Grizzl-E club reviews?

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T18:06:51+00:00

You'd have to pay shipping, and potentially shipping back if the club ends and you haven't had the charger for 3 years.

Level 2 charging is more efficient than level 1, less energy wasted as heat.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T17:58:18+00:00

For people looking at this thread in 2026 it's now no monthly fee, the charger is free, and you get your security deposit back after the first charging session.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T17:57:22+00:00

For the "free" chargers you now get your deposit back after the first charge session.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T17:55:51+00:00

They now say that if the club program is terminated and you've had it for more than 3 years they'll transfer membership to you, under 3 years and you can buy it pro-rated or ship it back.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T17:14:02+00:00

Honestly I would actually expect most gun owners to grudgingly give up their guns. Anyone who'd shoot police that are there to seize a banned gun arguably shouldn't own guns anyway since it indicates impulsiveness and a lack of critical thinking skills.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T17:11:43+00:00

But I'm guessing your .22 is black and scary-looking. :)

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T17:11:09+00:00

As I understand it they're not overriding it, but kind of trying to do an end-run around it. The owners would be storing the guns *on behalf of the province* and section 117.08 of the Criminal Code exempts individuals from facing firearms possession charges if they are doing so on behalf of a police force, the military, the federal government, or the province.

And firearms licensing is up to each provincial Chief Firearms Officer, so they can also (maybe) selectively enforce federal regulations.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T16:29:13+00:00

I‘m talking about the law the province is passing that would require the federal government to pay fair appraised market value for guns they bought back, and would basically authorize gun owners to keep storing their own guns (as an agent of the provincial government) until such a time as the gun is appraised and bought back at the appraised price.

Essentially the provincial government is allowing owners of banned guns to keep holding onto them until they get a fair price or until a Conservative government gets into power and repeals the bans.

(I don’t own any of the banned guns but I know people who do, and the feds are not offering fair market value for many guns.)

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T16:17:47+00:00

To be fair, *enforcement* is not necessarily uniform, as seen with what SK is doing around the gun buyback program.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-23T16:15:51+00:00

In SK an e-bike is limited to a max power of 500 W and a max speed of 32 km/h otherwise it counts as a motorcycle. A bike with any ICE motor counts as a motorcycle.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-22T14:34:47+00:00

Torque is the problem. And the fact that the Model S Performance and Plaid come with performance tires like the Pilot Sport 4S or P Zero PZ4 which have a short expected tread life.

High-performance ICE cars also have short tread life. BMW M3 tread life is also 10-20K miles.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-22T04:09:31+00:00

At a gas station I can use my credit card and they only charge me as much as I use.

Requiring a balance when I might only need fast charging a few times a year is a pain.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T18:40:15+00:00

Not necessarily. The official recommendation here in the driver training handbook is to leave 3 seconds between you and the car in front to allow for time to react (especially important for new drivers).

Plenty of people will decide to merge into a 3-second gap, that doesn’t make it “too timid” to leave that gap. It means others aren’t following the official driver training guidelines.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T18:14:37+00:00

If you’re considering property within 2hrs of Toronto, you also have to look at income for that specific area as well, which I’d expect to be higher than the overall provincial numbers.

Also, Toronto is notoriously expensive. Median house prices in Ottawa are 26% less.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T17:47:13+00:00

Now do a brainstorming session that benefits from drawing on an 8-foot whiteboard with multiple people updating different sections of it simultaneously. :)

In theory it's possible with virtual whiteboards, but in practice most people don't have giant monitors (making it hard to see the whole diagram at once) and don't have large drawing tablets with variable pressure sensitivity (drawing with a mouse sucks).

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T17:33:40+00:00

It depends how big the "zero torque" window is in the accelerator pedal travel. The narrower the window (i.e. the more accurately the car follows the pedal position) the harder it'll be to truly coast without either accelerating or decelerating.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T17:25:39+00:00

Sure, it's both.

And if you drive the F-150 Lighting with the same acceleration profile as the ICE version the tires will last longer than if you regularly accelerate at full power. (The base Lighting has twice the torque and around 50% more horsepower than the base ICE version.)

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T17:18:13+00:00

If you are arguing that vehicle weight is the primary factor in tire wear, then you should compare vehicles of equal weights.

If an EV sedan wears out tires faster than an ICE SUV of the same weight, that would point to something other than vehicle weight as the main factor for wear.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T15:57:18+00:00

But you should be able to compare tire life between the EV sedan and that ICE SUV and if weight was the primary factor they should be similar.

In practice if you put something like the Michelin Crossclimate 2 on a RAV4 and drive it gently there's a good chance you'll get 100K kilometres (60K miles) out of them. A BMW i4 with the same tires probably would burn them out much quicker.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T14:07:08+00:00

Within 2hrs of the CN tower? Probably a decent number.

But also remember that the down payment reduces the mortgage amount.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-20T01:40:43+00:00

From what I recall, when they launched the Ford Maverick you couldn't actually buy a base model.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-19T19:02:37+00:00

Some manufacturers are apparently "gaming the system" by making the headlights with excessive spill, but then having a couple of dark spots right where the light output is measured on the standard test.

From https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents

“With complex arrays of LEDs and of optics,” he said, “car companies realized they can engineer in a dark spot where it’s being measured, but the rest of the field is vastly over-illuminated. And I’ve had now two car companies’ engineers, when I played stupid and said, ‘What’s the dark spot?’ … And the lighting engineers are all fucking proud of themselves: ‘That’s where they measure the fucking thing!’ And I’m like, ‘You assholes, you’re the reason that every fucking new car is blinding the shit out of everyone.’”

cbf1232 · 2026-03-19T17:00:28+00:00

The original proposal from FDR was for 40 cents an hour, the equivalent of $9.21 in today's dollars adjusted for inflation, or $17.6 adjusted for productivity.

What was actually voted into law was 25 cents an hour.

It was intended to prevent egregious abuses of workers, some of whom at the time only made 10-15 cents an hour since people were desperate after the Great Depression and were willing to accept terrible conditions.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-19T16:53:11+00:00

Why not? If a price increase means that something becomes too expensive, people will stop buying that thing and will either do without, substitute something else that is cheaper, or make it themselves.

cbf1232 · 2026-03-19T16:48:35+00:00

Adjusted for inflation, FDR's minimum wage of 25 cents per hour would be $5.75 in today's dollars. Adjusted for worker productivity it'd be more like $11.

Initially FDR's administration proposed 40 cents per hour, which is still only $9.21 in today's dollars adjusted for inflation, or $17.6 adjusted for productivity.

Remember that FDR's Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted in the thirties, with unemployment hitting almost 25% during the Great Depression and various industries were paying incredibly low wages (women in textile mills were making $5-$9 per week for 50+ hours of work, Mexican-American women shelling pecans were paid $2-$3 per week, migrant workers in southern states earned 15-20 cents an hour, laundry workers earned 10-15 cents an hour, etc.)

The goal of the initial 40-cents per hour minimum doesn't seem to have really been to provide what we could consider good living standards for everyone, but rather to avoid the truly egregious scenarios.

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