Microsleep & Vehicle Accidents also known as MSs

Many thousands of people are killed & 20X more are seriously injured by vehicle accidents worldwide every year. 

The driver or pilot or conductor of these vehicles regularly found to be tired, sleep deprived, and episodes of micro-sleep lasting only a few seconds was the determined to be the primary cause of loss of control when focused concentration & time sensitive decision making was essential to prevent an accident. 

At cruising speeds, cars, trains, airplanes, ships & many other vehicles are traveling fast enough that any loss of drive attention for every fractions of a second can cause an accident. MSs or micro-sleep episode last between 3 and 10 seconds, though it can take a few seconds more before the person becomes fully lucid & able to safely control the vehicle. 

During a micro sleep event, a person who is chronically sleep deprived, who has sleep debt, who is fatigued or tired or sleepy, has heavy eye lids with slower blinking that can be easily detected by Driver Drowsiness Detection systems using low res IR imaging of the drivers face, posture, eye lid blinking rate, eyelid blink speed, eyelid blink frequency, head motion, steering input analysis, lane position analysis & other ADAS driver assist technologies that make use of sensors & computer analytics to improve vehicle & occupant & road safety of other pedestrians, bicyclists & motorists. 

The automakers should be required to included Driver Drowsiness Detection on all MY2024 or model year 2024 vehicles sold to the public. All commercial vehicles of all kinds should be retrofitted with driver, captain, pilot, conductor Drowsiness Detection Technology. 

I was researching why LSD can make people feel better, when I found additional articles about REM sleep and dreaming, that gave rise to a deep dive research into sleep problems & sleep disorders, which then prompted further research into how sleep while waking causing vehicles accidents. Day dreaming while engaged in receptive boring tasks like driving the same route all the time, causes people to space out & loose track of what is happening while the vehicle is motor, which dangerous & causes accidents. 

Many people working with heavy equipment have accidents because of micro-sleep events. Surgeons make mistakes during surgery because of net getting enough quality sleep & experiencing a micro-sleep. 

Waking REM or sleepy dreaming brain modes while awake cause all sorts of hallucinations in people who have not taken psychedelic drugs like LSD. Many adults with dementia & Alzheimers have serotonin or dopamine deficits in the brains that causes complex confusion states between wakefulness & sleeping. This can be frightening or confusion to many adults when they wake up in the morning unaware of where they are or what is happing. Many nightmares for example are the dreaming manifestation of fears that people have, which can be trigger by the feet becoming cold while sleeping for example. 

In this analysis I am deliberately leaving out any information about faith, God, demons, demonic influence, or spiritual health, because ultimate when people do evil they are the ones choosing to do the evil, and have agency & free will to not do evil things to themselves or other people. Thus each person is totally accountable or responsible for their decision making, including when they go to bed, when they wake up, if they make healthy lifestyle choices that improve their decision making & safety when operating a vehicle. 

I take this very serious as a School Bus Driver educated by Bus Driver Training about how sleep loss results in significantly degraded executive function or brain problems that causes accidents, loss of focus, the inability to hold focus, to be more easily distracted, and to space out or have micro-sleep while engaged in dangerous time sensitive focus essential activities like operating a vehicle on public roads, flying aircraft or piloting ships or trains or trams. 

Sleep health important for physiological health, as NREM stages of sleep are essential for the body to engage in cell & organ repair processes. The deep wave sleep helps the body to engage in cell debris cleaning & other cell maintenance processes associated with multi-day water fasting, and one meal per day interval fasting. 

Known as Autophagy, it literally means cells eating themselves, such that very obese people actually start burning stored body fat while long duration fasting without food input calories. They start burning their body fat for metabolic energy. I have friends who did multi-day water fasting after watching the documentary film The Science Fasting who lost 10 to 80 lbs of stored body fat. 

The body only comes with a finite number of fat cells. People who are obese are in a state of inflammation caused by the obesity, as these fat cells have to swell up to store extra energy. The morbid obesity state therefore causes chronic inflammation & pain, and is not the consequence thereof. This means that overeating, excess large serving sizes, eating too close to bed time or right upon waking, this means that people are making bad food choices that causes weight gain & inflammation. 

Emotional trauma often causes people to eat as a coping mechanism, and even I am guilty of doing this by stayed thin & fit because of hyper activity & fitness exercises, even today at work I run between the hub & the bus, up the stairs, I fit fitness activity & motion or more movement into my daily activities. I also walk & hike & ride bicycles in fair weather during the spring, summer & autumn when it's warmer outside. I still go for walks in the winter rain & cold & snow, just less often & for shorter distances. I hate being cold, and especially hate being cold & wet at the same time. 

I am sure most other people can relate. I find being cold very painful & uncomfortable, just many car accidents cause people pain & discomfort. So we see how sleep loss causes many kinds of problems. Actually sleep depravation a major cause of obesity, because the lack of sleep causes hormone deficits that make people hungrier so that they seek out food in excess serving sizes & eat until they are tired as a result of the elevated blood glucose levels from eating so many carbs at once. 

My Advice

Go to bed earlier, turn the screens off & wind down. Pray & consider taking GABA or melatonin. A warm caffeine free tea can help calm the body down, as can a warm shower. Dim the lighting & do so deep breathing calming exercised by focusing on things you like, people you love, forgiveness or other healing positive thoughts that make you feel better. A heavy blanket, darker bedroom, deliberate noise generator to block sound pollution, a slightly cooler room 68 F ideal for sleeping. There are many ways to calm down, even closing eyes & telling yourself that everything is OK. 

Think of how you have made it this far in life & ways that you can improve your remaining time alive or how to make the world a better place for your children or their children by reducing pollution, improving fairness & equity in the worlds economies or at workplaces if you the owner, boss or manager. Many people can make the lives of other people better by making kind loving choices that sacrifice a tiny amount of profit for employees wellness. Society can choose to invest in education & healthcare to help people live happier educated lives with a vibrant economy & lot of opportunities. 

Know that you are at your brightest when you look at yourself & other people with eyes of love. Thats practicing loving compassionate respective dignity focused thinking. That means being a real leader by example showing other people the better ways of operating as a person. This means being a good father or mother to your children. 

This means being a honest decent fair person who reasonable & slow to anger. This means being actively forgiving of yourself & others when you or they make a mistake. Let go of ideas that do not matter & free your mind of toxic negative thinking. Focus instead as the Bible instructs on ideas that are pure, innocent, decent, of good repute, good ideas, healing thoughts, positive loving kindness & random acts of kindness with benevolence, generosity, confession, patience, concern, sincerity & a pure heart of love for God & his creation, the Earth, nature, other people & animals. 

This is why I am typing & sharing an article about how micro-sleep causes vehicle accidents. I want other people to be motivated to pursue healthy sleep lifestyles by understanding the sleep loss can causes depression, anxiety, weight gain & vehicle accidents. Getting more high quality sleep the #1 thing I would encourage you to do, and tell your friends, your children, your coworkers, teach other people the truth as you learn it to make the world a better place. 

I have spent much of my life reading, tens of thousands of hours, starting once I learned to read as a small boy. My parents had a printed copy of the Britannica Encyclopedia & it took me from age 8 to age 12 to read A-Z. 5 years late at age 17 I wanted to kill myself because of what I had been reading online about the world. The world is not fair place for all people, never was a fair place for everyone & does not seem likely to become a fair place for all human people & animals & nature at the same time. 

Human history is littered with examples of war, armed conflicts, crime & evil executed by whacked out sickos who harm & hurt other people senselessly. War is stupid, ignorant, foolish & without cause since diplomacy between rational people can resolve any conflict. At the end of every war such cease fires and peace agreements are reached between the previously waring states or countries, clans or tribes historically. 

Many modern people feel as though their minds are fractures or split or overloaded, often with chronic stress that elevated TNF-alpha such that drugs like HUMIRA ( Adalimumab )( monoclonal antibody ) very popular as once per week injections that are effectively TNF-alpha inhibitors. 

There are many MAB biologic therapeutics that block TNF-alpha reception or inhibit TNF-alpha from causing inflammation, joint pain, digestive problems, autoimmunity & other health problems. Chronic elevated stress increases TNF-alpha levels. 

So we know that chronic stress causes joint pain, digestive problems like IBS ( I suffer from IBS), and swollen inflamed joints. (My inner ankles, shoulders, & wrists) Chronic stress causes disturbances to the mind & brain which also cause anxiety, fear & depression. ( I struggle with bouts of suicidal ideation) 

Acute stress like exercises are healthy, but chronic stress toxic. Chronic stress causes sleep disorders that give rise to MSs vehicle accidents and many other painful & costly problems that make life worse for everyone. ( I wake up several times per night, wide awake, then have to choose to go back to bed to get enough sleep ) // 

Too much alcohol in evening reduces sleep quality, causing tiredness, soreness, feeling hung over or spaced out with mental fog the next day. Alcohol degraded mental performance in a dose dependent & time of dosing way such that more drinks in rapid succession cause dangerous intoxication that can be fatal via drunk driving accidents or alcohol poisoning. I cut back my alcohol consumption & stopped using cannabis entirely to improve my overall health. 

Too much caffeine during the day or near bed time can block adenosine receptors that normally active drowsiness to aid the transition between wakefulness & sleeping to help improve sleep onset. This is why caffeine known not as a stimulant, but a wakefulness promoting agent. 

So drink your coffee, espresso or caffeinated tea in the morning when you wake up, and moderate to enjoy less, more. Focus on the flavor, aroma, smell, taste, the experience of drinking your coffee, warm morning beverage :) I drink my coffee black with nothing added. I use dark roast coffee beans, hand grind them into a French Press then add hot water & brew for 5-9 minutes before dispensing the hot fresh flavorful coffee into a ceramic mug for enjoyment :) 

I try to be objectively transparent in my blog posting so you understand that I struggle too. I make bad choices & mistakes sometimes and do not have all the answers. Thats why I am always searching online to increase my understanding & sharing what I learn. 

This morning it was trying to understand why people are using LSD microdosing, while so many people are bad at driving or why there are so many automobile accents that are fatal or causing injuries & life long disabilities. 

I wanted to learn how emerging automotive ADAS features are helping drivers with Drowsiness Detection & other Safety System improvements to help the driver stay in the lane of travel like LKA or lane keep assist, CP or collision prevention with pedestrian detect, & many other emerging driver safety features like Back Up Cameras & radar enhanced active cruise control. I found my answers searching online & so can you. 

2038 Electrical Power Dead Worldwide

 In 2026 General Electric shows off Singularity Power technology that makes use of tiny manmade black holes to create continual vacuum energy generating to make continuous electric current flow so abundantly that as market penetration increases towards complete diffusion that replaces all other power & energy technologies. We are talking about energy density of synthetic singularities made in particle accelerators, at CERN in 2004, on accident, 2 million times more energy dense than plutonium. For 10 years from 2027 till 2037 nearly limitless electricity makes all people very wealthy, creates a strong global universal currency or money system, untold wealth & provides the solution to all space trash and ocean and air pollution. Singularity Energy also know as Dark Energy, enables the complete decarbonization of all energy in transport, mining, materials processing, refining, smelting, casting, welding, lasers, computers, appliances, pumps, motors, fans, servers & cloud compute, compressors & heat pumps & HVAC, all human energy systems are upgraded and enhanced with Singularity Power tech. Then in 2038 a worldwide electrical storm kicked off by a CME or coronal mass ejection from the Sun wiped out all electrical & computer & information systems worldwide, plunging society into a dark age of chaos where 90% of the public worldwide dead within 3 months of the sustained global power blackouts. 

Nothing works. No gas pumps, no refrigerators, debit & credit & all computers & smart phones dead. No electronics and no power generator. All electric grids, switching & sub stations, all power plants & all electrical systems and most vehicles are broken or destroyed by the CME EMP electrical shorting storm, that cooks wires and conductors in chip sets and as big as GW class power generator windings, all burned or fried & shorted out or melted instantly. All these things have to be made from scratch which takes years. 

Spacetime or The Universe as we know it from science today, over dead & gone by 2564 / after that no time traveler has been able to go past that date in the future. 

Someone from the future time traveled back to 1971 where he helped Intel to launch the 4004 or first widely commercialized integrated circuit chip! Others from the future helped us with rechargeable batteries & how to make solar PV. 

Others from deeper into the future from other dimensions have come to tell mankind to stop developing nuclear weapons and bioweapons, and radically reduce pollution to improve the health of the biosphere so we can educate healthy people to engineer our way off of Earth so we can colonize other Earth like planets many light years away from our local solar system. NASA already found hundreds of thousand of water rock Earth like planets with the Hubble and JWST. 

After 2038 a new society emerges under the Anti Christ who rules on Earth as the supreme leader of the Earth.

Then in 2564 God returns & destroys the heavens & all existence & makes a new Heaven & New Earth populated by all who loved God in their heart! 

So give God praise & thank him for the next 15 years of electricity while we still have functional electrical utility systems & electronics that work. 

Most people will ignore this & say it’s fiction, saying it’s impossible to support these claims with facts. But I firmly believe that what I share is true, even thought it’s from my imagination. Call that prediction of future events or forecasting, but I have a growing vast amount of big data supporting this understanding of quantum space weather that radically increases the Suns energy output in early 2038. By summer of 2038 the ongoing electrical storms caused by CME events hitting different areas around the globe, causes society to plunge into lawless chaos. 

Hybrid Cars & Plug-in Hybrid Cars

BEV's or battery electric vehicles like the Tesla Model 3 or Tesla Model Y are very popular & made in America. Tough several issues plague purchasers of such vehicles.

~ Expensive tires that only last 10,000 & often much less than that. Replacements $2000-4000

~ Expensive Registration because of Gas Tax Loss EV Taxes states add to registration fees for EVs. 

~ Expensive Insurance because of the aluminum intensive design that makes repairs very costly.

~ Slow Recharging Taked 10X longer than Gas Station Fuel Refills

~ Battery fading or loss of capacity with charging cycle, use & time, made worse faster by 100% saturation full charging which causes lithium to be lost stuck in the carbon, sulfur, or silicon nano wire anode materials. Additionally, dendrite formation causes progressive soft shorting through the electrode separator film that keeps the cathode lithium nickel aluminum cobalt manganese mixture from electrically shorting with the anode carbon, sulfur or silicon nanowires. 

~ Flammable electrolyte made of oily solvents that cause many hobby LiPo RC drone batteries & battery packs are well known to swell up or puff up with internal gas pressure & if the mylar film containing the hobby cells rips, especially when mostly fully charged, a vent with flame & lots of blue, white toxic smoke emitted accident occurs. 

In EV's a battery fire much worse because of the size of the battery pack, often 200-1500 lbs of lithium-ion batteries in series & parallel packs usually underslung beneath the vehicle, such that Tesla even installed a titanium battery protector shield under the Model S after news reports of Model S striking road debris later catching fire because of damage to the battery pack.  

HEV's address most of the Pure Electric Vehicle issues because they are mostly gasoline powered & only use the electric motors & traction battery to help the gasoline engine, since electric motors make torque instantly, while gasoline engines are better at making torque at higher RPM & sustained output & peak power for mountain pass climbing at 80 MPH which would sap an EV battery rapidly. 

Thus hybrids enable advanced start stop, energy recovery, brake regen, e-boost assist, torque assist, power assist, and can help to make up for all the power curve output problems with the gasoline engine, typically a long stroke shortened compression stroke Atkinson cycle engine designed to reduce pumping losses & improve thermal efficiency, the way that many Toyota Prius models for more than 20 years have been enabling people to get 40-60 MPG on regular unleaded gasoline with nearly 600 mi of range on 11.9 gallons of unleaded 87 octane gasoline, often E10 with 10% ethanol in the USA. 

PHEV blend the best of both an EV & a traditional Hybrid Electric vehicle. With a smaller traction battery than a pure electric vehicle, but a traction battery 4-10X bigger than a traditional hybrid battery, this means PHEV can travel for 10-60 mi in electric mode, then revert to running on gasoline for 400+ more miles of range in hybrid mode. 

This enables the PHEV to behave like a low local emissions BEV to reduce local air pollutants, while still enabling long range winter mountain pass climbing road trips & other sustained higher energy modes where rapid battery depletion causes range anxiety to people attempting such trips in purely electric vehicles with 300mi best case scenario range from the ~100kWh battery. 

In reality, worse case winter mountain pass climbing at 80 MPH with a full SUV, means that long range EV SUV that claims 300mi of range, more like 140mi of range worst case, with a newer battery. Those numbers get worse with time as the EV battery suffers loses of capacity with both regular use cycling, level 3 DC fast charging, high heat exposure, deep prolonged cold that causes the battery heaters to run 7kw of load to keep the battery warm since Li-Ion do not work well below 40 F & are dangerous to charge if frozen because that can result in electroplating lithium inside the cell, which causes a battery to catch fire when charged frozen cold below 32 F or 0 degrees Centigrade. 

Many Hybrid vehicles have the lowest Total Cost of Ownership when compared to gasoline vehicles of the same model, size or class. Toyota hybrids for example have been in high volume production, sold by the tens of millions worldwide for more than 20 years now & are proven to have Legendary reliability, excellent fuel economy & pleasing operation. Hybrids regularly save 3X more in fuel costs than the price premium they cost upfront vs the gas only versions. 

This is particularly true when gasoline prices are higher, resulting in a faster payback of the Hybrid drivetrain price increase over the ICE or gas-powered car or SUV. When energy or fuel prices are higher, premium efficiency devices that cost more upfront but have radically lower long term operating costs tend to sell better. 

This means heat pumps are being integrated into HVAC, appliances, vehicles & many other applications because of their superior & unmatched ability to heat & cool efficiently. Some heat pumps can achieve a COP or coefficient of performance of 7.1 meaning 1 unit of electricity can move 7 units of heat for cooling or heating. 

HEV & PHEV are more complicated to make & work on than ICE vehicles. They have higher resource requirements upfront & thus higher costs, like pure EV's, so there is a break-even carbon neutrality point after 4-12 years of operation when the premium efficiency vehicle produces less net carbon & pollutant emissions because of its superior fuel economy & lower emissions. 

If the inverter or battery of an EV, HEV or PHEV fails outside the OEM warranty which is often 8-10 years from new sales date, these electromotive vehicle parts can be complicated or expensive to replace, especially given the depreciated value of the vehicles after the hybrid battery & drivetrain warranty expires. 

HEV & PHEV & EV make brakes last longer than ICE since slowing down often runs the traction motor as a generator to charge the battery to add 10-15% more EV mode range. Brake Regen captures energy that would normally be wasted scrubbing metal or carbon ceramic brake rotors with brake pads applied in a gripping manner by a hydraulic brake caliper with hydraulic pistons that press the brake pads with clamping force against the rotating surface of the brake rotor, which can be solid, slotted or drilled for better heat dissipation. Brake fade is cause by the brake rotor overheating, which causes gas emissions from the surface that keep the brake pads from creating friction to slow down the vehicle, causing a soft feel in the brake pedal known as brake fade. Even our E-bike has hydraulic brakes! 

Less noise at low speeds means less noise pollution, plus the automakers of BEV, PHEV & HEV do more to reduce noise than they do on typical ICE vehicles. This makes less NVH inside the vehicle cabin, so a quieter ride, and less noise outside to disturb other people or animals nearby. In technological terms, this similar to being considerate or thoughtful. Besides, pollution not nice to anything living. Worse, pollution toxic & harmful to people, animals & nature. It does not matter if burning fossil fuels causes climate change, we need to decarbonize to reduce public harm cause by combustion pollution emissions. 

Vehicles like cars & SUV & trucks are eco-toxic. They cause emissions at the manufacturing level & making one for 8 billion people causes a lot of toxic emissions, not just of carbon dioxide. While catalytic converters reduce harmful emissions by 95%, they are not perfect & wear out & are expensive to replace if they are stolen. 

Why does a catalytic converter wear out. With exhaust gas at 1000 degrees, the ceramic honeycomb structure with high surface area for the noble metal slurry gets red hot, so the platinum, palladium, rhodium, copper, nickel & other catalytic metals can reversibly provide electrons to remediate the pollutant into non-toxic substances. For example, Oxides of Nitrogen which are poisonous toxic pollutants are broken down by a fully hot operating catalytic converter into Oxygen & Nitrogen, natural components of air. This is why fuel injection + emissions controls radically reduced vehicle pollutant emissions.

You might wonder why generators & lawnmowers & other gas-powered products lack fuel injection & exhaust emissions controls. Cost! Also, the hot exhaust gas slowly boils off the rare metals in the catalytic converter. After 10,000 hours of engine operation the cat mostly depleted of its catalytic elements. That also means these metals, platinum, palladium, rhodium, are present in the exhaust as tiny components of the Un remediated HC pollutants or hydrocarbon vapors that given exhaust its characteristic smell, the same blow by products that squeak past the piston rings & fuel engine oil. This is why regular oil changes radically improve an engines net lifetime operating life. 

The automakers are lazy or greedy, because they know how to make gasoline engines with 70% thermal efficiency using recuperation generation just like most stationary natural gas power plants do. 

Onboard engine oil recycling using exhaust heat & distillation + filtering could make engine oil last 5X longer. But this a complicated system. Inside the crankcase oil splashed & sprayed around the crankshaft, con-rods, piston skirts, bearings, up in the head for the valves & camshaft, wherever metal on metal friction an oil film makes the parts last 1000x longer. Crank case vapors are usually pipped back into the intake to be burned, to reduce the combustion temperatures along with the EGR supplied exhaust gas that also reduces combustion temperature. 

Reducing the combustion temperature reduces complicated chemical reactions in a way that reduces toxic emissions. At higher combustion temperatures more kinds of chemicals are produced & higher thermal loads make the cylinder walls, pistons, piston rings & other parts of the engine to wear out faster. This is also why water-cooled engines have longer useful life that air heatsink oil cooled engines that lack water cooling. 

To illustrate why the automakers are greedy or lazy, consider a long-life APU or auxiliary power unit from a commercial airplane. Turbine APU are the most power dense & most reliable portable power generators. In an PHEV or RE-EV range extended EV, and APU would be a superior range extender.
BMW i3 REX for example makes use of a Maxxie Scooter 650cc twin engine from one of BMW powersport vehicles, as a 22kW range extender in the truck of the range extended REX i3. This adds a few hundred pounds to the REX models which makes them accelerate & handle worse but gets rid of the battery range anxiety. This is similar to the gasoline engine motor generator set in a PHEV. 

Range Extended Electric Vehicles & Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles. Similar concepts by mixing gasoline engines, electric motors & generators with EV batteries, to offer a premium efficiency solution with the limitations of limited lithium-ion batteries alone. 

Our 22 Corolla Hybrid has the 2ZR-FXE 1.8L Atkison cycle inline 4 that Toyota used in the 3rd & 4th Gen Prius & many other vehicles. The dual electric motor PSD mixes the gasoline engine, traction motor, and generator motor together with many blended operation modes. A tiny 0.75kWh lithium carbonyl battery pack used to store brake regen energy, to help the engine with e-boost early torque, to enable advance engine auto start-stop.

0W-16 thinner synthetic motor oil helps the engine avoid wear with the frequent start stop cycles. I am getting well over 60 MPG in the Corolla Hybrid using safety focused light hypermiling. With every trick I learned from Wayne Gerdes, I can get the Corolla Hybrid to yield over 80 MPG. Even in ICE vehicles, auto-start-stop can boost city fuel economy 10-30%. 

Take the 50 MPG Prius & compare it to a conventional ICE with the same capacities that averages 34 MPG. Thats 16 MPG better for 200,000 miles. The gas savings alone more than pay for the entire price of the Prius. Same with the 33 MPG Corolla vs 55 MPG Corolla Hybrid. Thats 22 MPG better, so it also radically reduces operating costs & more than pays for the price difference in fuel savings quickly. 

Gas hogs are fun high-performance vehicle but getting hit for $100 at the gas pump every few days means spending thousands of dollars for fuel per month. Thats not wise or intelligent for commuting in traffic. Sure, the WRX fun for rally racing dirt & gravel roads in rural areas WRC events, but a 6-speed manual WRC in stop & go traffic on congested highway 900 nearby would be a total pain. Sure, you could leave the WRX in first gear & trolley along at 4 MPH leaving a big space buffer between the front of the WRX & the vehicle you're following in stop & go traffic congestion, but you would be getting like 17 MPG in such conditions & WRX turbo motor requires premium fuel that costs more. 

The fueling costs to use the WRX in congested areas would be a huge price premium. But at a weekend mud toy with exceptional AWD, Subaru sells the best AWD vehicles. Turbo puts more stress on the WRX motor, so while the 2.5L + CVT of the current Cross trek can last 200,000-300,000 miles according to Scotty Kilmer the expert mechanic on his YouTube channel. He says he does not like turbocharged engines because all that forced induction stress makes the engine use more fuel & wear out faster. 

He did say that when the Turbocharged engine WRX driven gently, it can get better fuel economy than the non-turbo engines of other Subarus. This is known as early shifting for torque peak hypermiling with a manual transmission. He had a customer with a WRX that was able to get 44 MPG going 80 MPH over a mountain pass, using lift off the throttle in 6th gear energy efficient driving techniques where you stay in the right lane while lightly slowing down such that you're going just a tad less than the speed limit at the peak before going back down the mountain where you let gravity assist help speed you back up to just over the speed limit.

When they make a smaller engine like the GR Corolla make 300 HP, that means 21 city & 28 highway fuel economy ratings from the EPA. If you shift like a bat out of hell & are hard on the throttle, it can be way lower MPG than that. In stop & go traffic, it could dip to 12 MPG or worse. Especially if you have to deice the car by warming it up for 10 min. In these cases, the fuel being burned & the vehicle not moving so negative MPG. This is why start stop systems improve fuel economy so much, they turn the gasoline engine off all the time to reduce idle fuel waste in ways that boosts fuel economy while lowering emissions. 

Adding Auto Start Stop to an ICE vehicle only costs an automaker a few hundred dollars. They could have been doing this with a 48v combined alternator starter years ago. But back in 1999 gasoline in the USA was about $1/gal, so consumers put no pressure on Automakers to include costly fuel efficiency features that would make cars & SUV's a bit more expensive up front. 

Start Thinking Like a Profitable Business

Not just the upfront price of the vehicle or capital cost
Fueling costs, regular maintenance, repairs, reliability, insurance, registration, tires & more
Think about the Total Cost of Operation or Lifetime Total Costs / TCO or LTC 
What if you get into an accident that is not your fault, the vehicle you love can be totaled
If you fail to maintain your vehicle, it will wear out faster & higher repair costs.
Chaning the engine oil more regularly the best way to improve your vehicles operating life.
Driving slower & more gentle, smooth steady safety focused makes vehicles last longer.
Driving hard with fast acceleration & full throttle makes vehicles wear out faster. 
Naturally aspirated engines last longer than turbo-charged engines, in gasoline powered vehicles. 
There are examples of 20,000 engine life turbo-diesel engines in commercial vehicles.
Aircraft high bypass turbine turbofan engines have 20,000-hour operating life before teardown rebuilt.
Some HD diesel electric train engines can operate for 20,000-hours before teardown rebuild.
Many ships prime mover engines have teardown intervals of 10-15 thousand hours. 
Many racing vehicles have their engines taken apart for inspection & wear part replacement within a few hundred hours of operation. 

Gasoline 44 megajoules per kilogram as a liquid fuel, much better than any commercial battery!
A typical gasoline fueled vehicle owner can add 350 mi of fuel in less than 7 minutes. 

Gasoline in synthetic forms can be made from natural gas & coal gasification for 300 more years.

Bio-gasoline a renewable fuel made using GMO yeast & bacterial in large steel tanks at commercial scale to enable emerging renewable fuels & alternative fuels more economical for worldwide use. 

Synthetic Gasoline burns much cleaner like propane & has a 10-year shelf life, when conventional E10 gasoline starts breaking down in a gas can after 3 months. Old conventional gasoline forms waxy strings as it oxidizes the alkanes present in the fuel. You can red oily fuel stabilizers to your gas tank to improve gasoline shelf life to 2 years. 

Synthetic gasoline costs more than $7 per gallon, so it only sells well in niche applications.

Commercially synthetic gasoline made using Shell GTL or gas to liquids high volume fuel making processes invented in WWII Germany since there were no local oil resources in Germany to make fuel for the German Military. TheNazi party funded Fischer & Tropsch, two petrochemical chemical engineers to develop a way to make jet fuel, kerosine, diesel, & gasoline for gasified coal gases.  

 

 

2024 Kawasaki Ninja 7 Hybrid

A chain connects the transmission with the 48v traction motor & LiFePo4 battery of 1.3kWh under the seat that required the swingarm to be longer. It has 650 level performance, Prius like idle-stop, EV start till 11mph when the engine comes to life. It can operate in EV mode in the first 4 gears up to 40 MPH, and if the battery goes to 20% low charge the engine will turn on automatically to charge it. A combined starter alternator mounted to the engine crank directly to reduce weight created by adding motor & hybrid long life lithium iron phosphate battery, controllers & wiring harness. 

Early testing on the dash shows 50-56 MPG while it has to come to the USA & sell for a while in good volumes for real world fuel economy testing. The engine a 451cc parallel twin from the Eliminator, with extensive tweaks on the intake, ignition, exhaust, ECU & cooling to enable the hybrid motor assist, brake energy regen, Eco mode HEV operation, sport E-boost modes & other riding modes with seamless transition between the engine or motor, for smooth torque & power, though the transmission automatic, no manual shifting here. The engine makes 56 HP * the HEV motor makes 12hp peak, 7 hp nominal. Combined, Ninja 7 Hybrid brings 650cc class performance with the fuel economy of a 300cc bike. 

See Riding the World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle (msn.com)

Toyota & Yamaha & Our 20 MT03 (Exceptional, I Love It) 

I love our 2020 Yamaha MT03 & have spiritual experiences on it! Its balanced agile riding, comfy seating geometry, excellent thermal efficiency & good fuel economy, snappy performance like a 400HP car, amazing tactile foot feedback shifty click 6 speed sequential transmission excellent with dash gear selection data at a glance easy to read dash display, featuring a clock, fuel economy, tachometer, engine temperature, and modes selected via the B&W sunlight readable LDC display :) I can glance at it & see the important info easily fast. 

Noting that when ridden normally my 2020 Yamah MT-03 achieves about 53-58 MPG from its 321cc offset parallel twin derived from 11 years of use in the R3, refined & optimized extensively. Toyota did that in the 2022 Corolla Hybrid with HSD & 2ZR-FXE which has been used in Prius III & IV since late 2009. Noting that Toyota & Yamaha work together on vehicles & engines all the time, and Toyota does not sell motorcycles, so Yamaha is the closest thing you can get to a Toyota motorcycle. I can hypermile the MT03 up to over 80MPG, and if I flog it like I stole it, it still gives 44 MPG. Sure, the Corolla Hybrid does better than the MT03 in terms of fuel economy, but while the MT03 was $6K out the door, the 1 year used 22 Corolla Hybrid cost me just over $28K, or almost 5x more. 

Understanding Premium Efficiency (Expensive to Get Best Energy Efficiency)

With mini-split heat pumps, cheap 3.1 COP units cost $500 while the hyper efficient premium 7.2 COP units cost $1600 or more. So with more capital you can buy "Premium Efficiency" devices, machines, systems, appliances, vehicles, buildings, homes & other high energy efficiency stuff. Otherwise known as chasing diminishing returns. A home furnace for forced air heating with 85% natural gas to hot air creation efficiency might cost $4-$6K while the 96% efficiency natural gas furnace costs 30-50% more in upfront cost, even though it will cost less long term because of natural gas savings. 

Consider operating costs long term more than upfront capital costs, because operating costs over 12 or more years usually eclipse the capital cost, and this broadly applies to many systems & devices. The more expensive system is to achieve premium efficiency, the more resource intense they are, meaning more indirect harm to nature or the biosphere of Earth with more pollution emitted during the manufacturing of the higher technology premium efficiency machine or device or system. 

1918 Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology

Hybrid Electric Vehicle an idea that comes from 1918 when Ferdinand Porsche founder of the eponymously named automaker in Germany, created the world's first hybrid electric vehicle, the Loehner Porche which has huge spring mounted flooded lead acid batteries, electric wheel motors & a gasoline engine prime motor that also charged the batteries. Mixte Loehner Porsche was very expensive at ~$95K USD2023 when other gasoline cars & BEV's of that time were selling for under $10K USD2023 equivalent when adjusted for inflation more or less. 

Toyota the Hybrid OG Big Daddy King

Starting in 1981 & accelerating in 1994, Toyota began commercialization efforts to produce the strong hybrid OG 1st generation Prius :) Now Toyota has sold many tens of millions of hybrid electric cars, SUV, and trucks that are reliable when driven daily for many years on end of many thousands of hours with basic maintenance. Toyota has a sterling reputation & famous all over the world for making the most reliable vehicles. 

I buy Toyota Hybrids (Made in Japan: Higher Quality) (Quality Obsessed Culture in Japan)

Our 2005 Prius II still going strong with original hybrid battery! Gives 46 MPG all day, now Allan driving it a lot more that I was. I think we can milk it for 850,000 mi ODO eventually. Its possible to hypermile the 1NZ-FXE 1.5L second generation Prius to over 50 MPG. 

Our 2010 Prius III still going strong with original hybrid battery, with ~160K mi ODO, it gives 48 MPG real world all day long around town & on all highway 70-80 MPH mountain pass climbing road drips throughout America like we did 2 years ago in the Summer :) Hypermiling this Gen 3 prius can get the fuel economy to around 55 MPG. 

Our 2022 Corolla Hybrid only has just less than 27,000 mi ODO & gives more than 55 MPG real world. I can hypermile it to around 74-77 MPG in normal mode without using ECO using hypermiling techniques that I learned about from Wayne Gerdes via AutoBlog Green back in 2006, probably from Wikipedia & Jalopnik also. 

Hypermiling From Wikipedia Hypermiling - Wikipedia

(Copied & Pasted for Easy Fast Info Access) 

Hypermiling is driving or flying a vehicle with techniques that maximize fuel efficiency. Those who use these techniques are called "hypermilers".^[1] In the case of cars, this is an extreme form of energy-efficient driving.

Hypermiling can be practiced in any vehicle regardless of fuel consumption. It gained popularity due to the rise in gasoline prices in the 2000s.^[2] Some hypermiling techniques are illegal in some countries because they are dangerous.^[3] In 2008, the New Oxford American Dictionary voted "hypermiling" the best new word of the year.^[4]

Safety and awareness program[edit]

Hypermiling has come under fire from several sides because some hypermilers show dangerous or illegal behavior, such as tailgating larger vehicles on motorways to save fuel, cycling between accelerating and coasting in neutral, and even turning the engine off when its power is not needed.

For this reason, the Hypermiling Safety Foundation was established in August 2008 to promote a safety and education program that promotes legal fuel-saving techniques.

Hypermiling techniques with gas-powered cars[edit]

There are various techniques used by gas-powered car driving hypermilers that help increase their gas mileage.

Techniques that can be used to minimize fuel consumption while driving include:

• Avoiding unnecessary braking and acceleration
• Maintain a lower, steady speed in the highest gear at a low RPM
• Shift up gears as early as possible
• Avoid idling
• Utilizing cruise control
• Use air conditioning and electric equipment sparingly
• Keep windows closed to reduce drag^[7]

Techniques that can be used to minimize fuel consumption before driving include:

• Planning to avoid traffic congestion
• Monitoring energy efficient tires & inflation using TPMS (tire pressure monitoring system)
• Adjusting aerodynamics devices
• Avoid overfilling the fuel tank
• Keep up on proper and timely maintenance

Additionally, carrying the least amount of weight possible will aid in less fuel consumed. Things like golf clubs, toolboxes, strollers etc. can add unnecessary weight to the vehicle. Even wearing thin-soled shoes can aid in reducing fuel consumption; thinner soles can result in increased sensitivity to the gas pedal. ^[8]

Additionally, a technique that has been a subject to controversy is that of drafting. This involves driving close to or slipstreaming behind the car in front, potentially saving 40% of fuel. Drafting can save energy by using the car ahead to push air out of the way. This technique is subject to controversy due to the reduction in visibility and the risk of not being able to brake fast enough if the car in front stops or slows down quickly.

Hypermiling with electric cars

The range of electric cars is limited. To get the most out of the battery, drivers sometimes use hypermiling techniques. Some aim to set a record for most mileage from a single charge. For example, a Tesla Model 3 ran more than 1000 km with one battery charge. The average speed was 38 km/h and the whole drive took around 30 hours. The tester used the autopilot of Tesla Model 3, running the car unmanned. The test car did not drive on a public road.

Hypermiling with aircraft

There have been several aircraft hypermiling competitions held throughout the years, such the FuelVenture and CAFE challenges. Klaus Savier won the 2009 Fuelventure 400 in a VariEze aircraft which got 45 MPG at 207 MPH with a modified Continental O-200 engine upgraded with a computerized fuel injection and ignition system by Light Speed Engineering. By slowing to extend range, mileage approaches 100 miles per gallon.^[14] 

Store Smart Keys or Smart Fobs of Newer Cars in Metal a box w/ metal lid to stop Relay Attacks

Modern cars, SUV, trucks, passenger personal vehicles often come with wireless no-touch key fobs.You have it in your pocket or purse or bag or backpack or satchel & walk up to the car door & it unlocks.

You get into the car & press the start button & your off on your vehicle journey without every touching the key. You get to where you are going, press the start button to turn the car off, get out of the car, then touch the spot on the door handle to lock it, again never needing to touch your key. 

Some newer cars have a phone app to act as the key fob, but then if you use the phone app & have or get malware on your phone, a hacker can remotely disable your car, can control your car, can create a denial of survive so you can't unlock or use your car. 

Put your key fob into a metal box at home, at work, at the office, when you're not using your car. The metal box acts like a faraday cage to prevent criminals from sniffing your key fob signal & then using it to program their ACDC universal car fob to steal your car or the stuff inside. Car hackers use signal amplifiers & dishonest companies make & sell them special air snort hardware to enable hackers to hack smart fob vehicles & vehicles with Wi-Fi computer data system that enable unlocking with your smartphone. 

Do Not Use Smartphone App to Unlock Your Car

NEVER USE SMARTPHONE APPS TO UNLOCK YOUR CAR! It's a major security risk because of pervasive hidden malware on many people's smartphones, that they do not know about. Right now, its stealing data from their amazon shopping cart, their online banking, their contacts lists, but if a hacker gets ahold of their newer car with the car smartphone app, then the hacker can hack the car, often over the internet from somewhere distant around the world. 

Malicious Software Hops Over Wi-Fi Connected Devices

Malware possibly on your laptop or tablet or Wi-Fi network at home can get secretly side loaded into your smartphone or smartwatch without your knowledge. Then it works with the cars Wi-Fi & installs malware on the newer automobiles where the ECU also has a 4G LTE modem connected to the automakers data network the entire time the vehicle exists in working order energized with a working car battery & electrical energy to energize the vehicle chips & compute & radios. 

New Cars Lack Data Security

Modern chipset heavy cars with OBDII do not have a hardware-based firewall or malware protection. In cars where the dashboard computer controls everything like a Tesla model BEV, this malware can cause all sorts of problems. Rolling data centers, emergent EV's, HEV's & PHEV's & even ICE vehicles have hundreds of onboard compute modules connected with complicate wiring harnesses & lots of copper wire to enable the 12vdc to move around mostly with minimal voltage drop loss & good signal or power quality. 

Read this to learn more Hackers can take control of your car – How to protect yourself (msn.com)

12 volt Automotive Batteries

The engine alternator or DC:DC converter keeps the 12 volt vehicle battery charged (usually a lead acid battery, PbA or SLI or AGM) and this type of battery even in EV's to act as an energy buffer for all the 12v devices on the vehicle. This is because the voltage of the hybrid or EV or PHEV traction battery often 200 volts to 800 volts, so this has to be stepped down to 14.2v to charge the 12v battery. All the lamps & bulbs & blower fans & compressors & other electrical pumps & motors for accessories operate on 8 to 16 volts DC from the car battery. 

This means while your car is parked, the 12v battery has a persistent drain even when the car is off, since they are never really dark off. 

The security system & blinking red security light & key fob listening system are always on. The ECU & data upload system usually locked on continually too. The compute system do go into very low power modes when the vehicle turned off otherwise the 30-80lbs or 20-50kg 12v automotive battery would be drained to 0% charged or completely discharged in less than 24 hours. You would then need to manually unlock the car to gain access to the battery to use a battery charger to recharge the 12v battery to make the vehicle useful. 

Imaging your windows rolling down without your control while driving through a winter blizzard, that could be deadly. 

The criminals sickos who do these vehicle hacks do not care about you, don't care if they hurt you, and actually enjoy causing people with more money than them or nice cars, to experience pain & suffering, since car hackers believe you are living a privileged opulent life while indirectly disenfranchising other people like them, through participation with large monopolistic companies like Amazon, or Alphabet or Tesla Motors which is actually a data company. 

Tesla Motors a Big Data Company

Tesla BEV are more of a AI training data making, since the Model 3 or Y or S or X are more of a mechanism to put all large quantities of data Aquisition sensors out onto roadways to train autopilot AI generative mapping & vehicle control data systems. Tesla sells this autopilot control system data to other automakers eager to ingrate more sizzle ADAS features into their next generation vehicles to help sell more cars & SUV to new car buyers who value the latest technology, who also have the money to buy bleeding edge high tech expensive vehicles like a dual motor Model Y performance edition. Be forewarned that Tesla EV battery pack is fading away with cycling & time. 

Shallow Cycling Improves EV battery Life / 30-80 long battery life mode short interval charging. 

EV batteries have to be kept between 30-80% to last a long time, but most EV owners constantly fully charge them. Charging lithium ion beyond 90% causes accelerated capacity loss or lost of driving range in an EV, and the problem of overcharging accelerates capacity & range loss continually over time until the EV battery pack is fried & needs to be replaced. 

EV Fires via Overcharging & Accidents

Sometimes when these EV batteries are mostly fully charged & the vehicle gets into an energetic accident, the puncture & shorting of the EV battery causes a very hard to put out fire that destroys the vehicle. Tesla actually installed titanium protection plates under Model S when this problem became a big public debacle. 

Tesla Motors Collapsing

Now Tesla in a fire sale, selling their BEVs for 25% to %40 off prices to stimulate sales that are declining because the US economy is going off the edge of a cliff because of currency inflation & a failing mortgage market debacle worse than 2008. This will cause huge negative harmful disastrous waves of economic & social chaos around the world, since most modern economies embraced fragile fiat currency systems after the 1960's. 

USA Economy Radical Downturn Emerging

Public disapproval of governments will surge as crime spirals out of control. Solvency of the governments collapse & the shut down operations. The income tax collected can not longer service the interest of the nation debt, so a currency renumeration enacted. This happened in Mexico recently, with the New Peso. The Israeli New Shekel also renumerated, since the old orignal one was based on gold coins. Gold is real money! 

Gold Real Money Back Then & Today

In the time of Christ Jesus an ounce or 28 gram coin of gold could buy a really nice set of premium pharisee clothing full body garments, handmade pair of leather sandals superior to Berkenstocks, and a hand forged sword or dagger. In the Middle Ages the same 1oz or 28g gold coin could buy a complete set of body armor, hear to toe, with nice all leather boots, and a hand forged sword & shield. Today the same 1oz or 28g gold coin can buy a really nice set of clothes, shoes & a gun & ammo. Thus the gold coin had as much buying power back in the time of Christ Jesus, all through history as it does today in 2023. But stupid inflation prone fiat currencies have unstable constantly diminishing buying power over time because the state increases the money suppply to try to stimulate the economy, but this never works & makes all the money worthless. During WWI the Weimar republic issued increasingly worthless bank notes or fiat currency that eventually lost off of its value to buy goods or repay private or public debts. 

Ocean Thermal Power Generation via Temp Difference of Warm Tropical Surface H20 vs 25 deg colder Deep Water (OTEC)

One long deep pipe brings up cold water in an area of the ocean with higher surface temperatures in the tropics. OTEC ocean thermal energy conversion uses the small difference between the deep ocean cold water temperature and the hotter surface water temperatures to power low pressure turbine generators to make high quality base load electrical power 24/7/365 with uptime that rivals Hydro & large Fission reactors. 

In many coastal locals worldwide, electrical power fetches a price premium. While solar PV & wind power can produce energy, the intermittent nature of the output means expensive energy storage needed to stabilize the output to match user loads & demands, or load following & 24/7/365 uptime, means that intermittent renewables need to be paired with base load capacity.

Thermal plants burning coal & oil have many problems if coal & oil resources are not locally available & must be imported from abroad. By taking advantage of the day to night temperature swings, air source heat pump systems for building structure HVAC are the most efficiency way to heat or cool an interior space for people or vehicles or computer equipment like servers or cloud computing infrastructure and data centers. 

OTEC endlessly renewable with more than 10 trillion watts of power production possible without affecting the thermal structure of the oceans. Wave power another option, but more expensive & has lower total recoverable energy capacity if fully developed worldwide. 

OTEC energy much more abundant like hydro without causing environmental damage, other than the capital cost & development needed to setup the large capacity OTEC power generating systems at the gigawatt commercial power generating scale and connect such installed OTEC capacity to the power grid to energize loads, like AC & Fridge & Heat pump appliance compressors, lamps, bulbs, pumps, ovens, stoves, microwaves, vacuums, computers, & other electrical equipment to charge battery electric vehicles of all kinds. 

OTEC plants operate continuously as base load power supply for electrical power generation. 

The small 25 deg temperature difference makes efficient power conversion capital intensive given the need to use low boiling point sealed refrigerant gases like ammonia & isobutane or propane or R134A, to efficiently extract heat energy from the hot surface waters to higher temperatures to increase the temperature delta difference between the cold & hot sides of the power turbine energy generator. This means the aluminum, copper nickel alloy corrosion resistant heat exchangers that are also easy to clean from ocean spray biofouling are expensive to make as one off custom parts with enough heat sink exchange capacity in the real world, meaning they have to be overbuilt larger for extra capacity at higher cost, just like you have to oversize a PV array for a all solar PV home, since the PV panels lose output initially & also gradually over time. 

OTEC still an emerging market technology with great potential to improve temperature differential electrical conversion efficiency. Currently operating OTEC plants achieve 1 to 3 percent while the technology can be optimized to 6 to 7 percent to approach Carnot efficiency. 

For a deep dive TLDR into OTEC check out the wikipedia entry
Ocean thermal energy conversion - Wikipedia

Related Idea based on Heat Pump Clothing Dryers

A use a 700w dehumidifier in our tiny home's ~80 square foot bathroom with stacked washer dryer unit, to warm & dry the bathroom while taking a shower. Hang drying high-speed spin-dried damp clothing to remove the residual water works well at warmer temperatures like 70-80 degrees F, and less than 50% humidity, so the vapor pressure of the water in the damp clothes can escape. 

Waste heat from the dehumidifier warms the bathroom while the cold condensation coils created by the compressor driven refrigeration circuit causes water vapor to condense into collected in the discharge tank liquid water that we use to flush the toilet, since it's not sanitary, since I have never setup the machine to make sanitary water infused with minerals for human consumption. 

The entire room can become a clothing dryer because waste heat from the dehumidifier warms the room while removing water vapor from the air, effectively turning the entire room into a slow warm dryer with water vapor removal. This way we do not have to use the exhaust fan to remove water vapor from showering, which would take heat energy out of our home & draw in cold outside air, making our 200 square foot tiny home colder, also requiring us to heat more wasting power. Same with the clothing dryer, since it heats air & then discharges the hot moist air from drying clothes to the exterior with no energy recovery. This means cold air drawn into to replace the hot air exhausted. If the dryer sent the hot moist air through a heat recovery ventilator, energy recovery of warming air could be captured while the moisture could still be discharged. 

In this case, we see that the entire setup can act like a air source heat pump system. Though a properly designed mini-split for HVAC will have a much higher COP or coefficient of performance, meaning much higher energy efficiency for heating & cooling, or lower utility bills & lower operating costs monthly as the most efficient way to heat or cool an indoor space. I am only saying this because there are many ways to capture heat from hot water from the shower drain, from hot air from the clothing dryer exhaust, from the furnace exhaust heat, from waste heat from the fridge, microwave, there are many ways to exploit the energy difference between the inside air of the home & the cold outside air during the winter months.  

Car Crashes are Increasing in the USA

More intoxicated, drunk, high, low skill, new, bad drivers doing dangerous things while driving, playing with their smartphones, distracted, sleep deprived, confused, crazy, psychologically ill or worse.

Look at the statistics & facts in this article: 

Fatal Car Crash Statistics 2023 (usatoday.com)

A 16% increase in fatal car accidents from 2018 to 2023! 

What are the state DOL's doing to reduce the number of accidents, fatal accidents & other vehicle accidents? Nothing! Clock punching douche bags & liars & lazy jerks who don't care to make a positive difference or do anything to improve traffic safety or make sure vehicles are in safe working roadworthy condition with an annual safety test. 

No driver fitness or annual mental or physical evaluation to make sure the person is sane, fit, and competent enough to safely drive a deadly metal motor vehicle that can easily kill, harm, injure, hurt or disfranchise other people, animals, nature, cause property damage or worse. Renew your license online or by mail, no one even checks your eyes to make sure you can see properly. 

In America, many new to driving people move here from non-car countries with no history of automobile driving like America or Europe. These low skill new drivers often start disadvantaged without any history with driving, they are entirely new to driving. They never road in their parents' car since their parents never had a car. Some of them are elderly too with sensory & executive functioning disadvantages in addition to being new to driving with very low skill levels as a driver. 

Warning "If you live in Puget Sount near Seattle" there exists abundant low skill drivers on public roads, so if you are into new or fancy cars be aware to have great car insurance & willingness to replace your car with a new better model if a low skill driver T bone you while driving through a red light or stop sign because they are drunk or tired or stupid. You cannot fix stupid either & common sense seems to be disappearing. Public shootings, catalytic converter theft, currency inflation, COVID19, no wonder people are losing their minds. 

Look at this guy's YouTube channel about bad drivers /
DDS TV - YouTube

I find it surprising that the states in the USA do nothing to ensure motorists are in safe, fit, mentally stable shape to operate a motor vehicle. They do nothing to make sure the vehicles are road worthy or in good working order. 

Thats criminal negligence in my opinion. I hate the government, governments, political organizations & other talking heads & wastes of time & money. Endless debates & no action, stupid greedy fools & liars & wacko's who traffic children into Jeffry Epstein style abuse pyramids. 

What kind of sick messed up world have we become. I am sick of this foolish nonsense! God damn these wacko's & sicko's & unsafe drivers & weirdos, condemn them to hell for eternity father God! I curse the evil sickos in the world with sickness & disease & pestilence & familiar decay & medical problems, that all their money will be taken or spent foolishly, that their genetic line will end, that the foolish wicked among us will be taken to hell for eternal damnation, in the Holy Name of Christ Jesus. Come quickly Father God, remake the Earth & make Christ the King of all Nations & call all people into obedience to your will father God, Amen. 

Lucid Gravity a three-row, family-friendly EV w/ 440+ mile range***

 *** BEV range negatively affected by driving faster than posting highway speeds, parking for 8 hours in snowing conditions at a ski resort, driving with 4-8 people & skiing gear up a mountain pass at freeway speeds & using the HVAC with full heat & AC to defrost windows. Prolonged storage in 22F or colder requires battery heater circuits to waste battery capacity at up to 7KW of power consumption, reducing range by up to 40% in some cases. Do not leave the BEV parked in sub-40 degree weather for more than 20 days without plugging it in to a L1 EVSE or L2 AC charger to keep the battery from being completely discharged. After 5 days without use in sub-40 degree weather, the EV will go into storage mode & may take as much as 5 minutes to turn fully on to be driven in a normal mode once the battery charged using a L1 L2 or L3 charger. Keeping the EV battery between 30-80% charged will greatly enhance the batteries useful lifetime, cycle life & calendar life, and reduce the risk of 100% charge damage overcharging which causes progress battery capacity loss of pack fading. 

After the luxury Lucid Air EV with 550mi of range
Gravity offers a luxury electric SUV to compete against the Tesla Model Y & Rivian SUV
Premium Battery Electric SUV consume 350-600 watt hours per mile, much more than smaller BEV's
This means the average BEV SUV will use around 4000-7000kWh per year to go 10,500 miles
I highly recommend the Toyota Rav4 Prime as a Plug-in Hybrid alternative that's also reliable & fast! 

Lucid Gravity looks superlative, dope, sic, it has steeze or style galore, and excellent brand recognition.

See Lucid Gravity revealed as three-row, family-friendly EV with a 440-plus-mile range - AutoblogLucid Gravity revealed as three-row, family-friendly EV with a 440-plus-mile range - Autoblog 

Make no mistake, buying a new car not eco-friendly / car making be it an ICE or EV, resource intensive or causes harm to nature with pollution emissions, not just CO2 or carbon emissions. 

EV's destroy tires 3X to 10X faster because of their higher mass & instant torque, which also makes them a blast to accelerate, really quiet on the inside & very energy efficient when compared to gasoline powered equivalent vehicles with engines that have lower than 40% thermal efficiency. Gasoline not the problem, it has 44 megajoules of energy per us gallon, its the stupid greedy lazy car manufacturers that keep selling low thermal efficiency unreliable car engines with plastic engine parts that fail early. 

I am looking at GM, Fiat, Ford & others who do not have a sterling reputation for reliability like Toyota. I want my car to work every time I go to drive it, daily, for commuting, for years on end with basic maintenance. I want good 40+ MPG of fuel economy on regular fuel, not premium. After 100 years of engine design experience they know how to make engines to last 10,000 hours or more with regular oil changes. They can also make changing the engine oil easier with a cannister style oil filter & drain bolt valve. I am surprised that they don't have onboard oil thermal chemical reconditioning to enhance oil life in an oil cleaning system more advanced than just a filter & oil pump. 

Is a Lucid Gravity reliable, how about the Lucid Air, who knows. Its a newer BEV maker without enough history to tell if these expensive premium EV's will hold up well. How much battery capacity loss will happen per cycle, per year, and how long will the battery pack last & how much will it cost to replace? There are lots of good questions that have not been answered yet because we don't know what we don't know until we have data & facts to know about, and that means Meta long term data analysis in the future. Only time will tell, more or less. What we can say is that luxury vehicles tend to depreciate the fastest, have higher insurance costs, have higher operating costs, have higher maintained & repair costs, and tend to have a snobbery association that I would not want to personally be seen with. I live near Seattle with lots of low skill drivers who have more money for a new fancy luxury EV than driving skills, who do braindead unsafe dangerous things in traffic that I see while driving the School Bus full of children. Shame on bad drivers for making other people less safe & shame of the state for giving these fools drivers licenses. 

Solving Problems with Technology by Using More Technology

 Arm-chair environmentalism is about reducing your individual energy use, using every bit of high efficiency technology you can buy. That is not eco-friendly. Its super resource intensive. Making EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, hydro dams, we can't make electricity without causing problems with pollution in the biosphere. 

We cannot solve problems created by technology by throwing more technology at the problems. That just creates more different kinds of problems, the way that war also does not solve problems, but kills a lot of people, costs a lot, and causes a lot of damage & harm to nature, the economy & other people. All so a small minority of people can execute political power over other people in other countries. Thats warped & sick. 

There is a popular YouTube Channel called Undecided with Matt & he makes content showing the extreme premium efficiency obtained by throwing a lot of technology that's expensive into a solar smart home with whole home automation. 

Expense reflective at this scale of resource intensity or negative impacts of buying all that stuff needlessly. The upgrade lifestyle culture toxic to the biosphere & the reason that so many sickos care more about money than themselves, other people or nature. They literally worship money like a superficial idolator who God will condemn to hell for eternal damnation. 

Today 85% of the energy that power the world non-renewable~

The VW XL1 diesel hybrid showed that a Mazda Miata sized car can be made to get over 200 MPG. They are not known to be quiet or comfortable & VW only made 250 of these XL1 that all pre-sold to wealthy German people before it even went into limited production. 

Audi A2 showed off aluminum castings to make a fuel-efficient passenger car that gets nearly 50 MPG or 4.5L/100km, but Audi lost nearly $7 grand on each A2 sold, so they scrapped that project, well Bernd did when he took charge. 

Coal is cheap, no two ways about it. A giant train car full of coal less than $100
The same amount of gasoline or diesel costs 10X more
Nuclear Fission Plants have a 9000% ROI after 25 years, so private investment avoids it, but the NERI or net energy return on investment into gigawatt scale reactors unmatched for stationary grid power production. 

Some wind power installations claim $0.02 cents per kWh while cheap dirty coal rings out $0.03.4 cents per kWh. Solar PV varies in cost by many factors, but given that bright sky only available for an hour of so during dark multi-day winter storms, an all Solar PV home has to have 10X more solar PV panels & a robust large capacity whole home battery + backup generator to actually not lose electrical power to run the appliances. 

Automakers know how to build cars to last 3 million miles or 50 year, but they dont make them that way on purpose because the resulting long life car would cost 40-60% more upfront & most people are not willing to pay that much more for long term reliability. Only Toyota prides themselves on selling people reliable cars. So, what is wrong with all the other automakers? It's hard to make a profitable automaker, since vehicles are complex energy & materially intensive products to make, so the entire supply chain for automaker global in nature & total vertical integration nearly impossible. So many automakers are actually system integrators who design a vehicle where the parts are made by other companies all around the world. Tesla BEV maker in California was the first US automaker success in more than 90 years. 

That gave Tesla a lot of brand cache. Some snobbery mixed in with the upmarket buyers of Tesla to produce a cultural EV trend, saying that "Battery electric vehicles can be as good as ICE fossil fueled internal combustion engine vehicles" / and Tesla sells some Performance EV's with dual motors that accelerate to 60 MPH in under 3 seconds, like a hyper car or supercar. 

It's the 300 mi magic range & 100kWh battery that becomes the capacity fade nightmare without government tax incentives to compete in the cold bitter business world of the global marketplace. There is no free lunch in physics & its is not easy or cheap to make a complicate product like a Tesla Model Y or Toyota Rav4 Prime. 

I used a PHEV & BEV as examples, both SUV models because those are popular. I like personally smaller cars like the Prius & Corolla or Mazda Miata & wish I could wear a battery electric helicopter backpack to hop around like a tech zealot since I am. This wish was translated into the $6K consumption of a Yamaha MT-03, and Honda PCX-150 before that. We still have both & ride them in the summer or warmer months. 

Honda started making motorcycles by adapting 500cc generator motors that were originally for WWII Philips radios, onto bicycle frames in a 12 square meter shack with 12 men. Today Honda is the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer, with more than 100 million Super-Cubs sold worldwide. If the Corolla Hybrid at 2850 lbs or 1296kg can achieve 77 MPG with light hypermiling, then motorcycles with similar performance should get 3X better fuel economy. 

Our 2-2013 Honda PXC scooter has a 153cc liquid cooled fuel injected single engine & gets 89-105 MPG while cruising between 20-50 MPH. The 1.1 gallon fuel tank results in only about 100 miles of range. This is a good example of how power scaling vs thermal efficiency & capital cost are nonlinear integrations mathematically. Said another way, there is a point in capital cost where premium efficiency becomes plausible such that a large machine has better energy economy than a smaller cheaper lighter machine. 

This means that CAE needed to compare multi-variable engineering problems, further delimiting who actually understands vehicle energy economy, other than to just compare MPG between models, to think about vehicle purchasing budget, operating costs to fuel weekly or monthly, costs to insure, maintenance, and depreciation. Thats a lot to consider without doing advanced research on computers. 

Then again, the internet allows people to do product research so anyone who puts forth a decent amount of effort to searching can find answers that result in their understanding that Toyota the best automaker because they have a legendary history of selling people all around the world cars that keep going & going, reliable personal automobiles. 

Most countries have terrible public transportation, especially American cities. In America you have to have a car to function in most locals. Meg & I believe that all cities should have much better public transportation like Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York or Paris. I believe the talking heads in politics only care about money, say one thing and do another, mostly to appease those who bribed them into office by helping to pay for the election campaign that allowed the corrupted individuals to obtain public offices. 

This is why lobbying a betrayal of public interest, violate the trust of the people, cheating the constituency with lies & misinformation to confuse & misdirect people, but also because of the corruption that gets large companies like Amazon political representation while normal working people like Dr. O or Meg or I are basically left to our own to figure out how to make a nice life or nice living. 

There are warped sickos in governments who actually order war without cause. There are warped sickos in high places that traffic children they abuse for entertainment. There are warped criminals who have no sense of moral or ethical personal accountability. All these public shootings are evidence of societal decay, and no electric vehicle is going to solve these problems. I am particularly skeptical of BEV's because many world governments seem so keen to promote them. 

In Washington State owning an EV means you annual vehicle tabs go from under $200 per year to over $650, thus the state claims its because of lost gasoline sales taxes, but that's the same amount of fuel taxes as an F150 getting 14MPG driven 15,000 miles. Clearly the EV taxes that WA State enacts, not reflective of the budget reality of people who buy a used Nissan LEAF as a cheap commuter car. 

I think a lot of rich people are out of touch with the hard reality of currency inflation that makes life more expensive & harder for people at the bottom. "Let them eat cake" said that arrogant queen of France. So selfish people living opulent lives have a history of being sociopathic or narcissistic or self centered or uncaring, cold & inhospitable. I personally know so really nice wealthy people. There are warped sickos who are broke too. 

We can find bad people in all levels of society. Remember the governments are just made of the people, well technically the people in government started out as part of the general public. But many US Senators believe they are beyond justice, like Hillary Clinton who had classified pentagon information in private home server. What kind of person has a file sever at home with classified pentagon information on it? If you or I were caught doing that, we would be charged with sedition & treason & executed by the state as an enemy of the state. 

We see in this example that life was not fair & not fair now & probably never will be fair for everyone, sadly. Fortunately, God see's everything & no one will escape his justice. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed as each person stands before God so their soul can be judged fairly according to his unwavering unchanging sublime beautiful honorable amazing nature. Praise be to God forever & always. Amen. 

Turbochargers are Exhaust Driven Air Pumps

Auto manufacturers are obsessed with 2L Turbo engines, now in more than 700 different cars. Did I mention that I am like Jalopnic, obsessed with technology & cars. Jalopnik | Obsessed With The Culture Of Cars

Make the engines smaller. Where 6.7L naturally aspirated engines once were, now we have 2.7L Turbo with direct injection from Ford. Where 4L engines were, the 2L turbo engine emerges. Toyota even turbo direct injected a 3 cylinder 1.6L in the GR Corolla for 300 HP out power, holly banana pants, that's amazing. 

2L inline 4-cylinder engine consider a darling in engineering with 500cc of swept area that the piston & rings slide up & down through. The goal of engine designers to get more power out of the fuel. In principle this would increase thermal efficiency, but they waste fuel to keep combustion temperature low & to play nice with the ECU & catalytic converter & exhaust emissions, but also by running slightly rich fuel air ratios that can prevent detonation or valve pinging at higher engine loads like when you're passing on the highway & shove the accelerated all the way down with your foot. 

By turbo charging, the naturally aspirated 2L goes from 160 HP to as much as 700 HP. Above 350 HP requires advanced dry sump lubrication, intercoolers, oil jets under the piston skirts, titanium valves, hydraulic valve variability control, variable ignition, & direct injection of gasoline with an addition set of port injectors to keep the valve seats clean and to maximize boosted performance fueling under full load or maximum output or full acceleration :) Using E85 with flex-fuel like ECU mapping variability control, power output can be further enhanced. Higher ethanol blends have much better performance because they are intrinsically higher octane, like a race fuel. 

There exists small hobby weak blend nitromethane fueled engines that make 3HP out of 27cc of displacement. Thats over 700HP per liter, like F1 engines. Nitro motors use 4X more fuel or are not fuel efficient for that amount of power. The 16% nitromethane + methanol & synthetic oil fuel is also not clean burning & releases and oily gummy mist in the exhaust. 

Top fuel dragsters pushrod V8 use 90 nitromethane & 10% methanol fuel. They can go 330 MPH within 1000 ft, less than 1/4 mile. The top fuel dragsters engines make 11,000 HP but are opened up & cleaned & checked after a few runs for safety. They are so high performance that these engines sometimes explode, so some parts of the engine are now strapped down with safety straps to keep shrapnel from an engine explosion from hurting anyone nearby. 

This is why virtually no power generators use small nitromethane engines. These little hobby car nitro motors are also 2 strokes so engine life only a few hundred hours max. A well-made Toyota 2JZ liquid cooled 4 stroke gasoline engine operates for 10,000+ hours by comparison, as long as the engine oil changed regularly & other basic maintenance performed. 

The 4.0L 1UZ engine in the 1989-1995 model year Lexus LS400 the most reliable engine ever made, though that means 10MPG city in the real world. Back then gasoline was less than $1/ gal in the USA. The 1NZ-FXE in the 04-09 Prius a 4 banger 1.5L of exceptional durability. The 2ZR-FX in Meg's 3rd Gen. Prius & my newer Corolla Hybrid are 1.8L of Atkinson exceptionally high thermal efficiency & very reliable. Toyota has a history of selling fuel efficient, long last, reliable engines, better than Honda, better than anyone else. 

Other than Toyota, most automobile transmissions are crap & wear out in less than 100,000 mi & cost $4000-$10000 to change, rather to pay a mechanic to change out the broken transmission. Some HD diesel trucks have long lasting Allison transmissions but get poor fuel economy. The diesel Bluebird School bus I drive gets 5.6 MPG using diesel in the variable gate Turbocharged Cummins inline 6 engine, typically used in class 8 trucks. It also weighs nearly 40,000 pounds. 

That means a 4000 lb. passenger car should get 10x better economy or 56 MPG if the power to efficiency & mass scaling was linear. VW did sell TDI vehicles that get over 50 MPG when driven gently. TDI stands for turbo-diesel injection. I really like the 1.9L 88 VW diesel TDI engine, and the TDI Jetta that it powered back in 2003. It was a strong contender on the list that included the 2nd Gen Prius which I ended up going with because it does not have a transmission. The HSD or hybrid synergy drive system in Toyota Hybrids is far more reliably that even the best manual transmissions. 

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The gasoline fueled 2023 Toyota Camry with the Dynamic Force Engine & 8-speed direct shift transmission is a wet dream of engineering. A reliable, trustworthy, crashworthy, awesome, well made, respectable sedan with good performance & good fuel economy that will last 20 or 30 years of daily use. These sterling reliability reputation Toyota vehicles are so well made that they are famous all over the world as being the most reliable & longest lasting vehicles available. 

I love the GR Yaris & GR Corolla & dream of owning one but resent the low fuel economy from the turbo 1.6L with 29 PSI of boost that makes 300 HP. That seems like a lot of engines stress & I know from studying the WRC & custom-made one-off factory world rally championship & group B rally cars that stuff breaks down on those vehicles all the time. 

Rally teams carry multiple sets of spare tires, spare suspension, engine wear items, all sorts of spare in trailers filled with spare parts. I am talking about supercharged & turbocharged small engines that make 500+ HP sent through a LSD on both axel superlative torque vectoring all wheel all the time drive systems. Now WRC requires Toyota Homologation, so they have to engage in serial production of the rally cars, thus the GR Yaris & GR Corolla are actually being sold to the public. 

Under 30 MPG a no go for me since it would be my daily driver, and I reset paying $45K for a GR Corolla out the door, then have to take it in the wallet at the gas station pump fueling it all the time. It would cost 2X or more to fuel than the Hybrid Corolla which is fast enough. That 2ZR-FXE & HSD shove the Corolla Hybrid down the highway at much faster than legal speeds easily. 

I don't care about peak acceleration in the real world, my work commute not a race anyways, and often low skill drivers abound along my route, people with more money for fancy cars than driving skills blocking my way with stop & go traffic congestion on the way home at night, so I don't want the 21 MPG city fuel economy in stop & go traffic, nor a manual transmission for commuting that would cycle wear my left knee hip & ankle with hundreds of stop start cycles daily. 

I am a cheapskate or tightwad or wisdom enhanced frugality focused science nerd and find energy efficiency entertaining. Going further with less fuel the reason we have taken Meg's 3rd Gen Toyota Prius on so many really long road trips throughout America during the summer. To put it this way, if we had take our 2.8L Audi A4 quattro on these same trips, it would have been 4X more expensive, in part because it requires premium fuel. 

That would take money from our food budget, our fun budget, reduce where we could visit, our housing budget for hotels. If we had to waste 22mpg fuel economy budget on fuel, it would make the entire trip worse, well thats true of my daily commute too. I only drive the Audi on Sunday to church & back, about 80 miles per week, and that costs $25 in fuel. What a gas hog, and it hogs the most expensive premium fuel. Back when my mother purchased this Audi in 2001, gasoline was just over $1 per gallon. That $1 dollar also had more buying power back then than it does now. 

I actually think that 44 mega joules of chemical energy in gasoline for $5 a gallon a really good deal. The problem with most gas-powered cars is that the greedy manufacturers use cheap low efficiency engine technology in order to maximize their profits per vehicle sold. So that means people who buy many vehicles get burned by poor reliability & poor fuel economy, forced to pay more per mile for each reason. This is why so many luxury vehicles depreciate rapidly. 

Get a Toyota or if you really want something fancy, a Lexus, since Lexus just a brand of Toyota. 

Luxury vehicles are expensive to buy, expensive to operate, expensive to fix, expensive to maintain, and lose capital value in depreciation faster, making them a poor man's choice, for rich men are tightwads or frugal and invest the money the save, so save your money & invest it into profitable investments, just like rich people do, on a smaller scale. 

Most of them started out small to. You know the guy who started Amazon.com was just a regular bookstore owner, who had a great e-commerce epiphany. Now Jeff B of Amazon one of the wealthiest people in the world. 

E-commerce serves a function by enabling people to buy things they can't even procure locally. Some people telling me about it, amazon, eBay, and Alibaba, describe it as "search online to fit it, click to order & it shows up like a magic trick", sometimes the same day, next day or just a few days later if you are like me & have an Amazon Prime subscription, and live within reasonable proximity to a slave life working conditions Amazon fulfillment center. 

I think in law & order some criminals should be ordered to work in a Amazon Fulfillment center, that doing so would teach them a lesson about how to be an accountable person with personal integrity, moral courage & ethical ideology. After all, is that not what most parents should be teaching their children anyway. In another way, we are all, as they say, God's Children, imperfect hypocrits, who makes mistakes, and fail, where no one has all the answers except God.