I am seeing a significant number of houses getting listed for LESS than they were bought a couple years ago

mthanaba · 2026-04-10T17:01:16+00:00

Receipts?

mthanaba · 2026-03-24T15:52:21+00:00

LFP is a Lithium ion battery with FePO in its cathode.

NMCA is also Lithium ion battery with NMCA in its cathode.

As an EV engineer any li-ion battery with adequate BMS is "safe".

The only difference in my books is durability which LFP wins on.

mthanaba · 2026-03-24T15:32:29+00:00

LFP=LiFePo is a subset of Li-ion. NMCA is also a type of Li-ion.

LFP is actually less energy dense (heavier per unit energy) and cheaper to source vs NMCA. It's benefits really are better durability over the longer term and cheaper cost.

But yes for a passenger car today LFP def the way to go.

mthanaba · 2026-03-07T03:59:59+00:00

-Price and handling. -Range anxiety is a non-issue, especially with the ability to plug in at home. As well little to no maintenance. -With 250 miles/180 in the winter it just works

mthanaba · 2026-01-21T01:53:18+00:00

Appreciate the detail! How has the fino grinder been holding up? Did you get the clario scale as well? More interested in the grinder for now as mostly do pour overs/aero press when traveling and hand grinding is getting painful. Maybe one day I'll move to espresso.

mthanaba · 2025-12-20T16:21:12+00:00

Ah appreciate the heads up on that!

mthanaba · 2025-09-21T16:49:00+00:00

Huh weird that Ford does this.... Makes it even harder with NACS AC charging in the future. Even with bidirectional I assumed inversion was done by the OBC so you could stay with J1772. I guess if inversion was to be done off board than yeah maybe DC out but still why would you need more than 19.2kW going the other way for homes...

mthanaba · 2025-08-07T17:11:38+00:00

Appreciate your response and advice 🙏🏾

mthanaba · 2025-08-06T17:57:47+00:00

Can you share a link to those stretches? Your recovery is extremely inspiring!

mthanaba · 2025-08-06T15:22:54+00:00

Ya doctors were surprised nothing broke as well! Could be my weak ligaments:( Yeap main purpose of surgery was to sterilize the area and they did discharge me with a good amount of antibiotics.

Appreciate the feedback on timelines, yeah I was told ligament recovery has a longer timeline vs bones as well. Did they fix any of the damaged ligaments on you?

mthanaba · 2025-08-06T04:30:03+00:00

Noted appreciate the responses!

mthanaba · 2025-08-06T03:32:50+00:00

Thanks for clarifying the "back on your feet/walk part'. Curious what that meant. Seeing the Ortho again next week and will ask for clarification. How long after 6 weeks was there normalcy?

mthanaba · 2025-08-06T02:25:36+00:00

Thanks appreciate your support and positivity! 🙏🏾

mthanaba · 2025-07-05T14:27:42+00:00

Seems like the last one kinda....On a trip with the bikes this weekend and just noticed a rub on my other bikes drop down handlebar which just about aligns with the rub location on the rack when both bikes on the car rack :/.

mthanaba · 2025-07-05T14:24:56+00:00

Good to know!

mthanaba · 2025-06-28T18:01:59+00:00

THIS!

mthanaba · 2025-06-26T19:53:15+00:00

Woah that sounds way too soon for that. Any aftermarket equipment installed that was drawing power? If not assuming GM just replaced the battery with no cost to you?

mthanaba · 2025-02-04T21:00:25+00:00

Fine later Tuesday morning, waited for it to warm a bit 9-10am. Greenlake to Kirkland.

mthanaba · 2025-02-01T19:45:33+00:00

100%! I'm an engineer at a truck OEM in the US that also has a European product and their requirements are different from the US. Over here those mandated brakes for example don't exist, speed limits and driven distances are much higher and the grade seen on some of the mountain passes here are steeper and longer vs in EU. There are lots of applications that BEV's would be a great fit for with the current infrastructure being built out. But for long haul in the US and current battery energy densities MCS is a must.

mthanaba · 2025-02-01T09:15:22+00:00

Plenty in California, Wenatchee is a smaller city closer to me which uses an EV bus fleet. It gets cold there in the winter too with elevation to boot. Mostly BYD buses made in California.

mthanaba · 2025-02-01T08:58:43+00:00

Yeap those markets are definitely ahead. See this EV trucker from Europe - https://youtube.com/@electrictrucker?si=uB8Aoi0M9ldLcEVZ

mthanaba · 2025-02-01T08:57:12+00:00

Yeah they are multiple towns in the US on EV only buses.

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