Thanks to tax incentive loopholes, the price of EV leases have plunged to as low as just $20 per month in some areas of the county. Leases have become the customer's method of choice for taking home EVs since sale prices have become too expensive, according to a new report from Bloomberg.
Average monthly payments for new vehicles in the U.S. rose to $735 in the first quarter of 2024, while lease payments dropped to $595, according to Experian.
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I could have told the idiots that EVs weren't viable 15 years ago. The same goes for windmills, solar, etc.
The only thing I found viable was rainwater reclamation for flushing toilets. The prototype under my house was fantastically worth while, but I cheaped it out so bad when I put it in, a leaking toilet burned out the shallow well pump. The low water level shutoff failed.
The only other project that comes to mind is for a bread maker manufacturer. Homemade bread is awesome. The bugaboo is slicing it. I just made a box that fit the bread with slots in the side and grooves in the bottom that guided the bread knife.
Another problem was that the ingredients need to be weighed not cups, etc. A cheap digital scale fixed that.
The last problem was the drive hub that engaged the coupler in the bread pan would wear out. The fix for that was cheap and easy. I used short 3/8" pieces of steel brake line bent into ovals that spread out the load on the coupler.
I ran the thing 16+ hours a day. The company I was contracted to wanted me to destroy the product which was maybe 6 loaves/day. I thought that was stupid and wasteful so I bought plastic bags from US Plastics in Lima, OH and supplied my mother, her neighbors, my neighbors, everybody at Spudz bar and myself. I was damned popular.
I probably cranked out 2,000 loaves before I sent in my final report to the company. The breadmaker was practical, easy to use, easy and bulletproof.
Company conclusion: Eh, they're Christmas gifts that people put in their attics after a month. We're not gonna add $5 to the cost for something that people throw away anyway.
I kept running the prototype for my mother and wife until my accident in 2013. I lost one to dementia and one to a homosexual "personal trainer" and male pediatric nurse (who would've guessed) which I'm told ended badly.
So my big contribution to western society was making a practical breadmaker and overseeing the end of the Soviet Union.
Neither one worked out. The US is going commie.