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This is a good time to mention again that the state of Indiana penalizes anyone who buys an all-electric or even hybrid vehicle (which does still require gas), by charging an additional annual fee that has been figured out to be slightly higher than what the average (almost always truck-driving) Hoosier would have paid in gasoline taxes that year. And Indiana isnāt the only state to do this.
Thereās a real sense of āus versus themā in rural America, and Teslas are on the wrong side of that divide.
Which means that Musk is a good fit with Chapelle, especially considering his Black and blind KKK member character.
https://www.in.gov/bmv/fees-taxes/vehicle-registration-fees-and-taxes/
All hybrid or electric vehicles that are required to be registered are subject to a supplemental registration fee. This fee is part of the stateās road funding package passed by the General Assembly in 2017. The fee will be paid when the vehicle is first registered and at every renewal.
When road construction season is funded by gasoline taxes, you would need to replace contributions when vehicle owners switch, but it would also be a good idea to put something towards charging stations. The state will be getting access to some federal funding for that, now.
Technically correct, but not the point here. So. Much. Not. The. Point.
Twitter doesnāt deploy from GitHub, and most of this is open source, so itās not life or death. But having hundreds of former employees maintain access when current employees arenāt admins on some projects isā¦not great, from a security perspective.
Microsoft is going to be the next stop on Elonās corporate campus learning tour, yeah?
Not paying rent? Not paying severance? And Iāve see it claimed that garage sale isnāt for making money. Sure itās not.
Also, apparently one of his toadies wasnāt toady enough and is gone as well, changing up Legal yet again.
Chappelle is rapidly turning into that character, minus the disability.
Taking an axe to Twitterās legal team at the very moment heās exposing the company to all kinds of previously unimaginable legal problems and exposing Twitter to billions of dollars in potential fines seems pretty on-brand for Muskās management style so far.
The problem here that the Model 3 owner didnāt realize until he was already parked is that the Jaguar I-Pace parked to the right was using the Supercharger that would have normally been used by the Tesla parked in the middle.
Thatās no fault to the I-Pace owner since it is the only way he could have plugged in.
The problem is that the Supercharger is designed to work with Tesla vehicles, which all have their charge ports on the back left side of the vehicles.
Thatās not the case for other EVs. Some have it on the front left side, like the I-Pace. Others have it in the middle of the front end, like the Hyundai Kona EV.
Galaxy Brain engineering folks!
Yup. And given heās firing legal he brought in, whoās going to be willing to represent him by the time it finally makes it to court. Kraken?
Yeah, Teslaās arenāt the only weird ones but it would have been great if the whole industry had standardized early on to have the charge ports up front like the Leaf. Most public chargers have always been easiest to get to by pulling straight up to them in a parking spot. I guess car designers just hate having little access panels up there.
(Yet they seem to love huge, non-functional grilles for some reason)
I once had a sculpture prof describe banal necessary things like cords and sockets as āvisual fartsā.
You say it should be in the front, the author of that article thinks everyone should follow Tesla, but another solution is also mentioned. Brackets are mine:
Other charging network operators, like Electrify America pictured below, had to [adapt] since they aim to serve every electric vehicle equipped with a CCS charge connector and they equipped their stations with longer cable attached higher up to be able to reach around a vehicle.
Obligatory xkcd
Trumpy.
Even when using a Tesla charger thatās designed for the car I donāt understand how having the plug in the back would possibly be more convenient since it requires backing into the space, which a lot of drivers just arenāt very good at.
