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  1. 26 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    My buddy in Houston got one of these plans after he got his Tesla and started charging it and deep cooling at night.

    I didn’t quite give him the savings he was after.

    So he got two of the Tesla batteries installed (solar panels were back ordered)

    He’d charge his car, batteries, and get his house down to like 65 at night. Use the battery during the day. His bill dropped by at least half.

    They finally got his solar panels in and installed them.

    It’s a rare month where he pays anything for electricity…. Which is nuts to say in Houston, Tx.

    I don’t know what his ROI is for what he dropped…. But his feeling that he’s hacked the system gives him something that’s hard to quantitate. 

    This is the dream, he'll have decent power resiliency when ERCOT inevitably shits the bed again and leaves the state dark

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  2. 1 minute ago, fattyflattie said:

    LOL  EvErYoNe I dIsAgReE wItH iS a FaScHiSt!!!!1!1

    Cant wait to stop paying for the college of fucking lol deadbeats.  Bonus to replace a long tooth justice or two with some younger blood.

    You literally just said you want things to"swing hard" the other way from Biden. You let me know the predominant theme among the hard right. I hear they're very fine people. 

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  3. 8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I don't have FSD, but instead the level below I guess.  Driving on long road trips on interstates and such is quite lovely.  One hand on the wheel and being able to eat or not pay 100% attention for a while is nice.  I don't know if I'll ever get to the point of trusting it to exit or even switch lanes on its own, but taking curves and adaptive cruise is worth it to me.  I'm sure other cars are doing this now too, or catching up quickly.

    Hell the adaptive cruise control in my 2019 Jeep will maintain a follow distance and keep you between the lines with it's relatively unsophisticated ACC. It does use cameras and some radar sensors though so it's got more data to work with than a Tesla in some ways

  4. 56 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Not going to lie.  When I saw the green avatar, a silly news take, and TikTok, I wondered to myself if you were branching out from financials.  Slight surprise to see it was a completely different poster.  

    Notably not denying the fascist preference. And again repeating your lie of my ever posting a TikTok as a source. From a dude with a green avatar lol. 

    Keep on telling yourself lies and enjoy your fabricated worldview. It certainly makes voting for trump again easier

  5. 1 hour ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    You'd bet 50/50 that your average human driver would mow down 4 out of 4 kids inching on the edge of a crosswalk who happened to dash across?? No fucking way. Most drivers would have stopped. The kid didn't dash out from behind a car, it was standing at the edge of the crosswalk. I'd bet that 75% of drivers playing on their phones would have taken caution 

    In Houston, yeah I'd prolly put it below 50/50 lol

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  6. 1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    I don't know anything about O'Dowd. But if FSD can't avoid hitting a kid in those circumstances, it absolutely should not be released to the general public. 

    IMO I'm less upset about hitting a pedestrian in a tricky scenario - I'd bet 50/50 that your average human driver would do just as poorly - but the fact that the car wasn't even aware that hit it something is a HUGE problem. Any closed loop decision making should be doing OODA - orient, observe, decide, act. If it's just deciding and acting to keep rolling without observing that it just pancaked a (simulated) child... That is nowhere close to SAE level 3 automation or even road safe for the public.

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  7. 12 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    there’s various plans in the competitive areas with “free” nights/weekends. Back when Griddy was around I’d watch the electric rate fall to 0 (or negative) late at night.

     

    consumers probably should be less insulated from the cost-at-the-moment without going full Griddy.  Getting charged the same rate all day doesn’t discourage waste.

    I've got one of those renewable plans with free nights and weekends, and while the metered usage is higher than I'd like, we mostly time-shift our power hungry tasks (mainly laundry) to nights and weekends and it definitely makes an impact on our monthly bill

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

    Or we need to reduce and meet in the middle. Sounds like I need to bite the bullet and look into home solar.

    I really do think home solar + energy storage is going to be the answer. You can charge your battery up overnight for pennies on the dollar when grid demand is low, and then use your panels during the day with the battery available as additional capacity during the hot part of the day. It would remove a hell of a lot of strain from our grid, but would require government incentives to make economical.

    Unfortunately, the government incentives have been going to Chinese cryptominers that moved to Texas after they got kicked out of their home country. 

    Ah well, nevertheless. 

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  9. 1 hour ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    This all could’ve been act 1 of an episode instead of the entire episode. Two episodes left to resolve their fate, the M-count cloning program, and if the brought Ventress back for anything other than a cameo. 

    Up until now, Ventress was presumed dead so I think bringing her back was more about putting a toy back into the toy box. But I can't disagree that there's not that much screentime left to close out the Bad Batch story. I hope they do two 30 minute episodes at least, if not longer

  10. 14 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

    Any of you fellas have to use Barkeepers Friend on your ride.

    https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/bar-keepers-friend-changed-my-cybertrucks-finish.14184/

     

     

    My Cybertruck was delivered with quite a bit of staining on a lot of the panels. It’s looked to be from rain. I tried a bunch of softer cleaners first to get off the stains. Windex, waterless wash, full soap wash, generic stainless polish, etc.

    None of that worked. So I tried some bar keepers friend that many other suggested. I tried it on a small area, and it looked fine. I then tried a door with lots of staining. I let it sit for one minute and then rinsed it off. The first time I applied very lightly and it dulled the stains, but didn’t remove them. The second time I scrubbed just a little more and it completely removed all the stains and created a perfectly uniform panel.

    However, The door is now lighter in color and the finish is a bit more dull / less shiny. I don’t love this effect, but it appears I’m going to have to live with it since I already started. I followed the directions, didn’t let it sit too long and didn’t scrub hard. To help others to do this well and decide if this is for them, I would love some advice or feedback from others if they saw this, or if I did something wrong.

    Pic: BKF used on rear door only

    Important Edit: after finishing the whole truck, I noticed that the front panel in the picture below still doesn’t match the panel in the rear. I am thinking bar keepers friend didn’t change the panel as much as I thought. When both panels were done the same way they still look different. So if my post scared you away, don’t worry too much. The truck looks amazing with all panels done and I do prefer it better now.
     
    Tesla Cybertruck Bar Keepers Friend changed my Cybertruck's finish! IMG_7932
     
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    It's more likely that the panels are different qualities or runs of stainless, and that's why the owner is seeing different surface finishes between treated panels. I think the acid in the barkeeper's friend is effectively doing a surface passivation - which is something Tesla should have done at the factory - which gives it a higher gloss and improved corrosion resistance properties. 

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