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Yes. Planned obsolescence banking on consumer ignorance believing higher voltage is in all ways superior to lower voltage. There is an advantage in the motor but it is small. Big advantage in solid state motor control. Voltage drop across a transistor increases with current. High voltage lower...

Tesla Service Centers put the car up on a standard lift then have another lift to roll the old battery out and new in. Not much different from a transmission lift just optimized (and bigger) for the 1400 pound battery. Swap is a 3 hour job. Plenty of YouTube videos opening a Tesla battery. And...

Pretty much what I have been saying all along. H2 costs too much to make with electricity when one could charge a battery and drive at least twice as far on the same energy. H2 is the darling of government because it preserves the "gas station model" which is easy to regulate, tax, and easy to...

Tesla Model S batteries are commonly broken up and sold as modules on eBay.

RK is a rebranded TYM.

I was shocked at your 60V 9Ah having such poor run time. So I looked up the Dewalt Flexvolt batteries and lost a lot of respect for Dewalt. The 9AH is in 20V mode, is 3AH in 60V. Even so you should get longer run time than cited. I have an EGo 15" string trimmer which is comparable in size and...

Myopic vision. You are pretending the fuel cell never wears out. The fuel cell contains more exotic materials than lithium batteries and is very sensitive to the purity of the hydrogen and cleanliness of the air used to react with the hydrogen. A kWh of electricity used to produce hydrogen will...

Since when was a brownout conducted at night? If you were paying attention EVs charge at night when there is excess capacity even on brownout days. I think coal is great. Even if greenhouse gasses are bad (I think not) then coal-fired electricity powering a Tesla is still cleaner than a 30 MPG...

Your confidence is inspiring (not). So just who holds motor oil suppliers' feet to the fire to keep them honest? What SAE, API, JASO, ANSI, ACEA ILSAC, John Deere, Kubota, GM, Ford, or any specification or certification stipulating the terms, requirements, and tests to verify your claims? The...

It doesn't say because MF is being honest. There are no performance criteria an oil must meet to be sold as synthetic. No performance criteria any different than for a refined oil. To be sold as synthetic all that is required is the use of "industry accepted synthetic manufacturing processes."...

The Chrysler ammeters were only crude indicators. Were not driven by current through a shunt as a true ammeter but were driven by the voltage regulator in the alternator. If the alternator was producing then it moved the needle to the right, if discharging then moved the needle to the left. I...

Fire.

Bought used with 5700 hours he paid £40,000 or about $50,000. Is not ideal for his fields but it doesn't seem to be a bad deal. Clarkson regularly destroyed more than $50,000 in an hour of Top Gear and what I have seen so far, the tractor still runs. And it is a perfect fit for Clarkson's TV...

I'm guessing not much concrete was used to anchor the posts. My first effort would be to disassemble. Maybe every single piece. Maybe you can keep the roof in one piece. Cut the front posts off at the roof. Guessing a FEL and a chain will pull the posts out of the ground with concrete attached...

Am guessing the instant the lease terminates if the buildings remain then she loses them.

Just think of all the natural gas they will need to produce that H2. Electricity costs too much to produce H2. And what about all the haters claiming the power grid and generating capacity is insufficient for EVs? Electrolysis of water into hydrogen uses more than 2x the electricity to move a...

Tach from alternator is pretty common. Was GM and VW common practice.

A smarter, cleaner way to maintain that interstate flow of goods while mitigating climate change would be to fix the train system. Congress has proven incompetent. If greenhouse gasses are a problem (we already have over 92% of the greenhouse effect possible from CO2, the effect is not linear...

Why do you say that? Unlike JD you can purchase and install any peripheral on Apple products without having to go to the Apple Store to have the new hard drive, printer, scanner, monitor, etc, “registered” before the device will function. The Apple Development environment Xcode is a free...

I find it hard to believe the mounting points and pulley location is so special that there isn’t something else that fits.

My understanding is that one can not replace a JD alternator or hydraulic valve without pairing the ESN of the module with the central ECU. “I don’t like the alternator. Not Genuine JD. No go.” JD says they have to do this to preserve the integrity of the emissions systems. But as implemented...

Rare earths are rare only due to US Government regulation. Not that we could not mine and refine rare earths as clean as any other product, but simply because The Powers That Be have decided to give the monopoly to China. Globalists do not believe any country should be able to stand free on its...

Meh. Couldn't buy gas here after the tornadoes of 2011. No electricity. Took 3 days before a big enough generator was brought in for Walmart’s gas pumps, electrician hired to splice it in, and something done for credit card processing. My power was out 7 days. AT&T brought in hundreds of...

I drove my Tesla to the gas station and nobody noticed. Bought gas for the lawnmower. But haters probably thought I was buying gasoline for a generator to charge my car. If they even noticed the car was electric.

Have met and corresponded with several of the principles who pioneered the “PriUPS”. Prius (at least up to 2009) has a 207v NiMH battery of just under 2kWh. Some have tried augmenting that capacity in attempt to get more MPH. Utterly failed. Some managed to extend range with engine off. The...

I don't remember any serious designer/manufacturer putting PV solar on roof of cars unless they were vying for attention of the woefully poorly educated media. Cover the entire top of the vehicle might produce 500W at peak. So for an hour of full intensity sun one might drive a Tesla Model 3...

The Sun is not renewable.

You are a prime candidate for a Tesla Powerwall. Solar is not required. Am told the first Powerwall costs $10,000 installed. Subsequent Powerwalls are $7,000 each. 13 kWh each. They are smart enough to charge during cheap periods and assist during high cost TOU. Meanwhile the Powerwall doubles...

Yes, it is quite a burden. Takes me an extra 15 seconds to plug in. And another 15 seconds to disconnect!

Far more likely to be Fake News.

Answer: Haters. Reason doesn't matter when one can hate. Same sort of misinformation claiming "electric power grid can not support all those EVs!" The fact remains the grid has about 50% excess capacity at night. If an EV gets charged once per day it is quite happy for that to be at night. The...

Peek inside at the brushes. If they are worn out then it is a relatively simple DIY fix.

No mention of how long the driveway? Solution for 50' would be different from 1000'. The comment stating concrete would be in the range of cost of a tractor plus snowblower suggests much less than 1000'.

Your Snapper has not lasted 25 years either. It has had at least one new battery and one new engine.

I don’t see anything new or breakthrough in that article. Enphase pioneered the microinverter movement. This is the placement of one inverter per PV panel. Output is 120/240VAC ready for use. Requires grid power as a pilot to which it syncs its output. Solar Edge blurs the definition by...

The problem is most PV inverters will not run without a 60 Hz pilot signal from grid tie. This is thought to be a safety feature to keep from driving the grid during an outage putting linemen at risk. There are inverters for pure off grid. There are inverters which have simultaneous battery, PV...

Dealer authorized to do repairs is not authorized to disconnect a battery? That is too fantastic to believe. The EGo I mentioned has batteries the user must remove to charge. My Tesla has a “first responder’s loop” to disable the car. First responders are told to cut it. Most owners know where...

Have done same on off-road motorcycles.

Today you can only get 1.5¢/kWh from TVA for your generated PV power. When Congress passed a law mandating utilities provide gridtie for PV power they set the minimum to be the "audited incremental cost of generation". This is a genuinely fair price. The utility should not have to pay you more...

I don't see that at all. EGo has a 42" which is $5000 full MSRP. It uses the same 56V batteries as the string trimmer, hedge trimmer, blowers, and push mower. The difference is that it can have (6) simultaneously. Several years ago I saw a preproduction Greenworks commercial ZTR with a 25kW...

I still use the original battery which came with my EGo 5 years ago.

Smart money was simply not willing to fund refurbishment of a poorly run refinery in the Caribbean. Especially when this means one can ship refined products from elsewhere, at higher cost to the locals. Same thing in Iran/Iraq. Lots of crude oil but practically no refineries. Too many local...

Tesla has no physical key to any of the doors. Not even to start the car. No on/off switch at all, just foot on brake and put it in gear. There is a procedure to jump a dead 12V battery to power the door locks. Connector is hidden under the front grill or bumper.

Several articles online trying to guess but there have been very few replacements. About $15,000 on eBay for Tesla 85 kWh. After 7.5 years mine still has 250 of original 265 mile range. Meanwhile I’m on the 3rd 12v battery which costs $272 installed. And having done it once myself the labor...

I do not but I know much of the country does and my utility keeps trying to get it approved. In recent years they replaced all electrical meters with networked smart meters which makes T.O.U. possible. I can check my usage by the hour, the most recent hour, online.

You have never experienced Murphy’s Law before now?

Meh. EV demand for electricity will drive prices down because the demand will be at night when there is great surplus that can’t be sold. That T.O.U. billing discounts nighttime consumption because the utility would rather get something than nothing.

Won't help unless the existing two are spaced a good bit wider than the track of the vehicles crossing. If two are spaced approximately the same distance apart as the wheels then a center beam won’t carry anything.

"Hit And Run" (2012) is airing on Starz/Encore now. Stars real life couple Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell. Written by Dax Shepard. Pretty good running dialog between the two, you know they have to be a real couple. Good jokes. Stupid improbable situations. imdb says most of the cars used are from...

In totalitarian England where one must be a member of the union to farm he probably can not merge smaller fields into larger without an Act of Congress. If his implements were sized to the tractor he wouldn't have to turn around nearly as often. Did the math on how long it would take to mow my...

He got a 5700 hour 261HP tractor for about $50,000. Probably not that excessive for 1,000 acres but my guess is the implements are much smaller than the tractor can handle.

EPA has tried to find fault with used tire rubber and failed but for tires that are still intact. Tires rot in the sun. Tire dust rots faster. Almost impossible to detect roadside unless you are at a race track and then you can sweep it up with a broom. No hazard in dump.

Th Thanks! brain fart. Carbonate, chloride, its a conspiracy I tell you!

It could always be the starter. Put your voltmeter on the starter cable and see if the tractor so much as asks the starter to start. Brushes in the starter eventually wear out. If you have power applied to the starter ask someone to hold the key (or button) while you tap the starter with a rock...

When an engine runs backwards the air still moves through it in the same direction, in the air filter and out the exhaust.

That is just awful having to change the valve stems every 34 years! With pure air, or even better: nitrogen, I bet you could have gotten 35 years! I would not expect a rubber valve stem to be any more susceptible to calcium carbonate chloride than the inside of your tire.

I have had an EGo 21" SP mower for about 5 years now. All EGo products are 56V and use compatible batteries which are available from 2.0AH to 10.0AH. No planned obsolescence. When I bought EGo only offered pure push and SP but recently at Lowes I see they have 2 more models claiming to be more...

I remember recently seeing a classic tractor TV show where an old single cylinder diesel tractor was designed to be stall-bumped into running the other way for reverse.

Having fun being so deliberately ignorant? You have never actually researched why a utility invokes rolling blackouts? Or what happens when they do? For starters study Time Of Use. Electrical power consumption peaks in the afternoon. When demand exceeds capacity the utility is forced to...

Idiots writing ad copy don't know carbon and lime are essential components of steel. Might as well try to make ferrite-free steel.

At night, same as we always do. When the grid has at least 50% surplus capacity.

I can't tell which way you are arguing. Earth's last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. We are now in an interglacial warming period which historically lasts 10,000 to 15,000 years. So I'm at loss as to how Man has been warming the Earth the past 10,000 years? And what about all those...

A straw/tube inserted to the bottom of the crankcase pan will suck any sludge up just as well as opening a simple drain bolt. Perhaps better. A lot of things about Mercedes-Benz is Rube Goldberg: complex and wonderful for the sake of complexity. But now and then they do something brilliant such...

If you have sludge then be thankful it is encapsulating the metal shavings. You are doomed. There are manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz who routes dipstick tube in such a way it is the ideal oil sucker. Just affix the extractor at the top and turn it on. No tube to insert. Tested when I...

TheRegister used to have better writers than that. We have always been able to charge batteries in 10 minutes. The question is whether you don't mind destroying the battery in a few cycles or whether you want a 5,000 cycle life. 30 years ago we were charging NiCAD R/C cars in under 10 minutes...

I don't know how long, looks to have at least 50%. Doesn't look like I'll ever replace them. At 62,000 miles now. Good chance Carvana will come get it soon. However, my Prius was the same. And totally conventional Avalon before that. And stupid cheap GMC Sonoma brakes never seemed to wear. The...

Almost none.

Nobody buys "carbon credits". However CARB states require "clean air" points in order to sell gasoline and diesel vehicles. Nissan and FCA highly subsidize their EV offerings with cheap leases in order to continue to produce conventional vehicles. The market price of clean vehicle credits is...

Tesla Model X hits the nail on the head. Big problem is how the metrosexuals designing Teslas think 35 and 45 series tires are appropriate. Might have upgraded my 2013 S (which wears the "cheap" standard 245/45-19) for a Y had the Y come with reasonable tires for American roads.

Yes, but 1) non-EV drivers think regenerative braking solves all the word's problems. 2) There are no EVs without regenerative braking. 3) Only about 30% of the energy used to get up to speed is recovered slowing. So "it ain't all that great." Exactly. It is a non-issue. It is a matter of...

Yes, a Fumoto with nipple will use a 1/2" vinyl hose to directly fill your choice of bottle. Vinyl hose is cheap enough you can throw away after every use. Years ago I had a Powerstroke F-250. Fitted a Fumoto. Could stand a 1 gallon empty Rotella jug under and still needed vinyl hose. The...

I used to park my Prius next to my Powerstroke F-250. Each was the best solution for their task.

I bought a new Toyota Avalon. 7 years later replaced it with a top of the line Toyota Prius that cost $5,000 less (not counting inflation). I liked the Prius better. Better seating position. Better visibility out for the driver. Better view of instruments. And the Prius used half the gasoline of...

Not too many years ago the market was flooded with off-lease Nissan LEAFs, 2 years old, most with about 15,000 miles, $10,000. Those would have been excellent solutions for you and your wife. One advantage for short commutes is how the EV has zero warmup, zero additional wear for a cold start...

That is the case with Tesla. Fortunately the Johnny-come-latelies who think they see easy money are spotted by smart money. Stupid money always loses. EVs don't have to "save the planet" to be justified. That is the hater's criteria. EV only has to be fun.

When I was looking ~1976 the darn things were going for nearly $2000. So my first car was a bottom end $600 1971 Dodge Charger with 102,000 miles.

Consider salvage Tesla battery brings $15,000-$20,000 on eBay. I don't think the problem 8 years hence is going to be bad at all. Not really changing all that much. Tesla puts all the smarts to control the "battery" in the battery assembly. Depending on the car there are 16-19 independent...

Meh. Mail delivery carriers average 35 miles/day. There is no issue with "battery density" or charge time. This is well within caveman flooded lead-acid battery territory. Researching data to back up the above I find this which says only 18 miles/day, 5288/year: Pushing the Envelope: The USPS...

Great work! When we build lesser bridges for dirtbikes and ATVs we attach 2x4s flat on top of the decking as “rails”. Your rails differ in being attached to the outside ends of the decking. During races our bridges are often covered with mud where these rails help keep a spinning tire from...

If the 2x6's are shot why are the 6x12's still good?

As you say, doesn't matter what is around the corner. But you are wrong in why it does not matter. Doesn't matter because no matter the density one can have a 300 mile EV carrying 4 in comfort for under 300 Wh/mile, today. For estimating purposes gasoline is $3.00/gallon and electricity is...

In 1979 UPS had an electric brown truck on regular delivery route in Huntsville, AL. Trademark UPS brown truck, not a tin box painted brown. Solid state controls did not exist then the way we take for granted today. Truck rolled down the road with large contractors clacking for speed control.

I’ve said may times here and elsewhere that I’ve done the math (which the EPA hides because they hate coal) using the EPA’s data available in 2013 my power hog Tesla Model S (380 Wh/mile from the power grid, a new Model 3 can be as little as 260 Wh/mile) running on pure coal fired USA...

I love it!

Like I said, civilization is collapsing.

No, you are spinning. You tried to make it appear EVs were only going to add to coal consumption as if there was no other source of electricity. And pretending the EV is not replacing gasoline/diesel consumption. And ignoring how a coal-powered EV is still cleaner than a gasoline automobile. A...

Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham/Leeds Alabama shocked the Dawn guys when they called asking about ordering in bulk. Seriously, they found Dawn was the best thing for cleaning oil spills on the track.

You know civilization and the economy is collapsing when the posh news cooks and eats cicadas on live TV.

Photos will sync via USB/Lightning cable without iCloud. Or even WiFi. If you have more than the free 5GB iCloud quota then just move the extra out of your Mac's default photo library into a secondary library. Plenty of websites tell you how. Then iCloud will magically sync once again.

Not due to demand but limited to supply. In March 2021 Ford sold 84,043 to GM's 20,972 + 42,197 = 63,169 http://motrolix.com/automotive-sales-figures/automotive-sales-comparisons/sales-comparison-chevrolet-silverado-vs-gmc-sierra-vs-ford-f-series-vs-ram-truck/

Why do you jump on coal as if it is the only means of electricity production? Coal produced only 19% of the USA consumption of electricity in 2020: Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Furthermore, if you work the math (for some reason the EPA would rather...

Nissan and Fiat are the only ones who abused EV batteries.

Rotate the engine 2 full revolutions watching the valves before you pass judgement. The camshaft turns 1 revolution for 2 of the crank.

Tesla does not advertise. Does not produce TV commercials. Does not advertise other than Electric Cars, Solar & Clean Energy | Tesla

Transmit power is cheap, limited only by regulation. The key to good range is a quality receiver. That costs money.

Usually 120 is service minimum but if your engine has a compression release (most that do are automatic and may not be easy to defeat) then you can not get a meaningful answer from traditional compression testing. A leakdown test is required. 160 is a decent result if a classic compression test...

You do not understand electricity. You think everything is explained by “voltage”. Solar panels are silicon solid state devices and being such are current devices. A proper PV inverter is constantly searching for the optimal voltage to transfer energy from the panel. Download a PV panel data...

A solar panel needs a purpose-made inverter/controller to optimally function. Your PV panel does not "make 40 volts", that is just marketing telling you numbers to make you think you understand. The actual voltage for optimal electric production depends on brightness of the sun and temperature...

85 PSI cranking full throttle is surprising the engine runs at all.

No pipe dream. Is already here. I can drive my EV anywhere. Anytime. Unlike you who has not so much as tried "because you already know everything!", I have actually done.

So what? Electrons wear out copper atoms? A pole standing since 1932? Pretty good pole, I say! Underground wiring from 1972? If there is nothing wrong with the insulation then who cares what year? Pretty sure original wiring on pre-1972 tractors is the norm here. These days we run higher...

As I have said time after time, for 12 hours/day we use 50% of the rate we use the other 12 hours/day so there is lots of capacity to be utilized at night. Which just so happens is the ideal time to charge an EV with low cost equipment. You insist on suffering from "gas station syndrome"...

A friend had a deleted 2008 6.4L Powerstroke for a while. Put it back to stock and traded. He used the mildest Spartan tow tune said to maintain all factory limits yet add 125 HP. Empty MPG driving like an old man went from 14 to 16. With a 20' toy hauler at 62 MPH it got 12 MPG, 9 MPG...

That is more of the same problem as ethanol. The problem with ethanol is that it carries water in solution. Furthermore some of the ethanol oxygen is available so oxygen plus water equals potential for corrosion. Ethanol is bearable if you can keep water out of it. Ethanol treatments only...

That is an oft-repeated lazy lie. All Federal subsidies for which Tesla qualified expired in 2016. The programs are still in place and that I know of Toyota is the only other manufacturer to exhaust the Federal tax credit (for hybrids). The one thing Tesla still gets is the CARB state "clean...

You know regular ignition engines can run off hydrogen, or be supplemented with hydrogen injection? A widespread perpetual motion scheme "to make your car run off of water!" is to use power from the car's battery for electrolysis of water into H2 and O2, then feed that into the intake and...

The purpose of the Supercharger is to allow you to drive to Nashville (or wherever) and back with minimal inconvenience. Coming from the south I can make Nashville (or Birmingham) round trip, with care. Or with casual abandon including a stop at a Supercharger. This is the point haters are...

You keep saying that but: 1) You are free to move to where electricity is cheaper. But you are where you are because of the cost of electricity, land, food, education, opportunity, and whatnot. For how many of those do you have competitive free markets? 2) If you don't like the cost of utility...

Yeah, I first heard that on Prius lists 15 years ago. Part of the claim being made was under the "superior Chinese legal system" BYD was not subject to the Large Cell NiMH patent held by Cobasys/Chevron.

Would not matter where you are on the grid. As to what you could sell to the utility or what they will pay, you have to ask them. TVA's sub-utilities are contractually forbidden to purchase power from anyone else. So you buy power from the local utility but the grid-tie sale of power is a...

Hitting a 140kWh battery with 20kW is 0.15C in battery technospeak. 1.0C is considered a fast charge. 150kW on a 140kWh battery is getting fast so when such is undertaken the battery is very closely monitored. It will not sustain 150kW to the end. This is a chart I bookmarked about 7 years ago...

The story is true in that the company trying to lease the EVs could not get enough customers to pay enough just to pay their bills. The lie is in the claim that cars were parked because batteries needed to be replaced. Any half-engineered EV (that condition excludes the Nissan LEAF) goes to...

Yes, what else would you call a government controlled economy? Price is what the government says. Environmentalists love the word "sustainable" but there is nothing sustainable about providing electricity if one is forced to purchase electricity at price greater than what one can get it...

Charging needs are not really dependent on battery size. We have 2 data points from published articles: 1) 80A at 240V places 30 miles of range in the battery per hour. 2) 150kW DC charger will put 54 miles of range in the battery in 10 minutes. Another said 200 miles in 41 minutes which I...

Does not. An EV will charge on whatever you can provide. Many can not accept more than 7.2kW, 30A at 240V. All Teslas can usefully charge at 10A on 120V. Believe the Fiat 500e could only charge on 120V. Friend had one and a 120V EVSE was all that was provided, all he ever used. It probably...

What makes you think that is hard or even unusual today? Small stores and restaurants get bigger utility service connections than that. Besides, you are willingly being suckered into believing the same "gas station" model currently used is appropriate for EVs. But for long distance travel one...

You absolutely do not want solar on the roof if there is any place to put it on the ground. PV panels are heavy. Roof mount greatly complicates. Means the PV panels have to be removed to re-shingle the roof.

Popular Science or Popular Mechanics featured flywheel storage in the 1970's. You do not want to be near one in case of an earthquake. The stored energy will rip the spinning flywheel out of the ground.

I don't believe it. 10kW requires 33 panels of 300W. One 120kW Supercharger stall would require 400 panels and for most of the country would only produce 100% for 4-5 hours/day. That would be 9,000 sq feet of solar farm. 1/5th acre. Small Supercharger sites have (8) charging stalls. Rational...

If wiring a new outlet 240V is trivially harder than 120V.

Ford claims to be part of "America's largest charging network", Electrify America. Locate A Charger looks quite lame compared to Tesla Find Us Superchargers. Based on "80A at 240V puts 30 miles of range in the battery per hour" I estimate the Lightning consumes 0.64 kWh/mile. Electrify America...

:ROFLMAO:

Free market.

Texas has an unusual situation. The rest of the country resale of electricity is forbidden specifically to address the landlord who decides to add a markup for tenants. Furthermore the state doesn't like making more work for itself so it grants a monopoly on the sale of electricity to utilities...

Don't worry about it because your host won't have a 50A or greater outlet to make charging worthwhile for many years yet. Oh, also it is illegal to resell electricity in 99% of the country. Recent exemptions have been made for commercial EV charge sites. So strictly speaking it is illegal to...

I think the article is marketing B.S. They'd have you think they were inventing something new. The first diesel locomotives used magnet-free excited field alternators. Detroit converted from magnet generators to excited field alternators in the 1960s. My Tesla Model S has a magnet free drive...

Yes and no. IMHO the biggest problem with diesel emissions is carcinogens. EPA is ignoring those. Carbon/soot is between good to harmless on the farm. DPF (and the nasty regeneration cycles to burn the DPF out) only charge the size of carbon particles. The big ones are bad for your lungs but...

I remember it is fun to count upshifts. Those 4-speeds have at least 16 gears. Plus they pass the same car several times. A VW?

Tesla has at least 10,000 "autopilot" cars on the road to 1 of all the others. Be careful to distinguish between Tesla Autopilot and Tesla Full Self-Driving. They have a few FSDs out there too. Autopilot will do a very good job holding a lane, even passing slower traffic. But it requires a tug...

Kohler, Kawasaki, Honda, Yamaha, all are good. Since the landmark mower engine HP class action, Kawasaki deliberately underrates by 2 HP. Bigger question is carburetor vs fuel injection. Carburetors are not frightening. FI promises better running year round, better fuel economy.

Thats nice and all that. But those are exactly the kind of "breakthrough" announcements which occur every few weeks the past 10 years. "Scientists" magically solve all the world's issues, in the laboratory, but their perfect designs fail to work in mass production. 40+ years ago my materials...

Most cellphone "unlimited data" accounts slow the data past some point. Cricket says they slow to 128kB/sec but the one time I hit that limit the data side was virtually unusable.

IRS robot is not going to take the time to explain how IRS is Internal Revenue Service.

I hit a swarm of something on motorcycle a few days ago. Pelted helmet, motorcycle, and jacket. Big enough to feel through a thick jacket. Strong enough none went "splat" to know what they were. They did ooze a bit and left marks.

This robogenius left a voicemail: You Are Being Sued!

Get some antigrav magclamps like they use in Star Trek. 😇

What you say makes little sense to my understanding of diesel emissions. Most all diesels have had DOC for some time. Is an innocuous as a muffler. Reduces some of the easy stuff. Some of the carcinogens in diesel exhaust. DPF gets added downstream from DOC. DPF only deals with soot. If the...

My grass isn't as thick but have used an EGo 21" SP past 5 years with great success. Was easily the most powerful battery mower back then, probably still is. Original battery still has at least 90%. Claimed to be equivalent to a gas mower but isn't. For some reason at the shop when I bought it...

Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia.

I once won $7 on a $20 Powerball ticket!

To compare apples to apples you need to figure the time to remove the diesel gas tank in order to carry it to your fill station. However if incompetence leaves a tractor in the field, or most likely in this case the orchard, hitch to another and pull it out. Also you are not allowing for the...

There is a Federal requirement but there are caveats and workarounds. Alabama Power has a ruling from the PSC allowing a hefty monthly "connect fee" for PV systems based on size, no matter how much is produced. The "theory" here is that a PV user is not paying "fair share" for maintaining the...

You start by firing the incompetent operator who ignored the battery fuel gauge. Same as you would do if ran out of diesel or gasoline. Incompetent for creating more work for others.

I do not doubt Stihl makes good electric power tools but turned me off with so many different incompatible batteries. Started with an EGo lawnmower. Added string trimmer, blower, chainsaw, and hedge trimmer. Every one can use the other's battery from 2.0AH to 7.5AH. Recently added a 10AH...

Substitute "diesel" for "electric" and you get exactly the same results. Too difficult to find diesel (not at every gas station) plus high cost fuel and extra maintenance.

One thing Mercedes-Benz does especially well is their dip stick tube run to the bottom of the crankcase pan. Next time try making a fitting to go over the dipstick tube rather than push a tube down inside. Suck all you can out my way, then put your tube down the way you have done in the past. I...

If it is a plug then you should be able to grab it with pliers and pull it out. Might as well if it is leaking because if the repair is leaking then it has to be pulled to put a new one in. If there is a tube then you can not repair with a plug from the outside. If tubeless then use soapy water...

Best thing to do is not store the mower outside or even under an awning. Ethanol is not a problem until you add water.

Pretty darn incompetent firemen who don't know that water can not extinguish an electrical fire. Actually fuels lithium fires. Water plus lithium emits hydrogen. The prevailing wisdom is to let the lithium fire burn, just prevent it from spreading. Water can not extinguish a gasoline fire either.

You. And others using Google Maps and Waze are uploading your position to number crunchers who determine how fast traffic is moving. Google Maps used to show roads in green where they new traffic was moving well. Now only shows red and yellow for slow.

No voltage regulator will put 14V in a bad battery unless the battery is very bad and not charging no matter the voltage across it. Another bad scenario is that you have a shorted cell so your 12.6V is 5 cells at 2.5V each which is overcharged. We used to use hydrometers to test charge on each...

That has been occurring for at least 30 years. The big issue is unburned 2-stroke oil in the water.

Only the newest Teslas have a heat pump. Until recently resistance heating was used.

A Tesla will heat or cool its battery as needed even when parked.

Meh. HTE only looks good if you get heat from somewhere free. Solar concentrators sound like a good idea until you factor the cost to build, space occupied, and maintenance. Hydrogen is a bad idea in search of a problem to solve. The one thing that keeps hydrogen alive is the need for "gas...

May be the situation with VW/Audi but the EPA range and consumption for Tesla is very accurate. I easily beat off-interstate. My Model S battery is 7 years 5 months old. Has 95% of original capacity. As for keeping SOC between “20-80%”, there is no standard as to where 0% and 100% so we have...

24-30 kWh/100 miles from the power grid for Model 3. My Model S is 38 kWh/100 miles. In-car display will indicate power drawn from battery, about 85% of what was put in. Teslafi (a 3rd party subscription monitoring service) will try to tally cost.

Everyone needs batteries. Everyone but Tesla has been counting on someone else to do it for them.

Nothing wrong with coal. In USA coal-fired electricity fuelling a power hungry Tesla Model S has similar emission as a gasoline automobile at 30 MPG. A Tesla Model 3 would be similar to 50 MPG. My Tesla license plate states, “SILENT”.

Then you have not been paying attention. Examples are plentiful in suburbia. Any unmodified 2007+ diesel pickup truck exhaust will smell like a large propane heater. You do not notice because they do not smell like a diesel.

You should tell UL Energy and Utilities And Square D, who uses UL on meter boxes, circuit breakers, distribution panels, ... And Southwire who uses UL ratings on service entrance cabling. Whether or not a utility company cares to select components complying with UL/ETL safety standards is up...

I do not believe you have real 100% European under 100 HP tractors. Parts come from the Asian factories for final assembly in Europe, but that is only compliance engineering. Make-work for locals. The knowledge of how to create a tractor is elsewhere. 50 years ago small Japanese pickup trucks...

2021 Tesla Model Y Long Range is rated (an honest EPA rating) at 27 kWh/100 miles. At $0.10/kWh and $3.00/gallon for gasoline the Y gets the equivalent of 111 MPG$.

Armchair Coaches have long said that. CARB gave bonus clean air credits to Tesla for a couple years for implementing it in the vehicle. (My Model S battery can be robotically swapped in 90 seconds.) Then to continue Tesla had to field real battery swap stations. Did 1 in California. Extended the...

I don’t quite understand how cellphones do not meet the need? Bluetooth headsets. Possibly the fields in question do not have coverage? If so then you are likely to have the same trouble with 2-way radios. Amateur radio mobile radios are commonly available with 50W transmit power. Amateur radio...

”A Subaru dealer.” Subaru does not tell dealers who to allow test drives. A Subaru dealer allowed my 80+ year old parents to test drive. Then they bought. They wanted EyeSight. You are Tesla’s prime customer. Old enough to know your finances. One who might very likely buy once one experiences...

Today’s battery technology is limited by our understanding of chemistry. It took 140 years to get the internal combustion engine to where it is now. 1970’s Popular Science EVs had problems with electric motor controllers. Used relays to recombine battery cells to control motor speed. I remember...

Meh. You already have at least 1000 VAC on the utility pole. Around here they’ll power at least a dozen homes with 400A service before tapping a larger source. There are some really big problems to make fuel cells economically. And once that is overcome there is the problem of very poor...

Tesla Store staff are not paid on commission. Tesla rightly does not bow to state legislatures such as Alabama who grant the exclusive rights to operate new automobile dealerships to the Auto Dealer’s Association. Manufacturers are forbidden to sell to any other than a so-called “independent”...

No heavy hauling, yet, but am delighted with my 2.7EB but for the dipstick hole. I can't see it with the dipstick removed. Tied a florescent ziptie around the top so now I can see that shadowed by the dipstick to know when I'm finding the hole.

My retirement house will have at least 3 Tesla Powerwalls (or equivalent) plus ample solar panels that it will almost be off-grid.

The general problem with stamped decks is that thinner gauge metal was used. Often fail before rusting. The spindle bearing gives out. A pro I talked to had a definite preference for a smaller deck. Post above reminded me he probably was concerned about scalping. Mowing many lawns per day not...

ST trailer tires unless marked otherwise are only 65 MPH. A "K" speed rating. I agree most Chinese trailer tires are junk. Next time my open dirtbike trailer gets car tires.

Kallie can do it:

My CC dealer observed those who have many hours on twin stick ZTRs are not always comfortable with the single stick so CC makes most models both ways, same price. Those who are new to ZTRs love the single stick.

Mowing 50 times per year? So you will be keeping fresh gasoline running through it, not sitting a month or two to burn a tank? Park inside out of the weather? Then use E10. If stored outside in the rain then the unsealed vented gas tank will accumulate moisture. Ethanol isn't a problem until it...

Repeating that over and over again does not make it true. Farming does receive subsidized loans and guaranteed minimum commodity prices, but oil companies are not subsidized. What happens in the oil industry is that many necessary investments require specific provision in tax law to allow as a...

Yeah, they've been saying that for 100 years too. I own and drive a Tesla for the past 7 years. A Prius for 7 years before that. I reiterate you have been hiding under a rock only recently emerged and are now frightened of everything you see. A newbie. There has been a "breakthrough new battery...

Yes but the author is a talker not a doer. Read his biography at the bottom. "Maurizio has worked in the research field of gravitational waves and in space research projects as a design engineer. ..." Yes, a theoretical physicist. 48V is not going to reduce the number of wiring bundles. He has...

Tesla has gone through several generations on their production lines already because their original idealism didn't work. 42V is the same sort of idealism. In paper it is the perfect solution. Voltage stays below the 50VDC accepted human-safe threshold even when charging (48V exceeds). But in...

Meh. You assume “synthetic” is a magic elixir changing everything. In general the W number represents the base stock viscosity grade based on oil production technology pre-WWII. Since then much has been learned about which molecules are useful to lessen the viscosity decrease with temperature...

Golly, The Fed has always been such an expert at the economy perhaps I should change my mind! Lumber prices, used home prices, gasoline, spend-like-a-drunk-sailor Federal Government... $30T debt by end of the year. Inflation is coming and coming hard.

Before we had Venezuela to serve as a bad example, Jimmy Carter’s induced inflation was considered hyper. Should be 10% by end of the year.

The small square bar has a small kink.

... if there is no discount for cash, I agree. Further advantage if one can get zero or low interest is that one pays tge loan back with inflation devalued currency. $1000 5 years from now will not buy what it can today. I am expecting hyperinflation which will make today’s loans look even better.

Looks as if you already have the assembly off the tractor. So position the bend arched above an anvil, section of railroad rail, or hard wood. Then hammer it flat like a bent nail. Am guessing it won’t fit in your hydraulic press else do that. If you have two heavy pieces of steel that could...

That is very unusual because usually the dealer must pay part of your 0% interest loan. Which is why one should be able to get a cash discount equal to the dealer contribution commanded for a 0%.

I have Frog Togs jacket and pants. Some other brand bootie (Cortech?) Need a waterproof summer glove. Shoei RF1100 manages water and fogging better than most.

Waiting for friends to join me for a 128 mile ride for lunch (in the rain) this past Saturday.

Am not aware of a new tier for emissions coming in 2022. There is no Tier 5.

Considering it is RK, is not surprising. I haven't seen any evidence of more than half-assed effort to support their tractors. Box stores expect to sell then someone else do the support. Buy a John Deere or Cub Cadet mower at a box store then need warranty service. You will be told to go to a...

Not just an "I heard" but hard fact. One bad cell causes others to overcharge because the only practical means of limiting charge is voltage. The charging algorithm says, "I need to see 13.8V and I'm going to hammer it until I do." This is a Mercedes-Benz Original Equipment Bosch AGM with a bad...

Found myself caught on interstate, hailstorm, aluminum car (Tesla). Fortunately got under a bridge in time.

Lifted from the LA400UL Owner's Manual: Quit guessing. Get the opener's manual.

"Experts" do not want to tell car dealerships they have to let cars sit 4 hours to cool before draining the oil. If particles are so heavy then how is redistributing them throughout the engine before draining the oil an improvement? If so heavy then they are in the bottom of the crankcase pan...

Yeah, its really bad when one has to put the truck up on ramps to get under and remove the panel for access to the drain plug, then requires a box to stand on to put the new oil in! I use a short pencil to keep the yellow plug partially in the hole so as to keep everything from gushing out...

The V2 Supercharger is nominally 400VDC at 300A for 120 kW. The latest is 250 kW, a rate supported by only the latest versions. My 85 kWh battery from 2013 will only charge at 120 kW.

This is an old plot, before the Model 3, even before 100 kWh batteries. Model 3 charges at least twice as fast. Superchargers currently bing installed are capable of sourcing 250 kW. Only newer Model 3s can use that rate. The Superchargers used to produce this plot were limited to 120 kW. Home...

Yes but it charges slowly. See attached. In the picture the charge limit is set to about 215 miles, currently 158, yet estimates another 16 hours remain to reach 215. On 240VAC @ 40A it would be charging 29 MPH, not the 4 MPH shown. Screenshot of the Tesla app while my car charges.

Mine going to the spa to be spoiled. That is a Tesla employee and Tesla owned and operated rig picking up my car to take is 92 miles in, and 92 miles back.