Whoops! I just realized I mixed up the two movies. I haven't seen Friends with Benefits. I instead saw the other friends with benefits movie, No Strings Attached, starring Natalie Portman. It was a female friend who told me she recently saw Friends with Benefits.
yes sales tax.. varies by state. some have ~10% others have none. it is "assessed value" which high blue book value.. Luckily do not live in VA, don't have to deal with it. If it is ST1100 I came across '93 in Yellowstone in '08.. looked alot smaller then ST1300.. still bigger and ~200lbs/90kg heavier then my ER-6f. Probably was putting less power too at that altitude.. most of the park is higher then 7000' (2100m) and carburetors need adjustment at that height. But his owner liked it, was taking it from California to east coast. Hope you get better and get back riding again.
And what an irony. SUV's were advertised as being safer, because you were slinging all that extra tonage. (and btw, our 13mpg range rover got a huge tax break back in 2002. We were able to capitolize its cost in just one year, rather than many - no one screamed about THOSE subsidies). Eventually the stats revealed the truth. Higher incidence of death in accidents, due to roll overs ... because SUV's are more prone to rollover due to higher centers of gravity. When SUV's were in their heyday, the Prius driver was a sort of pariah. Now? the Prius outsells SUV's. Sometimes marketing can out do common sense, but it seems folks don't want to remain stupid for ever. .
I got to like the movie Friends w Benefits watching rest in the morning. Wee bit campy in beginning and lots of F word, but it gained more substance thoughout. Was just tired starting out watching DVD late. Mila Kunis is a doll on screen. She and Timberlake are the furthest thing from shy, that's for sure. I think price of Prius Two at this end of year, basically $21.5k was pretty darn reasonable as Prius is one very nice step up from a Corolla (should say Matrix 1.8L w/automatic which ain't too much less).
...OK but if this is true (individual cells in Prius NiMH batts) in practical application, nobody seems to be talking about replacing cells, just replacing whole NiMH unit. The is a little off track but there was a comment/article that Leaf batts could be fixed one cell at a time.
Here's a company even selling separate cells (which is what I called a cluster, I got all my wisdom from reading, never seeing one opened in my life... So all my info is if I interpreted what I read correctly) 04 and newer Prius Parts Cars high voltage battery for 2004 and up 04-09 call for availability $695 or $30/cell And a company trying to get you to buy their instructions on how to repair them: link
From EVworld: and, as the evworld article points out, the "naysayers" invariably come out of the wood work to criticize products trying to get a foodhold into the market ... some for the 1st time ... some for the 21st time (because the item maybe wasn't yet ready for prime time). But often ... although technology has a shaky start ... it comes about despite nay-sayers, as illustrated in the graph: EV WORLD CURRENTS: And the Alternative to the Electric Car Is? The nay-sayers hope is that if their negativity is right, they can say, "see? ... see? ... I told you so!" ... and if/when they're proven to be wrong, the world will be so happy with the new technology, that the world won't waste its time condemning the nay-sayer. Then again, we still remember GM's Bob Lutz continually ragging on hybrids. Boy ... THAT, among other things sure cost him any credibility he may have ever had. What's REALLY dumb to me is hydrogen. As plausable as simple EV's can be as an alternative transportaion - you get nay sayers stomping all over EV's. Why aren't the same EV nay-sayers out there trying to burn hydrogen researchers at the stake. The costs of hydrogen have yielded WAY less progress than EV ... require a trillion dollar infrastructure ... can't be manufactured for under 1/2 million per car - even after decades of research ... and wastes the energy that has to get converted into hydrogen. Someone needs to stick the nay-sayers onto the right path. Sick-m fido !! .
If you could charge at work, an EV would be viable. A Leaf would probably work for that commute and greatly reduce your gas usage and cost even if you pay 2x or the power to charge. If you can plug in at work a Volt would probably use less gas. ( While a volt could do the full commute, if you cannot charge at work, with a 150 commute a prius is would save more fuel than a Volt.
I know... Did anyone ever show this below graph to Mr G.W. Bush and Mr. A. Schwarzenegger before they started promoting it as THE SOLUTION and dumping millions into it? (Yes, I know electrolysis is not a very efficient way of making H2, so you can argue if it is really as bad as this pic makes it out to be, but still, who'd even consider it after seeing this???)
Take the time to read "Jalopnik", it's filled with misinformation, unresearched articles, opinion stated as news (well, I guess if you watch faux news you get the point). These are people who are petrified of change, consider it un-American. They don't let the facts get in the way of a good story. I was however, pleased to see some pushback in the comments.
Hill- I see the article features "your" man (Moore) arguing against "my" man (Peterson) who recently posted a blog article ranting against EV's. I did not post the recent Peterson article because I too thought it was weak. At this point we just have to wait 10-15 yrs to see if Peterson's EV-skepticism is correct, as we have already embarked on the journey. Hope we live to see the answer. The auto companies sure seem to embrace EV.
Earlier when I used to frequent SA - I've picked Peterson's arguments apart - and he has acknowledged some of the bad arguments he was using. Yet he continues to use them even now. What a hack.
