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Wow Tesla alone added over 1200 new chargers Year over Year 2022-2023 "Q1 2023 Update Letter, Tesla’s Supercharger stations saw a 33% growth year-over-year, from an already impressive 3,724 stations in Q1 2022 to 4,947 in Q1 2023. Considering that the number of Supercharger stations in the...

New Hoses and fittings to get the pieced together TLB Hydraulic thumb working Hoses fittings were ~$450 yep overpaid but Gates Parker Bought a new 1" pin today I got physical grabbing and moving some large logs and managed to do this on the first day... Going to have to remember only...

Well heck, if we are looking for businesses that get a lot of tax break/ incentives/ ways to externalize costs, Mining businesses in general have advantages. I Hope they get some of the Billions stolen when all that Covid money was just handed out and many Unscrupulous people filed for...

Oil exploration seismic crews have used swamp buggies since the 1930's I think. Would be neat to have a County Ford tractor https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/strange-cargo-the-1936-gulf-marsh-buggy/

Mmm maybe:

Fuddy you will have to preface the Rogue to the young generation like You listed here otherwise these new kids will think you are talking about one ofthe new Nissans. One thing is for sure, those have held their value, if someone did hold on store and maintain them.

Good for Ford, glad they got a handle on the early software bugs and now able to program all the modules supplied with individual proprietary software. I still think their heating /cooling system makes spaghetti look organized. 35 hoses?

Adding hydraulics to the thumb 16" stroke 3" cylinder 1.5" rod Remounted the cylinder and then got to use the Arboga drill press What a step up from the old small drill press Annular cutters are wonderful. Lots more to do. The extreme actuation position will only be for light grabs with the...

CNG powered truck recently Battery tech is getting safer with Sodium and iron types. In ten years Battery vehicles will be much safer than what is out there today imo.

I need two ~ 25 foot 3/8" 2 wire for a thumb I am changing from fixed to hydraulic. I will get them from the local heavy equipment shop guessing $160 but is all Parker which has been good in the past. Vevor has 100 foot rolls of 2 wire 3/8" for $88, but who will want to install name...

Just throwing this out there. The end of an era. This Sunday will be the last Indy 500 with Internal Combustion engines only powering them. Later this season IndyCar will go all Hybrid. A Chevrolet Corvette 'E-Ray' 3LZ coupe will be the first hybrid pace car in the race's...

Yeah, things like price per foot changes when going from single wire to six wire hose. Also may need Gorilla arms to align the fittings and start the threads.

Geely / Volvo Polestar 3 EV another decent looker. 111 KWH battery, air suspension that allows 9.8" of ground clearance Polestar 4 coming soon

Waymo a couple days ago in Phoenix...

The car did. Yes a Model Y has eight cameras . But being the first couple days I was not versed well enough in how to save it so it was overwritten within a day or two because we took some scenic road trips. Later we were almost hit on a state 2 lane hiway corner at high speed when a larger...