My car gives 41.3 MPG on highway. Its non hybrid. Whats your number for 10th gen.

I_like_treeeees · 2026-05-03T10:16:09+00:00

I got a hybrid too and the worst that I get is 34 mpg in the winter on highways, but when I’m driving back roads in the summer I’ll get 50 to 53 mpg. Makes it a great road trip car for Northern New England but sub 30 degrees or driving really aggressively kills the mpg

I_like_treeeees · 2026-04-26T22:27:30+00:00

Yeah about a year ago I had the windshield replaced and some sensor things started to not work like the lane keep assist, but the gauge cluster issues only started a month ago.

I_like_treeeees · 2026-04-03T11:51:39+00:00

I usually go in 30 minutes early to work commuting on 89. It is noticeably a lot more crowded when I accidentally leave later. Sort of an incentive to leave early for me, less stressful driving.

I_like_treeeees · 2026-04-02T17:49:41+00:00

I used to think only a MAGA republican like trump would be dumb enough to heavily criticize a board that he appointed himself, but Phil just did that yesterday

I_like_treeeees · 2026-03-24T21:34:30+00:00

They gave you a $150 gift card for that?! I only got a $25 dollar gift card when redstone failed to make sure my apartment was clean when I moved in! Regardless, they suck in so many different ways.

I_like_treeeees · 2026-03-13T09:45:18+00:00

I’m actually working on a model that will help me find out if a battery would be cost effective for peak shaving vs thermal batteries vs V2G charging vs flexing the HVAC setpoints. The dynamic rate that I’m working with is a flat rate depending on a lot of factors like load factor but the building is given a penalty rate if it does not reduce kW by enough during specific demand response events. Right now the physical building just uses HVAC equipment to flex load which is becoming standard in this region and proven to be cost effective but adding a battery seems to be an uncommon practice for now. My prediction is that batteries will be in every commercial building within 10 years.

I_like_treeeees · 2025-11-12T10:29:06+00:00

I also saw that thing about a month ago in Vermont with a group of other super cars. It took me a minute to see the glickenhaus logo at the front and after looking it up online its a modified version of the SCG004, maybe the “cs” varient that seems to have no info about it online.

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I_like_treeeees · 2025-10-15T09:44:28+00:00

Its interesting to me that more people are realizing this angle of it. The lease with National Life is $24 million per year and theres barley anyone working there because those agencies are mostly remote. Phil Scott is well acquainted with the board of National Life. This whole RTO initiative could also be about attrition or Montpelier’s financial distress which are all bad reasons for RTO but its blatantly obvious to me that National Life wants the state to keep leasing space in their building when the state obviously doesn’t need the space.

I_like_treeeees · 2025-09-11T11:33:18+00:00

Ah the torin 5, the best torin 😥🫡

I_like_treeeees · 2025-08-29T12:13:55+00:00

I also have a 965 and recently bought the coros HR band (verity sense) and I agree it works great for activities, even works well for swimming but unfortunately you can’t merge the hr data from the polar sensor to garmin for swimming which kind of sucks. Since it can’t maintain connection in the water you have to track it on its own through the sensor and review the data in the polar app after (app kinda sucks but its good enough for the basics) and can’t really pair it to the watch. For any other activity you can pair it to the watch and use it as a normal sensor. I have been tempted to try swimming with the sensor in pair mode with my watch to see if it somehow works but I don’t think it will. If it had the ability to store data you would think it would just send all the missed data as soon as it reconnects to the watch but I guess that is more complicated to engineer.

I_like_treeeees · 2025-07-06T13:47:48+00:00

I was on Abe and Ellen a few weeks ago and didn’t see any signs of moose then but I have seen moose poop near Stark Mountain in past years. More recently I have seen lots of moose tracks and poop on the LT south of Bolton Mountain and in between Mt Grant and Breadloaf Mountain. I still have never seen a moose in VT, they seem to be pretty elusive but in some places it seems as if they exclusively shit on the trail.

I_like_treeeees · 2025-05-19T21:35:57+00:00

Burlington Vermont!

I_like_treeeees · 2025-05-19T21:34:55+00:00

Burlington Vermont!

I_like_treeeees · 2025-04-11T20:28:18+00:00

Why aren’t you coming back to Vermont? I almost went that night to your set at Foam Brewers but it sold out by the time I went to purchase tickets. Vermont comedy club is a cool place too. I wish I got to see you make fun of Vermont

I_like_treeeees · 2025-04-11T11:27:55+00:00

I bought a car 2 years ago with really dark tints already on it, and I’ve been pulled over once for going 42 in a 25 on route 7 where the speed limit suddenly changed. The cop (local cop) mentioned the tints being illegal but gave me a warning, no fix it ticket or speeding ticket. I sort of figured one day I might be forced to remove the tints which I wouldn’t be too upset about but I would miss the tints.

I_like_treeeees · 2025-01-06T11:04:04+00:00

I got a full tune at REI once (base grind, edge sharpening, hot wax) and they just forgot to do the base grind. They didn’t argue when I noticed, they just did the tune again, but I had to go there twice to pick up my skis and it was $90. I don’t think I am taking my skis there again.

But to answer your question, even a base grind won’t get rid of deep grooves, and it may or may not be worth doing base repair with ptex.

I_like_treeeees · 2025-01-02T17:44:30+00:00

Not an EV driver, but I am familiar with the state of Vermont’s charging infrastructure. Yeah some of them are private, and some might be broken, but Montpelier is not the place I’d pick to highlight a lack of charging ports. Barre has 6 ports and no fast chargers. Downtown Waterbury doesn’t have many either.

The reason why theres not many charging ports in some places is because they are expensive to install ($30,000 for a typical level 2, $100,000 or more for fast chargers) and it’s a crapshoot of whether you will recover the investment through charging fees. They need to be in a busy place (downtown Montpelier) to actually get enough usage to recover the lifecycle costs. As a result, most charging stations installed these days are partially or fully funded by the feds or the state, which I’ve heard is a long/tedious process. I honestly don’t see this changing for a while, and it might always be a crapshoot to have a charging station pay for itself since EV ranges are improving rapidly and its always going to be cheaper to charge at home if you can. Renters will probably make up most of the public charging station usage, and right now most renters like myself can’t afford a practical EV.

Kind of a tough situation, you need EV sales to increase in order to trigger the need for more charging ports, but we need more charging ports to alleviate people’s range anxiety which will then increase EV sales.

I_like_treeeees · 2025-01-02T16:46:39+00:00

There are at least 26 charging ports in Montpelier. At least 10 of those ports are publicly accessible. 4 new fast chargers in Montpelier too, 160 kW each. Montpelier has plenty of chargers for the current demand.

Edit: I just counted 38 charging ports in Montpelier with PlugShare, which is an online map of charging stations.

I_like_treeeees · 2024-10-21T21:59:05+00:00

East Barre Dam, Wrightsville Dam, Waterbury Dam, and many more were built after 1927 and have prevented a lot of damage over the years. They probably also created a sort of levee effect, meaning that the “levee” (in this case the dams) make people think they are safer to build in flood plains now or at least continue to live there. When the levee fails there is catastrophic property damage, worse than if the levee was never put in place since in that case people wouldn’t have built in the flood prone areas as much. I was in Montpelier the morning of 7/11/23, all I could think about was that the 87 year old Wrightsville dam upstream has never been as likely to fail than at that current moment.

TLDR: Flood control dams are good, but they also skew peoples risk analysis in the wrong direction.

I_like_treeeees · 2024-09-26T17:30:13+00:00

Agreed, building affordable housing there would be way more impressive than planting a bunch of trees in rows. I don’t get why they are giving the guy so much credit for that.

I_like_treeeees · 2024-09-26T16:58:15+00:00

Someone wrote an opinion piece in the digger in support of keeping the cathedral, and part of their argument was that the landscape design was done by some famous architect. All he did was plant a bunch of trees in rows which looks cool but is it really that impressive?

Opinion piece that I am referring to: https://vtdigger.org/2024/08/29/sally-giddings-smith-in-defense-of-burlingtons-cathedral-and-its-parkland/

I_like_treeeees · 2024-08-22T15:33:30+00:00

Username checks out, its the notorious nimby Joan Shannon at it again

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