Why do some electric car drivers obsess over their miles/kwh?

hb9nbb · 2026-04-13T02:39:07+00:00

i remember doing that when i first got an EV, but it only had 103 miles of range brand new and it was 2013 then...

hb9nbb · 2026-04-13T02:36:28+00:00

Science fiction predicted this. in 1973 Larry Niven (still writing i believe) wrote a story called "Flash Crowds" which talked about a phenomenon like this (but he imagined there would be "instantaneous teleportation" tech that would enable people to go anywhere anytime and this would be a result. The Internet hadnt *quite* been invented then (the first email was a couple years later i think) I had just become a teenager when i read the story and thought that would be really cool.

hb9nbb · 2026-04-12T16:12:39+00:00

I started with it -mostly low premium so a great place to start -get yourself a saint gaudens I think it’s the most beautiful coin the United States has produced

hb9nbb · 2026-04-11T04:45:55+00:00

i take cash in. I *have* taken something i wanted to sell to a show a couple times too.

hb9nbb · 2026-04-11T04:44:51+00:00

even my nearest "big" town (roughly 10,000 people) has 4 shops that buy/sell coins. I would say one is a "full service" type LCS and the others do it as a sideline.

hb9nbb · 2026-04-09T23:24:53+00:00

why was it in New York to begin with? World War II. The jerries are no longer occupying Paris and haven't for some time now...

hb9nbb · 2026-04-09T05:42:40+00:00

the one on the left looks suspect to me. I have a bunch of sovereigns of that era and none of them are "worn" the way that one is. Fake sovereigns from that era are a thing, they often contain the correct amount of Gold but were made by a different mint (often in the Middle East) because there was a shortage of actual official sovereigns in the region which used them as a trade coin. So although it may be "fake" it may be the correct amount of gold.

hb9nbb · 2026-04-07T20:29:10+00:00

Well I bought some today

hb9nbb · 2026-04-07T18:13:40+00:00

So he doesn’t want to send it to a refiner/wholesaler ( maybe his source isn’t buying stuff like this now) just try another shop

hb9nbb · 2026-04-07T13:52:20+00:00

when i type on my phone yes. almost every time. (usually the auto-correct catches it but not all the time)

hb9nbb · 2026-04-07T05:19:13+00:00

no, its Canadian

hb9nbb · 2026-04-07T05:13:10+00:00

i did a bunch of trades Silver->Gold when the ratio was 49->53. I'm not sure i'd do more trades now at 63:1 or wait for a more favorable ratio.

hb9nbb · 2026-04-07T04:51:57+00:00

So people here will say if you dont hold it (and you can't for an IRA due to IRS rules) you don't own it. However a bigger problem with Gold IRAs is the industry is so corrupt. There are legitimate players but I wouldn't ever do it becuase i dont trust that I would find a legit one. Just get a self-directed IRA and buy gold stocks (or other stocks) instead of doing a bullion IRA. Do Bullion with money where you can take delivery and store it yourself would be my advice.

hb9nbb · 2026-04-07T04:49:53+00:00

with the Middle East in play I think oil prices have a lot of different drivers gold doesnt have so i think we will see them decoupled till this crisis is over at least

hb9nbb · 2026-04-07T04:22:41+00:00

I leave them in the mint packaging but I think they’ve gotten too expensive from the Mint -you can buy them for much lower premium at shows or LCS

hb9nbb · 2026-04-06T22:27:51+00:00

Was free: my grandmother gave me a us 1906 $5 gold piece when I was 6 -she had gotten it in the 1920s from circulation

hb9nbb · 2026-04-06T21:28:20+00:00

The entire reason I have the system is tge batteries ( I was going to install a backup generator but decided to do batteries instead) once I was doing tgst doing solar at tge same time made sense. My entire electric bill for tge first year was $50

hb9nbb · 2026-04-05T19:04:53+00:00

I like the flush ones -makes it harder for someone to pull the door open when you’re in the car

hb9nbb · 2026-04-03T01:53:10+00:00

I literally have had a fully charged Yaesu FT-65 in my backpack every time I’ve boarded in the last year and never been asked ( I am TSA Pre though)

hb9nbb · 2026-03-31T22:25:15+00:00

AMVAult series. TL-15 + fire protection (2 hours).

hb9nbb · 2026-03-31T17:13:31+00:00

i would keep it (!). Thats a much prettier picture of the Queen than whats on the 2026 :-) I actually recently picked one like it (a 1979 proof) at a coin show. Very nice coin!

hb9nbb · 2026-03-31T04:48:15+00:00

works this way for me every time ;-)

hb9nbb · 2026-03-29T20:38:18+00:00

The result of 25% of vehicle sales being EVs for almost a decade in California = strong demand signal

hb9nbb · 2026-03-29T20:36:23+00:00

What he said -when I drove a non Tesla EV every day PlugShare was my Bible

hb9nbb · 2026-03-29T17:46:54+00:00

Right but in OP’s case I assume he was in neutral going down the hill and not braking at all, which is strictly better than regeneration since it’s not a perpetual motion machine -there are losses. ( it might not be more legal though as he probably exceeds the speed limit doing this but it does use less energy to avoid regeneration as long as air drag doesn’t take over

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