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My town outside of Boston, technically a city, has like three screenfuls of parking minimums listed to cover many situations. New apartment buildings in the center require 1.25 spots per unit, as part of othe statewide goal for transit oriented development

I’m rooting for the people on the left coast to get this. While I have no idea what the projects should have done differently, and it’s not my money, the case for this projects is still overwhelmingly positive. We need this at just about any price and I can only hope experience here makes future such projects easier

And human rights. Due process. Rule of law and respect the constitution. Less inflation. More progress on our environment. Rebuild some infrastructure. Invest in some technologies of the future rather than the past. Leadership that understands basic economics and actually the art of the deal

I believe dryer outlets are typically 30a@240v. That’s a nice step up than a standard outlet and simple math shows 4x the power of 15a@120v

If you have one in your garage, then you already have an outlet that can do faster charging than a standard outlet.

Just like you technically don’t need a 50a level 2 charger, you may not have to settle for a standard outlet. I bought a heavy duty extension cable with adapters for several different outlet types.

For me the smart charger was a key feature, and I never understood why that is never talked about. I have 200a service which was plenty for one fully powered charging service, but with the likelihood of electrification in upcoming years I was hesitant to have two. It was pretty clear I needed to prioritize smart charging so I’d have that possibility.

I can also configure it to only charge my allowed vehicles, should that ever become an issue

So far my family only has the one EV, so we only need the one charger. But I like that if we needed a second charger it could be on the same circuit and they could dynamically share the power to maximize charging

The way I explained it to my brother:

• technically just plug in to an existing outlet will work. Even if you didn’t keep up every day, you would get tot the weekend and make it up then
• but your garage already has a dryer outlet. Adapters are cheap and it will charge 4-5 times as fast
• but 50a level 2 charger is the same size as a stove outlet. Maybe a little longer wire run, and the “outlet” is more expensive, but it’s well worth the cost for the freedom, the flexibility, the convenience … and may even add to your house value

Agreed, and that headline is needlessly inflammatory . Looking at my EV mileage , I could almost certainly get away with just plugging into a standard outlet. However the level 2 charger means that even if I screw it up, I can be mostly charged in a couple of hours. It’s been really effective at helping me get over what range anxiety I had. It’s really helped keep car usage as a somewhat impulse thing, rather than a process: I’m ready to go anywhere anytime.

It also means I can charge multiple EVs, if I wanted to.

Just the multiplier alone - take any individual protest and multiply it by over 2,000 … gets big fast.

I actually had five very convenient choices

• should I go into Boston for the big one, to really showcase our strength?
• should I goto Lexington for the historical context, the commemorating the start of the revolutionary war, throwing off the yoke of the king?
• should I goto my ex’s town, if she had the kids?
• should I goto the nearby town threats a collection of malls, make a day of it and get shopping done?
• no, I’ll goto to MY town, stand up with MY town. We had a couple thousand very enthusiastic protesters in MY town and it was awesome

That’s why I always thought they’d have an affinity for all those little states up in the corner that can’t be real. Firstly, Europe has more than its Sahara of tiny countries that can’t be real. Secondly but most importantly, we’re often accused by right wing media as “European”, as if it were a slur. Yes, we have better health care, better quality of life, better education systems, better god damn trains. Yes, we still have many quaint little towns organized around a Common - I don’t know if Europe deserves the credit, but not being car-centric is apparently not American

Up until that point hp had a stellar engineering reputation. They could have milked that for many more years, but it takes real talent to destroy that so quickly and completely

Counterintuitively, ms phones good reviews were also a good reason for ms to kill it. By the time ms got moving with phones, they were way behind and the market was already consolidating. They had a lot of inertia to overcome. They dumped tons of money into phones, exercised the famous ms marketing arm twisted, pulled out all of their usual tricks … and no one bought them. They ended up with phones that people liked, that got excellent reviews … and no one bought them. Even worse, phones were being sold on the strength of their app stores, and despite sinking tons more money persuading developers to port apps to windows phones, they could never get the critical mass of a sustaining ecosystem. It was pretty clear that even ms would not be able to overcome the consolidation of the market into only two

For sure, coal fired generators should be treated as an emergency. They’re slowly going away (in the US)/but our environment can’t take the pace. We need to treat this a lot more urgently, get totally off coal asap. I bet we could do it in only a couple years of emergency action.

I believe it’s mostly two states, and West Virginia always needs an investment

…. But they’re probably not thinking of it that way