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British F-35B at Eglin AFB

Give 'em to the Marines! They know how to do rotary right!

The Army's always hated the Kiowa, they've been trying to replace it for over 30 years.

First Dutch F-35 in flight.

Oh, c'mon, he totally did. And Northrop put him on the payroll to shill the F-20 in the hope that on the strength of his recommendation foreign customers would beat a path to Northrop's door, checkbooks in hand.

I lost a shepherd a couple months back and the emergency vet bills were insane. Even the local vet office was pretty steep (and I've never been a fan of their staff's attitude). That was the first time I'd ever heard of pet insurance, but I think that if I adopt another animal, I'm better off just squirreling away $10-20 a month or so into a savings account for that very purpose. Because I wasn't happy with my vet's office treatment, I searched for and found a local vet who does house calls and she was awesome. It's a lot less stress on the animal since they're in their home environment (Anima

I've heard SC mentioned a few times, but I wouldn't be surprised if they end up like how the VA ANG ended up (gave up their F-16s, moved from Richmond to Langley to borrow F-22s) and share jets with Shaw. Oklahoma also wants the F-35.

Your house is your station. That's where the majority of your charging is done since the majority of drivers commute around town most of the time. The Superchargers exist to facilitate long-distance traveling, and currently permit access to pretty much all of the lower-48. That's because until now, most EVs have been tiny little [censored]boxes with piss-poor range from companies that have piss-poor reputations for innovation. The Leaf's a joke, BMW's i3 is an ugly joke. GM should be ashamed of themselves for the Chevy Spark. And the Focus Electric should be taken out back and shot. They've

(Granted, there are initial installation costs, but once it's set up...) The batteries can be recycled, just like the batteries in your car now. Recycling of lead-acid batteries is now one of the most successful recycling stories of any industry. The EPA estimates that over 90 percent of lead-acid batteries are recycled, and a typical battery contains 60-80 percent recycled materials. Actually, we have. Science is hard.

Yeah, about that... The national average, one-way daily commute is 25.5 minutes. - U.S. Census Bureau 's annual American Community Survey for 2011 As of last week, there were 3.689 Superchargers and 3,689 Destination Chargers. By the end of 2017, when the Model III is available, they will have doubled the amount of Superchargers to 7,200 and tripled the number of Destination Chargers to 15,000. Now, no one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to go buy one of these. If you have to drive 200 miles to and from work every day, that's your problem, not ours. The majority of Americans

49th FW decals for the 1/144 DML F-117 kit

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Last August, researchers found six vulnerabilities in a Model S (some of which required direct physical access) and worked with the company for several weeks to develop fixes for some of them. The infotainment system was been closed off at several different points and the browser (which contained a four-year-old Apple WebKit vulnerability that could potentially let an attacker conduct a fully remote hack to start the car or cut the motor. Theoretically, an attacker could make a malicious web page, and if someone in a Tesla car visited the site, could gain access to the infotainment system. F

I remember first reading in Popular Mechanics (or was it Popular Science? I get the two mixed up) about how Hydrogen powered vehicles were going to be the next big thing back when I was in High School. That was over 20 years ago. Nissan had a pilot program out in California some years ago, where the car was fine - it ran on a Hydrogen slush fuel and it emitted H2O. It refueled at a solar-powered station that produced the slush fuel. The problem was, it took several hours for the station to produce a single gallon of the fuel. That's okay if a station's assigned to a single vehicle that has

I'm sure they are. I just have a personal bias against Hybrid cars in general. Under a certain speed, the EV motor runs the car and above that speed, the ICE takes over. Which means what no matter when, you've got an engine that's doing nothing but acting as dead weight. I get that they've pushed battery technology forward, but they're also a crutch. IMO, they're in interim solution that is dangerously close to becoming a permanent solution. That, and I personally find the Prius ugly.

I had a Toyota, and it got around 200K miles before it died. I also had a Ford that needed a new transmission after 50K miles. If my next vehicle isn't the Model III, it'll be another Toyota (but not a POS Prius).

Those are good shirts. You can't throw out a shirt like that, not unless you absolutely have to and even then, It has to be a Viking Funeral.

253k reserved as of 7am this morning. Just for comparison, BMW sold a total of 112K 3-Series in all of 2015.

Why are you surprised? In the mid-1990s the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed a mandate that made the production and sale of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) a requirement for the seven major automakers selling cars in the United States to continue to market their vehicles in California. If you wanted to sell in California, you had to have an EV option. GM's EV1 was made available through limited lease-only agreements, initially to residents of the cities of Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. EV1 lessees were officially participants in a "real-world engineering

Supercharging access is not exactly free — the necessary components are part of a $2,000 charge included in the MSRP of newer models. And when you buy a Tesla, you get hardware to recharge your car at home, using your own electricity that you pay for every month. A full charge on a Model S runs around $6-$7.

Dunno, it seems like it's some of the better money spent by the feds. If the government puts out seed money which enables a US firm to be come a world leader, is that a bad thing? Obviously not every company will make it but even if only a percentage do, I still like it. Existing domestic industries aren't exactly setting records for R&D spending, need some way to keep innovation alive in the US. This. Via NPR: The simple fact is, to be a economic leader, an economic superpower, a nation has to invest in science, technology and research. The US auto industry hasn't had any inno

And yet you directed your snarky comments towards one auto manufacturer, not the others. In addition to payments made in 2012 and Q1 2013, the wire transfer of almost half a billion dollars ($451.8M) on On May 22, 2013 repaid the full loan facility with interest. Following this payment, Tesla was first American car company to have fully repaid the government. How did GM and Chrysler do? In the 2015 State of the Union address, we were "The auto companies have now repaid taxpayers every dime and more of what my administration invested in." In December 2014, the Treasury Department announced