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One of the key factors in maintaining battery performance is whether the car comes equipped with a heat pump and battery warmer or not. The heat pump scavenges waste heat from additional sources to warm the cabin. The battery warmer is like a block heater, but for batteries. On some EVs (mostly the cheaper ones) it is an option or not even available. I'm fairly certain it is standard with the Teslas. Li-Io batteries don't do well at lower temperatures and using their own electricity to warm them up helps to provide additional range. I would bet all the candy in my stocking that the EVs above that have the largest performance degradation in cold weather do not have heat pumps while the ones that do have one. And just like a block heater, an EV heatpump isn't needed in Texas or Florida, so it makes sense that the less expensive EVs make it optional when it is available. Hyundai makes it part of a very extensive $3,500 convenience package. Kia makes it available on a $1,100 Cold-Weather package that also includes a heated steering wheel. Looking at that chart, it seems the combination of a heat pump and battery warming is the key combination to range much like Direct Injection + Turbo charging made a huge difference. The Bolt has battery warming, but it only operates between 30% and 90% charge, it does not have a heat pump, is uses the equivalent of a large hair dryer to warm the cabin. The Teslas have all had improvements to their battery temperature management over the years, the older ones saw large range drops in cold weather. However, you'll notice the Model Y actually has a slight improvement in range in cold weather... it was the first Tesla to come with a heat pump. The Model 3 did get it starting with the 2021 model year, but with the way Tesla does model years, not every 2021 Model 3 may have one. So, since the chart doesn't specify the model year tested, the results shown for the Model 3 are likely 2020 or older. So if you're shopping for an EV and live in a colder climate, you want an EV with both a good battery warmer and a heat pump to get the most range. Also, keeping the car plugged in overnight will keep the battery nice and warm for when you leave in the morning.

Awesome to hear your doing well and yes sadly, there does seem to be a clear divide that is more political due to ignorance from the leadership of that side rather than intelligence, science and medical testing of facts proving otherwise. I can say from my own work with the CDC, John Hopkins, Harvard Medical and Oxford that a Mix of say Pfizer and Moderna Booster seems to do really well also. So you can stay with just one brand or mix it up between Moderna and Pfizer and still do really well since both are based on the same MRNA technology. Have a great relaxing healthy and safe Holiday Season.

I've had both jabs as soon as the state opened up the next rung down. Got onto the site and went to a hick town, where there were openings at my pharmacy chain's store, and only had a headache for about a day each time. The same thing happens when I get a flu shot. I always get mine on or about Labor Day, in September, so I can connect the event to the arrival of autumn (sort of). I'm scheduled for the 3rd jab next week. With my pharmacy chain, I had to book it a few weeks back. If you hunt around on the site for their stores and their slots, all the ones in deep blue areas can see you in mid-January. All the ones in deep red areas, and it could also have to do with lower population counts, can see you this week, if you're flexible. Is this not a rather "clean" and stereotypical divide? Let's see. They put a man on the moon with 4 GB of RAM type horsepower in 1969. And people are distrustful of a research process that took about a year with a completely different and higher level of scientific know-how? I guess people can look up to broadcasters who are not scientists (far from it, and with "soft" or no degrees) because that's who they see themselves allied with. A 52 year old (R) lawmaker from Washington State just died. He had been espousing the "don't tread on me" mantra. Again, we've got a "clean" and stereotypical divide. I got really sick about a week ago. I was given antibiotics. I was also asked to get a Covid test. Thankfully, it was negative. And the antibiotics put me back in working order. Moderna appears to be more efficacious over time. Moderna really beat up on some people I know for a few days - that tells me it was probably working hard. I had Pfizer because that's what they had, and will be staying with it. I'm checking the pharmacy website daily. I'm willing to go in on a day's notice if there's a cancellation within 30 miles.

I would have never thought that the Avanti was a fast car, but sometime in the beginning of the new millennium when I first started on the interwebs, I came across a fact. That the Avanti was THE fastest car in the world upon its introduction. Before then, I just kinda looked at it and no emotions flowed through me. I was very indifferent towards it. I did know that I didnt really like the '80s version. I always felt that it should have STAYED in the 1960s. The '60s version is just so pure. There are some '80s designs that I like the excess, plastic body cladding aero work, and others not so much. The Avanti's interior is pure class. I like it a lot!

^ The Avanti was definitely a unique design..didn't really care for the front, but love the back window..

4994 miles, no issues. Dash MPG up to 24.3 (400 mile window), best was 24.6.

Not nuts about the color scheme, but the design is eternal ~

^ My statement was- they have no "advantage", not that they were 'POS'.

Thank you. Likewise to you and your family!

There are all sorts of opinions online. I can go to any number of forums related to various cars owned by various members here and can find plenty of problems. The point is that the internet is for complainers and no one compliments anything to anywhere near the same degree as which they would direct a complaint. That is a fact. The fact also remains that Toyota and Lexis routinely clean everyone's clock in just about every reliability survey. That doesn't mean that everyone else sucks but to think Toyotas are somehow piles of $h! (for whatever reason) is beyond ill-informed.

No they really haven't despite your many claims to such things. Issues? Yes. Recalls? Also yes. Does that mean their reliability is garbage? Nope. not one damn bit. Being built less than ten miles from my house, for the record. I will say this too. For all of Toyotas problems with quick changes in the market (and their stupid commitment to hydrogen), if you think they won't catch up in a hurry, then you are fooling yourself. That have the capital to get on the wagon quick. Being first to produce something doesn't mean squat in the car world anymore.

Saw a really clean early '80s Buick Electra Park Avenue at the grocery... white w/ a dark red top and dark red interior.. always liked the styling of those cars. Looked so classy parked amidst the boring modern generic transportation units...

IIRC, I flew BA 747s out of Denver once, Phoenix once...then the other three trips across the pond in the 00s were on BA 777s out of Phoenix... if I were to do it now (I really want to get back to Blighty, go out to Cornwall and Devon, up to Northumberland), I'll probably have to drive to Pittsburgh or Detroit to fly direct (I don't like connecting flights).

@Robert Hall For a while in the late '90s and early 2000s, British used to fly a 747 daily from Seattle to London. I would have thought Seattle was a little more intermediate of a hub than that, and could have done with a daily 777 or smaller. @oldshurst442 The thing about the 747 is that it had beauty and brains ... more so than any other commercial airplane ever has. By being able to put over 400 people onto a plane, it made transoceanic travel feasible for so many more people. Not only that, it was born beautiful, for lack of a better word. They are so damn photogenic. I am happy that a few operators (namely Lufthansa and Swiss) are keeping some of their Airbus 340s around. This is partly because of the removal of the Airbus 380 from service. That's made them rethink the Airbus 340, which I like quite a bit, and they gave it a bump up in the fleet's pecking order. Lufthansa flies it from Frankfurt to Montreal, Boston, and Washington-Dulles, depending on the seasonal load. Swiss might fly theirs from Zurich to Miami and/or Boston, again, depending on load factors. I believe Lufthansa operates -600 series and Swiss operates -300 series A340s, which are sort of neat because of the 4 smaller engines. I like to sit out in the 2s on the A340 and look at the scenery ... and even the engines. I like knowing these stupid things so I can plan my flight segments accordingly.

Following on from @oldshurst442, more beautiful E-body Mopies...'71 Challengers this time..love the styling of these cars. More Mopies...my favorite B-body muscle cars--the '71 Plymouth Road Runner and GTX...love the fuselage styling. Something about the early 70s muscle car aesthetic has captivated me since I was a kid...love the wings and scoops, and stripes..

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