Recent content by Yodrak

ram, please, the rate is 66 kW, NOT kW/h. kW/h is meaningless, kW is itself the rate. In your example of 49.6 kWh / 0.75 h the 'h' cancels out leaving only kW. (Apologies, I belatedly see that cwerdna has already tried to correct the misunderstanding.)

Lowes. Home Depot. Ace. Your local independent hardware store.

I don't have any inside knowledge, but one possibility is that the BMS was 'tweaked' to add a bit of unused capacity at either the top or bottom so as to extend the life of the usable range?

Same here, my monthly electric bill shows an inaccurate breakdown of usage. My utility has interested customers fill out a form to get information about the house that feeds into algorithms, as cornbinder described, to estimate a breakdown of usage among major electricity-using items. I...

This. It's just as simple to implement as the flat fee but is related to actual road use and thus more 'fair' even though not perfectly so. It can, and should, be applied to all vehicles regardless of fuel type (which should correspondingly reduce the daily price of the other fuels to the...

In Missouri safety inspections are not required until a car is more than 10 years old or has traveled more than 150,000 miles. There is an option for biennial registration, which I select. So, my 2013 Leaf will have its first safety inspection when I renew the registration next year in 2025...

I agree. And in two previous similar cases that went to trial the jury agreed also. Tesla's problem is that, despite warnings in the manual, the naming of the systems - Auto Pilot and Full Self Driving - and Musks comments about how good the systems are has many people expecting too much of...

There is ample evidence to suggest that we do not always elect responsible people to govern. However there does not seem to be agreement on which elected people are the responsible or irresponsible ones.

The Missouri gas tax - "Motor Fuel Tax" in the statutes - is collected at the pump based on gallons of fuel purchased. It is not a fixed annual fee. In a strange word game, motor vehicles that do not use gasoline, diesel, kerosene, or "blended fuel" do not pay a road-use "tax". Instead they...

"When a Tesla charger is plugged into the nema 50 the breaker does not trip (at least within in the 30sec or so) and the charger seems to charge a Tesla normally."

I agree with this in theory, but as a practical matter it would be difficult to implement retroactively. The manufacturers would have to provide the onboard metering by some deadline, and existing EVs, PHEVs, and hybrids would have to be retrofitted with the retrofits designed and installed at...

Yes, but how to collect the data? Every car would need to be monitored to submit the data by some entity that would report the data. I suppose the owner could be the responsible entity and would report the data when renewing the registration, as with the idea of having the tax based on...

$111 Alternate Fuel Tax here in Missouri, applies to any vehicle fuel other than gasoline or diesel. Been going up a few dollars every year. Payable annually in January, separate from the registration fee. I agree with those who think the most appropriate alternative would be a tax based on...

No Tesla adds on YouTube, but I have been getting regular e-mails offering to carry over my free supercharging and/or my FSD and/or no charge for optional paint color if I buy a new Tesla by March 31. Tesla must be pushing hard to meet sales expectations for the quarter.

YES! Park so you can pull forward out of a parking space, not back out.