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    Favorite road tripping snack

    From a trip to South Africa. Jerky dehydrated usually with heat and sometimes smoke. Biltong is air dried (so it takes a bit of a different climate to pull off than where I live-we have way too much humidity year long). When I went to the meat market, they had large wheels (like clothes...
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    Thoughts on Factory 37s

    While you don't need to run the harvester in water - it would still need to be designed so water does not seep in and mess things up. IIRC when things have air inside and get hot - they usually have to vent pressure. Dunk them in water - temps drop, they are going to want to suck air in to...
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    Solar Panel Roof

    The issue I have with a solar roof... My region gets about 5hrs of peak equivalent a day. A solar roof is unlikely to put out more than 1kw/h-and honestly 1/2 that is probably more likely. So 5kw/h per day - going to take a month to charge the battery fully. What you probably would get (best...
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    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    I guess it depends. While it hardly was worthy of the title "plug in hybrid" (and people who purchased it as such were largely disappointed) - I did talk to at least one who really liked it's performance as a hybrid. They thought it got good performance and mileage.
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    Extra, Extra....Read All About It!

    Saw a post that Jeep just canceled their plug in hybrid line, citing changes in demand and fire risk. Kind of trying to poison the well - don't buy an EV or your house might burn down. Build up public fear of fires, and that could set EV's back a long time. Push the narrative hard enough...
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    Traveler or Terra for Road Trips/Daily

    For heavy and long towing, the Terra will not be replacing my F250 diesel. So I reserved the Traveler - better for family trips - better for a lot of trips.
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    Battery used

    Watched a handful of videos on the Donut battery. One made an interesting observation. Apparently Donut made an investment in a company working with nano-materials and capacitors. Their capacitor had a lot of similarities to the battery that Donut was talking about. Charge speed and profile...
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    Battery used

    I have my doubts about the Verge motorcycle. They claim it is in production, but quick google showed that it was a limited production run (100 units). Their extended range model has a 33.3kw/h battery. Hard to guess how many of the SS bikes will be made and how quickly they will make them -...
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    Home Charger Reviews and FAQs

    60%, less the electricity used driving home from the DCFC, then reserving enough to go back to the DCFC charger afterwards (if power is not restored). Currently only have electric heat - but that is still not nearly the draw of AC in the summer. New house will at least have a working...
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    Home Charger Reviews and FAQs

    Closest DCFC is 30 miles for me, about 10% of charge. If you throw in only charging to 80% (mostly for speed), then throw in not wanting to draw the battery below 20% - Well that leaves 40% of the battery to be used as backup during an emergency (better than nothing. but Ouch...)
  11. M

    What would best EV (s) to rent for a day

    Family has rented a Model 3 and an Ioniq. The later was far more loaded. That said, they were impressed enough with the Model 3.
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    Launch Edition

    Typical launch additions are fairly loaded, with about the only features missing being ones that have not been figured out yet. Then honestly, those options often fail to ever materialize anyway. Not saying it is the best way to do things, but it is fairly consistent. Take the Lightning...
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    5klbs towing cap with gas range extender?

    Not technically a loss of charge on their vehicle - we saw the draw when remotely monitoring the charger. I would love to say we would not normally remotely monitor the charger (but we have had a lot of charge theft by non-tenants) - and maybe that would even be true. But with all the problems...
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    5klbs towing cap with gas range extender?

    Can hope so, but the video creator said he had seen similar problems from other people in Rivian forums. I think his problems were largely in Utah with an ambient temp of 110. Perhaps it is something that only happens at a certain temp, and it simply is rare for people to need to charge at...
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    Is there anything SM could offer to get you to switch from EREV to BEV?

    Parts restraint has limited the production of quite a few vehicles this current decade. I don't know if the memory chip shortage will continue, but that one type of chip is limiting a lot of production right now. That said, I don't see it effecting one model over another at this point...
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    Is there anything SM could offer to get you to switch from EREV to BEV?

    The main excuses I can see prioritizing one over the other is supply line restraints. Battery availability will determine a lot, engine availability will determine a lot (and honestly, a lot more little parts in that engine). Second possible issue is tech. We have been 2 years out of a...
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    5klbs towing cap with gas range extender?

    Watched a video on Rivian ownership. Apparently they were struggling with just cooling the interior and battery. Poster did a 5k mile road trip - at one point they were getting a negative charge rate. They had several BAD charge rates when trying to charge in hot environments. One got so...
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    New Years Resolutions 2025

    As a joke, hooked the remaining 1/2 fish on a steel leader and caught the shark about 10 minutes later. Baby blacktip, so it got released. Ate the stingray though. Would like to see the Scout in person, but I suspect it would have to be convenient for it to happen in 2026. I will go out of my...
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    Home Charger Reviews and FAQs

    Sorry, got my numbers confused. 50 amps, which is 10ish kw. That is not all that bad, but kind of a trickle with a house that can surge 200 amps. That said, it will run the house - without the AC, stove, water heater, and clothes dryer - probably. A 24kw generator is probably on the small...
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    Scout Motors Needs to Rethink “Local” Service. Don't do the Tesla model.

    The biggest problem with the current dealership service model is it is breaking down. Artificially lowered fixed warranty rates make it hard to find technicians. The tech needs to pay for classes, buy personal tools, then gets hammered with a fixed rate repair that 9 times out of 10 will take...
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