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  1. MountainDad

    Lithium Battery Firewall/extinguisher?

    I was T-boned by a small sedan traveling 80mph thru a red light. Hit me like a home run, square on the B-pillar. I walked out of the trauma unit few hours later with nothing more than a cracked rib. My EV, a Polestar 2, has a collision emergency disconnect that physically severed the battery...
  2. MountainDad

    Modular battery pack design

    Design the battery system for maintainability/upgradeability. Battery modules (groups of cells) should be individually replaceable and the entire battery pack should be designed to minimize the effort necessary to replace it. This would ensure these vehicles will remain viable into their 2nd...
  3. MountainDad

    Diesel Range Extender option please.

    Actually, it was the California Air Resources Board, which perversely dictates standards for 16 states and thus the entire US.
  4. MountainDad

    Adventure Key - NFC wristband

    I would like to see a means to lock and immobilize the vehicle, while leaving the vehicle key inside. A great way to do this would be to have an NFC enabled passive key, say on a rugged, waterproof (100m) watch-like wristband, which is used to lock the vehicle, immobilize it, and temporarily...
  5. MountainDad

    Highway Mode - RWD only

    While driving at highway speed and making few turns, the front motor should be disconnected as a drive motor to enable more efficient highway cruising. If traction is limited (wheel slip detected with snow/ice/rain) or if acceleration is required (spirited driving or passing maneuvers), then...
  6. MountainDad

    Feature Suggestions for Scout Engineering

    "Highway Mode" - The vehicle should recognize when it's being driven on the highway - high speed, few turns - and automatically disconnect the front drive motor to become RWD only. My Polestar 2 does this, and this increases the range when driving on the highway by reducing consumption from...
  7. MountainDad

    Battery Life in Winter

    That stretch is pretty flat. I drive from Colorado Springs to Boulder and back on I-25, which has a very pronounced W-shaped elevation profile with nearly 2,000 feet of gross elevation change, about 1,000 feet net, and several stretches where I set the cruise at 82mph if there's no traffic. In...
  8. MountainDad

    Battery Life in Winter

    If I know I'm going somewhere, I precondition my battery and cabin. My Polestar has an option to set timers (time to make the donuts...) or control preconditioning manually. Just like remote starting an ICE vehicle, this turns on the climate control and the heat pump and begins warming the...
  9. MountainDad

    Any talk of crab crawl mode ?

    Why would you want this? It's a gimmick.
  10. MountainDad

    Lessons Learned on Range Anxiety

    Not for me. I charge at home at night on my Level 2 - I pay six US cents per kilowatt hour. So if I go from 20kWh in the "tank" to 67.5 at my self-limited 90% SoC, it costs me a whopping $2.85 US per charge, which gets me about 150 miles of useable range driving around town for the week. I plug...
  11. MountainDad

    Battery Life Cycle

    Outlast the EPA-defined standard service life of the car, maybe. The EPA defines the Intermediate Useful Life of a vehicle to be 5 years or 50,000 miles. The Full Useful Life is defined as 10 years or 100,000 miles.
  12. MountainDad

    Battery Life Cycle

    Recycling auto batteries is not a widespread thing yet for a number of engineering and chemistry reasons. It actually costs way more energy and money at the moment than is returned by recycling the contents, mostly because they literally have to be dumped into the equivalent of a wood chipper...
  13. MountainDad

    Battery tech

    Why not just install a home battery system with your solar? Then you can avoid peak rates and/or utility power at night, *and* drive your car the next morning, or when the power goes out and you need to leave your home.
  14. MountainDad

    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    Automakers exist to sell cars, and to make money on the cars they sell. They'll sell the cars people want to buy, as long as they can make money on them. V8s aren't going away because the automakers are ignoring what people want. They are responding to regulations on emissions and fuel economy...
  15. MountainDad

    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    And then watch your roads fall apart. Granted, EV annual registration taxes are regressive taxes that only wealthy people can afford, but they still have to pay for road maintenance for state roads somehow, and EVs are heavier than comparable ICE vehicles today so they have a larger impact on...
  16. MountainDad

    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    I've had my diesel in -25F overnight, as well as sitting outside for days in -15F, and it starts right up, because I put DieselKleen anti-gel in the tank. The battery might freeze, but that's a different problem.
  17. MountainDad

    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    I think you don't understand the engineering aspects of this. No one is saying it's technically impossible. We are just saying it is not the correct choice given all of the other considerations at play for the vehicle, and given the specific words the actual CEO has used to describe how it will...
  18. MountainDad

    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    Quite the opposite.
  19. MountainDad

    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    Locomotives don't always have batteries because every pound of cargo is revenue. Non-revenue generating weight is dead weight, so they have absolutely massive diesel engines. For passenger vehicles, the battery is the "tank" that needs refilling and it allows the engine to operate at its most...
  20. MountainDad

    Speculation Alert - possible Harvester Engine Choices

    Packaging and NVH concerns may require the former rather than the latter. Electric power in to the battery does not *need* to be equal to or greater than electric power out from the battery to the wheels. All you need is three modes: - Pure EV mode. Sufficient for most day trips and around...
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