A lot of cars don't include a spare tire anymore.
Last couple times I looked, it was more expensive to buy the oil and filter than to go to my local mechanic to get an oil change.
I appreciate that it's good to know how to do these things, but it really seems like there's no reason most people need to actually do them with a current model year vehicle.
So we're back onto Don't Ask Don't Tell, just with a slightly narrower scope (for now)
They're riding high off the early adopter sales spike, and now it's dropping fast.
As much as I like my EV car, I understand why trucks are a much harder sell. It's really difficult to get an electric truck to do everything a gas truck can do, and the demographic for trucks is very different than cars.
Not sure what it's going to take to change this trend, maybe they need to stop selling "do everything" trucks and focus on work vans?
Buy a paper map, or ask your car insurance agent for a free atlas.
That only works after the video is out and has usage statistics.
This could theoretically start to identify those moments before the video is public.
That's how I read the article, yes.
It's a little confusing, because they seem to also be speculating on how power generation and load will be in the future as well as people's charging habits.
I'm not sure you're talking about the same thing the paper is about. The overall load is lower, but the mix of power types is different.
Specifically, in California, there's a HUGE difference in power generation types overnight than during the day. There's excess capacity until the sun goes down due to solar. If you look ahead to everyone driving EVs, and then assume that everyone charges at night, then the power problem is completely different than what it is today.
You're missing that the researchers recommend charging during daytime business hours, which means people who use EVs to drive to work would need public or workplace provided chargers to accommodate this.
Setting a timer to charge around noon wouldn't help if you're parked at your job with no chargers nearby.
Basically they want people to charge during the daytime when solar power is available, instead of in the evening when the grid is strained by higher demand and lack of renewable energy.
EVs have timers in them to prevent them from charging during peak demand or high electric cost hours. My power company charges triple rates from 2pm-7pm weekdays. We just have the EV timer set to not charge during that window.
These dogs could absolutely be much better, but the police prefer to have half trained dogs so they can justify using them as a pretext to harass people.
As someone who lives solidly in corn maze country, this is a well used joke whenever the topic of corn mazes comes up. Which means I hear it about twice a week throughout the fall.