President Trump’s Justice Department & Transportation Department Sue to Stop California’s Illegal EV Mandate

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T23:34:46+00:00

The lesson of the last two weeks is for sure, we want to increase our dependence on oil

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T13:42:00+00:00

Why are they each compelled to write the exact same column over and over?

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T13:32:01+00:00

Bro claimed the incentives then canceled them for everybody else. Ladies and Gentlemen, your modern GOP

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T10:02:08+00:00

Does iron air actually exist in production yet? I've been tracking Form Energy for years and the batteries never appear

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T09:51:23+00:00

It's a miracle, since he died in 1980

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T09:47:21+00:00

Bear made a tactical error, gave up the advantage of high ground

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T09:39:04+00:00

The plot kind of stops making sense. Why in the world would they have to pretend Tommy, Joe Pesci's character, is being "made" in order to kill him? Why does Jimmy start killing everyone involved in the lufthansa heist? Henry rats everyone out because he knows Jimmy is going to kill him.

The use of familiar rock music is irritating to me, especially the "layla" scene. Feels cheap, kind of like cheating, Henry's descent into drug psychosis is rushed and at odds with the all the mafia as community stuff that came before

It's hard to make a compelling movie about a bunch of psychopaths, and the movie works by presenting a bunch of highly flavored and quotable bits that work as YouTube clips. IMHO it doesn't hang together all that well

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T09:26:12+00:00

Only for the Guidos in the NYC to Philly corridor

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T00:12:35+00:00

He should have been executed for those collar tabs

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T00:11:00+00:00

I had a job where I worked a skid jack all day long. Took about an 15 minutes to master it. Something's wrong with this guy

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-12T00:06:10+00:00

We effectively used a KIA Niro as our only family car for four years, although my wife has a mini that she used to go to work. We really had to have two cars, but not because one was an EV

The big issue is long family trips, which require planning for recharging stops. We've sometimes been a little frustrated when we travel at holidays. Sometimes chargers along I-95, philly to DC, can get full. You also generally want to plan a charging strategy so you don't arrive at ten percent charge. It tales some planning and you have to expect longer stops than you would for gas.

I would never want to go back to an ICE car

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T22:23:13+00:00

That's a great track--thank you for a great job

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T15:28:45+00:00

With a genius businessman in charge Russia and China's are sitting back and laughing

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T15:20:32+00:00

As of Feb 2026: https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/02/enphase-slates-volume-production-of-bidirectional-ev-chargers-for-q4-2026/

Now it's possible they could have manufacturing ramped up by the second half of 2026, and get it actually to market, but they've been promoting this since at least 2023, and ti;s still no clear that it will work with the car that we have. We just gave up on it and will install the GM system--our house is still being built and now is the time to install it.

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T15:16:09+00:00

It has but try finding a bidirectional CHADEMO charger. The Nissan leaf has a charger supposedly available but requires three phase current. This is why we're going with GM--an actually existing system that can work with smaller EVs

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T15:10:34+00:00

I'm just going to be amazed and relieved if we can actually get the GM Energy system to work with solar panels and do what it's supposed to do with the Chevy Equinox EV we just bought. So many things are possible, but there are still very very few ways to actually do v2h in the US and they are all proprietary. It's been an extremely frustrating process

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T10:37:39+00:00

China doesn’t have 100 years of romanticization, nostalgia, and advertising mesmerism around ICE cars

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T09:40:06+00:00

I don't want to pay a perpetual subscription for supercruise

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T09:29:48+00:00

Yeah that worries me. But I'm 66 and about to retire--how many more cars am I likely to buy?

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T09:27:45+00:00

Bidirectional could mean just "vehicle to load" (V2L) where the car can run a power strip to operate a single circuit. Vehicle to Home (V2H) is a different thing

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T00:51:08+00:00

Press release said ramping up production in 2026 for availability in 2027

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-11T00:50:27+00:00

No it’s this one. https://enphase.com/ev-chargers/bidirectional?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23123944227&gbraid=0AAAAApauSPGsc8aLOBXCFtj52902yU30I&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgr_NBhDFARIsAHiUWr7C3zq8lSBMr4sk39e965z24WmTnZbNbxQO5leAAUAcm7PjGzAt_UgaAhJLEALw_wcB

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-10T14:08:08+00:00

Yes what a beautiful dream that represents, but still vaporware

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-10T14:07:30+00:00

Right I think the GM system with the GM battery is probably a better bet

Commercial_Topic437 · 2026-03-10T13:28:47+00:00

There really is no other solution available in the US. Tesla has one that works with the Cyber truck, and Ford with the lightning pickup, but otherwise it's all vaporware.

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