Drivers wait in line to charge Teslas

In some country, might have been Israel, because it's small enough that one can't take a really long trip, an entreprenour working with a company from Palo Alto was building a system of charging stations and making some rent-to-buy offer on electric cars. It lasted a few years and wsn't doing well, for a variety of reasons. IIRC they let their customers vote on whether to just concentrate on the Tel Aviv area, or go out of business entirely, paying them back part but not all of what the customers lost. I forget how they voted. Okay, easy enough to find a little with google:

opened its first functional charging station the first week of December

at peak in mid September 2012, there were 21 operational battery-swap stations open to the public in Israel.[3] -- So they would swap batteries rather than charge them.

filed for bankruptcy in Israel in May 2013.

Less than 1,000 Fluence Z.E. cars were deployed in Israel and around

I think both cars and batteries are better now. Wait..They're trying again in 2020, this time wih much more participation by the governement. This time they are charging the batteries.

Israel is slightly larger than Massachusetts. What does that tell you about the feasibility in a country the size of the US?

It was built for Democrats and you bought it.

We all make mistakes but I'd never admit to owning a LeBaron.

significantly slower than operating a simple switch.

Also, it doesn't seem right to have to go through Google's servers just to turn on the wipers in your car.

And we don't have the old excuse of too little program memory to hold meaningful error messages, like with the "1201" from Apollo 11.

I have a digital thermometer that shows temperature precise to tenths of a degree. The accuracy of the thermometer is so low that extra digit is not useful.

The display could tell you to check the gauges. That's what my vehicle (Chevrolet) does.

I calibrated lots of instruments at work. We could trace our calibration standards to the government standard.

They were accurate to less than .1% . However the thermocouples we used in the process were only rated to plus or minus 3 deg C at the 300 deg C we were clost to measuring. That ment we could be off several degrees . However the computer readouts were to 2 or 3 decimal places depending on the software. That is not counting a conversion or two in the path between the TC and computer screen.

I had an inherited 86 LeBaron I had no real complaints about, except that Japanese engine ate oil at an alarming rate. It wasn't dripping and it wasn't smoking so I guess the emission controls were just letting it burn up somewhat cleanly. It was somewhat rare since it wasn't a convertible.

The classic "inaccurate reading, precise out to 2 decimal places"

The good thing was that while inaccurate, but precise, once the lab determind where the numbers should be , that is where the process could be kept very precise so the product was consistant. That is what matters the most in the polyester business.

We had several differnet types of instruments/controllers and they did have to be precise and consistant over time even if they were wrong by a large percentage.

I had a discussion with an engineer. He was looking at a couple of computer screens and one measurment was about 3 deg from the lowest to the highest. There were 2 thermocouples and 2 RTDs in a tube about 1/2 of an inch in diameter and 2 feet long, all near the tip. He wanted to know which one was correct. I told him to take his pick because they all were by our standards. He could not believe that. He had me take a portable calibration meter to the point and check each element. They varied about what the computer screen showed. This was not one of the inexpensive meters, but one that cost about $ 5000. He could not believe it but I finally convienced him that was the way it was. He was not very bright and almost every time something was wrong with the product he wanted the temperatures checked. We had about 10 men in the shop and all of us had the same problem with him.

I had 3. I liked them all.

One of them was leaking everywhere before I junked it. I drove without power steering 50 weeks out of the last 52, but it handled fine, and when I added fluid, it was like new again, until it leaked out.

A coworker had a non-convertible and I sat in it before I bought mine. Hers had a bench seat and a column shift, that I would have preferred, but I don't think they made them that way for convertibles.

Mine was the sport coupe, bucket seats and a console.