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Some cars are not for export to begin with, especially those pickups and SUVs for US market. Also when things already hit economy of scale then multiple models for cost savings still make sense (say you can use less platinum in the cat) even with 2 models.

This is going to be a massive change not only in cars but also things like train (I remember someone said California wants to ban diesel locomotive in and out of CA) and other diesel equipments.

This is what happen when you run a country like a cult. In order for communism to work in large scale they sort of have to lock people in, brain wash them, and punish those who refuse to drink the cool-aid. The only truth comes from the smuggler and the black market pricing of all sorts of "import".

"Build it or you and your family are getting executed" and they did their best on mission impossible. What do you expect?

I got a hand out back in 97 for my Integra about leaving it in for the full OCI, but that's almost 3 decades ago.

Right, but surveillance drive writes continuously 247.

Have one, tried it and not stable enough, video was choppy.

I have this power hog sitting around from many years ago. Was going to put a bunch of videos on it and keep it powered off until I need to access them (VR180 video at around 8K resolution). Then I was thinking, maybe it makes more sense to move those drives to my main desktop by adding a PCIe...

Fe core is usually to keep noise away. Your grinder may generate a lot of noise in the power line that without this core can cause problem in your house, crashing routers and TVs and other small electronics and fail those FCC test.

Surveillance drives are not designed the same and won't use the same power as those 7200rpm desktop or server drives. They record with SMR on a repeated schedule, spin slow (like 5400rpm) to store at the anticipated speed, don't seek left and right all the time, and they last a long time...

Why specifically 3 funds? What kind of assets do you want to own underneath the fund? What is the long term goal of your portfolio? These are the questions I would ask. Personally my long term goal is to match market performance and diversify away from extreme volatility, and minimal cost. So I...

Yes, the best solution to most HOA problem is to join the HOA and rule it from within.

In many places people don't complain to HOA but call the police on things like that. I shut down a few party that went too loud past 10pm by doing that.

I go to gym at 11pm-2am, and I park my beater on the street. I have an alarm but I typically just lock and unlock using a physical key to avoid disturbing my neighbor's sleep. Do I have to? No, but it is easier to avoid escalation and fly under the radar.

I forgot where I read but the typical or most inner city bus route is about 10 miles and goes on average 10 miles / hour (including stop and go, loading unloading). Don't forget bus don't always leave right after reaching terminal, some sit for 30 mins during off peak traffic and some just head...

Yes. In our district that's the size of around 4 x 6 miles, and solar panel on school parking lot, the cost is actually quite low. We can't say it would be cost effective for other districts in Sierra Nevada like those districts can't say for us.

As always, the devil is in the details. EV buses with overhead power lines have been around in San Francisco for .... nearly 100 years now? The problem is always the battery and the reputation of the manufacturers building it. I will never believe a startup building a car more reliable than a...

If it is so easy to do hydrogen then we would have home fuel cell everywhere by now, but reality is reality and hydrogen makes no sense as an energy storage unless you have a special need.

That's what religion and politics is for, not daily transportation appliances. To me the point is the math doesn't work for many of today's EV math. In order for it to work it has a upper and lower limit on range: on the upper end you have to make sure you drive it up to a limit on range and...

Why a $30k V6 Impala, why not a $20k 4cyl Corolla? The point is these high end cars are never about efficiency or functionality but comfort and desire. I appreciate the engineering but I'm not going to spend that much for this kind of thing. Without looking at the cost it makes no sense to...