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  1. SpaceEVDriver

    Help me decide BEV or EREV

    Example of why I don’t fly unless I have to: From where I live, flying anywhere is at least half a day and $500 or more. There’s only one airline that flies to my city. And there are two one-stop destinations. Any farther and it requires at least an hour layover in the connecting city but...
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    Help me decide BEV or EREV

    This is what my partner and I prefer. If it’s just me, I’ll do up to about 16 hours in two days of driving or 24 hours in three days. But if it’s me and my partner, we’ll do a week or more of road tripping. I’ll drive most of the day and then she’ll drive in the afternoon/evening—I have trouble...
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    Help me decide BEV or EREV

    I start seriously looking at flying if the drive is more than 12 hours, but 16-24 total hours (one-way) is do-able if I have the time.
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    To be sure, I don’t think my use-case is everybody’s, nor maybe even anybody else’s. It’s one of the reasons I’m not afraid of looking at the cost and issues with doing an electric conversion of an old 1990s Landcruiser.
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    Help me decide BEV or EREV

    I don't see that happening unless they have battery sourcing problems. Which isn't impossible. But they have almost certainly already been in negotiations for a pile of deliveries for the battery packs for at least six months.
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    Or I just buy from a different manufacturer. I’m not a loyalist. Never have been, never will be. A brand needs to earn my cash. And a too-wide SUV has to be a winner in every other category to earn it, if it even does. I don’t owe any company my patience. I may choose to have patience for my...
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    It’s been an option on most vehicles I’ve considered in the past decade. Maybe not always standard, though.
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    I didn’t mean to suggest someone would “steal” charge, that’s not possible. I was more talking about the annoyance factor. Sorry for the miscommunication. I don’t want my charge port locked. Ever. I’d rather someone unplug me easily than do damage to my vehicle’s charge port. I’d rather lose a...
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    I don’t know why they’re doing it. I would guess that’s makes it easier to use the same drivetrain (axles, motors, battery width, etc), and probably makes it easier to know where things are going to be placed (thermal management equipment, etc). I would make them the same width if I was doing...
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    That too!
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    The off-road routes I want to take cannot be done with an 80-inch wide SUV if the mirrors are more than 5 inches wide, which is obviously not possible without removing the mirrors. This means there aren’t any existing BEV SUVs that can do those routes. And this isn’t a “kinda can’t.” One of the...
  12. SpaceEVDriver

    Try before you buy?

    We have both a ’23 Lightning and a ’22 Mustang. We agree the Mustang is better for urban use. The Lightning is more comfortable (but more expensive) for road trips. We have about 90,000 miles combined and about 45,000 miles of road trips. The last trip I took was driving the Lightning about...
  13. SpaceEVDriver

    Off-topic stuff…

    In this “The Rest is Science" video, Dr. Hannah Fry describes some of the physics involved in F1 aerodynamics. In this segment, she talks about the constant tension between excitement for the fans and winning within the context of racing. Link is to the beginning of that discussion, but the...
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    Incredibly annoying. Ford just pushed an update that locks our charge port when the vehicle locks. I find that incredibly annoying and when I have time, it’ll be one of the things I hack in to disable. The “stealing gas” problem was solved with the little flapper built inside the filler nozzle...
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    AND the argument that hidden door handles improve efficiency is nonsense. The truck (especially) is a brick. Removing a couple of relatively tiny bumps from a brick doesn’t make it some kind of slipstream dream. It’s still a brick.
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    Exactly. “Get a touchscreen stylus,” they’ll say. Jump through sixteen hoops to accomplish the same thing a mechanical solution would solve in one step.
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    The idea of pop-out, electric door handles on a truck just blows my mind and not in a good way. When I’m working, say with muddy gloves on, the last thing I want to deal with is some nonsense hand gymnastics to open a door. I want to pull on the handle and have the door open. I want my gloved...
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    You’re avoiding the point. If you don’t want the government to subsidize automotive fuel technology, then be consistent and go after all the relevant subsidies. It’s pretty nonsense to go after the miniscule EV subsidies while embracing the much larger gas & oil subsidies. So which is it, do...
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    Except "the government" is directly involved in funding oil and gas. Building a gas station with a convenience store comes with a huge tax write-off to the extent that it can be close to free to build a gas station with a convenience store. Such write-offs don’t exist for a c-store associated...
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    I looked it up on the wayback machine. The text was there in July 2025 as well.
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