Cars That Think

OCTOBER 14, 2022

2022 : The “Kindle” of license plates— Reviver ’s connected, digital RPlate —is now legal for use by any California car-owner, following a 10,000-car pilot that started in 2018. Reviver Auto is making the so-called Rplates, and they aren’t cheap—the plates are listed at US $700, plus an $8 a month subscription fee. [ Update 14 Oct.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

This is by no means cheap, but is relatively competitive with the higher-end wake boats from companies like Nautique or Malibu (Nautique has its own electric wake boat , which starts at $312k). The Sport is also capable of 225kW CCS DC charging, for the few marinas that have installed DC fast chargers (there’s one in Tahoe ).

Water

Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2022

Every time my wife and I drove up to our Lake Tahoe ski cabin on Friday nights after work, we’d have to keep our snow jackets on until the next day. If I could just connect the HVAC system to my iPhone, I could control it from anywhere. A year later we decided to build a new, superefficient house in Tahoe. I was busy.

Tahoe