We have a 2020 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid I take around town and love. It’s only drawback is limited cargo space because of the 2 engines. Our daughter has a Prius Prime plug in which is an amazing car all around. My husband and son have all gas Volvo and Subaru. Our experience is that the electric operation works because we have a homes and offices with easily accessible plugs. They work with our lives. That said when it comes to long road trips the gas cars – particularly the old Volvo are always more comfortable and reliable. That’s the personal end. As far as the collective, looking at California and when they do the rolling blackouts for fires and earthquakes reminds me that its better not rely solely on those who have authority to flip the collective switch.

I love my electric car. It is smooth, fast and silent. Sitting at a red light next to a noise polluting “hot rod” that’s revving the engine, then floors it when the light turns green, I pull away slowly, knowing that if I wanted to, I could ?smoke? him, and quietly! It’s great when “never electrics”, become converts after driving one. Thanks for sharing every day!

Off peak rates are coming Some place are .40 cents durning the day and .12 cents at night. The newer EV’s have bidirectional charging with large batteries. People can charge them at .12 at night and have them power the home durning the day to avoid the .40 cent peaks. They can supplement home battery storage. A ford lighting or an electric Hummer have batteries 12 times the size of a Tesla power wall.

Hi Larry
1. How did the Baja 1000 go?
Haven’t seen any press on that
Hope you got through it safely and maybe caught a win
Thoughtful comments are electric cars. I like them too. My personal driver who is a gear head finally bought a big Tesla for his chauffeur business said it was the best car I ever bought my problem is my gas powered car a Buick Torx all-wheel-drive wagon is awesome However I have to put $$60,000 out of my pocket to upgrade to an electric car of similar quality and size. And at my age
Gonna be 74 soon gotta be real careful about the spending and keep my reserves so I don’t run out of dough. Should I live like my mother to 92 or more? Don’t read your thoughts every day, but I catch him every once in a while. My son T4, the electrician and business man from Bethlehem turned me onto these and I’m still liking them. You’re a thoughtful dude.
Cordially. TH3
www. Tomhillradio.com.

I’m considering the gmc sierra ev. 500 miles of range and good towing capacity. I like the technology and how it drives. No oil changes etc. however I’m not ever going to say it’s cleaner. It’s just different in the way that they pollute and it’s not right in your face…

I would get one, it makes sense. Soon the transit electric vans will have the range needed to make the switch.

As a second car around town or back and forth to work while charging at home, where other car is internal combustion… maybe. We’re not there yet with availability and ease of charging, speed of charging, and size of batteries.

I’ve been on both sides of the opinion spectrum on electric cars and after much investigation I’ve landed squarely in the middle. The one category in which e-cars win hands down (IMO) is styling. But that’s about esthetics, and the deeper question is about sustainability.

Our dependence upon petroleum based products continues to grow, and e-cars are no exception. Learning the amount of petroleum products involved in the manufacture, delivery, operation and maintenance of e-cars was surprising to me. Then understanding the amount of waste and damage to the environment generated by battery production and disposal helped balance the scales in my mind. When considering all factors involved, e-cars are not any more or less environmentally friendly than gas-powered vehicles.

Hydrogen power intrigues me, as it is the cleanest in every way and should be relatively inexpensive to produce.

For now, we would do well to understand the advantages of both, realize there is no need to judge one another but respect each other’s preferences and just enjoy the ride. I spend a lot of time on the highway, and my biggest concern is left lane bandits, regardless of how they power their vehicles.

Never driven one and won’t consider it, yet. Electric cars are still in their infancy but they will mature to a point that they are a viable option for many more people. They aren’t zero emissions, they just move the emissions from the cities to wherever the power is produced. That can still be a good thing. Power companies can manage and clean exhaust easier than cars can. Electric cars don’t have the range that many need, but that could be solved with interchangeable batteries, just like our battery powered tools. We use almost all battery powered tools now but it took 30+ years for them to reach the point of being a viable alternative to plug-in electric. With time electric cars may do the same. They are good for some people now but not everyone. My prediction is that we are going to look back in ten years and say, “I can’t believe I paid to install a power port in my house to charge my car!”.

It’s interesting reading everyone’s opinions. So little is understood about energy infrastructure in civilization, on both sides. It reinforces the need for better education.

I recently bought 2 honda all electric, we love them!

2017 Tesla Model S bought new and now has 125K miles. Range is still over 300 miles on a full charge. At home chargers have improved dramatically and I now get high 30’s per hour while charging and I think of charging like I do with my cell phone so vehicle is always ready to go. Supercharging network is vast and easily found right on vehicle touch screen and I coordinate need for bio breaks or food to be where chargers located so highly efficient and no range anxiety. Lot’s of misinformation and ignorance surrounding EV’s and with real world experience for over eight years I share only that the combustion engine, as we know it, is dead and most just don’t know it yet. Highly recommend Tesla and one of my sons and his wife, live in California, have a Model 3 and a Lucid that they both love owning and driving daily. Sure, range needs to improve to 500 per charge, more efficient heat pumps, charging speed and methods need to improve and environmentally friendly materials need to be further developed and that will all evolve positively as adoption rates increase. One last note is that I replaced my tires last week and was happy to learn that Goodyear now offers EV specific tires that are insulated for further sound deadening that makes the ride even quieter and the tires marketing says vehicle range increases while cost was lower than tires I’ve purchased in the past. I envision our home to have EV’s in some form for the balance of my life. Happy Thanksgiving to all🦃

They have their place for sure. But not practical for everything partly because the infrastructure isnt there yet to accomodate charging them and when it comes to billing another party for the charge. For example we are in a service business where our techs and installers drive the vehicles home and if they dont have a charger at home for the vehichle and a way for it to be billed to me then it doesnt make sense. Secondly for heavy vehichles they done really exist yet on an efficient level. The other thing is, I have heard they require more carbon gasses to produce them than a regular gas vehicle and during the life of the vehicle the carbon emissions required to produce, run (charge) are about the same. Then you have the battery waste and relatively short lifecylcle of the battery. I am experimentinig with one fully electric vehcile in the fleet that my son drives and was willing to install the charger at his home. We are two years in, so far so good other than it doesnt like the really cold weather we experience here. It burns through its charge pretty quickly having to heat the inside and the electric motors as well. Its distance drops to almost half its normal distance.

I would not own one. They use to much electricity that we do not have enough of. they are causing huge impacts to the rare minerals on this planet, they have driven the price for car to a place that is not achievable buy most people, and when we dispose of the batteries we will do more harm to the planet than we can afford! I am hearing from fire departments and police departments that they are catching fire regularly and the damage from the fire far exceed that of a gas powered vehicle. I believe this is just a shift in where we destroy our environment, and it will just kill a whole new group of things we need to survive. I have friends with one and it is a nice car, but my morals will not let me purchase one.

Awesome picture!! 🤙

I’m going to guess that you climbed a water tower to get the photo, I just don’t know where.(?)

No idea where that picture was taken, but the headlines of your arrest would have been an interesting future TD read! It’s all about the chances……

Go, Brian!

Re photo: Holy Land in Waterbury?

South Korea and North Korea border

Location: Housatonic River, borders of Oxford and Monroe, CT.

Looking: North/Northwest.

Structure Climbed: High-tension power line tower.

Object in distance: Stevenson Dam / Route 34 Bridge.

What a great question, because it points straight at a real paradox. When you ask whether someone’s life has truly been their choice, you’re touching on free will, personality, upbringing, expectations, and the attitude a person brings to the world. And for me, the answer lives in the tension between both sides.

On one hand, I’ve always had an independent streak. Even as a kid, I didn’t like following others directions. I didn’t enjoy following instructions for the sake of compliance. I wasn’t afraid to try things on my own, even when the consequences were clear and the downside possible. I’ve had this contrarian edge for as long as I can remember. It is really an instinctive resistance to doing things simply because “everyone else does.” These traits feel innate and they pushed me toward leading, building, and thinking for myself.

And yet, my life didn’t begin on a blank canvas. I was born into a particular world, with its own gravitational pull. I’m a second-generation foundation repair contractor. I grew up in this trade and was doing the work as a kid. That environment shaped me, influenced me, and placed certain opportunities directly in my hands. Some of that had nothing to do with choice. It was circumstance, pure and simple.

So here’s the paradox…the path is absolutely mine… and it was also formed by the personality I didn’t choose and the circumstances I didn’t control.

I didn’t invent the road, but I’m the one who decided how to walk it. I took a legacy and made it my own. I reshaped the direction, the mission, and the purpose behind it. The roots weren’t optional, the growth was. And that’s the beauty of it. I believe my life is a product of both the unchangeable things I was born with and the choices I’ve made with them.

In the end, I didn’t escape my circumstances, I directed them, and that path feels authentically mine.

For me, it is the fear of not meeting my commitments and letting other people down.

Courage gives us the strength to be the person we want to be 🔥🙏

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
– John Wayne

What am I doing?…I’m starting an attic systems business in Phoenix with my husband!

10X Amen… Me too 🙏

We are still here! While alive, we make the best of it! Just keep going…

So true! Sleep is good.

So true! Life is too short to fight every battle, choose your battles wisely.

When persistence and “belief” turn into persistence and belief.
“It’s not over until I win”
This quote is from Les Brown’s son when they were playing connect four, told by Les Brown. I remind myself of it often.

Great photo!

We can’t be afraid to fail as long as we learn from it. I’ve even used failure as a metric for my personal development, if I haven’t failed at something recently then it’s because I’m not trying new or challenging tasks. Keep falling forward.

Exactly.
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God has designed life in a way where “failure” always shows you your next move.
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Data doesn’t lie; adjust accordingly and execute.

Right on!! To an awesome 11th year in Baja. I hope you enjoy 🙏🤙

Good luck on your race!

We are cheering you on from VA! Good luck!

Best of luck Larry!

Have a great race! I’ll be looking forward to the after report!