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July 7, 2019 at 4:18 PM #812976July 9, 2019 at 12:52 PM #812990
barnaby33ParticipantI just took delivery of an Onyx and other than a few minor complaints it’s awesome. It makes very little pretense of being a bike though. It says 75 mile range, but it also will do 50+.
July 9, 2019 at 3:22 PM #812991The-Shoveler
Participantyea I think you are going to need a class CM1 license and register with the DMV.
Could be wrong, but that seems more a motor driven cycle than bicycle.
July 9, 2019 at 6:32 PM #812993barnaby33ParticipantIt’s easier to ask forgiveness than get permission!
July 10, 2019 at 5:41 PM #813002FlyerInHi
GuestOMG. These cities are so bike friendly. I am in love.
July 12, 2019 at 9:32 AM #813011spdrun
ParticipantHobie: quiet, fast, cars are awesome — they don’t attract neighbors’ or cops’ ire as much.
July 17, 2019 at 8:45 PM #813071GuestYou have to see the bike lanes with advance LED signals, Very cool and innovative.
July 18, 2019 at 6:56 AM #813078CoronitaParticipant…..So…I broke down finally and caved. I ordered a Model 3 today for my mom. Hopefully it gets here before her birthday. The electric Miata will have to wait….
However, I want to cancel and reorder the car because the order number has three 4’s in a row.. And superstition has it that is bad luck.. But it’s really hard to cancel and reorder and then Tesla will hold onto the $2500 for a few weeks and not let you apply it to the new order right away, which is annoying. Tesla needs to work on their website. I guess cost cutting found it’s way to the IT group… The model 3 was just discounted by $3000 BTW….
For me, maybe an ebikein the short term…I think there are a few ebike conversion kits on Amazon I wanted to try out. I got an old road bike that I rarely use… Reduce recycle reuse…lol…
July 18, 2019 at 8:28 AM #813079zk
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The conversions is only $20k
9.25 sec 1/4mile runs is just insane…
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Damn, that Miata leaps off the line like a scalded cat.
I’m skeptical that you can get a 9.25 second car for only an old Miata and 20k. Unless maybe the battery you’re getting only lasts a couple years or has some other shortcoming. If you can, it seems like quite a steal to me.
[quote=Hobie]Flu: Maybe I’m just old. Drag races *need* to be loud. Quiet electric, albeit fast, just doesn’t do it for me. Part of the full tactile experience.[/quote]
Yeah, that’s the other issue. I used to mock rice racers back when their cars were 14-and 15-second cars getting smoked by 11-second V8 muscle. Partly because of the lame 4-banger sound but mostly because they were slower. But now you’ve got these electric cars, many of which can smoke the fastest muscle cars. The damn Tesla Roadster does 0-60 in 1.9. Yikes.
Still, the sound does complete the experience. I have a Challenger Scat Pack which can be blown away by your faster electric cars. But I wouldn’t trade it. I love the sound too much.
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So…I broke down finally and caved. I ordered a Model 3 today for my mom. Hopefully it gets here before her birthday.[/quote]Very generous! A couple of my friends have the 3. I think it’s a fantastic car.
July 18, 2019 at 8:48 AM #813080Guest[quote=flu]…..So…I broke down finally and caved. [/quote]
Did you replace all your incandescent light bulbs yet?
July 18, 2019 at 9:33 AM #813082CoronitaParticipant[quote=zk]
I’m skeptical that you can get a 9.25 second car for only an old Miata and 20k. Unless maybe the battery you’re getting only lasts a couple years or has some other shortcoming. If you can, it seems like quite a steal to me.[/quote]
It probably would have been a lot more. I didn’t actually dig into it… It would have been cool though.. Drag isn’t my thing, but I was thinking it might be a really good autocross car if the weight is reasonable and balanced and low…
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[quote=Hobie]Flu: Maybe I’m just old. Drag races *need* to be loud. Quiet electric, albeit fast, just doesn’t do it for me. Part of the full tactile experience.[/quote]Yeah, that’s the other issue. I used to mock rice racers back when their cars were 14-and 15-second cars getting smoked by 11-second V8 muscle. Partly because of the lame 4-banger sound but mostly because they were slower. But now you’ve got these electric cars, many of which can smoke the fastest muscle cars. The damn Tesla Roadster does 0-60 in 1.9. Yikes.
Still, the sound does complete the experience. I have a Challenger Scat Pack which can be blown away by your faster electric cars. But I wouldn’t trade it. I love the sound too much.
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There was this one time, there was a run-off autocross where the top finishers compete against each other using a mystery car. The mystery car was a Chevy Spark EV.. One of the best drivers was kinda funny, because when he started out, he was howling out the window simulating the noise of an ICB engine… Vrrrrrrrrrr (2nd gear change) Vrrrrrrrrr…. We laughed…
The thing that got my attention was the near instant torque of an electric car.. You can’t duplicate that with a regular ICB, unless you get into supercar territory.. The negatives would be weight, weight distribution, and range that you can run the car. Autocrosses don’t last that long, range really isnt an issue. The weight however……I don’t care about the sound, though I guess we could play soundtrack while driving, lol.
What i don’t understand is why cars use Lithium Ion and not LiFePO4. The former is not stable, the later is…I use a 2lb LiFePO4 starter battery in my race miata that weighs 2.5 lbs and has about 300CCA and sits behind the passenger seat… It replaced a 30lb AGM battery in the trunk, so the weigh savings was great. Of course the LiFePO4 battery costs 3x of the AGM battery….That’s a different story…
July 18, 2019 at 10:41 AM #813083Guest[quote=flu] I ordered a Model 3 today for my mom. Hopefully it gets here before her birthday.
[/quote]Be sure to pay the gift tax, unless, of course, you already cooked up a way to hide the gift.
July 18, 2019 at 11:32 AM #813084CoronitaParticipantDon’t need to do anything about the gift tax. Didn’t you get the note from the GOP, BrianSD? The GOP already took care of it….
https://smartasset.com/retirement/lifetime-gift-tax-exemption
Starting in 2018, the lifetime gift tax exemption is $11.18 million. This means that you can give up to $11.18 million in gifts over the course of your lifetime without ever having to pay gift tax on it. For married couples, both spouses get the $11.18 million exemption. This means that if you are married, you and your spouse can give away a total of $22.36 million before paying the gift tax.
So now instead of 11.18 lifetime gift tax exemption, I have $11.175 million in lifetime exclusives left, $23.355 million joint. You don’t even need to use an A/B Bypass living trust anymore, unless you are above those limits… Isn’t life great or what!
Or the other thing is just to buy the car, register the car in my name, and let someone else use it exclusively. The difference is if that person gets into an accident, it goes on my insurance instead of theirs, and it exposes me to liability.
The third option would be, as I am sure a lot of people do, create an LLC, put the car under the LLC, hire the family member as an employee with a company car…Damn, you small biz owners are so lucky with all the variables and now QBI breaks… lol…
But why bother with #2-3 when the gift tax limit is is so ridiculously large.
Besides, I’m supporting those shovel ready green jobs!
July 18, 2019 at 11:36 AM #813085GuestBe sure to file a return.
July 18, 2019 at 11:38 AM #813086CoronitaParticipant[quote=FlyerInHi]Be sure to file a return.
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f709.pdf%5B/quote%5D
Of course, always have when the gifts exceeded the annual limit. Have you paid your back state sales taxes yet Brian, with interest?
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