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Good discussion of all the above points. And much more.

I was reading about women volunteers driving field ambulances in WWI. They talked about the work involved in jacking up vehicles, removing and patching inner and outer tubes, and then hand pumping the tires. At one point the women wanted to take up a collection to buy a mechanical pump but were...

We've gotten two letters recently from different charities to an unlikely sounding name at our exact address. We know the names of everyone who has ever lived at this address and this unlikely sounding name is not one of them. Could this be the start of a scam? Are they establishing our home as...

We've had out of town visitors for the past several days. We've been doing a lot of touring around in our Tesla Model 3. As they were catching the ferry this morning our friend, said "I usually like to sit in the front seat because I get motion sickness if I sit in the back seat, but that didn't...

Did something interesting today. My 12 year old grandson recently asked if we would pay for a Parkour course for him. We think it's very expensive ($440 Cdn). So we said yes but you'll have to work for the money. We offered to pay him the going rate of $40 for mowing our lawn (takes me about 1...

There has been a chain of criticism of Teslas on “Bob”. They must be crap right. Let’s consider the issues. The fit and finish is terrible. It isn’t on my Model 3. It’s comparable to my Honda Accord which most people would consider middle of the pack or better. So maybe not. Teslas are very...

Yesterday I discovered that a Ryobi rechargeable battery had been left in the charger, which was now displaying the dreaded "defective battery" warning light. I don't know if the failure was due to being left in the charger or whether it was just a coincidence. It's an 18 Volt battery and the...

I'm trying to get our range hood fan to work less erratically. It has push button switches - on/off, faster and slower. There are 3 speeds. The LED shows each speed exactly as instructed, but the fan may or may not come on at the indicated speeds. I'm pulling the various electrical connections...

This article is very interesting. It suggests that we're charging our Tesla batteries too fast, too often and too high. It also brings into question the concept of "always plugged in". My daily drives are quite short and I could do 70 - 40% or 60 - 40% and charging only every few days quite...

Here is an interesting article on heat pumps, primarily in Norway. Important points are that Norway trained workers to install them, that heat pumps work reasonably well at low temperatures, and because they act as an energy multiplier there are reduced emissions even if fossil fuel is the...

We're planning a 2 couple car rental in France next spring. The last time we were in France we rented a Renault Megane manual transmission + diesel engine hatchback. Are rental cars now mostly: manuals or automatics? diesels or gasoline engine? How does the price of gasoline compare with...

According to the Tesla Supercharger map they will be establishing Superchargers at Clearwater and Valemount BC in Q4. It will now be quite feasible to drive from Vancouver to Edmonton with a Tesla on the Yellowhead highway (ie via Jasper). That is my preferred route because of the lighter...

We're out of our house at the moment so I don't have access to our 220 Volt 32 Amp charger. [Renovations.] Staying at my daughter's and SIL's place while they're out of the country. They have a 220 Volt 10 Amp charger that they use for their Leaf. It will charge our Tesla using the adapter...

I recharged the Air Con system of my 2007 Honda Accord almost exactly 2 years ago. It had always worked well in the past but it wasn't blowing cold any more. That was its first recharge. It worked well initially and also last summer but it's not blowing very cold any more. I've only driven it...

Some time during the mid 1950s the father of one of my friends was getting their car ready for a big trip to visit family. Their old car was a Kaiser and my friend's father spent several days under the hood getting the car ready for the trip. My friend was very excited because they didn't go on...

We took delivery of a Tesla Model 3 SR+ in August 2021 and have driven it a total of 11,411 Km in its first year. 4,100 km was on a road trip; the Supercharger costs for that trip were $329 Cdn (about half of the estimated cost for fuel). The balance of 7311 Km was for local use, with all the...

A couple of times a year I find some random light bulb has "gone out". Often the bulb has just become loose and when I tighten it, it's fine again. Why/How do light bulbs get loose? Anything I can do to stop this from happening? I don't want to reef on light bulbs.

Depending on where you work, acronyms [words formed from the first letter of words in a phrase] can have a number of meanings. For example CMA can mean the Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Mining Association, Certified Management Accountant, and probably lots of other things. So here is a...

When I look at the Microsoft website all I can find is Microsoft Office 365. You pay a monthly rental - and I don't want that. In the past it was possible to just buy the program. I've seen a couple of ads in the last few days offering to sell Microsoft Office 2021 just like in the old days but...

The discussion on what to do with old but perfect spare tires has been very interesting. So what should we do about an old compact spare? Use my 2007 Honda Accord as an example - that tire will be at least 14 years old. It has less than 5 miles on it. Should an old compact spare be replaced...