Battery Derangement

I recall a station ijust outside of Yosemite with $6.50/gal pricing (when oil hit $120/barrel and Highway CA140 was closed due to a landslide along the merced river - the delivery trucks had to go the long way around (CA120 or CA41 from fresno)).

Yeah, let me trust the sales pitch on Tesla.com I bet you think vaping is safe too, just because it says so on the Juul web site. I have been reading car mileage claims for 60 years and one thing is always true. It is the best case scenario (YMMV). For mileage that is a steady speed of 45-55 mph unless the government was lying to us all these years. Interstate speeds around here are posted at 70 and 80 is a better average. If that Tesla will go 220 miles at 80 I will kiss Elon Musk's ass on the NBC evening news but I doubt he would even claim that out loud.

Prorated, I'm guessing.

I'll stick with my car and its usual 35 mpg, thank you. And, no, it's not a hybrid, just s Toyota with a conventional engine.

Knowing how warranties usually work, that means I'd be shopping for a battery about now. So, if it were a Prius rather than a Yaris I'd be looking at at least $1600.

About the same as a Cessna 152 with 1810 hours on the engine...

During one of the price spikes I watched a guy fill up his pickup that had an auxiliary tank. He was still at it after I went in to drain the lizard and get a cup of coffee. I felt his pain.

"It's to the women and men who in their hands hold a Bible and a gun And they ain't afraid of nothing, when when they're holding either one Now there's kids who can't pray in school $100 dollar tanks of gas I can tell you right now this country ain't AIN'T SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THAT!"

'That Ain't My America' Lynryd Skynyrd

There's nothing to prevent kids from praying in school. They can do it silently, as Christ recommended.

Cindy Hamilton

I always did it very, very silently... I never quite got that 'under god' phrase they slipped in the Pledge of Allegiance in '54, either.

Here's a little more Lynyrd Skynyrd for you:

"I'm here in my back of the woods Where God is great and guns are good You really can't know that much about 'm If you think we're better off without 'm Well there was a time we ain't forgot You caressed all night with the doors unlocked But there ain't nobody save no more So you say your prayers and you thank the lord For that peace maker In the Dresser Drawer"

"Hand guns are made for killing They ain't no good for nothing else And if you like to drink your whiskey You might even shoot yourself

And that's the best way to do it. For me, it had to be that way, regardless of any laws.

About the same as any car that's past its use by date!

Toyota battery packs aren't prorated.

Tell that to all the people driving cars substantially older than that.

Cut article.

Supposedly, there is an alternative that will get a vehicle 1500 miles.

Yeah, our "new" car is 12 and my Honda is 23, the truck is 20.

Yeah I remember the "Fish" carburetor was going to get 100 MPG and it was always "about a year" from production. That was 50 years ago and we are still waiting.

The seed-tender truck turned 60 last year, the older pick-em-up 20...the new "town" pickup is 20 this year...

He may be late to the party:

Either you need a vehicle to go to work because you have to carry products, tools or parts etc. in which case EV isn’t going to cut it or you just need to carry yourself in which case the question is WHY do you have to in this paperless age of computers and internet and Facetime communications?