Wow, I'm feeling pretty good about toasting my bread on top of the woodstove now.
Yep, Maine is taking a shellacking in the power industry now, but it wasn’t unexpected. We still have a camp in Maine and go back when we can, and family lives there so we keep up on current events.
From the Gen3 Dieselgate manual.
).HAHA I am one of them! Have bought alot of parts from you guys keeping my 300K mi MKIV on the road!
My post about covid math wasnt political. EPA dictates cleaner air measures by mandating devices that increase fuel economy.
This is what I posted about earlier. Illogical as it may sound, the DPF equipped truck is better for the environment. And as someone else posted, we're in a development phase of these emissions systems. When emissions were first introduced on gasoline powered cars in the late 60s, power output, fuel economy, and driving characteristics all turned to crap. By the 90s cars were cleaner still but making more power and delivering better FE than before the emissions requirements were put into place. I think the same thing will happen here, at least it will for over the road trucks.
Post #42 not the easiest read but very good and much to the point of unintended issues.
Definition of irony : people claiming they care enough about the environment to junk their otherwise functional, economical vehicle with a lot of life left in it yet continue to drive a 20+ year old vehicle that pollutes far worse than the car they sent off to the compactor.
No idea what you're talking about. I averaged 25k miles a year when I drove my tdi. I've averaged 11k miles a year w/ my 2010 32 mpg Golf since the buyback. I also installed enough solar panels to cover all of my electricity needs. So yeah, I'd call that a win for the environment. Besides, like most people, I took the buyback primarily for economic reasons. Getting the legal/environmental weight off of my shoulders was mostly just a nice bonus.
The "irony" I was referring to was your self proclaimed righteousness of ditching your "dirty" car but keeping a 20+ year old truck that is several times dirtier than the VW you turned in.
That's much more believable than this:
My 20 year old farm truck hasn't been on the road in 5 years. Probably put 100 miles on it as a farm vehicle during that time. I also have no problem with members here driving 15-20 year old cars. Sounds like maybe you do.
4 of the 7 vehicles I own are more than 20 years old. My teenage son drives a truck nearly 15 years his senior....a standard no less.
I don't have any data to counter this but that is quite surprising if that number is even close. I would have thought it was a much higher number based on news articles I've read in the past.
Agreed. Believe it or not, there are tasks a 3/4 ton 4x4 truck with plow gear can do that a fwd passenger car simply cannot.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you don't make a habit of looking at peoples signatures.
Two things:
For every new car put on the road, another is taken off the road and junked. This is the famous Broken Windows Fallacy, but now the windows have wheels and engines and seats.
That technology has already been developed, deployed and rendered obsolete by faster DC charging.
Not sure I follow. And I hope you realize my comment was a little bit sarcastic: I don't believe we should promote an industry that has ill effects on both the environment and people's personal economic situations to keep the overall economy booming.
We're in agreement.
I have no intention of permitting a hot swap of a battery with one that is a known quality to me. If I've done all the charging and driving, I know exactly what conditions the battery has seen. If I swap it with a fully charged battery, I get a full battery with no past history. Someone might have abused it with constant fast charging, or perhaps hot rodding their car and abusing the battery in other ways. There is no way to ensure I get "my" battery back.
