Recent content by Mr. Coffee

Just saying, EV battery failure rates on later-model EVs (2022 and later) are about 0.3 percent. While on ICE vehicles engine failures are around 0.8 percent. And the trends are going in the opposite directions, with EVs getting much more reliable (very early pre-2012 models had an 8 to 13...

6 months and 10000 miles in. 10000 mile service was $55. That and I'm paying about 15 percent per mile that a dinosaur burner would cost. Not even including maintenance.

Amperes are defined as one coulomb of charge per second. A coulomb is about 6.24e+18 electron charges. So the coulombs cancel out and you end up with watts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere

Because Volts are Joules/charge and Amperes are charge/second The reason miles/kWh is weird, aside from the odd metric thingy, is that since kWh is a unit of work, and work is force * distance, and miles is obviously a distance, you end up with miles/kWh being 1/Force. So kWh/mile would be in...

Okay, maybe not "monster" truck but certainly monstrous. Obviously a lot of boys are compensating for something these days.

Oh, and while you are at it, explain why both Newton-meters (or inch-pounds or foot-pounds) can be a unit of work (which is a scalar) and a unit of torque (which is a vector).

Tell me why miles/kWh or miles/liter make any sense.

None of these are electric vehicles. How can I tell? Then there is this guy. We all know you never plug in an EV in the back seat: Something about monster trux that just makes them jerks:

Back on topic: I was at the hospital in Wenatchee last week (no, I'm fine lolz) and there are a dozen level 2 EV chargers on two floors of the parking garage. When I got there at 9:30am all of them were ICEd out and unavailable to me. ICEing an EV charger in Washington State is a traffic...

I think at this point in time you'd win a solid majority from both ends of the horseshoe if your platform was really simple: "hang all the billionaires and nuke any trillionaires from orbit."

The way I look at it, all of the people that were fired are likely to be trustworthy people to help us put things back together after the revolution.

A few things about this: The cupboard is not totally bare. We have enormous quantities of SDBs (Small Diameter Bombs) and JDAMs, both of which are aircraft-delivered precision weapons. The critical shortage is in standoff weapons (like JASSMs) that we'd use against air defense sites...

https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-missile-inventory-multiyear-project Look at Table 1, it spells it out clearly. I'd point out that none of those numbers are reassuring from any practical standpoint. I find it unlikely that Iran is going to agree to pause operations until 2029, but...

Yes, so you are apparently expecting this stupid war to last seven years? And the critical shortages aren't in Tomahawks anyway. We need THAAD and Patriot missiles yesterday. And probably SM missiles but the Navy isn't telling us that yet. None of which we ever had very many because they are...

It kind of stands to reason. The nearest base to the operating carrier squadrons in the Indian Ocean was in Bahrain. That base has now been abandoned due to Iranian missile and drone attacks. Most of the supplies for the carrier groups came from stockpiles at that base. The next accessible...