Ark II was the best. I still want one but I've always been a station wagon guy.
Dang, I want that RV!
My mistake, then. This thread has accumulated some 12 pages, and I may only have read the first few posts and the last few.I think I made reference to DA earlier
Me too, but I'm getting old. If he can get me to my 600 mile trip, and all I have to do is watch, then I'm in.
I'm not sitting in a car for a 600 mile trip self driving or not!
That's still about 10 hours stuck in a small metal box no matter what country you live in!yeah, well you don't have the same distances that we have in the US. That's like a trip to the grocery store for us.
Trains aren't all that popular in the US. They pulled up all the rails around here in CA. Now we're building a moderate speed rail line from nowhere to nowhere (a couple hundred miles) at a cost of a thousand dollars an inch (hyperbole, I don't know the exact figure, but's several vast fortunes more than it should be).That's still about 10 hours stuck in a small metal box no matter what country you live in!
I'd rather be in a bigger metal box that either gets me there quicker or one that offers me a beer, a bed and a loo!
I used to drive 800 miles on-way (about 12 hours) all the time. I'd have one 20 minutes stop right in the middle, always at the same gas station that was almost perfectly in the middle. I really don't mind driving on the open highway, can't stand traffic, though. I'd much rather have a train to work than across the country, but alas, we get neither.That's still about 10 hours stuck in a small metal box no matter what country you live in!
I'd rather be in a bigger metal box that either gets me there quicker or one that offers me a beer, a bed and a loo!
Yeah. A huge part of the problem is infrastructure costs about 3x in the US than Europe per mile. Not sure how it handled elsewhere, but I know ROW issues always take forever and cost a lot.Trains aren't all that popular in the US. They pulled up all the rails around here in CA. Now we're building a moderate speed rail line from nowhere to nowhere (a couple hundred miles) at a cost of a thousand dollars an inch (hyperbole, I don't know the exact figure, but's several vast fortunes more than it should be).
Yeah, I don't think I'll be doing that in my brand new $70k+ truck.
Yeah, I don't think I'll be doing that in my brand new $70k+ truck.
I didn't think it possible, but twitter is worse than ATOT. The responses to his tweet. Yikes!Last night, Elon tweeted this strange message.
But often, Elon's tweets have hidden message. Poteet, Texas, is the strawberry capital of Texas. Elon is hinting the next US Gigafactory will be built in Poteet, Texas. And this is where the Cybertrucks will be built.
We need to think about how we set up our towns and cities to reduce reliance on personal automobiles. And we need to think about where to place charging infrastructure. You don't need individual EV "gas stations" - look into setting stuff up in places where you already have parking and people spending decent amounts of time: office parking lots, grocery store lots, etc...I cant see how EVs can work for everyone. How do you charge one if you only have on street parking?