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What would I do? This right here. I'll happily pay for a landscaper myself before burning a weekend, a tank of gas and my body in Hill County heat to work on the in-laws place, especially when I have my own stuff that needs to be done. Now if it was someone I actually liked it might be different ;)

Most businesses I've dealt with don't have the competence to organize something as simple as a child's birthday party without screwing it up.

There are a lot of reasons I might go with before just starting out with 'global conspiracy'. Maybe they had trouble predicting their supply chain recovery? Maybe there was prior uncertainty about the availability of these items? Maybe they were trying to hedge inflationary increases by...

This sounds like an SNL skit. If only Lorne Michaels still knew what comedy was.

I don’t necessarily agree with all your theories but I always enjoy your insight. You seem to be one of the few who bases their opinions on more than just “because that’s what CNN/FOX news told me”. 10 thumbs up for you sir.

This thread is starting to veer off course but I’ll comment by saying I’ve worked in high tech among the top 5 for 30 years and every last one will gladly hire anyone anywhere if it means they can save 7 cents a year. White, brown, male, female, American or foreign, they don’t care at all. All...

Here in Oklahoma the fire ants and ticks seem to have signed a nonaggression pact with each other. Instead they both target their common enemy which is us.

Can’t really comment on attracting feral cats but if you want a critter to get rid of mice, rats, and gophers, a cat is a poor choice. Get yourself a miniature dachshund or a rat terrier. That’s what they were created to do and will out hunt a cat 10:1. We have a mini dachshund and she’s a...

$60 a pound for crab?!? How many pounds did you buy?

I’ll echo what some others have said and suggest you may want to rethink the chipping. We had that exact same idea but once we realized how much wood you have to feed through a chipper to get a bucket of chips, and how much work is required to prep the wood before running it through the chipper...

I’m glad you posted this because I was just thinking the same thing. We’ve never seen ticks as bad as they are this year but I have no idea why. Starting to get a lot of feedback from the wife that Something Must Be Done too. We use permethrin on the goats and they seem to be tick free but when...

Don't take the bait Puffy, be strong and just keep walking...

That sir is an excellent question! I've asked myself that before yet here I am. I guess deep down I feel people want to learn even though logically I know that's not true. People just want to be right and have their team win. I'm going to try to avoid these topics going forward - wish me luck.

Oh, gotcha, well my ego is OK if that's what you're worried about. Didn't mean for it to come off as defensive, it's just that these threads always turn into Groundhog Day where people go round and round chasing their tail. Pro: EV's are cool, amirite? Con: Ma grid! It's a conspiracy. Ma birds...

Sorry, I didn't intend to hit anyone's ego - no reason to take any of this personally. I've been planning to go EV for a while, not because I'm a tree hugger but because it makes economic sense. That and I don't want to be under the thumb of our local electric bureaucracy. If anyone wants to...

You never appreciate how much you need a mower until you don't have one ;) If it helps, I've been mowing about 6 acres a week for over 5 years now with a mower with a stamped deck (9 gauge) and have never had an issue. I've probably cleared a couple acres of pasture with it too, going through...

Would I buy an EV today? Absolutely. The real question is can you, and with demand crushing supply you'd be lucky to get one in 2-3 years even if you put a deposit down today. With gas prices averaging almost $5 a gallon the demand will only grow. Just wait till it's $10. If you're all wound up...

I know right? My neighbor makes a lot of cash selling drugs so why should I punish myself and miss out on that kind of profit when he isn't? I'm not going to do the right thing until everyone else does the right thing first.

I'm very much not a green hippie commie, there's just no ignoring the science any longer whether you're on the right or the left IMO. In fact I used to be a denier but today I'd say I was wrong on that one. We all make the best decisions we can with the data we have at the time, and I have no...

The problems Texas had was because they failed to prepare the way they were told to. Because, you know, that would cost money and be hard and stuff. To their credit they’re a leader in clean energy. They generate more electricity with wind and solar than they do with coal, although about half...

That's what a lot of people seem to be doing. The rate of growth for the global population has been falling since the late 60s and is expected to hit 0 in another 40 years. The bad news is it'll still grow another 40% before we get there. Japan's population has been declining for about a decade...

You miss the point. The point is if people are going to get on their sanctimonious high horse about how awful so-called clean energy is, why are they not concerned with how awful the impacts of petroleum are, which are several orders of magnitude worse? The point is you can't give up on trying...

For every bird killed by a windmill, 1000 more are killed by the windows in your house and up to 4000 more are killed by cats. While you're mourning the death of that poor bird, keep in mind that back in 2015 the government released their findings of the damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon...

That's kinda been my argument too, and I think there are just as many people doing it to save money as there are to save the planet. You see people just like that all across this forum. Solar means no more reliance on the whims of a bureaucratic monopoly and inflationary energy markets. It means...

The concept of "clean energy" is not the black and white issue many want it to be. Some things are cleaner than others, sometimes by a little and sometimes by a lot, and most people know that. They also know waiting around for a perfect solution is simply an argument to do nothing. All that...

In 2020 almost 40% of all farm income was government subsidies/handouts. In the past 25 years it’s totaled almost half a trillion dollars. If you had a stack of $100 bills that equaled half a trillion dollars it would literally reach higher than the International Space Station. If you made...

Never is a very long time. Don’t underestimate what we humans are capable of achieving.

Probably where you would mount the continuum transfunctioner, if you had it.

It's not just land where people can't reconcile their beliefs. Pollution and death from harvesting and burning petroleum? Who cares. Somebody opens a lithium mine? Then it's "Won't someone think of the environment!?!" Somebody wants to build a windmill? It's "Won't someone think of those poor...

Like server farms and cube farms, but not to be confused with farm leagues.

Towing a trailer up a mountain with either a 4 banger Corolla or a Prius is a bad idea. Seems that dumb people always find a way to be dumb. For towing, the power delivery of an EV drivetrain is inherently superior to any ICE, the only limitation is how fast and easy it might (not) be to get...

Check out the Deere Z530R, it’s really close to your price range. I bought it’s predecessor (Z540R) and have been mowing about 6-7 acres a week since I got it almost 6 years ago. I’ve abused that thing by hauling logs, clearing pasture, etc and it still runs and cuts like new. Used as it was...

My comment has nothing to do with this particular thread and is not directed at any specific person, but there's very little relationship between education and intelligence. I'd go so far as to say they're totally unrelated but that's just my opinion after meeting so many highly educated morons...

The problem isn't using farmland to build solar farms, it's that we lack the vision to see beyond centralized power distribution. All that feeds into many people's desire for something - anything - to keep change and progress from happening.

That's a scam as old as the day is long. They'll keep doing it as long as there are rubes out there who continue to fall for it.

The Tesla Semi is finally available for order, you just need $20,000 per to reserve yours today. The 500 mile range version will go for $180,000 (vs $120,00 for the average diesel semi). According to their calculations, the savings by going electric will pay for the cost difference in 2 years...

You can lead a horse to water....

Karma is real.

Not sure if you're just kidding around but there's plenty of malware out there targeted at Linux. XorDDoS, Mozi, etc. Linux has all the vulnerabilities, patches, and everything else any other computer system has including AV software. The Equifax breach of '17 that compromised the personal...

One out of every four new cars sold is a lease so lots of people have already freely adopted the subscription model. Beyond that, we cling to the idea of owning a personal transportation device because that's all we've ever known, but in the age of autonomous self-driving there will eventually...

Same here. What's the dollar value of not having your wife or daughter get stuck in the ghetto at midnight with a broken down car? Or the dollar value of losing your job because your car broke down and now you have no way to get there? If you don't have a choice you make due, but I've owned...

I'm brand loyal to only one thing - my tractor. Or maybe I should say I'm loyal to the history and demonstrated commitment to being there locally to support me should I ever need it.

Until the payment of ransom is illegal this will continue.

Exactly. Why did the dealer do all of these wonderful things for you? Because in the business sense they are smart enough to know that it will earn them more money. Maybe not today, and maybe not even from you, but it will someday from somebody.

You'll need to take that up with the likes of the Harvard Business School then. Why does a corporation do things that serve it's customers? To make money. Why does a corporation do things that serve it's community? To make money. Why does a corporation donate to political groups and charities...

I have a daughter who just graduated State U with a business degree and landed her first job a couple months ago. Adjusted for inflation, she's making almost as much as my wife and I made combined when we were her age. Another daughter who never got her college degree is making more than my wife...

We have a 1000 ft drive and for road maintenance a land plane is the way to go (which I have) but there are times when I wish I also had a rear blade (which I’ll be buying soon). I’ve cut a few small dirt roads too. If you’re doing a lot of that you’ll probably want one with rippers - some have...

Tried subsoiling as part of a many-year quest to fix a drainage problem. All it got me was a lot of wasted time and money.

Off topic but if you ever lived in Paris you’d quickly learn to hate diesel cars. That black soot covers everything. Spend enough time there and when you blew your nose it would come out black. Literally.

New Report Suggests Tesla Will Dominate S&P 500 By 2030 Tesla may be severely undervalued, even with shares floating around $1,000 per share, according to a report written by Worm Capital researcher Cameron Tierney and partner Eric Markowitz recently reported by Fast Company. In the report...

Something definitely seems off. I run a Frontier 5ft reverse tine tiller behind a 3032e and it goes through grass covered Oklahoma clay like it was butter. I'm told what we have is technically "silty clay" but it holds water and looks like plain old clay to me. The last half acre deer plot I put...

Last year Tesla's net income was $5.5 billion and revenue was $53.8 billion. Pollution credit sales were around $1.5 billion of that. Lunch is never free but some lunches are a whole lot better than others.

I worried about that sort of thing 40 years ago. I worked in a shop and was constantly exposed to used motor oil which is a known carcinogen. Probably had both arms covered in it up to the elbow 40 hours a week. Nowadays most wear nitrile gloves but we weren't so smart back in the 80s.

Speaking of performance, an electric Corvette is coming next year: "We will have an electrified Corvette next year, so it's coming very quick," General Motors President Mark Reuss told CNBC on Monday. An "electrified" Corvette will be available first, with a "fully electric Corvette" to follow...

CDRs and DVDRs have a very finite lifespan. They make archival grade discs which they claim will last 100 years but I very highly doubt it. It's quite common to find 15 year old discs that are unreadable - both commercial and home grown. If I had one that was 20 years old I would frankly be...

That's only because the Tesla is speed governed to a max of 175mph. It's capable of much higher top speeds and there's a software update coming (allegedly) that will allow it to break 200mph. Not that you'd ever want to drive one that fast. A couple years ago electric dragsters broke the 200mph...

It's difficult to envision tomorrow when you limit yourself to what's possible today. At some point people also lose the ability to adapt to change which is where you get most of your naysayers. My mother still thinks she needs to drive to the bank to make a deposit, or fill out paper forms to...

Electric drivetrains offer so many advantages on the battlefield with the exception of charging. Better torque than a diesel, lots less maintenance and parts are required, it's quieter and stealthier because it offers less of a heat signature, etc. Then there's all the supply line problems you...

Tech people know what the cloud means. I prefer to look at it like this: Who's going to do a better job securing and managing your IT workloads - a world leading company that specializes in securing and managing IT workloads or a company that makes tractors? A company like JD wants to build...

Formula E has been going on for about 8 years now and they easily out accelerate any NASCAR car. EVs have been competitive at Pikes Peak for a while now too, including the current world record holder. Interesting trivia: Motortrend has only recorded one car quicker than a Tesla Model S Plaid 4...

I dream of the day I get to replace my gas ZTR with an electric - no more gas cans, oil changes, spark plugs, air filters, belts, valve adjustments, noise, smell, carb problems, etc etc. I mow around 6-7 acres each week and the gas alone runs about $100 a month. Throw in all the maintenance and...

Not only that but unless you're storing your backups offsite then you're exposing yourself to data loss. Worked with a guy who thought backing up to a 2nd external drive was enough until someone broke into his house and stole all his equipment. Countless years of family pics and other...

I bought a Greenworks G-MAX chainsaw a couple years ago and it basically retired my gas Stihl. Just cut down a 22" tree last weekend with it. It won't cut as fast as a gas saw but since there's no starting and no gas to mess with it's worth it IMO. I can't see me ever buying another gas powered saw.

I'll second that, I've wasted a ton of money trying to outsmart the future. When the people who do it for a living can't get it right why would I think I could?

You're right, when you make $15 million a year you probably don't want to live in a state with an income tax. My point was more directed towards those who mistakenly think no state income tax is automatically better when it isn't. There are some cases where it's better and others where it's not...

I have a place where there’s no state income tax and one where there is. They both get their money one way or the other.

These people don’t seem very bright: “Prosecutors said the company’s failure to take steps to protect eagles or to obtain permits to kill the birds gave it an advantage over competitors that did take such steps” This was after being warned, and after being provided with advice on how to...

Once you give a prisoner a taste of freedom it's hard getting them back in their cages.

If it's a hobby and that's how you want to spend your free time that's one thing, but if you're doing it to save money that's another story. We raise chickens and goats and assuming your time has any value at all I'd guess we pay 3x what we would in a store, but we don't go into with the...

Or just get more people to go solar and sell electricity back to the grid. In 10 years I fully expect to be pulling nothing from the grid at all. God willing I won't be spending money at gas stations either.

Wow, 300 miles a day is a lot of driving. With gas at $4 a gallon and your average across all cars at something like 25mpg that's $48 a day just to buy fuel. That's $1,460 a month or $17,500 a year. Using national averages, switching to EVs would save about $900 every month in fuel costs alone...

It sure isn't, and fuel is but a pittance. If every man, woman and child in the US contributed the same amount, a family of four would have to write a check for about $1,000 every month just to pay for warfighting.

Wow, the wheels came totally off this thread.

They will, we're just in the early adopter phase of the transition right now. The higher the price the higher the margins so as long as manufacturers have year+ waitlists for $80,000 EVs they're going to target that market first. The first cellphones literally cost thousands of dollars, now...

It's not a new company - yet - they're just splitting the businesses internally. Everyone who makes it their business knows the ICE is dead, this is just Ford's way of preparing to spin off and jettison all the old legacy stuff at some point down the road. EVs represent 1 out of every 12...

I've never seen a small town store go out of business that wasn't just begging for it to happen. There was a thread on that earlier but the short version is if you have very little in stock and keep bankers hours you can't complain when someone else who does business better takes your customers...

Not sure why so many hate successful people. We were supposed to hate Gates, then the Waltons, then Jobs, then Musk, etc. We say we like capitalism and free markets then get pissed off when someone gets rich by selling people stuff they want and happily pay for because it makes their lives...

In my experience they generally don’t care about personal use amounts of just about anything consumable, up to and including things that might get you arrested in some states. I figure it’s best to only declare the obvious and plead stupidity if they find anything else because worst case is they...

Easy for me to say since I don’t need to buy a tractor but I wouldn’t do business with someone like that. It says a lot about their character IMO, and I try hard to not enable those types of people. There were some auto dealers doing the same shady stuff and the manufacturers basically said that...

They might argue it was a little more complicated than that but when you’re Elon Musk you can do a lot of things others cannot, even those in the gov’t, not in that timeframe anyway.

I drive by a couple Deere and Kubota dealers every week and they both seem to have plenty of machines on the lot. It could be they're already sold and just waiting on delivery but there seems to be no shortage of those tractors around here.

My uncle spent his life working at GM and had a great pension. Then they went bankrupt and took most of “his” pension money away. Me, I never had a pension or a union but my employer has a 401k match. I’ll retire with far more wealth than he ever had no matter what may happen to the company and...

It’s confusing because we think time actually exists. It’s generally accepted in quantum mechanics that time as we think of it is simply an illusion.

Most gamers would even consider 100ms unacceptable.

That’s exactly my point - most people don’t know the difference between speed and latency. Everybody wants to talk about speed but they never mention latency.

This is what drives me crazy. Satellite Internet like old school HughsNet say they’re “high speed” which sometimes they are, but it’s the latency that kills you. Try having a Skype meeting when you have a half second or more latency. The politicians and people like them in charge of fixing the...

It doesn’t really matter where it’s made, what’s important is who‘s standing behind it. I’ve said this before but when you buy a big ticket item like a tractor you’re buying the brand not the machine. Or you should be anyway. Lots of people try to save a buck because they think they can get a...

No telling what aliens might look like on their home planet but if we’re ever contacted by an extraterrestrial civilization it will be in the form of a machine. We almost exclusively explore space with machines/probes so they’d probably be no different.

I've been on the waiting list for at least a year now :(

I figure if the company you work for is so bad that you truly need a union then you're living on borrowed time anyway. The company will either eat your soul or outsource you the first chance they get. If you have the skills to leave you should do so, and if you don't you're just postponing the...

That is annoying. It really aggravates me in-store as well when it's just a phone call. I've been in countless places with money in handing trying to buy something and the 2 employees they have are totally consumed talking to people on the phone. How about dealing with the customers that are...

If all that was on their website they wouldn't have that problem ;) If it works when selling custom configured $80,000 automobiles surely they can figure out how to do it for a tractor and a land plane.

I’d guess Mahindra, they’re out of India and big in that region. Mahindra makes decent stuff so it’s probably more operator error vs bad machine. Have you driven in India? Yikes.

WOW! Sounds like you got a steal. I’ve never owned one but Toro has a great reputation. You decide you don’t want it let me know and I’ll pay what you paid even if it’s on fire.

It's like it always was just on steroids. You can't have 3 felony convictions, face tattoos and no education and still expect to find a job that provides a "decent living" no matter how desperate businesses get. OTOH, if you have marketable skills and a personality this side of toxic it should...

This is what many fail to understand about Amazon's business model and success - it has nothing to do with price, it's all about service and convenience. It's like having a personal shopper where you can tell it you need to buy this random list of things, then instead of you having to spend your...

Some of you guys are fancy. My stretcher is a couple 2x4s bolted together pulled with a block and tackle. I've installed a bunch of woven and welded wire fencing and as long as I did it 100 feet at a time I could even do it by myself. Anything more gets too heavy unless you have someone to...

We haven't had a landline in at least 10 years now. I only know one person that still does and she's almost 90 - you know what they say about old dogs and new tricks. The SO and I were actually talking about this other day, wondering when they were going to finally kill off the ancient POTS...

I'm not sure people use cell phones to make phone calls any more ;)

My first thought is whether you're sure you're checking the right dipstick. Yeah, sounds dumb and I'm sure you know what you're doing, but my tractor has a bunch of dipsticks so I can imagine a scenario where that could maybe happen. Otherwise the dipstick should have the same oil on it as what...

Exactly. If you think businesses and people had more values and were more moral "back in the day", or that crime wasn't as bad, or a lot of things, history would disagree with you. We used to enslave other humans for profit and call it righteous, we'd straight up murder fellow Americans who...

I still bought mine from a brick and mortar dealer, I just didn’t do any in-person shopping there. But yeah, you would hope a dealer would treat you right either way but who knows.

You’re right, and if there’s one thing the covid lockdowns taught us it’s that consumers won‘t tolerate that old school dealership model any longer. Dealers will either need to get onboard or die. Same goes for tractors. I bought a Deere right after covid started and never even saw it until I...

The government doesn’t have a monopoly on stupid. Where I work all staffing is done using the ‘warm body’ method, meaning that if the math says you need 10 people to do a job then any 10 people will do. You lose an engineer with 15 years experience? No problem, just hire some noob off the street...

My mother had a car in similar condition - 24 years old but only a couple thousand miles. Always meticulously maintained by the dealer she bought it from. That was the car that taught me age was just as important as mileage when it came to used vehicles.

I'll just start by saying that if a tractor is worth $22k on the used market you're not getting it for $11k. Or if you are it's only because you're the biggest sucker, you just haven't figured out exactly why yet. But you will. That's assuming you're planning on using it versus a dealer who only...

So you're saying it's just like farming and the oil and gas industry then. Won't argue that one.

Quality benefits cost an employer around $8 an hour all up - that's a good healthcare plan where your family can actually afford to see a doctor when needed, 401k, stock plan, etc. I've seen so many young folks pass up an offer because another was higher but they never take into account the...

I figure "price on request" is just code for "we'll decide how much to charge once we see how much we can screw you over". Not playing that game.

I think you hit the nail on the head. People today are even buying houses via email and the web so if you're ignoring that part of your business you may not have one soon, and there's a lot of that older/rural demographic that really struggles with this. Today in the modern world, the thought of...

This is one of those where the consumer knows Deere’s only real competitor is Kubota so that becomes their weapon of choice to stir the pot. Want to make a dig at Chevy because you’re mad at them? Easy, just say you should have bought a Ford. It’s the best way they can think of to hurt a brand...

Sounds like maybe you got bad one. DPF has been proven reliable and they’ve been around for well over 30 years. You don’t need to run it any different than an old smoky tractor and unless you’re doing a parked regen you don’t use any more fuel. I’ve never done a parked regen but when it does a...

I think you mean rich enough. If I had Elon Musk money everyone in my family would be getting one for Christmas ;)

The guy said he wasn't going to investigate or even fight it so it sounds like his claims for a survey are total BS: "During the investigation, Jones later told officers that he wanted to take responsibility for the incident, be fined and move on. Jones told investigators that he never lived on...

That seems to be most companies these days (using paying customers as beta testers). Being in high tech I can say there are a lot of reasons for that, some are good and some are bad. It does sound like Deere let some farmers try out their autonomous tractor though. According to this article...

I'm all ears and eager to learn - educate me.

Looks great! I've thought about doing something similar using a flat rack but an old trailer might be cheaper assuming you could get someone to deliver it.

Probably going the way of pickups trucks. Farming folks think a stripped down single cab long box is ideal whereas the rich urban cowboy wants leather, self-driving, a Bose stereo and massaging seats for $80,000. Guess which one they sell more of?

That's like the EV thread that got closed - if you try hard enough you can always imagine a scenario where there will be an issue. I don't know much about these million dollar rigs but I'd assume it would be fairly trivial to build sensors to detect such problems, and when detected it messages...

Not sure how they claim it would cost $100,000 to replace since you can't just go out and buy a growing, planted, 100+ year old black walnut tree that's 5.5 feet in diameter (!). IMO it's essentially priceless because it cannot be replaced as it was before it was cut down. Regardless, this is...

Serious question because I don't know, but what are these other fully autonomous tractors that have been around for years? Deere's system isn't just GPS guidance where it blindly follows some preplanned route, it uses 12 different cameras to see it's environment and can actively avoid obstacles...

I was trying to make a joke and apparently failed. My bad. I was simply commenting on the faulty logic where someone was arguing that paying extra in taxes just so that the money could be spent on subsidies for food would somehow magically make that food cheaper for everyone. That's not really...

That's crazy talk. Current food prices + taxes to pay for subsidies is less than what we would pay in a free market. Current health prices + taxes to pay for subsidies is more than we would pay in a free market. See how that works?

Oh man did you come to the wrong forum. This one here just so happens to be populated by expert climate scientists who have spent their lives doing research on the topic and they formally concluded that it's nonsense and/or a conspiracy. You should probably focus on complaining about how much...

This, and that goes for individuals too. So many hold on to the antiquated idea that debt is bad, and it can be when not used properly, but assuming you're someone who makes responsible financial decisions then carrying debt is just another way to make money. That goes triple for right now when...

Not sure I get the whole 'we should be OK with people damaging others property because they're boys and stuff' but whatever. I'd hope the bar for raising kids would be a little higher but that's probably a topic for a different thread. Anyway, I've been fighting a similar problem for years...

This. We had the same problem and it was a plastic McDonalds lid that apparently fell in, got flushed, and got stuck somewhere in the toilet (thanks kids). Had flushmates throughout the house at one point but they don't last and I went back to regular. If you have a modern water saver toilet and...

Some would argue that free market capitalism was already completely upended by the oil and gas industry and the government's desire to make petroleum cheap and accessible, and that the failure to price-in environmental damage was because we didn't want to, not because we couldn't. Without the US...

What can't be understated is what this really represents. The best and brightest minds on planet Earth are working on EVs and EV related tech. Not just car people but top tech talent too. Before they all wanted to work for Apple or Microsoft or Google, now they want to work for Tesla and Rivian...

Same here. I had a dealer I liked which is where I bought my Z540R (great mower btw) and they got sucked into the UAT collective. That's something I was not a fan of for a lot of reasons but I've come to make peace with it. Bought my 3032E from a UAT dealer (different one) and I've been...

You sound a lot like me. Unfortunately the Kubota treadle was a total deal breaker so that wasn't an option. I tried hard to like it too. The Deere 3033R was ideal but more than I wanted to spend. I looked at the Kioti and really liked it too, and actually had a deal to buy a CK3510 but the...

Man that looks nice! Did you do all that yourself? Restoring a classic has been on my bucket list for decades, just always seem to be lacking either money or time. Kind of related but you wonder what the classic car scene will look like with ICE going the way of horse drawn plows. Chevy...

Not sure if this was already mentioned but: Hyundai Cancels Internal Combustion Engine Development ... Forever "...the Powertrain Team has been converted to the Electrification Development Team that will delve into all things EV, including research and development for future Hyundai products...

Like this: Blink Mobile EV Charging Station : Blink Charging or this: Electric Vehicle Mobile Charging | SparkCharge There's also vehicle to vehicle charging, like this: 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Offers Available V2V Charging Running out of battery is/will be no different than running out of...

Can't happen soon enough. I found this part interesting: "However, some reports indicate that some dealers may be dinging customers up to $30,000 extra to be among the first to receive their vehicles." The dealership model isn't just dying, it's committing suicide.

The term EV is a catch-all for any vehicle that is powered by an electric motor vs an ICE, hence "electric vehicle". The only difference is where that electricity comes from. Some are purely battery based (plug-in), some are half and half, and some are only charged by driving which includes gas...

Tesla shares up 12%, as EV deliveries smash estimates Tesla sales were up 87% with almost a million vehicles sold and that was with a chip shortage. Production at the new Giga factory in Austin should start this week and it will be able to build a million cars a year all by itself. With demand...

Quantum entanglement is a fascinating topic and really makes you wonder how this universe actually works, not to mention how limiting it is to try to define it in physical terms we understand today. It's no wonder we've historically attributed so much of the workings of the world to supernatural...

I think you’re right. I talk to Europeans who travel 250 miles to another country and think they’re worldly, international jetsetters who are so much more knowledgeable and cultured than those Americans who never leave the US. It makes me wonder if they realize how large and diverse the US is...

Top Electric Car Predictions For 2022 New Years is the time for predictions so here are some about EVs for 2022. It’s interesting how some of these concerns were mentioned in this forum. - Used EVs make them more accessible to middle and low income families. - Demand for used and leased EVs...

Check the size of your main breaker.

Having owned a Lexus and a Toyota I’d agree they’re terribly overrated. Toyotas used to be great but the newer ones aren’t even as good as a Kia IMO, although Kia makes pretty good stuff. My last Toyota was probably the worst, most boring modern car I’ve ever owned. Lord I hated that car. I...

Very true, and that's the case whether you're in the city or the country - people don't generally travel to steal. If you get your car broken into or something stolen from your property, odds are it's one of your neighbors.

I don't know what the Farmer's Almanac predicted but we had the warmest Christmas ever recorded :(

All EVs are compatible with the standard J1772 connector for L2 charging. They’re everywhere and that’s the only type of charger you’re going to see in homes. For L3 charging the standard is quickly becoming CCS and EV makers either support CCS now or offer a converter. I think Tesla’s is a...

Only semi-related but Wyoming is also the place for digital currency because of their very friendly blockchain laws. If that’s your thing, odds are good you cryptomine in Oklahoma and domicile in Wyoming.

You’re still trying to envision the future through the limitations that exist today. They already have chargers that can charge a battery full up in 15 minutes, what will it be in 10 years? A minute or two, like it does to fill up with gas? People don’t have individual gas stations in their...

That's not an EV problem, that's an early adopter problem. The first cellphone cost about $10,000 in todays dollars. The first HD TVs were around $8,000. Now even the poorest of the poor has them. It's always like that and the EV revolution will be no different.

2% was last years numbers and only for the US. This year it more than doubled to over 5%, and globally about 1 out of every 12 cars sold is an EV. In Europe 1 out of every 4 new cars sold is an EV. What growth rate/market share numbers do we need to qualify it being a sea change?

That's Radiant's micro High Temperature Gas Reactor. Not sure what Elon Musk has to do with it other than Radiant was co-founded by former SpaceX engineers. They were originally researched as a way to provide power for the Mars colony. Coincidentally Bill Gates is big into nuclear power with...

https://www.intelligentliving.co/roads-that-charge-electric-cars-wirelessly-springing-up-everywhere/

Reminds me of the stories about the gold rush where the people who really made cash were the ones selling supplies to the miners, not the ones breaking their backs panning for gold. Great lesson there if you're the entrepreneurial type.

Weird, I have a 6.2l Chevy motor in one of my vehicles and I can never tell when it switches to 4 cyl vs 8. You'd only know by the tiny light that changes color in the dash.

This assumes people will continue to drive as much as they did pre-pandemic. They aren't now but maybe they will in another few years. This also assumes that electric companies generate at max output 24x7, which they don't. And this assumes no advancements to the current system, like onsite...

Europe: Plug-Ins Accounted For 26% Of New Car Sales In November 2021 Auto executives say more than half of U.S. car sales will be EVs by 2030, KPMG survey shows If the supply of batteries could keep up with demand, these numbers would be even higher.

Ford Pro Power Onboard wins the 2021 Autoblog Technology of the Year Award "If you have the top-of-the-line 7.2-kilowatt system available on the F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid, the capabilities are mind-boggling. You can plug in a 120V plasma cutter, 120V TiG welder, chop saw, 1.5-horsepower air...

Don’t really see how you came to that conclusion but that’s OK.

Except the AC and heater wouldn’t work which they would in an EV. I turn my auto start/stop off in the summer because it’ll be 95 degrees and you get to a light and everything turns off. In the south you can never not have AC if you want to be remotely comfortable - it runs 100% of the time in...

That’s all you see in North Texas and SE Oklahoma. What you don’t get much of is snow. I’ll take a snow storm any day over ice.

FedEx receives its first fully-electric GM Brightdrop delivery vans “While FedEx has thrown its electric delivery lot in with GM, rival UPS has ordered 10,000 electric delivery trucks from UK-based Arrival Ltd. Amazon, meanwhile, placed an order for 100,000 Rivian electric delivery vans and...

Here you go Fact Check-Electric cars not more likely to get stuck in traffic jams Assuming you trust Oxford scientists “typical stationary electric vehicle (EV) with full battery could likely run its climate settings and electronics for “at least a day, probably many days”” When the day...

That’s the great thing about EVs - when you’re stuck in traffic it uses no battery. Whether it takes you an hour to go 50 miles or it takes you two days, it’s all pretty much the same.

If it helps, the bottom 61% of Americans pay no federal income tax, so it’s really ‘rich’ people subsidizing other ‘rich’ people. Unless it’s someone in the bottom 61% buying that EV of course.

The whole “stuff is so much more expensive today” thing is largely a manufactured myth. I won’t speculate on why this myth is pushed as hard as it is. Housing prices are the gold standard but only when you compare median home prices and assume that houses today are the same as they were 40 years...

I think you’re right. Not everyone wants the social remoteness of living in the country, and while working from home will continue to be a thing, office time will still be required for most. Plus anyone with school aged kids won’t want to be in the sticks. At first I thought there would be a...

Try shopping for commercial real estate in Austin or Dallas. The exodus of people and businesses from California and similar states has created a boom with demand and prices at all time highs. The amount of growth is staggering.

The demise of Burger Chef may be the biggest American tragedy in all of history. I used to love that place.

That’s called slave labor. Just because you’re provided with food and shelter doesn’t change that ;) I‘d contend that we have plenty of resources, we just choose to spend it on other things. For example, we could spend a third of our entire US budget on waging war, like we do now, or we could...

Agreed, but in the 'no jobs' scenario they're envisioning the UBI covers your entire cost of living. As long as people have enough for rent, cat food, and their cell phone they don't need a job or hope. That's the whole idea.

You can order it from a couple places in Texas and they ship nationwide. Chef Jesse Griffiths Is Begging You to Eat Wild Hog Coincidentally I plan on shooting a couple feral hogs this weekend.

Sounds cheap to me too. Tractors are impossible to find and the 3046R is top of the line.

It’s called Universal Basic Income (UBI). Sounds good in theory but then so does communism.

This is why I don't like box blades, although considering where you are that actually doesn't look too bad. If you really want to get that road smooth maybe see if you can borrow a neighbors land plane. That'll do a far better job.

This so much. I’ve yet to see a Main St business go under that wasn’t begging to do so. They want to do things the way they want to do things and customers be damned, but that only works if there’s no competition. You ignore customers long enough and eventually someone else is going to come take...

Sounds like they just don’t like you. I ordered something yesterday and got it that night. Anything taking longer than 2 days to be on my doorstep is exceptionally rare, and I order a lot of stuff.

They need batteries. They've been road testing the Semi for while but I imagine they're taking advantage of the delay to do more work.

Deere knows what time it is. "Kreisel’s battery technology can be applied across the broad portfolio of Deere products, and Kreisel’s in-market experience will benefit Deere as we ramp up our battery-electric vehicle portfolio"

You now you're living in strange times when people complain about yet more jobs being created because businesses won't stop growing and expanding ;)

The much lower barrier to entry for EVs will enable a lot of new new ideas about what a vehicle should be, much like with the Rivian. I can see something like the Xbus being an ideal urban utility vehicle.

iPhone5 was 4G. What may be bigger is all the alarm systems and whatnot that still use 3G. If you have something that is not a phone that uses a cellular network, you'll probably want to see if it's 3G only. Cars, doorbells, garage door openers, medical devices, game cams, etc.

Ha! Exactly. Reminds me - wasn't there a big long thread recently about how pickups have gotten too darn big? The R1T splits the difference between a midsize truck like the Tacoma and a full size Silverado. Should be perfect for all the folks yelling at clouds about how 'back in my day' trucks...

I had seen this before and I was shocked. I knew screws were better but I had no idea they were that much better. Deck screws are way more expensive and take more time but I use them for just about everything.

After doing a ton of work in the woods clearing land, making trails and food plots, I had a new found appreciation for dent and rust resistant plastic panels. I shudder to think what a metal tractor would look like after I was done with it, but then dents really bother me especially when I'm...

Sounds like they knocked it out of the park. "Stand it next to legacy pickup trucks at the same price point, and it's equally competitive. We'll belabor the point one more time: The quality of design, engineering, materials, and technology on offer are as good as or better than any other...

Nirvana fallacy

Speaking of EVs, if you haven't heard about Blue Oval City you should check it out: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021/09/27/ford-to-lead-americas-shift-to-electric-vehicles.html. It's an 11 billion dollar investment to create the largest and most advanced production...

That sounds good but all laws are mandates. The fact that you’re used to them and accept them is the only difference. The regulations mandating the kind of vehicle you can buy and drive on a road today are as thick as the Bible. The government mandates mundane things like the kinds of plants you...

Everyone is "thinking of" quitting their job ;)

Seems Kubota did the bare minimum to meet some spec. That metal was so thin I wouldn't expect it to do much of anything.

In this case it was neither.

They typically don't define what you can do, just what you can't. Which pesticides they test for and allowable amounts (for OK) can be found here.

Right you are, I stand corrected. I guess I either don't know what a ROPS is supposed to actually do or Kubota's is terrible.

I agree with their line of thought although CEOs are liars. They're liars because they're politicians first and business people second, and that's simply what being a politician requires. What would be shocking is if oil company execs came out and said something different.

Kubota doesn't seem to say anywhere that it's a ROPS so it's probably just something to hold a canopy up and mount lights on. And the tires are called "tweels".

I know dieselgate was before his time but considering how shady VW is I wouldn’t want anything to do with their leadership team. What’s really interesting about the article is how it shows that unions are the real ones in charge in Germany. They make the UAW look like rank amateurs.

None. I know plenty who got it though.

This is like the EV discussion where people have no problem with pollution and gov't subsidies and all that until some industry they don't like starts doing it, then they magically become environmentalists who think the gov't shouldn't get involved.

Just a guess but if you said something to the guy and he ignored you then some lawyer could probably charge you as an accessory because you knew the danger and did nothing to physically stop him. Like a bartender serving a drunk guy who then goes out and kills someone. Getting involved could...