Irony, it's not half the comment you wanted it to be, is this the best use of anonymy? I believe in irony.

That depends on your goals. If you want to move forward, yes it does.

Tesla's vehicles charge to only 80% capacity by default, because this GREATLY improves the number of charge/discharge cycles you can get from the battery. (Li-Ion/LiPo batteries get "stressed" out the most at full charge.) Tesla gives owners the option to charge that last 20% if they expect to need the range.

Are the 7/10 kWh ratings of these units the raw rating of the batteries in the pack, or have they already been derated to the 80% level?

If they've already been derated to the 80% level, that resolves some of the potential conflicts in terms of lifetime indicated in the article. (1000 cycle "rule of thumb" vs. Tesla's warranty.)

That's already how most people feel in most of the world. Big loud exhausts are seen as a cry for help, expensive cars as a penis substitute, etc. And now, all the most aggressive American cars have forced induction. Even superchargers mute the engine note, and turbochargers also quiet the exhaust, so this is the beginning of the end of loud. It will still be a thing, but it won't be a thing you can just go buy off the lot, because emissions regulations will kill it by driving people towards more technology instead of more liters.

I know the Hellcat is kind of a conspicuous counterexample, but they won't likely be able to continue to make vehicles like that much longer, so enjoy them while they're here.

It takes an expensive and/or gutless motorcycle driven gently to be efficient, and it's well-known that most motorcycles have atrocious emissions. That's only changed recently... and it's made them very expensive. That's a lot of motivation to keep old bikes around, forestalling the adoption of emissions technologies. Motorcyclists are in general more reluctant to adopt new technologies, which makes sense when you are going to be rushing along over the road protected by some leather or nylon and a plastic brain bucket and with all those technologies stuffed up your ass. You want to be pretty sure they're not going to blow up.

That said, EVs aren't exactly new tech any more, and yes there are a number of contenders these days, put those things together and you get my GP comment.

Either you missed the entire point of my comment, or I'm missing the point of yours. I'm pretty sure you didn't have one, though. Why don't you explain, and we'll find out.

...or they will merge, and then Skynet.

But that would make you a douchebag.

You would build a roller coaster out of old VW beetles and surplus train track because that would be awesome.

If Facebook keeps driving people away, maybe one day G+ will be more than an also-ran.

Facebook was making me hate people I thought I knew. G+ makes me hate people I don't know, yes, but it also makes me like people I don't know, so that's still infinitely superior to facebook.

The Christian religion created America in the same way that cancer created chemotherapy. Now, what is the treatment for our capitalism?

Saying that doesn't make it true, and it isn't. By saying that they shouldn't have done what they did, you are blaming the victim. Thus, you are defending the actions of the gunmen, by placing blame on the victims. Stop it, because you're really being an offensive piece of shit and we must either ignore you or respond aggressively to your failure to defend the first amendment.

Yes. And that specific right must be protected or freedom of speech is lost. The right to mock an idea is probably the second-most important right in the category of ideas, just after the right to have them and just before the right to espouse them.

That is a stupid thing to say in one way, and an insightful thing to say in another. The radical Islamics consider the whole world their temple, and it doesn't matter where you do the things they don't want you to do, they reserve the right to murder you for it. So it's a stupid thing to say because this wasnt done in anyone's temple, and it's an insightful thing to say because it doesn't matter if you do it in their temple, they'll try to kill you for it anyway.

That's because you do not believe in the first amendment or freedom of speech, and so you can safely shut up now because nobody sane or interested in building a better society is interested in what you have to say.

Christianity is also a religion which needs to be stamped out, over time. But there was a time when it was killing people for their beliefs, or on that excuse, and it had to be reined in. This has happened, so now we can move on to Islam, which is the current largest problem in religion.

Fine with me, but just realize that they're not going to all get the same labels. It's a fact that not all religions are identical, one of which you should not need reminding.

You know the Crusades were a reaction, not just an action, right? Yeah, they turned it into a land grab, but they had a good excuse to use.