I think you need to try reading better. Nowhere did I say that asphalt and clay tiles are equivalent; I said precisely the opposite. And nowhere did I say that clay tile and asphalt roofs have similar labour. I said that solar shingles and clay tiles should have similar labour with a well-designed solar roofing project, which is absolutely true.
I'm pointing out that a person who has a glaring conflict of interest, has already been caught coordinating with the entity he was supposed to be investigating and forced to recuse himself on the topic, and who has already been accused by multiple sources of being flatly wrong on his claims in this memo, should not be taken at face value.
Vetted on a party line vote by people who have never seen the evidence?:
Sources: Devin Nunes Memo Is ‘100%’ Wrong About Andrew McCabe and Steele Dossier
Rep. Devin Nunes’ just-released surveillance memo claims that one of its central points about surveillance abuse at the FBI was affirmed by a senior FBI official. But two knowledgeable sources say the memo fundamentally mischaracterizes the official’s still-secret testimony.
Andrew McCabe, a frequent Donald Trump target, announced this week that he has relinquished his duties as deputy FBI director, accelerating his timetable for departure. The White House says Trump played no role in McCabe’s decision, though Trump’s son has tweeted that McCabe was fired.
The memo, released on Friday against FBI objections and with Trump’s approval, makes a particular claim against McCabe. In its attempt to claim that ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s salacious dossier played a central role in the surveillance of Trump aides—a claim the memo’s own admissions undermine—the memo claims that McCabe told the House intelligence committee that Steele was a pillar of information for a surveillance warrant application.
“Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information,” the memo claims, referring to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Asked if that was a true representation, a source familiar with McCabe’s testimony responded: “100% not.”
A senior Democratic House intelligence committee official agreed.
“The Majority purposefully mischaracterizes both what is actually contained in the FISA applications and the testimony of former FBI Deputy McCabe before our committee in December 2017—the Minority’s memo lays out the full facts,” the official said.
You do realize who Devin Nunes is, right? He was part of the Trump transition team, right in the middle of the Flynn mess. He is ostensibly recused from the Russia investigation - and not for that, but for his little escapades sneaking off into the White House in the middle of the night to coordinate conspiracy theories and give them information about the investigation against them. But he puts out some congressional fan fiction, which even Senate Republicans have been expressing hesitation about, and blocks the Dems from contradicting him, and... viola!
No, what's "impressively stupid and cunning" is having a member of your own transition team supposedly investigating you and writing propaganda memos while muzzling the opposition.
The Democrats on the committee are currently muzzled by the Republicans voting to release only the Nunes memo, but they have been able to specifically comment on a few claims and that was one of them:
... the Majority deliberately misstates the reason why DOJ specifically explained Russia’s role in courting Papadopoulos and the context in which to evaluate Russian approaches to Page.
The Majority suggests that the FBI failed to alert the court as to Mr. Steele’s potential political motivations or the political motivations of those who hired him, but this is not accurate. The GOP memo also claims that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele, but this is not at all why the article was referenced.
But of course, when you put a legal muzzle on your opponents, you can write whatever congressional fan fiction you want and present it as the truth. The only "stink to high heaven" is coming from Nunes and his enablers.
(Should I even bother to mention that Nunes is supposedly "recused" from the Russia investigation for his previous attempts to coordinate conspiracy theories with the White House (incl. sneaking off to the White House in the middle of the night), or that he was part of the freaking Trump transition team, deep in the middle of the Flynn mess? He'll be lucky if he doesn't end up indicted himself)
Which the memo (which was approved for release by a bipartisan committee
You know damned well that it was approved by a party line vote; that most of the committee had never seen the intelligence that Nunes claims to have based it on; and that there's a strongly dissenting minority memo (from Schiff, who has seen the intelligence), arguing that much of this memo is distortions and outright falsehoods, that the Republicans refused to release concurrent with this memo. That's pretty much the pinnacle of partisan hackery - using classified information to put out a hit piece while hiding contradictory evidence behind the barrier of classified information.
The solar roofing products are more interesting to me because they're not a "retrofit" tacked onto a house that was never designed for said product. When you're building a home you have to put a roof on either way, so with a well-designed solar roofing product (similar installation labour and design constraints), it's pretty much a no-brainer to go with it. While the solar shingles won't beat asphalt on price, they're reportedly priced similar to clay tiles and the like - and they should have tile-like lifespans, if not better.
Combined with a Powerwall it gives you A) timeshifting (beneficial if you have time-of-use power rates), a grid-tied inverter (incl. selling back to the grid), and a home battery backup (simple grid-tied inverters go down when the grid goes down and you use your solar; with a battery backup and secondary signal to drive the grid-tied inverter, however, you can get full power in the day and keep a limited subset of your appliances on at night until the grid comes back up.
I'm in a place where there's no sun all winter and grid power is both cheap and clean, and the house I'm building is underground anyway... so it's not for me. But most people aren't in my situation.
Also, I'm amazed that nobody has yet posted the House Intelligence Committee minority's response. They're still legally prohibited from releasing their memo (is their any way that Nunes could possibly have made this look more like a partisan hack job than that?), but they've stated all that they're legally allowed to:
“The Republican document mischaracterizes highly sensitive classified information that few Members of Congress have seen, and which Chairman Nunes himself chose not to review. It fails to provide vital context and information contained in DOJ’s FISA application and renewals, and ignores why and how the FBI initiated, and the Special Counsel has continued, its counterintelligence investigation into Russia’s election interference and links to the Trump campaign. The sole purpose of the Republican document is to circle the wagons around the White House and insulate the President. Tellingly, when asked whether the Republican staff who wrote the memo had coordinated its drafting with the White House, the Chairman refused to answer.
“The premise of the Nunes memo is that the FBI and DOJ corruptly sought a FISA warrant on a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, and deliberately misled the court as part of a systematic abuse of the FISA process. As the Minority memo makes clear, none of this is true. The FBI had good reason to be concerned about Carter Page and would have been derelict in its responsibility to protect the country had it not sought a FISA warrant.
“In order to understand the context in which the FBI sought a FISA warrant for Carter Page, it is necessary to understand how the investigation began, what other information the FBI had about Russia’s efforts to interfere with our election, and what the FBI knew about Carter Page prior to making application to the court – including Carter Page’s previous interactions with Russian intelligence operatives. This is set out in the Democratic response which the GOP so far refuses to make public.
“The authors of the GOP memo would like the country to believe that the investigation began with Christopher Steele and the dossier, and if they can just discredit Mr. Steele, they can make the whole investigation go away regardless of the Russians’ interference in our election or the role of the Trump campaign in that interference. This ignores the inconvenient fact that the investigation did not begin with, or arise from Christopher Steele or the dossier, and that the investigation would persist on the basis of wholly independent evidence had Christopher Steele never entered the picture.
“The DOJ appropriately provided the court with a comprehensive explanation of Russia’s election interference, including evidence that Russian agents courted another Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos. As we know from Papadopoulos’ guilty plea, Russian agents disclosed to Papadopoulos their possession of stolen Clinton emails and interest in a relationship with the campaign. In claiming that there is ‘no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos,’ the Majority deliberately misstates the reason why DOJ specifically explained Russia’s role in courting Papadopoulos and the context in which to evaluate Russian approaches to Page.
“The Majority suggests that the FBI failed to alert the court as to Mr. Steele’s potential political motivations or the political motivations of those who hired him, but this is not accurate. The GOP memo also claims that a Yahoo News article was used to corroborate Steele, but this is not at all why the article was referenced. These are but a few of the serious mischaracterizations of the FISA application. There are many more set out in the Democratic response, which we will again be seeking a vo
Yeah. You might want to be able to show that, say, he was previously involved with a known Russian crime ring, and is now travelling to Moscow and giving talks condemning the US while working for a presidential campaign.
Can't imagine why you might want to investigate whether such a person might be working as a foreign agent.
Also, of note concerning this memo: FISA applications are generally ~50-ish pages long. If we're to believe Nunes, it was nothing but a giant list of "Steele says this..." and "Steele says that", and "Please don't ask us anything about who this steel guy was", and the judge was like, "Sure, no need for that, the word of one person is good enough for a FISA warrant." Actually, no, because even Nunes himself contradicts this narrative when he briefly brings up George Papadopoulos, who was apparently also listed as justification. If we're to take Nunes at face value concerning him ("there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos"), the FBI said to the judge, "Hey, this guy Papadopoloulos is dirty, but has nothing to do with Carter Page, so let us spy on Page" and the judge said "Okay, that sounds logical" and granted approval.
Nunes mentions this in the same paragraph where he brings up his favourite FBI boogeyman, Strzok and - everyone prepare to be shocked - while working to portray him as part of a corrupt deep state conspiracy to elect Trump, doesn't bother to mention that Strzok advocated for and drafted the "Comey Letter" reopening the Clinton investigation, which cost her in polls more than her margin of loss in the key swing states. Aka, their boogeyman was a key figure in electing Trump.
Actually the tax incentives were designed by GM, not Tesla, and favour lower end vehicles (the "per-kWh" incentive was designed precisely for the pack size of the Volt), with Tesla as one of the biggest critics of the current incentive scheme; and as for the government loans, Tesla paid theirs back in full way early, with interest (while not all of the Big Three paid theirs back); but hey, clearly Tesla's the problem here.
Except that if its slowly sinking into the water vertically deep enough that the water can slow the rollover and the "whack"at the end, then you have water pressure to deal with.
Falcon 9 is thin alumium, not heavy stainless steel. And it's not a question of being buoyant, it's a question of not ripping the fragile skin/tank in the situation where the propellant has been used up. You have a structure the height of a 25 story building, built of thin alumium, falling over (after being dragged a couple stories into the water by the heavy engines at the bottom).
The only reason that the rocket doesn't collapse just from launching forces alone is the internal pressure. That's why they have the CF helium tanks, to maintain that. But I would think that the pressurant would be gone by this point. Perhaps they keep it fully pressurised through landing. Even still, that's a major whallop we're talking about here.
Yeah, this was a pretty mundane launch until that happened. A rocket not designed for water landings, assigned for disposal at sea while testing a new landing approach, apparently survived a water landing intact and afloat. How? Beats me. I'd think that, with its propellant and pressurant spent, it'd be crushed when it fell over. Or that those engines would drag it deep enough into the water to crush the tanks at the base. And once its ruptured, the whole thing (up to the bulkheads) can flood
But, there it is.... guess it's hardier than I thought. Probably a higher residual pressure than I assumed.
I've read a few things about how the most environmentally conscious thing you can do is drive a used vehicle rather than a new one due to manufacturing and such.
What you've read is wrong.
Go to scholar.google.com and start searching peer-reviewed studies.
Here's the interesting thing. Let's just say that Norway inexplicably stops their rapid rise on the S-curve and stalls out at a ~50% EV purchase rate. There will end up. As the number of EVs on the road increases toward that 50%, the already dense charging network would be expected to increase 10-20x to keep up with the growing numbers. But meanwhile the number of gasoline vehicles is declining. The number of gas stations would reduce to half.
Now imagine the situation for gas at 80% market penetration. 90%. 95%. And remember that gasoline vehicles must stop at stations; they can't "charge" elsewhere. Now think of what happens to gas prices as distribution networks get spread out and they basically lose economies of scale.
Model X, supercharging. Check out Björn Nýland on YouTube; he does courier deliveries in Norway towing trailers through the mountains.
To be more specific: I don't know what your trailer is like. I'll choose a reference energy consumption of 500 Wh/km (800Wh/mi) at 110 kph / 70mph, that should handle a good-sized one, so long as it's not shaped like a brick;). With A Better Routeplanner, I'll tell a Model X 100D to drive 60mph, 3 minutes stop overhead, 10C average outside temperature, minor headwind, dry roads. Sound fair? I don't know where you are in Texas or where you're going to in Montana; let's say Dallas to Billings. The calculated route between stops is:
Trip time, including recharging: 35 hours 40 minutes (1 1/2 days). Times two (there and back), that's 3 days out of your 11 (plus any overhead time you add for sleep). You have 8 days in Montana. When they add the trailer hitch option for the Model 3 it'll do even better.
Your breaks are 15-45 minutes each, except in Cheyenne, Lusk and Sherridan where they're 1 hour. I don't know if you're the "good night's sleep" type traveler or a "minimize the trip time, whatever the cost" traveler. If you're the former, the Cheyenne-Lusk area would be a good place to have your sleep. Actually could could cut off several hours if you overnighted at an RV park with a 50A in the Douglas/Glenrock/Casper area and avoided the Lusk-Spearfish-Gillette segment altogether (or, if they allowed your trailer in, the Hilton Garden Inn in Casper offers charging). On the other hand, if you're a "minimize the trip time, whatever the cost" person, you can avoid the need for a specific sleep stop altogether by power napping at superchargers (or slower chargers if you didn't feel that your power naps were long enough).
It's not a population density thing. The question is whether there is refueling infrastructure available. Go to remote parts of Alaska or Antarctica and an EV would rapidly become useless because there is simply no way to practically charge it.
Except of course that the supercharger network extends almost all the way up to Nordkapp (Norway's equivalent of Alaska's Point Barrow). The country is covered.
For literally $60 - maybe $200 installed - you can make any car remote-start.
And spend more time idling (engine wear, higher emissions), burn through a tank that you have to refill (at notably higher price) while standing outside in the cold, and if it's at all enclosed, build up carbon monoxide. Good deal!
Streaming media? That's commonly called a head unit, available everywhere for any car of any age
Lol, yes, totally the same thing.;)
Are we seriously going to pretend that I was giving an exhaustive list of differences between an old used Yaris and a new Tesla? Hey, go ahead and check your used Yaris's gas tank level from across the world. And while you're there, grant your friend remote keyless driving. But if you don't trust him that much, switch the Yaris into Valet Mode so that he can't do 0-60 in Ludicrous Mode (you know, like Ludicrous Mode on your old Yaris). But he'll probably just run with TACC or maybe autopilot on the Yaris anyway (if you have autopilot then you also have summon and autopark), and he's got forward collision / lane change warning and AEB regardless. You can track him remotely by GPS, but of course if he tries to drive the Yaris dead, based on his location, route, direction of travel, etc, will figure out whenever that's possible and try to redirect him to the nearest available gas station. When you get back, your old Yaris will of course remember your seat / steering wheel settings, so that when you're cruising along on your AWD air suspension config in a car with one of the highest safety ratings on Earth, you won't have to adjust anything before using the high-def backup camera on the huge high-res display while backing out of the space in which your side mirrors autofolded. Now, when you use your old used Yaris's voice commands to make a bluetooth call, I'm sure the 12 speaker sound is top notch, while the car adjusts its ride height relative to your speed of travel.....
I could keep going. It's bloody stupid to compare the price of a new sports sedan to a used econobox, as if they're remotely the same market segment.
Did they save $5k by not putting in a proper dashboard or even simple seat heater controls?
Ah yes, because when I want controls for things, I want them far away from my line of sight and away from my hands, rather than immediately beside the wheel, with buttons that are 3x3cm (1,2x1,2") wide and illuminated.
and have to constantly look off to the side to just check the "gauges" either.
Says someone who's clearly never owned a car with a central speedo (it's not even that central). You're looking predominantly "down" whether it's central or behind-the-wheel, but with central it's never blocked by the wheel or your arms, and it lets them lower the dashboard, which improves forward visibility. And what "gauges", exactly? Oil? RPM? You just have speed, charge remaining, and alerts. You have cruise control / TACC for the former, and the car won't let you forget about the latter when it matters. And it rarely matters because, unlike a gasoline car, you start out every day with a full "charge" and never even come remotely close to using it all.
A lot of things are less obvious, too. For example, lots of people were surprised to find that it's easier to get into a 3 than an S (not that an S is difficult) despite the 3 being smaller. This comes down to the dash moving somewhat forward. Why don't all cars move the dash forward? Because then you have to lean too much to control the vents. But the vents being computer controlled (and all at once rather than you having to fiddle with each one individually) means that there's no downside to moving the dash forward. The diffusing of the airflow across a larger area also means a lower flow velocity for a given mass flow rate, meaning less noise for a given cooling power.
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I think you need to try reading better. Nowhere did I say that asphalt and clay tiles are equivalent; I said precisely the opposite. And nowhere did I say that clay tile and asphalt roofs have similar labour. I said that solar shingles and clay tiles should have similar labour with a well-designed solar roofing project, which is absolutely true.
I'm pointing out that a person who has a glaring conflict of interest, has already been caught coordinating with the entity he was supposed to be investigating and forced to recuse himself on the topic, and who has already been accused by multiple sources of being flatly wrong on his claims in this memo, should not be taken at face value.
Should this even need pointing out?
Vetted on a party line vote by people who have never seen the evidence? :
You do realize who Devin Nunes is, right? He was part of the Trump transition team, right in the middle of the Flynn mess. He is ostensibly recused from the Russia investigation - and not for that, but for his little escapades sneaking off into the White House in the middle of the night to coordinate conspiracy theories and give them information about the investigation against them. But he puts out some congressional fan fiction, which even Senate Republicans have been expressing hesitation about, and blocks the Dems from contradicting him, and... viola!
No, what's "impressively stupid and cunning" is having a member of your own transition team supposedly investigating you and writing propaganda memos while muzzling the opposition.
The Democrats on the committee are currently muzzled by the Republicans voting to release only the Nunes memo, but they have been able to specifically comment on a few claims and that was one of them:
But of course, when you put a legal muzzle on your opponents, you can write whatever congressional fan fiction you want and present it as the truth. The only "stink to high heaven" is coming from Nunes and his enablers.
(Should I even bother to mention that Nunes is supposedly "recused" from the Russia investigation for his previous attempts to coordinate conspiracy theories with the White House (incl. sneaking off to the White House in the middle of the night), or that he was part of the freaking Trump transition team, deep in the middle of the Flynn mess? He'll be lucky if he doesn't end up indicted himself)
You know damned well that it was approved by a party line vote; that most of the committee had never seen the intelligence that Nunes claims to have based it on; and that there's a strongly dissenting minority memo (from Schiff, who has seen the intelligence), arguing that much of this memo is distortions and outright falsehoods, that the Republicans refused to release concurrent with this memo. That's pretty much the pinnacle of partisan hackery - using classified information to put out a hit piece while hiding contradictory evidence behind the barrier of classified information.
The solar roofing products are more interesting to me because they're not a "retrofit" tacked onto a house that was never designed for said product. When you're building a home you have to put a roof on either way, so with a well-designed solar roofing product (similar installation labour and design constraints), it's pretty much a no-brainer to go with it. While the solar shingles won't beat asphalt on price, they're reportedly priced similar to clay tiles and the like - and they should have tile-like lifespans, if not better.
Combined with a Powerwall it gives you A) timeshifting (beneficial if you have time-of-use power rates), a grid-tied inverter (incl. selling back to the grid), and a home battery backup (simple grid-tied inverters go down when the grid goes down and you use your solar; with a battery backup and secondary signal to drive the grid-tied inverter, however, you can get full power in the day and keep a limited subset of your appliances on at night until the grid comes back up.
I'm in a place where there's no sun all winter and grid power is both cheap and clean, and the house I'm building is underground anyway... so it's not for me. But most people aren't in my situation.
Also, I'm amazed that nobody has yet posted the House Intelligence Committee minority's response. They're still legally prohibited from releasing their memo (is their any way that Nunes could possibly have made this look more like a partisan hack job than that?), but they've stated all that they're legally allowed to:
Yeah. You might want to be able to show that, say, he was previously involved with a known Russian crime ring, and is now travelling to Moscow and giving talks condemning the US while working for a presidential campaign.
Can't imagine why you might want to investigate whether such a person might be working as a foreign agent.
Also, of note concerning this memo: FISA applications are generally ~50-ish pages long. If we're to believe Nunes, it was nothing but a giant list of "Steele says this..." and "Steele says that", and "Please don't ask us anything about who this steel guy was", and the judge was like, "Sure, no need for that, the word of one person is good enough for a FISA warrant." Actually, no, because even Nunes himself contradicts this narrative when he briefly brings up George Papadopoulos, who was apparently also listed as justification. If we're to take Nunes at face value concerning him ("there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos"), the FBI said to the judge, "Hey, this guy Papadopoloulos is dirty, but has nothing to do with Carter Page, so let us spy on Page" and the judge said "Okay, that sounds logical" and granted approval.
Nunes mentions this in the same paragraph where he brings up his favourite FBI boogeyman, Strzok and - everyone prepare to be shocked - while working to portray him as part of a corrupt deep state conspiracy to elect Trump, doesn't bother to mention that Strzok advocated for and drafted the "Comey Letter" reopening the Clinton investigation, which cost her in polls more than her margin of loss in the key swing states. Aka, their boogeyman was a key figure in electing Trump.
Thanks for standing up against that giant of influence, SpaceX, in favour of those poor powerless upstarts, Boeing and Lockheed.
The kids love it!
Actually the tax incentives were designed by GM, not Tesla, and favour lower end vehicles (the "per-kWh" incentive was designed precisely for the pack size of the Volt), with Tesla as one of the biggest critics of the current incentive scheme; and as for the government loans, Tesla paid theirs back in full way early, with interest (while not all of the Big Three paid theirs back); but hey, clearly Tesla's the problem here.
Boring Company. They make a cool hat.
Except that if its slowly sinking into the water vertically deep enough that the water can slow the rollover and the "whack"at the end, then you have water pressure to deal with.
Regardless, I hope there's video :)
It was launched to GTO, according to the webcast.
Falcon 9 is thin alumium, not heavy stainless steel. And it's not a question of being buoyant, it's a question of not ripping the fragile skin/tank in the situation where the propellant has been used up. You have a structure the height of a 25 story building, built of thin alumium, falling over (after being dragged a couple stories into the water by the heavy engines at the bottom).
The only reason that the rocket doesn't collapse just from launching forces alone is the internal pressure. That's why they have the CF helium tanks, to maintain that. But I would think that the pressurant would be gone by this point. Perhaps they keep it fully pressurised through landing. Even still, that's a major whallop we're talking about here.
Yeah, this was a pretty mundane launch until that happened. A rocket not designed for water landings, assigned for disposal at sea while testing a new landing approach, apparently survived a water landing intact and afloat. How? Beats me. I'd think that, with its propellant and pressurant spent, it'd be crushed when it fell over. Or that those engines would drag it deep enough into the water to crush the tanks at the base. And once its ruptured, the whole thing (up to the bulkheads) can flood
But, there it is.... guess it's hardier than I thought. Probably a higher residual pressure than I assumed.
What you've read is wrong.
Go to scholar.google.com and start searching peer-reviewed studies.
Here's the interesting thing. Let's just say that Norway inexplicably stops their rapid rise on the S-curve and stalls out at a ~50% EV purchase rate. There will end up. As the number of EVs on the road increases toward that 50%, the already dense charging network would be expected to increase 10-20x to keep up with the growing numbers. But meanwhile the number of gasoline vehicles is declining. The number of gas stations would reduce to half.
Now imagine the situation for gas at 80% market penetration. 90%. 95%. And remember that gasoline vehicles must stop at stations; they can't "charge" elsewhere. Now think of what happens to gas prices as distribution networks get spread out and they basically lose economies of scale.
Model X, supercharging. Check out Björn Nýland on YouTube; he does courier deliveries in Norway towing trailers through the mountains.
To be more specific: I don't know what your trailer is like. I'll choose a reference energy consumption of 500 Wh/km (800Wh/mi) at 110 kph / 70mph, that should handle a good-sized one, so long as it's not shaped like a brick ;). With A Better Routeplanner, I'll tell a Model X 100D to drive 60mph, 3 minutes stop overhead, 10C average outside temperature, minor headwind, dry roads. Sound fair? I don't know where you are in Texas or where you're going to in Montana; let's say Dallas to Billings. The calculated route between stops is:
Dallas-Ardmore-Oklahoma City-Perry-Wichita-Salina-Hays-Colby-Goodland-Limon-Denver-Cheyenne-Lusk-Spearfish-Gillette-Sheridan-Billings
Trip time, including recharging: 35 hours 40 minutes (1 1/2 days). Times two (there and back), that's 3 days out of your 11 (plus any overhead time you add for sleep). You have 8 days in Montana. When they add the trailer hitch option for the Model 3 it'll do even better.
Your breaks are 15-45 minutes each, except in Cheyenne, Lusk and Sherridan where they're 1 hour. I don't know if you're the "good night's sleep" type traveler or a "minimize the trip time, whatever the cost" traveler. If you're the former, the Cheyenne-Lusk area would be a good place to have your sleep. Actually could could cut off several hours if you overnighted at an RV park with a 50A in the Douglas/Glenrock/Casper area and avoided the Lusk-Spearfish-Gillette segment altogether (or, if they allowed your trailer in, the Hilton Garden Inn in Casper offers charging). On the other hand, if you're a "minimize the trip time, whatever the cost" person, you can avoid the need for a specific sleep stop altogether by power napping at superchargers (or slower chargers if you didn't feel that your power naps were long enough).
Except of course that the supercharger network extends almost all the way up to Nordkapp (Norway's equivalent of Alaska's Point Barrow). The country is covered.
And said race is between heavier AWD cars versus lighter 2WD cars? No.
Are you seriously going to pretend that a 2WD Toyota is going to do better in the mountains than a AWD Jeep because it's lighter?
Then a supercar is not right for you.
And spend more time idling (engine wear, higher emissions), burn through a tank that you have to refill (at notably higher price) while standing outside in the cold, and if it's at all enclosed, build up carbon monoxide. Good deal!
Lol, yes, totally the same thing. ;)
Are we seriously going to pretend that I was giving an exhaustive list of differences between an old used Yaris and a new Tesla? Hey, go ahead and check your used Yaris's gas tank level from across the world. And while you're there, grant your friend remote keyless driving. But if you don't trust him that much, switch the Yaris into Valet Mode so that he can't do 0-60 in Ludicrous Mode (you know, like Ludicrous Mode on your old Yaris). But he'll probably just run with TACC or maybe autopilot on the Yaris anyway (if you have autopilot then you also have summon and autopark), and he's got forward collision / lane change warning and AEB regardless. You can track him remotely by GPS, but of course if he tries to drive the Yaris dead, based on his location, route, direction of travel, etc, will figure out whenever that's possible and try to redirect him to the nearest available gas station. When you get back, your old Yaris will of course remember your seat / steering wheel settings, so that when you're cruising along on your AWD air suspension config in a car with one of the highest safety ratings on Earth, you won't have to adjust anything before using the high-def backup camera on the huge high-res display while backing out of the space in which your side mirrors autofolded. Now, when you use your old used Yaris's voice commands to make a bluetooth call, I'm sure the 12 speaker sound is top notch, while the car adjusts its ride height relative to your speed of travel.....
I could keep going. It's bloody stupid to compare the price of a new sports sedan to a used econobox, as if they're remotely the same market segment.
Ah yes, because when I want controls for things, I want them far away from my line of sight and away from my hands, rather than immediately beside the wheel, with buttons that are 3x3cm (1,2x1,2") wide and illuminated.
Says someone who's clearly never owned a car with a central speedo (it's not even that central). You're looking predominantly "down" whether it's central or behind-the-wheel, but with central it's never blocked by the wheel or your arms, and it lets them lower the dashboard, which improves forward visibility. And what "gauges", exactly? Oil? RPM? You just have speed, charge remaining, and alerts. You have cruise control / TACC for the former, and the car won't let you forget about the latter when it matters. And it rarely matters because, unlike a gasoline car, you start out every day with a full "charge" and never even come remotely close to using it all.
A lot of things are less obvious, too. For example, lots of people were surprised to find that it's easier to get into a 3 than an S (not that an S is difficult) despite the 3 being smaller. This comes down to the dash moving somewhat forward. Why don't all cars move the dash forward? Because then you have to lean too much to control the vents. But the vents being computer controlled (and all at once rather than you having to fiddle with each one individually) means that there's no downside to moving the dash forward. The diffusing of the airflow across a larger area also means a lower flow velocity for a given mass flow rate, meaning less noise for a given cooling power.