Yes, but I consider the lease as a feature rather than a limitation. If somebody comes up with a way to charge EV batteries in less than 10 minutes in the next 3 years fuel cell vehicles will be toast. By leasing the Clarity I won't be stuck with a white elephant if that happens.

The mileage limit on the lease is more generous than most leases, too -- 20k/year. More than enough for my purposes.

Add to that a fairly low lease payment (considering all the bells and whistles included in the car), free fuel up to $15,000 again, plenty for my purposes. There's also a $5,000 rebate from the state. Put those all together and it becomes very attractive.

It helps that I live in an area with several refueling stations, with more planned.

I consider it a good choice to ride out the next 3 years and see how the EV and fuel cell technologies shake out. Then I can make a more long-term decision.

I prefer hydrogen because I can refill it to maximum range in under 5 minutes. I think if they can get electric cars to fully charge in under 10 minutes there won't be any reason for fuel cell cars. It'll mainly depend on whether researchers can accomplish that before they find a way to more efficiently produce hydrogen via renewable means. There's work ongoing on finding better catalysts for electrolysis that looks promising as well as other ways of producing hydrogen efficiently. It seems to me that it'll be easier to do that than to come up with the means to quickly transfer huge amounts of electrical energy without damaging the battery, but time will tell.

I don't know about Nikola Motors but it works quite well in the Honda Clarity I drive every day.

I think it's more of the case that legislators who make the rules restricting alcohol consumption needed a way to enforce the rules. If they let just anyone serve alcohol the rules probably won't get enforced very often due to ignorance if nothing else. If they make it illegal to serve without a license then the bartenders will enforce the rules on threat of losing their license and job.

Snow Leopard was back when Apple still charged for major OS upgrades. I imagine they charged him the $29 list price.

Like Tesla?

Really? Can you name one or are you just assuming that's the case? I don't see why the failure of the remote-access function would keep you from manually adjusting the thermostat. Are there really models out there that have no manual interface?

You have to live near one of the existing fueling stations to be able to buy one. The guy down the street from me has two Mirais. I'm on the waiting list for a Clarity.

Just create your own CA then and generate whatever certs you want. Or use self-signed certs.

No, it just proves that if you create a massive PR headache for your employer you're likely to get fired. It doesn't even matter, really, what the contents of his post was or why it caused an uproar -- if you cause that much trouble for your employer you're going to get the ax pretty quickly.

Or, if you have to have the touch bar MacBook Pro, just use the keyboard settings and remap the caps lock key to escape.

"An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." -- Gerald Ford in 1970

It's not Obama's fault that the insurance companies decided not to allow that. The ACA had provisions to grandfather existing policies but the insurance companies decided to just drop them instead.

I think the OP means "When the Bough Breaks" from TNG season 1. Just happened to see it last week on BBC America.

I think you have it backwards. I'm looking at the side of my office mate's MacBook Air and the MagSafe2 connector looks to be about the same size as the USB-A port right next to it. My wife has a circa 2009 MacBook pro and the MagSafe connector is thicker and was next to the Ethernet port. Much easier to mistake the MagSafe2 for the USB port right next to it.