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Tesla Roadster takes 30 hours to charge from a standard wall socket {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2008 9:29AM Depending on the length of the run from your panel to your garage, you may only need 2 gauge cable, which is fairly common. Larger size cable isn't hard to find, considering most new homes in the US are built with 300+ amps of mains feed. Please don't spout FUD, you're not going to cause fires by plugging a tesla in.
Tesla Roadster takes 30 hours to charge from a standard wall socket {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2008 9:21AM If you were to use 1000 kWh (50kWh*5days*4weeks) in a month you would be in the highest tier of PG&E's usage calculator (Tier 5, >300% of baseline, $0.358/kWh) Although I'm sure better rates can be had with E-7 billing (time of day-based usage)
I know "math is hard" for a lot of people, but it's been publicly stated that the Tesla has a ~55kWh pack.
Fastest Clock in the World tells time to the microsecond {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 2:40AM A good digital SLR (like my D70) can capture 1/8000 if the lighting is good enough. That's good enough to capture 5 digits of the sub-second reasonably well.
Motorola gets official with GPS-packing MING A1600, A1800 {Engadget}
Jun 24th 2008 1:09PM Yup, I was just thinking... new treo?
Wii Menu 3.3 already hacked, patch forthcoming {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 7:47PM The problem is not the developers. It's the managers that say "FIX IT NOW".
Pictures of the ThinkPad X200 surface {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 12:20AM As a thinkpad user for over 10 years, I've always loved the touchpoint. Besides that, I've also been a Linux user for a long time, an the thinkpads have a proper middle button which is great for X copy/paste. I don't know how windows users get along without automatic copy buffers.
Kent County Council bans mosquito gadgets from buildings {Engadget}
Jun 16th 2008 1:40PM The caltrain station in San Francisco plays a variable tone from about 15kHz to 17 kHz. Supposedly they do this to keep the pigeons from nesting in around the building. The real issue is that they play this tone really freaking loud. Even at 30 years old, I can still hear to about 18kHz.
One of these days I need to bring an SPL meter over there and find out just how loud it is.
Wrightspeed SR-71 electric car will do 0-60 in 2.5 seconds {Engadget}
May 24th 2008 6:43PM Wright got the Atom frame and did a number of modifications to the frame to accommodate the 500 pound battery pack in the space where the fuel take was. The motor/controller is from AC Propulsion.
Roku reveals first Netflix set-top-box, reviews flow in {Engadget}
May 20th 2008 2:01AM The soundbridge is a crap rip-off of Slimdevices Squeezebox.
Panasonic reveals duo of HDD-based Strada in-dash navigators {Engadget}
May 15th 2008 10:29AM And people said that the empeg (Rio Car) was expensive. It's too bad all the in-dash mp3 players on the market are a major step backwards compared to it. The empeg designers are having a 10 year party for the original model this summer.
