Want to Remote-Start Your Toyota With a Fob? That'll be $8 Per Month

[elgerber]

I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty positive my car won't go into gear without the key fob nearby.

if you get out while the car is running with the keyfob ours honk loudly for a warning, then they just shut off.

 

[MillauFr]

Not a single assertion. Questions and discussion friend.

In California some areas 10 miles away from each other have a massive difference in climate. It can be 65 degrees with a misty rain in Santa Monica and 105 degrees and sunny 10 miles away in Sherman Oaks.

 

[Colleen27]

I Mathed it lol. .27 cents. 1000x worth it. I am not so cheap that 1.50 a week is worth being cold. Aaaannnnd that’s another strike against California lol. I’m not living anywhere where it’s “against the law” to warm my car up. Nor will I ever get up willingly at 2 am for anything. Not even Disney. But also, I can start my car from my bed so there’s that. Tho since I’m getting kids ready for school I have what feels like 11 hours to drink coffee and let my car warm up in between yelling “brush your freaking teeth” and “why aren’t your shoes on yet!!”

That's exactly how it works here. Drag the kid out of bed. Come downstairs. Put on coffee. Hit the remote start. Let it run through the 10 minutes or so of reminders to brush teeth and grab the Chromebook off the charger and make sure the gym bag is packed and all of that. And then go out to a nice, warm car with a defrosted windshield to drive kid to school. There are literally a million things that I do that are more wasteful, environmentally, than that half-gallon of gas I trade for a week's worth of not scraping ice and shivering on the drive to school. Like vacations. Road trips. Driving to school at all when it is less than a mile away. It seems silly to hyper-focus on such a itty-bitty piece of the big picture as problematic, and laws prohibiting it are performative environmentalism at its finest.

 

[declansdad]

Fun fact: A good deal of electricity in Canada is produced by coal-fired facilities.

Actually it's only about 7%.

Hydro has the highest share of generation at 60%, followed by nuclear at 15%, coal at 7%, gas/oil/others at 11% and non-hydro renewables at 7%.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Actually it's only about 7%.

Hydro has the highest share of generation at 60%, followed by nuclear at 15%, coal at 7%, gas/oil/others at 11% and non-hydro renewables at 7%.

My husband was telling me today (I mentioned this thread to him) that a lot of the Canadian workers he works with call their utility bill the hydrobill because so much of it is from hydro power. However the only power plants my husband's company has worked on/is working on are natural gas.

 

[NAB]

My husband was telling me today (I mentioned this thread to him) that a lot of the Canadian workers he works with call their utility bill the hydrobill because so much of it is from hydro power. However the only power plants my husband's company has worked on/is working on are natural gas.

Yes we call it Hydro bill. My husband actually works at a power plant. We have the dreaded smart meters here and hate it. Power is highest from 7:00 am to 11:00am, than another rate from 11:00 to 7:00 pm . Cheapest time is 7:00 pm to 7:00 am. Or the weekend because the whole weekend is the cheap rate.

So to wash or run the dishwasher it after 7:00 pm…lol

 

[dez1978]

This is this morning, 50 miles from where I live. View attachment 630802

Lol that’s a walk in the park. They don’t even plow the road here for that

 

[QueenIsabella]

Fifty miles from where I live is way different than where I actually live. You would not be making the assertions you are if you actually had any experience with what it’s like to have a snow covered car daily.

Not only is 50 miles a HUGE difference, but altitude matters, too. When I lived in NY, 50 miles away would have an amazing difference in climate--most of the time, we'd get socked, but a couple years, it seemed like every winter storm passed to the south and east of us. And in winter, sometimes just a few degrees in temperature separate cold rain from sleet or snow.

 

[ronandannette]

Actually it's only about 7%.

Hydro has the highest share of generation at 60%, followed by nuclear at 15%, coal at 7%, gas/oil/others at 11% and non-hydro renewables at 7%.

My husband was telling me today (I mentioned this thread to him) that a lot of the Canadian workers he works with call their utility bill the hydrobill because so much of it is from hydro power. However the only power plants my husband's company has worked on/is working on are natural gas.

Standard DIS answer - it's a regional thing.
Alberta:

New Brunswick:

Quebec:

 

[wenrob]

My husband was telling me today (I mentioned this thread to him) that a lot of the Canadian workers he works with call their utility bill the hydrobill because so much of it is from hydro power. However the only power plants my husband's company has worked on/is working on are natural gas.

Yes we call it Hydro bill. My husband actually works at a power plant. We have the dreaded smart meters here and hate it. Power is highest from 7:00 am to 11:00am, than another rate from 11:00 to 7:00 pm . Cheapest time is 7:00 pm to 7:00 am. Or the weekend because the whole weekend is the cheap rate.

So to wash or run the dishwasher it after 7:00 pm…lol

Just swinging by to say I’ve never met anyone else who makes power (except the guys he works with) in going on 32 years. My DH is a power plant operator. He started in coal many moons ago. They phased that plant out about 20 years ago.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Just swinging by to say I’ve never met anyone else who makes power (except the guys he works with) in going on 32 years. My DH is a power plant operator. He started in coal many moons ago. They phased that plant out about 20 years ago.

When I first met my husband 14 years ago they did nuclear, worked on coal plants (mostly to make them "cleaner") and natural gas. However for quite a while it's been natural gas so usually that's how I describe it these days. Most of the coal power plants have been retrofitted by now and new power plants are generally natural gas. You'd think after all these years I'd know more about the parts to a power plant but it's like turbines, air-cooled condensers and steam engines..and that's about it

 

[wenrob]

When I first met my husband 14 years ago they did nuclear, worked on coal plants (mostly to make them "cleaner") and natural gas. However for quite a while it's been natural gas so usually that's how I describe it these days. Most of the coal power plants have been retrofitted by now and new power plants are generally natural gas. You'd think after all these years I'd know more about the parts to a power plant but it's like turbines, air-cooled condensers and steam engines..and that's about it

Yeah you’d think I could run one myself but it all sounds like “ wah wah wah.” What’s the plant outside of Vegas? I’m sure he knows it. DH started out at Biogen just over the state line.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Yeah you’d think I could run one myself but it all sounds like “ wah wah wah.” What’s the plant outside of Vegas? I’m sure he knows it. DH started out at Biogen just over the state line.

Silverhawk? IIRC

The names all start to blur after a while lol.

 

[wenrob]

Silverhawk? IIRC

The names all start to blur after a while lol.

My DH works at Silverhawk! What a small world, lol.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

My DH works at Silverhawk! What a small world, lol.

Wow!! It sure is

 

[mom2rtk]

It’s 30 degrees colder this morning than yesterday. And I just started my car from the dining room.

Life is good.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

It’s 30 degrees colder this morning than yesterday. And I just started my car from the dining room.

Life is good.

You guys fare okay?

We just got back late last night and so far the only thing is some of our icicle lights on the house came loose but for how sustained the winds were and the gusts (according to my phone reached 71mph at our house) it could have been much worse. Don't know though if there is debris on the roof though.

The airport was probably the busiest I've seen in at 12:30am, tons of people with a lot of pick ups. I assume delays (especially with the airport having been closed for a short time) causing more later arrivals than normal. Usually when we land that late it's very quiet.

 

[dez1978]

Just swinging by to say I’ve never met anyone else who makes power (except the guys he works with) in going on 32 years. My DH is a power plant operator. He started in coal many moons ago. They phased that plant out about 20 years ago.

I live about 6 miles from a nuclear power plant so almost all the dads of my kids friends work at the plant in varying capacities. I don't really know specifically what any of them do lol.

 

[robinb]

I had a 2013 Toyota Prius V. Instead of paying for the remote start system from Toyota, I had a 3rd party remote start installed. It warmed the car and turned on the defrosters.

The climate control on my Honda Clarity doesn’t work nearly as well.

 

[wenrob]

I live about 6 miles from a nuclear power plant so almost all the dads of my kids friends work at the plant in varying capacities. I don't really know specifically what any of them do lol.

Usually when it’s mentioned people think he works for the power company in a generic way (hey, can your DH do something about my bill) and can’t wrap their heads around that he makes the power. I know in a broad sense what he does but I couldn’t explain it to you though he tells me in agonizing detail. Vegas is hospitality based so I’m more likely to know chefs, servers, security, card dealers, entertainers, that kind of thing.