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A quarter of steel in the US is imported, and about half of the aluminum, and the majority of both come from our friends up north - so it won't get cheaper over the next few years.

Orange mirrors? :)

It's just politicians playing favorites again in exchange for campaign donations. If they wanted to be "fair" they'd just charge every vehicle sale the $1000 tax and eliminate the federal gas tax, or gasp, find an effective way to pay based on weight and distance.

Yeah ... no. I'm not digging someone's bubblegum off my jeans after riding in a "community" car.

The BMW HP-4 could go 0-180-0 in 21 seconds. This is the benchmark.

Some electrochromic systems default to the dark setting when they have no power. Maybe check cable plugs and fuses.

The tube-of-you recommended this to me today, and I found it rather interesting. It's a new channel by an electric semi driver in Germany and gives a rather positive outlook for how they are moving towards an EV future.

My (adult) autistic son , who does the cooking on "Mexican Night" (he refuses to call it Taco Tuesday, shrug) heard the audio playing in the other end of the kitchen over the frying of ground beef and yelled out "Batman!, 1989" at the 9 second mark.

Car and Driver said in the olden times (like a year ago) that the rule of thumb was any new car with under 200 miles was acceptable.

The new Rivian "wave" is a *very* slight chin up in passing - if the other driver can tell there was motion, then it was too much.

Get someone wearing a yellow vest to do a little pre-launch dance standing beside the cockpit before pointing forward and you'll (briefly) forget the difference.

That Gen2 launches like a rail gun.

From what I've read the Rivian inverters have decent 1500W continuous capability but nearly no surge capability, and will trip very rapidly for self protection - even a hair dryer will overload it. The (likely) induction motor of an electric wood splitter is too much startup load, as induction...

I wouldn't be surprised if leased EVs begin levying a State of Health surcharge if battery capacity is determined to be less than a forecast value, which should be determinable via a "smart" Battery Management System.

Bitching in an online forum that is not direct to the company has about as much positive effect as stopping freeway traffic to complain about oil - all it does is piss people off who have no power over your complaint.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/109340

Google was no help, so being someone who plays with AI systems in my "retirement", the system I'm using told me: "A jounce line is typically used to provide additional control over the compression (jounce) stroke of the shock by regulating the airflow. It is similar to a hydraulic damper, and...

Have I been here too long when I read without pausing that word as Phone As Replacement Key?

Not being transparent about said "award criteria" makes the whole thing suspect.

Even when there is only one tire of contact, the individual motor has enough power to lift the vehicle all by itself at over 10 feet per second. If it's not doing that then there is a problem in properly controlling that power, and unless the sensors can't discriminate that fine of a...