"...they’ll eventually go the way of the Nash Metropolitan..." Now I want to get an old Nash Metro and put an electric power train in it that looks like Lois Lane's car from the old Superman TV show. Can we do that?
This Metro is owned by a guy not far from me. Amazingly, it's still got the original 3-speed transmission that the electric motor sends power through to the rear wheels. Exceptionally well done conversion.
Lol. We stayed at a motel in Centralia, Washington one time while on a road trip to to the Olympic peninsula. We hot there rather late, and woke up the next morning to find the parking lot and nearby street packed with Nash Metropolitans:
Pretty cool. I live near Watkins Glen, NY, where various rallies and meetups like that are not uncommon during the summer months. Also there's lots of wine around here, but that's a different fun story.
Centralia is home to the Olympic Club one of the many McMenamins empire of brewpubs; awesome place to eat, drink and hang out. We found it by sheer chance when the place we planned to go eat was unexpectedly closed.
When they've exhausted every other excuse, right wingers will tell you they don't want electric cars because they ain't manly. Real men belch smoke from a spotless jacked up pickup with a Punisher sticker in the back window.
While my wife’s car was in the Lexus dealership for service, they gave us a new UX hybrid for our loaner car. When I filled it completely, it told me I had a bit over 300 miles of range. That appeared to be accurate, based on the plummeting gas gauge. It turns out it’s got a smallish gas tank.
A Honda CRV hybrid will get over 500 miles of range. Lexus messed up.
How hybrids are built (meaning which choices and compromises are made) will be important if they are to replace internal combustion engine vehicles.
I get well more than 300 miles of range with my 16 year old Volvo. There’s no chance I’d replace it with something that has significantly worse range.
No Green New Deal Gazpacho Police will be coming to rip your beloved gas guzzler out of your weeping arms (you should have that looked at). Nobody’s coming to take away your gas stove or your cheeseburgers either.
But what about the suede denim secret police coming for my uncool niece?
Charging stations are. At my work we have over 100 L2 (220v) charging stations and the cost is about 50% of what PG&E charges and $0.02 per kWh less than I pay at my home which has sooshulist city run utilities. It is so popular, that there is a $1/Hr fee that kicks in after 4 hours.
Yeah that's the bit that pisses me off. If I tried to get a 240V hookup the HOA would be on my balls in a second. They won't even let me have solar panels. In California.
The fuck? Are you in shared parking spaces or something? Otherwise they can fuck off with that bullshit.
We have "a parking space" in the building where we live but it's concierge parking and AFAIK there aren't even outlets in the garage, much less EV charging spots. I'd love to agitate for solar panels on the roof and charging stations in the garage but I'm intimidated by the language barrier. Spanish HOAs are notorious for not wanting to spend money.
I love my car. It's the perfect size for hauling around paintings to shows but small enough to park and drive like a sedan. I wish there was an electric version of it or that I could convert it to electric somehow. It's getting old and I baby it. I hope someday I will be able to replace it with a comparable EV.
I feel the same way about our Jetta Sportwagen.....it pisses me off to no end that auto manufacturers have simply decided 'No More Station Wagons for you' as if they were a Car Nazi.
Speaking of emissions, two Tennessee state Senators (Rs) have proposed a bill banning "chemtrails" from the skies over that state. It hasn't been enacted into law, but appears to be working. No chemtrails have been detected over Tennessee this whole month.
You know what else can be converted into a battery electric vehicle? A fire truck. I want one. Portland FD (yes, that Portland in Oregon - a nice town) has three all-electric Engine companies.
Fire scenes are generally pretty noisy, especially when pumps are moving 500-2,000 gallons/minute. I would love to watch those apparatus at work and listen to the water moving.
That raises an interesting question...are the pumps electric too? It's my understanding that those suckers are energy hogs, for a big fire that might go for hours how would that work? There was a fire here in Valencia that started in the early evening and was still burning with visible flames 7 or 8 hours later (we could see it from our kitchen, it destroyed two apartment buildings). Would an electric rig be able to sustain that kind of load?
Well I'm guessing that a city the size of Portland would hav some other trucks to take care of that eventuality, but 99.99% of calls with fire trucks are not those. I'd honestly guess that 60-80% of fire truck runs domn't actually involve actual fires at all, and an electric engine won't sit outside of a building idling it's engine while they do something like tend to someone having a health emergency or something.
Doesn't it sound exceedingly more efficient to simply plug a vehicle into the appropriate electrical garage outlet at the necessary intervals than to have to disembark from your vehicle, find the gas cap key, unlock and disengage the gas cap, juggle the gas cap in one hand while initiating the flow of fuel into the car's gas tank all while attempting to keep your work clothes and your hands relatively clean, dispensing the desired amount of fuel, replacing the fuel hose back onto the tank, and completing the entire computerized transaction outside perhaps during shite weather all without forgetting to retrieve your debit/credit card before driving off?
Jaysus, comrades. This could be SO much more efficient, classy and clean.
I want nothing more than to trade my gas burning pickup for an electric equivalent, but one thing mine doesn't have is a gas cap. I hate that about it because I live in a dirty environment, but that's how Ford delivers them now.
How about removing the entire back off the car, removing the battery cover, plugging a switch into it that connects to the fuel pump, removing the fuel line from the fuel filter and putting it in to a container and emptying the tank out just to work out how much poxy fuel is in the car.
I've been driving a PHEV since January, but had to then set up a separate part of the house for energy drinks, chips and overcooked hot dogs, which I miss from the gas station convenience store.
As I don't have a garage, and park far enough from my apartment that I can't see my car out my window, charging at home doesn't really work me at the moment.
EVERY apartment resident's assigned parking spots must have access to these outlets. They provided them when we all plugged in the block heaters for our cars so they'd start on bitterly cold winter mornings; they can do the same with EV chargers.
Yeah, a lot of people here in San Francisco street park as its the only option. And you just park where you can find a spot, they aren't designated or anything. They'd need to install charging poles to make charging on the street feasible. I don't know why more cities aren't doing this.
Always good to double down on amplifying the voices of those who hate your one profitable business while alienating those who would be interested in buying an electric car
Purely for spite. Congrats on a job well done Tesla board.
"...they’ll eventually go the way of the Nash Metropolitan..." Now I want to get an old Nash Metro and put an electric power train in it that looks like Lois Lane's car from the old Superman TV show. Can we do that?
Your wish is my commode!
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F884410af-6131-4e2e-8202-8e7736b5d21b_1760x1320.jpeg
This Metro is owned by a guy not far from me. Amazingly, it's still got the original 3-speed transmission that the electric motor sends power through to the rear wheels. Exceptionally well done conversion.
Lol. We stayed at a motel in Centralia, Washington one time while on a road trip to to the Olympic peninsula. We hot there rather late, and woke up the next morning to find the parking lot and nearby street packed with Nash Metropolitans:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1000,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d6b44cc-48ce-4f74-9879-b2f426171562.heic
Pretty cool. I live near Watkins Glen, NY, where various rallies and meetups like that are not uncommon during the summer months. Also there's lots of wine around here, but that's a different fun story.
Centralia is home to the Olympic Club one of the many McMenamins empire of brewpubs; awesome place to eat, drink and hang out. We found it by sheer chance when the place we planned to go eat was unexpectedly closed.
https://www.mcmenamins.com/olympic-club/olympic-club-pub
They've built it out to a much larger place now, when we were there in 2008 it was just the pub.
Won’t someone think of the spark plug manufacturers??!
And by "some nutjob", you mean "an unrecognized genius".
When they've exhausted every other excuse, right wingers will tell you they don't want electric cars because they ain't manly. Real men belch smoke from a spotless jacked up pickup with a Punisher sticker in the back window.
I am not making this up.
Then watch their faces when your Rivian truck goes from 0-60 in 2.1 seconds.
I am self-cooling birb
While my wife’s car was in the Lexus dealership for service, they gave us a new UX hybrid for our loaner car. When I filled it completely, it told me I had a bit over 300 miles of range. That appeared to be accurate, based on the plummeting gas gauge. It turns out it’s got a smallish gas tank.
A Honda CRV hybrid will get over 500 miles of range. Lexus messed up.
How hybrids are built (meaning which choices and compromises are made) will be important if they are to replace internal combustion engine vehicles.
I get well more than 300 miles of range with my 16 year old Volvo. There’s no chance I’d replace it with something that has significantly worse range.
The Volvo XC40 Recharge has a range of 293 miles.
This car is much safer than your current Volvo.
My merc is like that. Most I've got is about 350 miles out of it. Averages about 22mpg with the way I drive it.
However, it is a 6.2L V8.
No Green New Deal Gazpacho Police will be coming to rip your beloved gas guzzler out of your weeping arms (you should have that looked at). Nobody’s coming to take away your gas stove or your cheeseburgers either.
But what about the suede denim secret police coming for my uncool niece?
All trans women buying trucks right now.
Are charging stations and/or improved public transportation compatible with the way we have been building housing for the last 75 years?
There's so much neat stuff being done with housing policy re. climate!
Charging stations are. At my work we have over 100 L2 (220v) charging stations and the cost is about 50% of what PG&E charges and $0.02 per kWh less than I pay at my home which has sooshulist city run utilities. It is so popular, that there is a $1/Hr fee that kicks in after 4 hours.
For those in condominiums and apartments without garages, charging is problematic.
Improved public transportation? What are you, some kind of commie socialist?
Yeah that's the bit that pisses me off. If I tried to get a 240V hookup the HOA would be on my balls in a second. They won't even let me have solar panels. In California.
F that noise. HOA can't say no to solar in CA, not even on a townhouse roof.
https://programs.dsireusa.org/system/program/detail/1253
Precisely why in our home search we told the RA agent the single iron-clad rule was NO HOA. Fuck that bullshit.
The fuck? Are you in shared parking spaces or something? Otherwise they can fuck off with that bullshit.
We have "a parking space" in the building where we live but it's concierge parking and AFAIK there aren't even outlets in the garage, much less EV charging spots. I'd love to agitate for solar panels on the roof and charging stations in the garage but I'm intimidated by the language barrier. Spanish HOAs are notorious for not wanting to spend money.
Brad. I condemn you. To everlasting hellfire.
Here we are on the Commie Girl website and you dis me for being a commie myself?
No, no, not a commie. A socialist commie. They’re completely different!
I love my car. It's the perfect size for hauling around paintings to shows but small enough to park and drive like a sedan. I wish there was an electric version of it or that I could convert it to electric somehow. It's getting old and I baby it. I hope someday I will be able to replace it with a comparable EV.
I feel the same way about our Jetta Sportwagen.....it pisses me off to no end that auto manufacturers have simply decided 'No More Station Wagons for you' as if they were a Car Nazi.
Speaking of emissions, two Tennessee state Senators (Rs) have proposed a bill banning "chemtrails" from the skies over that state. It hasn't been enacted into law, but appears to be working. No chemtrails have been detected over Tennessee this whole month.
That'll show 'em who's who!
Are they going to mandate that everyone be given an anti-tiger rock, next?
But what will they do about contrails?
Not to mention protrails.
It's been every bit as effective as the bans on chimeras, dark-elves, and Romulans!
All of those swarthy types.
Time for Washington State to outlaw Bigfoot, and New Mexico to ban flying saucers from their skies. We're not your flyover planet, ET!
Seriously? Actual state senators did that? {finds article} Hooly shitballs. Not only did they do that, it passed the state Senate.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2024/03/20/tennessee-senate-passes-bill-banning-chemtrails-what-to-know/73027586007/
What the actual fuck.
It has yet to get to the House, but I expect it will pass there and signed into law by the Gov.
In an R-dominated lege, I'm sure there are many who roll their eyes, but will vote for it rather than being on record "defending chemtrails."
If it gets the rubes to vote for them, they will be all for it.
That they're their own worst enemies never ceases to gratify and amuse me.
The lead Senator is named Monty Fritts. I'd keep a lower profile were I him.
OK I just busted out laughing! Monty fucking Fritts. Who's writing this crap?
Notsure.
*frog hides quill and parchment*
I'm pretty sure Texas will be legalizing the use of AR-15s to shoot hurricanes and tornadoes in the next legislative session.
Trump wanted to use nukes on hurricanes. Give a chud a hammer and every problem looks like a nail.
Those “No Jackalopes Allowed” signs I put up in my yard seem to be working too
I never knew those rascals could read.
Just as effective as the bear patrol or the rock of Lisa.
😱😱😱😱😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
You know what else can be converted into a battery electric vehicle? A fire truck. I want one. Portland FD (yes, that Portland in Oregon - a nice town) has three all-electric Engine companies.
https://www.piercemfg.com/electric-fire-trucks/pierce-volterra
Are there any fires left to be extinguished? I thought the entire place burned down.
That is actually pretty cool.
Fire scenes are generally pretty noisy, especially when pumps are moving 500-2,000 gallons/minute. I would love to watch those apparatus at work and listen to the water moving.
That raises an interesting question...are the pumps electric too? It's my understanding that those suckers are energy hogs, for a big fire that might go for hours how would that work? There was a fire here in Valencia that started in the early evening and was still burning with visible flames 7 or 8 hours later (we could see it from our kitchen, it destroyed two apartment buildings). Would an electric rig be able to sustain that kind of load?
Well I'm guessing that a city the size of Portland would hav some other trucks to take care of that eventuality, but 99.99% of calls with fire trucks are not those. I'd honestly guess that 60-80% of fire truck runs domn't actually involve actual fires at all, and an electric engine won't sit outside of a building idling it's engine while they do something like tend to someone having a health emergency or something.
All good points, thanks.
Doesn't it sound exceedingly more efficient to simply plug a vehicle into the appropriate electrical garage outlet at the necessary intervals than to have to disembark from your vehicle, find the gas cap key, unlock and disengage the gas cap, juggle the gas cap in one hand while initiating the flow of fuel into the car's gas tank all while attempting to keep your work clothes and your hands relatively clean, dispensing the desired amount of fuel, replacing the fuel hose back onto the tank, and completing the entire computerized transaction outside perhaps during shite weather all without forgetting to retrieve your debit/credit card before driving off?
Jaysus, comrades. This could be SO much more efficient, classy and clean.
I want nothing more than to trade my gas burning pickup for an electric equivalent, but one thing mine doesn't have is a gas cap. I hate that about it because I live in a dirty environment, but that's how Ford delivers them now.
https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/more-vehicle-topics/fuel-and-fuel-economy/what-is-the-easy-fuel-capless-fuel-filler/
How about removing the entire back off the car, removing the battery cover, plugging a switch into it that connects to the fuel pump, removing the fuel line from the fuel filter and putting it in to a container and emptying the tank out just to work out how much poxy fuel is in the car.
Race cars are annoying.
Better switch to Formula E then!
I've been driving a PHEV since January, but had to then set up a separate part of the house for energy drinks, chips and overcooked hot dogs, which I miss from the gas station convenience store.
“replacing the fuel hose back onto the tank” I’m left handed. You will know if I was there before you. Sorry.
Also wrong-handed. I really hate it when someone else tries to coil my hoses or extension cords!
I'm sorry but that reads a lot like the "is this you" part of an infomercial. I've never had to do half of that to fuel up.
As I don't have a garage, and park far enough from my apartment that I can't see my car out my window, charging at home doesn't really work me at the moment.
EVERY apartment resident's assigned parking spots must have access to these outlets. They provided them when we all plugged in the block heaters for our cars so they'd start on bitterly cold winter mornings; they can do the same with EV chargers.
It can be MADE to work.
I want to be in charge of this for a while.
This is one of the cases that will be hard. It's almost as if charging poles would be needed at or near each parking place.
Yeah, a lot of people here in San Francisco street park as its the only option. And you just park where you can find a spot, they aren't designated or anything. They'd need to install charging poles to make charging on the street feasible. I don't know why more cities aren't doing this.
As an added benefit, Musk won't be able to continue to make a fortune selling carbon credits to Detroit.
Trump is attacking EVs even harder. I wonder how Elno feels about that?
Always good to double down on amplifying the voices of those who hate your one profitable business while alienating those who would be interested in buying an electric car
Purely for spite. Congrats on a job well done Tesla board.
Well we're going to hear caterwauling about this from the usual suspects because their Bible has the "stewardship" scratched out.