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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • If your dome light isn’t an LED, then you should replace it with one. It won’t completely fix your problem but it will give you 9 to 10 times longer to catch it.

    There’s really no reason that every car doesn’t have a voltage cut off to protect the battery such that it can still start. Additionally, if they just included a super capacitor then even with a heavily discharged battery, it could charge up the super capacitor to then start the car.

    But if we went around doing smart stuff like that then we could potentially wreck the entire lead acid battery industry and that would just be awful…







  • Just answer our increasingly difficult questions.

    Trolley problem: One track is one person, the other is 10

    Next level

    Okay well now the one person is your mom, and the 10 are 1 year olds you don’t know

    Next level

    Okay the one person is your best friends mom and the 10 are young kids from your immediate or extended family

    Next level

    Okay the one person would cure cancer tomorrow, and the 10 are friends or family






  • I think hybrids need to be built like EVs with on board range extender generators. I believe the Volt was that way but if you had enough battery to cover 120 miles full EV with plug-in recharge most of the time it would be full EV. Long trip? Generator kicks on at mile 100 and takes you an absurd distance.

    The latest Toyota hybrids are pretty great but they need competition. Sadly the Volt died.

    Kia/Hyundai/Ford/Audi should make “Range extender” versions trading half the battery pack for generator and fuel weights to up the pressure.

    Full EV might not be great for long trips, but full ICE is silly compared to a hybrid.

    Make the F-150 standard truck get 40mpg on gasoline on trips, EV around town and you have a winner.