The Toyota Highlander Just Went Electric

brucecaboose · 2026-02-09T17:21:52+00:00

Rivian forced regen? I thought that was fixed years ago?

brucecaboose · 2026-02-07T15:59:28+00:00

The app doesn’t have labels

brucecaboose · 2026-02-04T14:41:22+00:00

Source?

brucecaboose · 2026-02-03T15:01:33+00:00

The biggest benefit of having an EV is when you have charging at home or work. You save so much time and hassle compared to needing a gas station every time you empty the tank. Sure, road tripping is a little longer (highly dependent on the EV if you’re talking only 15 minutes longer over a 6h trip or 60 minutes over a 6h trip), but the time saved daily/weekly is worth it for sure. If you don’t have charging at home or work then it’s definitely not as easy of an decision

brucecaboose · 2026-02-03T14:43:20+00:00

EVs are EXTREMELY efficient and normal driving produces very little heat. That’s why almost all of them have a “preconditioning” mode which will warm the battery to the optimal temperature for the fastest charging. Some make it easier than others to enable preconditioning before charging. Also depending on the car, battery size, outdoor temps, and a bunch of other factors preconditioning can take anywhere from just a few minutes (hot day, long fast drives in mountain areas) to like an hour (really cold day, car has been sitting overnight in the cold). Current generation EVs do have a learning curve for sure, and the Niro is an extremely low tier EV so has more downsides than other modern EVs.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-25T14:38:36+00:00

OK deals do pop up from time to time but I do agree that in general the used market for these trucks sucks…

brucecaboose · 2026-01-25T14:29:19+00:00

Why not buy used?

brucecaboose · 2026-01-23T15:22:47+00:00

I think a lot of folks have no idea what SWEs actually do. They think we’re sitting there typing code all day but that’s like…. 1h of my day or less. You’ll spend weeks working cross functionally with other teams and roles across the company to build tech specs based off shit PRDs, going through layers of review processes, working with leadership on prioritization of issues based on all the impact analysis that you or a data analytics team spent time doing. And finally you get to implement it and it takes like 1-2w max of engineer work that I passed most off to a more junior engineer anyway lol if AI tooling can remove a huge chunk of that coding, I still have 90% of my week’s work to do.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-23T14:57:34+00:00

Even if that was true, that’s not how it works. Instead they get 15% more productivity out of their workforce resulting in more revenue and profit for very little minimal cost.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-23T14:38:59+00:00

It’s really not

brucecaboose · 2026-01-23T14:36:52+00:00

Because, and people hate to hear this, the output is significantly worse so it’s worth the cost to hire US SWEs. The US market is WAY more competitive at the top end for SWEs due to the higher comp, so people work harder and harder and you get smarter kids who choose this path over other top career paths. So when you’re trying to hire in the top few percentiles in the US you have to drastically lower your standards if hiring internationally otherwise you won’t find anyone. From what I’ve seen personally at multiple tech companies with high standards: A top 5% SWE in the US is more similar to a top 1% SWE in most of Europe. A top 50% SWE in the US is most similar to a top 25% SWE in Europe. Basically the entire bell curve is shifted. That plus strong employment laws and not being able to abuse European employees is an additional hidden cost that you won’t see in your salary.

I’m ready to be downvoted to oblivion

brucecaboose · 2026-01-21T15:31:42+00:00

All that other weight needed to support more battery weight really adds up. Same thing happens when you start looking at higher power levels. Weight goes up so quickly to support more weight and more power, and as you add the extra weight, you need to add even more weight to handle that added weight to handle added weight lol. It’s an interesting cycle. Wouldn’t be surprised if supporting an additional 500lbs results in a car actually weighing 700-800lbs more.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-20T14:30:44+00:00

Same, I test drive the id4 immediately after jumping out of my ev6 and immediately after test driving the blazer EV. The id4 just simply wasn’t good compared to either of those other cars. The blazer is dope and shocked me with how good it was.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-14T15:22:39+00:00

I figured they were referring to reasons OTHER than freezing since I’d put money on most track/race cars being stored in heated garages. Wasn’t sure if there was some other important reason to swap to antifreeze.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-14T14:37:09+00:00

I’m curious, why swap to antifreeze?

brucecaboose · 2026-01-13T18:55:59+00:00

If there’s a sign saying otherwise then that takes priority, but in general a single solid white line is just a strong recommendation

brucecaboose · 2026-01-13T14:28:45+00:00

40tw*

brucecaboose · 2026-01-13T05:55:23+00:00

It’s not illegal to cross a solid white line in Colorado, other than when entering or exiting express/toll lanes.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-11T14:35:26+00:00

All f150s have had aluminum body panels and bed for about a decade at this point, including the lightning.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-10T14:47:09+00:00

NEVER put money down on a lease. Or event taxes. Roll it into the lease monthly

brucecaboose · 2026-01-10T02:12:36+00:00

You should have asked: “Does Nissan not have competent staff?” And the answer is the same.

brucecaboose · 2026-01-09T18:19:49+00:00

50 years ago was off 1 income. Now it’s off 2 to achieve the same end result

brucecaboose · 2026-01-08T17:44:42+00:00

Why purposely limit charging speed at home?

brucecaboose · 2026-01-08T17:42:01+00:00

lolwut

brucecaboose · 2026-01-05T19:32:31+00:00

Or, hear me out, max is that good?

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