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Right. With LEDs, you generally don't replace a bulb, it's integrated into the frame. You wind up replacing it because it got smashed.
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glhs837
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Ford says "Hold my beer"
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"Hey Bob?"
"Yeah Fred?"
"Hows about we mold the expensive blindspot sensor into the fragile exposed plastic on the corner?
"Capital Idea, Fred!!!!! I see a bonus coming your way!!!"
glhs837
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glhs837
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Now this is the one in question. no bulbs, just LED. But the LEDS should last close to forever. But in case of damage, well, you have a problem.
Sneakers
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MTBF of an LED is hundreds of thousands of hours. They aren't expecting the LED to fail and require replacement. Costs less to integrate it into the assembly than to make a removable/replaceable 'bulb'.
jrt_ms1995
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So, which side of the vehicle (Teslas) are the charge ports? Been curious lately.
Bare-ya-cuda
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San Jose gas station tries offering charging for electric vehicles
At a Rotten Robbie gas station in San Jose, management is running an experiment: they've installed two EV charging stations on site, so they can be a spot where people fuel up and charge up.
www.cbsnews.com
That's a blast from the past. I had forgotten all about Rotten Robbie's!San Jose gas station tries offering charging for electric vehicles
At a Rotten Robbie gas station in San Jose, management is running an experiment: they've installed two EV charging stations on site, so they can be a spot where people fuel up and charge up.
jrt_ms1995
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The Ms. Graziosi quoted in the article seems to be a reasonably intelligent and reality-focused person; wtf is she doing in California?San Jose gas station tries offering charging for electric vehicles
At a Rotten Robbie gas station in San Jose, management is running an experiment: they've installed two EV charging stations on site, so they can be a spot where people fuel up and charge up.
glhs837
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Hmmm, reasoned analysis. Wont get any play 
Nice to see her research on exactly how many fires in FL were caused by submerged EVs matches mine exactly. Lots of regurgitation of poorly documented initial claims without anything factual to back them up led to this perception of a lake of eternal lithium ion hellfire
Nice to see her research on exactly how many fires in FL were caused by submerged EVs matches mine exactly. Lots of regurgitation of poorly documented initial claims without anything factual to back them up led to this perception of a lake of eternal lithium ion hellfire
glhs837
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Left rear. And the Cybertruck so far seems to be following that. Not easy to spot since unlike some makers, they don't make them stand out. Which I assume legacy makers do because the think "The rubes wont find it if its hidden".
Plugging In | Model 3 and Model Y | Tesla
How to open the charge port, plug in and understand charge port colors
jrt_ms1995
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Thank you.Left rear. And the Cybertruck so far seems to be following that. Not easy to spot since unlike some makers, they don't make them stand out. Which I assume legacy makers do because the think "The rubes wont find it if its hidden".
Plugging In | Model 3 and Model Y | Tesla
How to open the charge port, plug in and understand charge port colorswww.tesla.com
Green Boondoggle: Connecticut’s Electric Bus Fleet Still Out of Service After Summer Battery Inferno
In July, a battery fire caused an electric bus to burst into flames in Hamden, Connecticut. Luckily, no one died in the inferno, although two transit workers and two firefighters were hospitalized as a result of the blaze, and a federal investigation was triggered.
In September, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a preliminary report detailing how the electric bus operated by CT Transit became engulfed in flames while parked at a maintenance facility, according to a report by NHPR.
“The battery electric buses remain out of service while the investigations are ongoing,” DOT spokesperson Josh Morgan said.
glhs837
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So, to bolster my argument that buying anything other than a Tesla, right now, and expecting to charge away from home is just asking for heartache.
www.consumerreports.org
Of interest is that they speak of 6,000 Level 3 stations. Of which 2,000 are Tesla Superchargers. What they don't say, and is sort a unspoken Tesla advantage, is that out of the 4,000 charging stations belonging to the other networks, there are usually far fewer plugs for station, and a higher incidence of plugs that are not operable. So if you are buying with the next five to seven years in mind, IMO, you will face these struggles.
Can Electric Vehicle Owners Rely on DC Fast Charging? - Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports tests DC fast charging on four popular electric vehicles to see if electric vehicle owners can rely on DC fast charging in real-world conditions.
Of interest is that they speak of 6,000 Level 3 stations. Of which 2,000 are Tesla Superchargers. What they don't say, and is sort a unspoken Tesla advantage, is that out of the 4,000 charging stations belonging to the other networks, there are usually far fewer plugs for station, and a higher incidence of plugs that are not operable. So if you are buying with the next five to seven years in mind, IMO, you will face these struggles.
Kinnakeet
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Who really cares about being greener I know I do not I love gas guzzling high HP cars and diesel trucks ...JMO
Electric Cars Are Good, but We Still Need Fossil Fuels
"Because nature is not nice to humans," explains Mills, "we store energy for when it's cold or really hot. People who imagine an energy transition want to build windmills and solar panels and store all that energy in batteries. But if you do the arithmetic, you find you'd need to build about a hundred trillion dollars' worth of batteries to store the same amount of energy that Europe has in storage now for this winter. It would take the world's battery factories 400 years to manufacture that many batteries."
Politicians don't mention that when they promise every car will be electric. They also don't mention that the electric grid is limited.
This summer, California officials were so worried about blackouts they asked electric vehicle owners to stop charging cars!
Yet today, few of California's cars are electric. Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered that all new cars must be electric by 2035! Where does he think he'll get the electricity to power them?
"Roughly speaking, you have to double your electric grid to move the energy out of gasoline into the electric sector," says Mills. "No one is planning to double the electric grid, so they'll be rationing."
Rationing. That means some places will simply turn off some of the power. That's our final inconvenient fact: We just don't have enough electricity for all electric cars.
Worse, if (as many activists and politicians propose) we try to get that electricity from 100 percent renewable sources, the rationing would be deadly.
glhs837
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Oh, you dont have to care about it at all. But you also don't get to use it as an argument against them.