Recent content by Astro_Guy

Whether or not you buy from Tire Rack their tests are very informative. See https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/best-tires-for-tesla-model-3-performance-5-uhpas-tires-tested?ttid=355 I have the Continental DWS06+ on two of the family cars now and love them. I am glad that they were included...

Yes. Those big black classic taxis in London were all diesels. I recall seeing the Duomo (Cathedral) in Firenze (Florence) being cleaned in the mid 1990s and it was black from 2-cycle motorbikes and diesel powered vehicles. That structure is white with both red and green inlays. Those inlays...

France has a national energy strategy that leans heavily upon nuclear power. They standardized one reactor design and then deployed a lot of them. Canada did something similar in the Province of Ontario. Energy doesn't have to be expensive if you have a plan.

It's actually a valid point although it was made in an overly dramatic way. I drive a PHEV that accepts the common J-1772 input. The summer before last we took a trip to Virginia with a planned lunch stop in Shepherdstown, WV. We knew in advance that there were both J-1772 and Tesla...

See https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/05/evs-take-33-0-share-in-france-tesla-model-y-leads/ but take the headline with a grain of salt. The actual number is 28.1% but they added in another 4.9% for PHEVs to build their case. The thing I find interesting is how far diesel has fallen off given...

M81 and 82 are located about 2/3 of a degree apart and are usually the first group of glalaxies those of us in the northern hemisphere see.

Not every pump at Sheetz serves up E0. Look for a red nozzle at Sheetz vs. a Blue nozzle at Royal Farms or Wawa.

It was a joke so let's roll with it.

Wasn't Lone Star born in the Ford Galaxy?

It's nice to know that you are an ameteur astronomer. Is that M13?

Yesterday I drove from northwestern Maine to southeastern Pennsylvania via New Hampshire, Vermont and Albany, NY. The trip time was 10:15 including two stops of about five minutes each. I am contemplating making the move to a Tesla model 3 next year so just for laughs and grins I pulled up the...

My annual benefit in terms of avoided costs plus PA SREC credits divided by the after tax investment cost is 9.31% Utility rates are increasing far faster than the panels are degrading so that ROI goes up with every rate increase. That's every six months where I live.

Yes - I have seen thatand realize that the data is all over the map.

My daily driver is coming up on 13k miles with HPL Premium Plus. The plan is to send out a sample at 15k to see how it is holding up and I keep telling myself to ignore the Aluminum based upon what I have read here. It's a PHEV so there will only be 10k ICE miles on the sample. This should be...