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04-18-2024, 12:23pm | #2641 | ||||||
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Like him or not, ya gotta admit GSC3 sticks to his story on EVs. He's hard to figure out in several ways though; he'll buy a $100k+ car because it goes fast in a straight line, then put Walmart tires on it. He'll sit in the back row of an el-cheapo airline to travel to save a few bucks. He likes fast food. All while extolling the virtues of expensive Teslas and occasionally reminding us of his high net worth. He's a walking, talking, living, breathing conundrum to figure out.
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While tire wear will be worse on a Cybertruck but not SIGNIFICANTLY worse. Again, my Model Y was at about 40% treadlife at 26500 miles. That's not bad at all.. I would have likely gotten over 45k miles out of a set of tires. That's not bad at all. I did get 30k miles out of my Plaid tires but I did 30 drag strip runs and for most of the life of the tire, I was running factory camber which caused them to wear on the inside. Tread was still like 30% but the inside of the rear tires was worn. Now, with my camber shims, that inside wear should be gone. |
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The infrastructure of Amazon is maybe just slightly different than plumbers and landscapers. Amazon delivery drivers make a run to a set location, go back, swap trucks and do it again. They cycle them constantly with an entire section of the business dedicated to logistics and fleet management. There are constant charging cycles and rotations of vehicles (which is why they now deliver overnight). Overnight delivery is not something to make it better for the customer. It's a result of the required charging cycles of the delivery vehicles. This is in no way a reasonable path for even the biggest landscapers, plumbers, etc. |
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The tires have all the load and speed ratings required for my car, so they are 100% safe. No reason to pay more.. It's all marketing that says that we should go with the factory tires. 5k miles on the Nexens and they are fantastic so far. |
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Speaking of Amazon EV's. Most of last Summer all of my Amazon deliveries were done with the new Rivian EV's. Drivers told me they were having issues with a fuse blowing when plugging in, had to wait for the battery and ambient temps to cool down before they could plug in to charge.
I haven't seen a single Amazon Rivian EV deliery van in my hood yet this year, hmmm. |
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Statistics are fun and helpful - if you understand their limits. This one has huge limits as being representative of the entire lawn care industry. |
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Don't forget the whole part about spending a $137k car and not caring whatsoever that it falls apart... as long as it keeps driving. |
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I've been to Vienna several times. Great city! I've always flown Delta in the pointy end of the plane though. |
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What's the stopping distance on those Walmart bricks compared to the OEM or any other decent tire? How does that tire react when some jackass cuts you off and you have to swerve at 80mph on the highway? There's a hell of a lot more to it than how loud they are and road racing.
You want cheap ass tires? Great. You don't think there's a difference. That doesn't make it so. There is a hell of a lot more to a tire than "rolling resistance". Hope you never have to find out what the differences actually are. |
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For one most of those companies use vans not pickups. |
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At current RE values, i'm at about 1.8M net worth. Net worth is really irrelevant. What really matters is what monthly income my assets produce. I don't really care if my net worth is $500k or $2M. All I care is how much money comes in every month. Rents are going up.
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