SethInMI

my first reaction is no, you won't find any takers. but the real answer can't be made until you say something about cost and performance. I assume climb performance would be largely unaffected by altitude (like a turbo), which would be great. But what would it be? And what is the cost of a conversion? 182 DZs are often running on a shoestring, so someone getting together $100s of thousands of dollars would be a severe challenge.

and now he has, calling electric cars "incredible" and saying how much he likes Musk and wants him to do well. The tax credits are still on the chopping block, but the vilification of EVs is coming to an end.

They have been working on these cells for a number of years now so I don't know if they can solve it in the next 6 months or not. There are tradeoffs with all materials: cost, durability, reactivity, etc, so finding a new material that meets all requirements is likely not a sure thing.

Justin Amash, who was one of the few Republicans who voted to impeach Trump the first time, is running for the Senate as a Republican in Mich. I can't imagine he has much of a chance, but I voted for him yesterday in the Michigan primaries. (Mich is open primary so you can vote for one party's candidates without being a member) Even before impeachment, I liked him, if not his politics. He's too libertarian for me, but certainly seemed to be someone who stuck to his principles pretty consistently.

I wonder if the "I love my piped in engine noise" crowd is coming from a racing video game perspective? I couldn't take some fake sounds seriously, but if you were used to racing on a simulator, having that simulated in a real car could feel more natural?

the 2015 Subaru Impreza I had came with a CVT. It would "fake shift" during acceleration by holding the transmission in a certain ratio, let the rpms climb, and then quickly move to a new ratio. I found it annoying. The only way to not do that was to set the cruise and let the car accelerate on its own. Then it would hold the rpms at the desired level and change the gearing to speed up the car. The car before that was an Impreza STi, with 6 spd manual, triple cone synchros on 2nd and 3rd. I added the short shifter kit, and got pretty good and heel-toe downshifting. But after 10 years with it, I was done.

Elon has come out against the EV tax credits, so shooting himself in the foot. His argument is all EV manf get dinged and Tesla is better prepared to handle the drop in sales. Also he has said "end all the tax credits" assuming incl fossil fuel based ones.

yeah, posted in another thread about this. Could it be a ploy by Musk to save EV tax credits? Trump has their repeal high in his priority list, but I can see him dropping opposition pretty quickly.

I see Elon is fully in the Trump camp now with his endorsement. I wonder if this will save the EV tax credits. I have read that Trump's #1 priority is getting them eliminated. Is Elon backing Trump with an eye to save the credits, as a business decision? Or just to stick it to the DEI lovers, regardless of how it impacts Tesla's bottom line? It's hard to tell, they are both such blowhards.

I have added 50A outlets in my house, my brother's house, and sister's house. They all varied in effort. Mine was hardest, service entrance was on other side of ranch, had to run 100ft of wire to garage. Brother's panel was in basement next to garage wall, so just over and up. Sister's was in the garage, so like yours, a bit of EMT out of the panel. But I was actually thinking of my European colleagues with their all masonry houses and often detached garages. In that situation, if I had 2.5kW available (220v residential) I might just go with that, it can replace 100 miles in an overnight.

TIL. I always assumed that 220v residential used lighter gauge wire to save on cost, but after 5 min of googling I see that is not the case for Europe at least. The standard is 2.5mm2, which is between 14GA and 12GA, the two common US wire sizes. The Tesla Universal Charger in EU has 13A max for the residential power plug (vs 12A in the US) which means you will charge ~2x as fast, which is actually a big deal. 8 miles an hour vs 4 miles an hour. 8 could work for home charging if bringing a new line to the garage was too expensive.

fwiw we are on our Independence weekend road trip, drove from MI to Philly for 4 days. Same as all my other road trips, stop 10-20 min every two-three hours stretch legs pee get food. I don't mind the breaks, but what is annoying is the cost. Supercharging is like 3x the cost of home charging; it is more expensive to take the Tesla on a long trip than the Mazda, but the Tesla just travels better. The hotel we are at has complimentary charging which sort of makes up for it, pays for our side trips to Atlantic City and Wilmington and a start on the drive home on Monday.

It's interesting to check-in with Brent every year or so to see how his opinion on EVs and climate change is doing, just to see that moment when it is obvious to all that EVs are actually a good idea and climate change is man-made. But short of that, not really worth debating, we've had this "are EVs good on long trips?" chat before and nothing new has happened since.

my exposure to cricket was initially through Douglas Adams "Life, the universe, and everything", and that happily has stuck with me. --------- "The game you know as cricket," he said, and his voice still seemed to be wandering lost in subterranean passages, "is just one of those curious freaks of racial memory which can keep images alive in the mind aeons after their true significance has been lost in the mists of time. Of all the races on the Galaxy, only the English could possibly revive the memory of the most horrific wars ever to sunder the Universe and transform it into what I'm afraid is generally regarded as an incomprehensibly dull and pointless game. "Rather fond of it myself," he added, "but in most people's eyes you have been inadvertently guilty of the most grotesque bad taste. Particularly the bit about the little red ball hitting the wicket, that's very nasty."

I just learned about the Garmin Autoland a few weeks ago. Pilot dies on you, no worries, just push the big red button and the plane starts squawking emergency on the radio, picks out the closest airport, and lands on the runway.