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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Useless seems like a strong word. I tried it out for a trip and I think I only had to intervene once when it phantom slowed down on the freeway. I’ve had other cars whose lane keep required a lot more intervention.

    The Tesla changed lanes to faster lanes, could navigate itself off the freeway, and it wasn’t until I got into back roads without lines and stuff before it got a bit iffy. But even then it did a decent job navigating.

    I’m not aware of any other systems that can do that.



  • While most of the points are covered here, and it’s likely true that the cost to add the panel and micro inverters is high, (I built a small two panel one battery off-grid system for about $4000 to power a chest freezer)… I have a counter point that I feel should be considered.

    While it’s true that it isn’t going to extend driving range by much, my thought is that it is still worth it. Take these examples:

    Drove to great wolf lodge in the summer, left car in parking lot for 3 days without charge. It lost several %.

    Left car in an airport lot for a week lost even more power.

    Drove to NorCal, left car at Airbnb driveway, had to find charging despite the car sitting in very bright sunshine for 4 days.

    Car camping

    Apartment complex parking (literally one of the main negatives about EVs)

    All of these would benefit from trickle charging, even if it was just to prevent the drain of sitting.






  • Sports cars are silly. I know what I want. And it’s a overpowered RWD sports car.

    EDIT to add stuff… I already have an AWD ev, and a FWD EV. The FWD is terrible, not only does the high torque overpower the low rolling resistance tires, but… just like an F1 car is crazy over powered, I want appropriate digital nannies, fat tires and all the stuff I had with my previous sports cars and motorcycles.