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95 mpg

TheRobSJ said:
Ok let's do the math...

How many years do I need to keep a real doll riding shotgun before it pays for itself in carpool lane tickets that I avoided?
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Are you taking it out at night?
 
Why would I have to take it out? It's sure thing that its gonna put out, so why bother with the wining and dining.
 
Carpool lane: Get a motorcycle

Mileage: See above

Diesel: Traded one of the bikes for a 125k mile GMC dually. Done.

Commute winter beater: $2,000 shitbox Honda that rolled 250k this afternoon, and gets 33mpg average over the 60k I've driven in the last year.

TheRobSJ said:
Ok let's do the math...

How many years do I need to keep a real doll riding shotgun before it pays for itself in carpool lane tickets that I avoided?
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Aaaaand, now I know who this guy is. :twofinger

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Well of course. I gotta plug in every night don't I?
 
Finally this thread is getting somewhere...
 
Yup. Only took almost 30 pages.

1. Buy Real Doll and out in passenger seat
2. Drive in carpool lane
3. ? ? ?
4. Profit
 
Maybe not a static doll, perhaps an animatronic human like the bears at Chuck E. Cheese. Running on DC so you can plug it into the cigarette lighter.
 
That reminds me, I need some Chuck-E-Cheese tokens for when bums hit me up for change in THE CITY
 
Zerox said:
Maybe not a static doll, perhaps an animatronic human like the bears at Chuck E. Cheese. Running on DC so you can plug it into the cigarette lighter.
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Hahahahaha!
 
wazzuFreddo said:
Why not just pay a day laborer to sit with you in the Ferrari?

Unlimited car pool access and job creation.

:twofinger
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$12/hr, half hour commute. Drop them off at the local Home Depot or Lowe's. Then half hour commute home.

Hmm, $12/day x 20 days = $240. Might be worth just getting the volt, but its more like $400+ to lease. :twofinger
 
Ducky_Fresh said:
$12/hr, half hour commute. Drop them off at the local Home Depot or Lowe's. Then half hour commute home.

Hmm, $12/day x 20 days = $240. Might be worth just getting the volt, but its more like $400+ to lease. :twofinger
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I'll go out on a limb and say that Kristina is much happier driving on 85 in her Volt than picking up 40 random day laborers per month! :laughing Pretty sure if you had suggested that option her dad would've put his boot up your a$$ and if he didn't, I would've!! :rofl
 
Learning more...Chargepoint has alot of free 240V stations around. charged up the other day while at lunch for free...at least half charge or so. I can do that every.single.day that it's not in use. Not so bad...
 
I drove a Volt the other day.

It had cool features all over the car and it looked really good in and out. Since EVs are so quit, I expected to hear a little tire noise and faint shakes and rattles, but nothing. The acceleration was amazing and consistent without any pauses or jerks from a transmission.

The sales man was a little ignorant about the design, probably 99% would not pick up on that. He thought the Volt was a pure series hybrid with no mechanical connection of the ICE to the wheels and he thought there was no transmission. That is what people thought when the Volt was still a concept. Well, the Volt is actually a lot like the Prius with a planetary gear set which it can run like a CVT. In extended range mode when the gas engine is running, the Volt's gas engine has a direct connection to the road, which saves energy since it does not have to do the energy conversion of that a pure series hybrid would do. The sales man did not get that.

I would defiantly buy one of these cars or the next gen on the used market when the price premium is negligible and its all savings from charging.
 
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Random fact, apparently the amazing animatronics at Chuckie Cheese were because the founder was a total nut for them. I don't think hes around anymore, and if you go into a Chuckie Cheese now there is only one animatronic chuckie cheese guy on the stake, and he can only move his arm up and down slowly, and do a few other slow motion twitches. It's really lame, and kind of sad.
 
Ahhh yes. Good ol Nolan Bushnell.

Really quite genius actually. Lure the kids in with pizza and Disney-ish animatronic shows (and beer for the parents), then get them gatewayed in all his Atari home games after playing the coin-op versions at Chucky Cheese.
 
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Before there was the Tesla Roadster there was the AC Propulsion T Zero. Tesla teamed with AC Propulsion to design its EV drive train.

Here is the T-zero with a streamlined range extending trailer. Basically, its a Volt, but it has a Detachable Penis -er, I mean range extending trailer. They called it the Long Ranger.

The good thing about this design is that you don't have to carry around (think mass and efficiency) or even own (think no ICE maintenance) the Long Ranger, you just hook it up when you need it. This is a lot better than the EV battery swap idea that Palo Alto's Better Place is pushing.

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Here is it being filled up. One concept used a 250 and another used a 500cc. You can really downsize the engine if you lean towards a series hybrid design.
 
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Somewhat off topic, but there is a site .. 1Sun4All, that has gobs of the latest projects in alternative energy
pictures and reports.

The Worlds largest sailing Yacht Like a Tri-hull, is OMG beautiful.

Anyway eye candy :thumbup
 
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