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And yet, you choose to completely ignore THE POINT you're replying to - just because there are outlets in my home or apartment doesn't mean any of them are practical to use to charge an EV parked on the street. So, SO many EV evangelists - and y'all sound like you're preaching - ignore that...

What kind of cell phone do you have, that you cannot use it for its primarily purpose while it's charging? I'm so sorry - you need to upgrade to...any cell phone that's ever been made, I guess. Until they make roads that charge your car while you drive on it (I understand there are such things...

Just read a survey that found 49% of current EV owners do not own a home charger. This whole "just charge at home" judgemental nonsense needs to stop. Not everyone has a space to do that. Just because it's a great option for some people doesn't mean it's an option for everyone. Until a...

I don't see anything indicating where you're located. These are built in Mexico - if you're in Texas, that seems like a long time. I'm in Oregon - mine took over a month (see my signature). As we approach winter, the chance of weather delaying transportation even more starts to increase. Your...

I almost feel like there's no point in posting, but then I remembered when my parents bought their first new car in the 80s (Chrysler LeBaron), they had issues the day after they drove it off the lot. Now that it's Nov 1, I can say I got my hybrid XLT "last month." No issues so far...but I'm...

I believe the cameras that use the ODB port are using it for both power and possibly to do some monitoring, such as detecting the speed of the vehicle and other metrics to add to the recording so they can function as more of a "black box" after an accident. You'd want to look at the...

Cancel is like tapping your brakes to cancel - but without tapping your brake. I use cruise control a lot, and I'll cancel when I see a light ahead turned red and I'll have to stop - I can start slowing down without braking before I get there. The same button you push up to set/increase the...

People have different understanding of "rain," too. In Oregon, in the Willamette Valley, if I turned of cruise control every time it rained I'd never use cruise control - and I use it all the time, paying attention to what it's doing and manually cancelling it all the time, too. Oregon tends to...

That's great, if you park your truck in your garage. But what if you live in an apartment building (or any other situation without a garage)? What if you park a different car in your garage? People promoting EVs seem to think everyone lives in suburbia. I think if you look at the raw numbers...

Not a fan of all electric. Where do you charge it? I don't even want a plug-in hybrid - the hybrid Maverick is exactly what I wanted. Had mine less than a month and I'm loving it. Which brings me to the bigger point for me: I finally have the Maverick parked in my driveway. That Toyota won't be...

I have a few of those, and they fit in cup holders. They're great...but the per-tissue price is pretty high, and the tissues aren't standard sized either. Overall, I don't think I'll buy more once my current batch runs out.

On a separate note, that appears to be a lot of keys dangling from your ignition switch. After having an ignition switch go out in another car, I avoid any significant weight dangling from my ignition any more. Are you worried about that at all? It's one of those things that's never an issue...

This is why, I bet: Sure makes sense to me - there may be conditions where it's suddenly an annoyance, or even a hazard, and you don't want to wade through menus while you're driving to disable it.

Mine was built on Labor Day (9/4). It was shipped over a week later, (9/13), and arrived at the dealer in Oregon yesterday (10/10). I have delivery scheduled for lucky Friday the 13th - sales manager on vacation this week. That's under 400 days from ordering to delivery...yay? So much depends...

That's not entirely accurate. Federal rules around fuel economy apply different requirements to station wagons (classified as cars) than to SUVs (classified as trucks). Station wagons are bigger and heavier than regular cars, but were supposed to have better mileage than a similarly-sized SUV...

Yay! Mine too - guess the Mexico plant doesn't close for Labor Day! I finally get to update my signature a bit...!

Same here. Have the mudflaps, the truck to attach them to is scheduled to be built in two weeks. All things being equal I'd rather be waiting on the mudflaps....

Blind adherence to a union is as foolish as blind support for management. Historically, there have been abuses on both sides. Like many things, unions are like a pendulum. Before unions existed there was little regulation and employers were free to abuse workers. Most of what unions originally...

The issue is, there is no official standard in the US for how brake lights ought to work with regenerative braking, and for a long time EU had the dumbest standard imaginable (no brake lights ever for regenerative braking). YouTube video below covers some of the technical concerns, including...

I'm a taco fan, but had a breakfast crunchwrap this morning. I laugh every time I see people shortening Tacoma like that - I have this image of people driving away from a particular fast-food place in a large hard-shelled Taco with wheels! It may very well be a common abbreviation, but I find...