come up with that number? https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/401k-limit-increases-to-23000-for-2024-ira-limit-rises-to-7000

Joke is on them, MV underground cable is mostly aluminum! I've been thinking Tesla should be manufacturing MV transformers for a few years now.

I liked Zach a lot but he always sounded to me like he was apologizing for something. Just the way he speaks I guess.

Sorry, I guess I'll HODL my stories to myself, like I HODL my TSLA (since 2012!)

https://forums.tdiclub.com/index.php?threads/hard-start-no-start-is-your-intercooler-frozen-check-here.302863/ The very same thing happened to me 4 years ago, wouldn't even crank. Same car, same parking location similar temps. I was not apprised of this well known intercooler icing issue at the...

Cold car antecdote: my Golf TDI failed to start this afternoon. 19F when I parked it at work this morning. My strong suspicion is that the intercooler is full of ice and blocking airflow to the motor. This is condensed water vapor from combustion introduced by the low pressure EGR. Functioning...

Kempower stock has been dropping like a rock too. Anyone know why? Something going on with NEVI? Edit: looks like a similar trend for charge point. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chargepoint-holdings-inc-chpt-stock-215019818.html

And now for something completely different... Toyota adopted NACS https://pressroom.toyota.com/toyota-adopts-the-north-american-charging-standard-to-expand-customer-charging-options/

"Moats are lame" -Elon The one and only worker quoted in that article is Polish.

I just signed up to demo my Leaf!

"some room for improvement"