Teslas allow setting separate mirror position configurations for forward and reverse direction. Very handy.

Might not be GB metered, but it is metered by the port-size/Hour at a very heavily marked up rate.

There are other non-US equivalents to Lets Encrypt.

One of the best usb chargers for the money is the 40W IKEA charger. I trust their quality control.

I wasn't aware that Ikea sold a charger, so I googled it - this is the very first result: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/product-support/...

The fact they're even doing a recall tells you they care.

When people buy from Alibaba and resell it on Amazon, they're not bothering to issue recalls.

The good people at qzzdfghjww company would NEVER sell a defective product.

Or put another way, are subsidized by others.

Or put another way, they already make so little money it isn't worth taking any from them.

"taxes only ever go up" is an incredible belief to hold in a historical run of decades of tax cuts.

30 years is plenty of time to change the law. We change the tax code all the time. In 2020 or so it was recently amended to substantially increase the standard deduction. Slippery slope is a fallacy unless you can prove the pattern already exists.

The US already claims jurisdiction on all launches from US and NZ (Rocket Lab). Every one of these had to get approval from the US to launch.

My main takeaway from the video is just how terrible Toyota was at marketing this.

I mean, does it really matter?

The Prius (and all subsequent Synergy Drive cars) were widely known - from the very beginning - to be extremely fuel efficient ICE cars. As time went on, they universally became known to be both fuel efficient and also absolutely bomb proof.

Both of those things surprised basically no-one, since the direct successors (Camry, Corolla, 4Runner, Tacoma, Hilux) were also already known for being fuel efficient and reliable cars.

The only people who really care about why and how exactly they got so fuel efficient and reliable are engineering nerds - and many of those already knew, the planetary gear set + atkinson cycle engine are a pretty legendary design. They hit it out of the park on the first try, after all.

And as this video shows, explaining the why and how to non-engineering nerds takes a good part of an hour anyway. How do you do marketing with that?

It does to me. I was operating under the misconception that hybrids combined the meant more parts and more maintenance. I said this out loud as a complaint many times in discussions about them and everyone let it drop or conceded the point. Reading this thread it appears I was ignorant that it was more hybrid than I imagined.

Ditto. I also actively avoided hybrids as being worst of both worlds.

I used to think the same before I bought a hybrid (Honda CRV). It is different from Toyota but also a very simple setup (generator + ev at low to medium speeds and direct drive at high speeds). It technically doesn't even have a gear box and no alternator. It has less maintenance items than its ICE equivalent. (Not taking into account the battery replacement in long term)

This refinery is situated miles away from any other Tesla factories.

Full details https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5

Thanks! Link belatedly changed above.