As someone recovering from back pain from a car accident, back pain (or tightness) often just means there's a weakness somewhere, probably at or anywhere below that location (could be tight hips, even ankles).
It's finding that weakness that can sometimes be the hard part, but deadlifts use the whole damn back so they're great to cover that area.
That being said, the body loves to try and compensate, so I didn't find proper relief with home workouts (and often just aggravated things), I needed all the gym machines to properly isolate muscles so my body wouldn't try and cheat. Trying random machines is also a great way to identify weaknesses.
Commercial drones like this typically come with enough batteries to run non-stop.
Even at the standard 1C charge rate, you'd only need 4 batteries to effectively fly non-stop.
In the article they mention the system was meant for rough terrain where they were hand-spraying because the tractor couldn't get there, but I guess they're working on making it viable for large flat farms now.
Kinda like how there's ads on the home screen of certain products, but other companies may opt to forgo them for a more premium experience that keeps customers coming back and paying them long-term subscription fees?
Money was always the objective, hell it's even their legal duty, and shareholders could sue if you claimed otherwise.
Some companies just choose to look further than the next quarter ahead with their plan to get that money.
I recently tried the ones at Esso in Canada, it literally feels like 4x the weight.
I've never needed 2 handles to manipulate a gas pump or Tesla charger, but with the CCS I had to use both hands and my body weight to sorta force it around. It was wild.
I actually got a CCS adapter and did exactly that with my Tesla this week.
Esso in Canada has free DC charging for a while through their Journie app.
It is like manhandling a pressurized firehose, and I'm a 30 year old male who works out. I had to actually put my phone away and use both hands to force it around, I'm accustomed to the Tesla connector I easily one-hand.
And despite how big and thick it was, it was still so weirdly heavy I had to double check it wasn't somehow secured to the ground as well.
There is a 0% chance either of my elderly parents would be able to get that plugged in.
> Parts can be more expensive than one might think.
Couldn't agree more, due to their added size maintaining/operating a Silverado 1500 was similar to maintaining my Lexus. Reliable enough, but bigger tires, brakes, rotors, more fuel, etc.
As a BMW owner, I actually found the repair pricing quite comparable. Maybe not quite to a Corolla, but it was to a Lexus.
If anything the Lexus was a bit more, due to how common BMW specialist shops are, while there's none for Lexus.
The issue for me was the frequency of the repairs, 5 years of Lexus ownership cost me less than any 3-4 month period of BMW ownership over the 2 years I owned it.
I suppose I can only compare 2-3 repairs, cause the other dozen repairs for the BMW simply didn't break on the Lexus, nor did it spring any of oil leaks my BMW was famed for.
Depends on how well the wiring is done in the first place.
I am an enthusiast of the entire reliability spectrum of vehicle brands.
There are people on Range Rover forums wondering why their infotainment doesn't work half the time in their brand new SUV, meanwhile when I goggled why my windshield wipers wouldn't turn off in my 97 Tacoma, I found a thread that suggested a wire would wear through in 200-300k miles (which was my mileage).
I owned a BMW 325i that was full of gremlins, then owned the competing Lexus IS350 (with far more features), to double the age and mileage without 1/10th of the issues.
You attribute it's reliability to it's simplicity, but I'd argue Toyota simply builds things to a better standard.
As most people know, Lexus is also Toyota, and I've been driving a fully loaded luxury sedan from 2008 that also gave me no problems I didn't cause.
It had plenty of fancy do-dads (that are pretty standard nowadays), a steering wheel and seat that moved into place upon entry, adaptive headlights that swivel and self-level, heated/ventilated seats, backup camera and infotainment, etc.
Only time I thought it was acting up (error with the self-levelling headlights), I discovered something had bashed the entire sensor bracket off the undercarriage. Replacing the bracket fixed it immediately.
It made it to 280,000km (175k miles) before a red-light runner wrote it off, and it went to the scrapyard without even the check engine light on.
Meanwhile the equivalent BMW fell apart on me in half that mileage, and hell, so did an F150 actually (and it was as basic as could be!)
I'm only 30, but at this point a 15 year old car still feels kinda "new" to me. Up until a few months ago, I drove a 2008 Lexus, felt perfectly modern.
But in regards to driving a manual in traffic, does a diesel not make it easier? An engine suited to lower RPMs, but with more torque, seems perfectly suited to clutching in/out to shuffle along.
Ironically due to being unable to get the Ioniq 5 and ending up with the Tesla, I'm now in the market for a generator. If it's the quiet model and you live in western Canada, I'd be interested.
The Tesla even voids your warranty if you try and use a inverter from the cigarette lighter, such BS. I'm now worse off in emergencies than I was with my old gas car.
So far I've had to buy one of those AC camping batteries to keep the internet on, as during outages everyone's phones simultaneously switch to LTE/4G making it unusably slow.
I'm still buying a gas generator for heating, as my home heating is natural gas so I technically only need to power the fan/thermostat.
I just hope this furthers V2L adoption, unfortunately due to the wait times for an Ioniq 5, I had to settle for a Tesla.
Frustrates me so much that I drive a massive power bank on wheels, but have no way to get that power back out of the car.
I mainly desire it for home backup, and potentially charging another EV, as far as the grid goes I think this is just another attempt by PG&E to avoid investing in their own infrastructure at the expense of people's car's charge cycles.
When I switched to WFH, it was amazing suddenly finding an extra 5 figures annually in my pocket.
Commuting is also the most dangerous thing the average person does.
My wife only commutes in 4 days a month, and we still have dashcam footage from multiple close calls.
Recently a pickup truck cut someone off and hit their car, then proceeded to flee during rush hour. In traffic doing about 20MPH he swerves though a hair away from my wife at over 60MPH. She asked me to check the footage because the wind force was so strong she wasn't sure he didn't graze her.
Everyone looks at you crazy if you want to do an extreme sport, or even something like dirtbiking, but on my old commute there'd be 2-3 major accidents a week, a death every week or two, and nobody bats an eye. All so I can log into a data centre in North Virginia, that's nowhere near me.
Didn't mind working in the office, it was nice enough, coworkers are all friendly.
But having to live anywhere near my office in a high COL area means I was priced out of affording even a 500 square foot apartment. Going remote meant that same salary bought me a newly built detached 6 bedroom house.
I didn't mind the office, I minded being a poor renter instead of upper middle class. Office inconveniences pale in comparison.
It's worse than that, I didn't just gain space and scenery. I went up an entire socioeconomic class.
Previously I was priced out of the housing market, renting a small basement suite.
Now I own a large detached home, and thanks to the rental suite, spending less each month than I did before.
And this is all before you consider the equity myself and my tenant have paid down, or even any home appreciation. It's effectively doubled my TC since I moved.
I was wondering the same thing as an infrastructure engineer making Canadian peanuts compared to my friends who moved to the US.
I guess it’s mostly my own fault for being nervous about switching jobs, but hearing them accidentally hiring obvious frauds makes me think it’s not as daunting as I feel.
So unfortunate it behaves like an inefficient gas car 24/7 when it's below freezing out.
It was one of only 2 vehicles in it's class (EV with a range extender), which was what I wanted, but being Canadian I wouldn't get the benefits half the year.
The other was the BMW i3 REx, I nearly bought one until I found out AC problems can somehow cost 5 figures to repair, effectively totalling the car.
It's finding that weakness that can sometimes be the hard part, but deadlifts use the whole damn back so they're great to cover that area.
That being said, the body loves to try and compensate, so I didn't find proper relief with home workouts (and often just aggravated things), I needed all the gym machines to properly isolate muscles so my body wouldn't try and cheat. Trying random machines is also a great way to identify weaknesses.