My wife’s hybrid won’t run the electric motor until the gas engine is warm. Her commute is about two miles.
I think windchill only affects skin.
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A car being in motion can cool off faster than if it is still. However, the windchill rating given in weather reports typically assumes the wind moving over a stationary human.
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My Volt will start the gas engine if it’s cold… I forget how cold, below freezing for sure. It tells you on the dash that it’s starting the engine on purpose, I think it runs for maybe 3-4 minutes. I don’t know why or how the damn thing works.
Magnets!
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Dang! I was pretty close. I was going to say Magic.
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I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics.
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All wrong. It’s all ball bearings nowadays.
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So is Elon a Nazi or what
Yes.
Next question with an obvious answer?
I ninja’d you four days ago!
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Dangit!
That’s what I get for only skimming the thread. 
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I am happy to see someone know the reference, it only got two likes. Le sad.
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1985, dude. I saw it in the theater when it first came out. And to this day, any time I see someone with a towel, I ask to borrow it because my car hit a water buffalo.
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I am proud to be one of the two and I’ve used that line myself. Also “I rent them. I lease with an option to buy.” And occasionally “Oldsmobuick”.
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As long as there’s no manure spreader jackknifed on the Santa Ana.
Kelley blue book estimates for US 2024 EV sales are out. Overall EV sales were up 7.3% from 2023. Tesla sales were slightly down, so that their EV market share dropped from 55.4% to 48.7%. I believe it’s the first year in a long time that Tesla sales shrank. Perhaps 2023 was their high point?
The novelty has worn off now that you see them everywhere and they are all the same 4 colors, and all the models look about the same just slightly different shapes.
Also, lots of complaints about build quality and customer service.
I do wonder if that’s hurting them. You don’t get many options with, say, the Model Y. Five or so colors, black or white interior, 7 seats is an option in the Long Range.
What is also hurting them is other manufacturers are catching up. Kia/Hyundai has some really compelling cars for sure. And while the legacy manufacturers are making pretty big strides, Tesla isn’t innovating as much. The new Model Y is out. Styling was tweaked a bit, ventilated seats added, they added a screen in the back, revised the suspension and I think it’s supposed to have less road noise. The Y has been on sale since 2020, five years on we get a refresh… historically a new car launches, after ~3 years they refresh it, and after ~6 years they start from scratch.
But instead of working more on this, or building a more economical car, they built the truck.