and the ford pinto was bad?

[Shuffler]

Electric trucks being charged in the 1930s.

[Eagler]

America is just way too big for electric today..

Might work in the small towns/countries of England and Europe but not here imo

Eagler

[Ramesis]

Although wife wife has a cell, I refuse to carry one!
Over the course of 33-35 yrs, I was on call 24/7 and in order carried a beeper, then a pager, then a laptop and then an early smart phone (a treo).
This included vacations and holidays.
I don't want to have ANYBODY to be able to get hold of me unless I want to talk to them and screen even the calls on my land line!
 
Ram

[Tumor]

Although wife wife has a cell, I refuse to carry one!
Over the course of 33-35 yrs, I was on call 24/7 and in order carried a beeper, then a pager, then a laptop and then an early smart phone (a treo).
This included vacations and holidays.
I don't want to have ANYBODY to be able to get hold of me unless I want to talk to them and screen even the calls on my land line!
 
Ram

 

I have one.  Don't know the number. Confident it's not charged.  I could charge it, if I could find it.

[Maverick]

My cell phone holds a charge a long time. I'm rarely on it. I spend more time texting the grandkids than anything else and also refuse to answer it unless I know the number and who is calling. IMO if the call is important they will leave a message. If it is a robo or sales call that left a message, then I block the number of who called.

[Animl-AW]

Although wife wife has a cell, I refuse to carry one!
Over the course of 33-35 yrs, I was on call 24/7 and in order carried a beeper, then a pager, then a laptop and then an early smart phone (a treo).
This included vacations and holidays.
I don't want to have ANYBODY to be able to get hold of me unless I want to talk to them and screen even the calls on my land line!
 
Ram

I've been on call for 15 yrs,... this phone is going to the dumpster when I retire. New phone new number,... evaporation mode

[icepac]

Scca’s GT pinto class often raced with the GT-3 racers.   
At turn 9 at summit point on the first lap, it was porsche, mazda, bmw cars in the top 10 places.

They came by on lap three and an aggressive pack of pintos who started at the rear was quickly working their way through to the front. 

Sure they came with firestone 500s and a suspect fuel tank. 

[morfiend]

Ford fixed the pinto issues by simply putting a rubber connector on the fuel tank filler pipe. Before the fix it would shear off and cause a fire.


Not all ev’s and hybrids use lithium battery’s,Toyota uses a nickel- metal-hydrate battery as does Lexus. I opted for a non-hybrid RX as it uses regular gas and not premium as is required in the hybrid. Plus the hybrid was 10k over MSRP and had a 6 month wait time. They do offer a plugin hybrid version now but again the payback difference is too much and would take me about 20 years to break even.


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[icepac]

Toyota uses Lithium as well.