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> Yesterday Panasonic unveiled a next-generation solar roof panel that will be optionally used on the Japanese-market Toyota Prius Prime.
> Whether further advancements could inch the solar juice upwards enough to make the idea widespread is unclear, but Panasonic said new chemistry is responsible for its latest innovation.
> Notable also is Panasonic is a solar cell and battery supplier to Tesla, and is leveraging that relationship to potentially do business with other carmakers.
> "Panasonic will make efforts to expand the use of the 'HIT™ Photovoltaic Module for Automobile' and contribute to the achievement of an environmentally friendly society in the automotive as well as the housing and industrial fields," Panasonic said.
> Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said the Model 3 will "Probably" have a solar roof option as well, and if the idea continues to gain traction, it may become more common.
> To date, Panasonic has not announced it would put the bent-glass covered roof on the U.S. market Prius Prime however.
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Need to load your roof rack but don't care about aesthetic? Or maybe you're a little skint? Buy some foam or rubber pipe insulation from the hardware store, slice it open lengthwise, cut it to the length of your roof rack bar, & push it on the bar. It effectively pads your roof rack & protects your load. Good for surfboards, furniture, etc.
Oh boy. Realizing now that my first DD barely scratched the surface of these ALABS. I foresee writing in my future. Thank you all for your concern for my health and wellbeing! I love writing and researching this stuff. If I need a break, I will absolutely take it. But for now, I'm too interested in all this to just walk away.
You can read my Part 1 here. Obviously I'd recommend that before jumping into this one. Also make sure to check out my SLABS DDs. So many bubbles, so little time!
I don't really have any corrections I'd like to make to my first part. If that changes, I will edit this post, or include the edits in a Part 3, if it happens. Let's go!
First of all, I'd just like to quickly mention that the way these loans are rated works the same as most other asset backed securities. Yup, the same exact conflict of interest exists here as it did in 2008. Ratings agencies like Moody's and S&P are paid by the servicers of ALABS to rate these very ALABS. Just thought I'd bring that up here, as it helps to link all different types of ABS - the same scumbag rating agencies are involved with many different types.
Next up, used car prices. I didn't really address appropriately in Part 1 why I believe the used car market is so hot, and the significance. So here goes. The used car market being hot greatly benefits ALABS. The more loans have to be taken out, the more money these dealerships make from these loans. Obviously, the main cause of the hot market the insane chip shortage. There just is not enough supply of new cars to satisfy demand. u/Vnmous, who works in the auto industry, had a great comment on my first part, saying "Dealers are enjoying the position of the industry at the moment. They have never made more money, even though there are no cars on most lots". My part 1 DD supports this conclusion: dealerships now make a majority of their profit on loans, not profits from the physical car. Here's a graph that shows why this hot used market benefits these dealerships.
https://preview.redd.it/8ar8w3c89c881.png?width=450&format=png&auto=webp&s=14d4e5a33e7ed897a197fb83681b240d9d0d259f
Interest rates are significantly higher for used cars. This means that dealerships are making more money off used car loans. Interesting. This has led them to dealerships buying back used cars that they previously sold and selling them again - ma
... keep reading on reddit ➡Gonna be a long post but I'll put a TLDR at the end FYI. I just want to let people get an idea what its like to get a vehicle in Iowa through Carvana.
In early December I got into a automobile accident. Not my fault but their insurance says my minivan is totaled. I get a 3000 $ settlement after they cover my car loan.
Used vehicles in Iowa are in short supply due to the pandemic at the moment. Couldn't really find anything locally I really liked so I decided to try Carvana.
I find a 2019 Dodge Journey with 22,000 miles on it for 23,000 $. Features look good. CarFax looks clean. I do as much research I can about the vehicle. Looks almost too good to be true. Decided to take a chance and drop my 3k for a down payment. Credit check is fine.
The vehicle is currently located in Arkansas. Carvana gives me 2 options to retrieve the vehicle: Pickup the car from one of their car vending machines in Chicago or for 800 dollars I can have it delivered by a 3rd party to my house. I opt for the delivery to my house.
Carvana says that once the paperwork is signed and insurance is verified they begin the process to get a 3rd party vendor and it usually takes about a week. This was verified in a day. This was in still in early December.
The week of Christmas comes and still no delivery. I call Carvana and they tell me that no 3rd party is willing to come to Iowa during the winter time and the pandemic has shortened their list of 3rd party drivers. They are still trying. Turns out I was supposed to get daily updates over text or e-mail and never received them. I decide to call everyday to get an update.
At the beginning of January I'm starting to get upset. My down payment has already been processed and still no vehicle. Thankfully I had relatives who had a car available and let me drive it this entire time but I wanted to get my own vehicle.
I contact Carvana and ask to have it delivered to the damn vending machine in Chicago instead. The rep I'm speaking to on the phone tries to see if there is something closer and asks if I live anywhere near Des Moines. I live near Cedar Rapids, its about a 2 1/2 hour drive from me. Turns out they have a service/transfer hub in Des Moines that just opened and I could meet a Carvana representative who will deliver it to an address in the Des Moines area. We set it up for delivery about a week later at a truck stop.
Due to the recent snow the delivery gets delayed 2 more times. The last appointment time we reschedule is Jan 24th
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
The traffic was heavy in downtown Toronto during rush hour. Driving slowly, we made our way along roads crammed with other cars, bike messengers, streetcars, and jaywalking pedestrians. Tall buildings towered over us all around - glass-walled skyscrapers and concrete behemoths. Stopped at a red light adjacent to an alley, the stench of a dumpster overfilled with week-old seafood waste and used diapers wafted over, making me gag.
We were on our way to a baseball game and my brother had found a cheap parking lot online - the only catch was it was a bit of a hike to the Rogers Center where the Blue Jays played their games. It was taking forever to get to the discount parking place, immersed in the heavy traffic. At one point it took us fifteen minutes just to make a right turn, due to the constant crush of pedestrians and car-traffic.
It was a hot day and I was getting sick of driving, sick of other people flaunting their utter contempt for every single traffic law (not to mention basic human decency). The idea of thirty more minutes fighting through city streets was too much to bear, and I pulled into the next underground parking garage I saw, telling my brother Noel that I would pay whatever the cost was myself. He looked shocked - this place would likely be triple the cost - but shrugged it off and said I could do what I liked.
The steel sliding door rolled up on its tracks to let us in, then closed down shut behind us, drenching the tunnel in near-total darkness. I had to stop the car, turning on my headlights to see as we wound our way downwards into the parking structure.
There were very few signs in the dimly lit garage, only one-way street arrows pointing to the left, then to the right, telling us where to go. All the parking spots were filled near the top, so we continued going down the ramps, deeper and deeper into the parking structure.
Cars were parked in every single spot, and there were none to be had as we went down through levels A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L…
“Wow, this is starting to get ridiculous,” I said as we entered section “T.”
“I’ve never seen a parking garage that goes down this far…” Noel marveled as we turned another corner and descended even deeper.
I started feeling dizzy from the constant turning in circles going down the ramps of the parking structure. Slowing down, I felt woozy for a moment, then started driving again, slowly at first. It felt like it was hard to breathe so far down beneath the
... keep reading on reddit ➡1. Introduction. James Kunstler's book The Geography Of Nowhere(1993) examines the decay of urban design, and points at a way out. He argues that cities today are built for cars not for humans, vested interests tend to outweigh the common good, and our cities can be much more beautiful than they are.
2. A good neighborhood has "an agreeable scale of human enterprise, tranquility, public safety, proximity of neighbors and markets, nearness to authentic countryside, and permanence. " Out of cities, suburbs, and small towns, which one fits these metrics the best?
3. Kunstler's answer: small towns. Suburbs are alienating as the homes are far flung from markets and workplaces. Cities can get crowded and too distant from nature. In small towns, more places are accessible by foot than suburbs and they're not as crowded as cities.
4. Why is Disney World so appealing? It’s walkable and it has no cars. The streets and buildings are constructed to human scale. Everything is dense, like old town life was.
5. Kunstler notes a legal problem to the (re)creation of town life: the “soullessness of single-use zoning.” Single use zoning dictates that residential buildings may not have commercial shops at the ground floor. This creates an unnatural rift between homes and workplaces/markets.
6. Today, cities are built for automobiles and not people. The average city is a " big automobile storage depot that incidentally contains other things. " Parking lots have eaten up small stores and wide roads have eaten up sidewalks. Going anywhere or doing anything requires cars.
7. This inevitably creates urban sprawl. A car-based lifestyle means homes are far away from offices, which are far away from recreational activities. The vested interests who profit from the sprawl include "the construction industry, the realtors, the steel and cement suppliers."
8. Our urban landscape is littered with businesses that have no historic connection to the city. These malls and big office buildings are there for economic reasons only. Kunstler describes them as "cinder-block sheds that have no relation to the local architecture."
9. A story of two doors. House doors before had a distinct design, "a roof overhang to shelter someone coming in out of the rain," and small benches on the side. House doors now are "blank garage door facing the street."
10. Bottom line. All the aesthetic failures of the modern built environment creates a *geography
... keep reading on reddit ➡
The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”
“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.
The doctor says it terminal.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
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And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
