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  1. SpaceEVDriver

    Interesting Offroad Behavior of a Lightning

    Went back to get some video. Will figure out how to upload tomorrow.
  2. SpaceEVDriver

    Interesting Offroad Behavior of a Lightning

    The nearby forest where we are has a lot of great 4x4 / jeep trails with rocky sections. No photos because (luckily) everyone was in the Lightning. On the way up one road, there was enough cross-axle terrain that we were on three wheels multiple times. There was a lot of loose, fist-sized...
  3. SpaceEVDriver

    E-brake

    Unless I remember to activate the parking brake, the pawl allows the Lightning or Mustang to rock back and forth.
  4. SpaceEVDriver

    Real world EREV/PHEV Towing, Offroad, and Range Testing

    Unless there’s something special about the beam axles being used, the Scout isn’t likely to have true torque vectoring, which requires selective power to each wheel, best accomplished via four-motor configurations. While I don’t consider it truly torque vectoring if it doesn’t have a four-motor...
  5. SpaceEVDriver

    What my car’s built-in solar panels did for me today

    And it’s only for the peak 1 hour demand during the 4-7PM for the month. So if your peak demand on 1 July hits 20 kW and you draw that for an hour (20 kWh), then you’ll pay $19*20 = $380 for that 20 kWh. But for the rest of the month you could draw 19 kWh every hour during the peak demand charge...
  6. SpaceEVDriver

    What my car’s built-in solar panels did for me today

    We had it on our previous house too, and it was great. I grew up off-grid, so solar’s been part of my lexicon since I got a solar panel for Christmas when I was 8 years old—yes, I’m a nerd, if you couldn’t tell. This time I’m going to add a generator plug on the inverter’s generator input so I...
  7. SpaceEVDriver

    What my car’s built-in solar panels did for me today

    Yeah, it's a huge incentive to avoid using the grid at that time, which is obviously the point. But a mistake or two can be super expensive. Hoping to be given PTO with our new solar system by the end of the week. Then I won't have to worry about it.
  8. SpaceEVDriver

    CCS and NACS

    They are claiming a towing capacity, which means your argument that they shouldn't cater to the towing population makes no sense. By that logic, I suppose they shouldn't install a hitch or a high GAWR axle either. Since only "1%" of the customers will use them. The vehicles are 80" wide but...
  9. SpaceEVDriver

    The Garage (What did you work on today?)

    Those trusses were engineered by an outside firm. I’ve considered beefing some up for certain uses. Since I’m adding some drywall to a second level mezzanine, I will likely go through and add some extra to the trusses over the mezzanine.
  10. SpaceEVDriver

    The Garage (What did you work on today?)

    Yeah. I’ve installed so very much of it over the years. And i have to lift all of that up to the second level. Without a proper forklift. Sigh. But I won’t be ready for it for at least a month. I might be able to find a loaner forklift by then. Or I’ll install a hoist, which would be helpful...
  11. SpaceEVDriver

    The Garage (What did you work on today?)

    Thanks. :) It will forever be a project because my project needs and interests are always in flux. I also plan an electronics lab… I have too many projects and not enough time. The curse of having too many interests.
  12. SpaceEVDriver

    The Garage (What did you work on today?)

    I’ve been saving up for this workshop for 25 years. My contractor brother-in-law dried it in last year and over the past year I’ve been slowly (ever so slowly because money isn’t worth as much these days—especially in the past several months) doing the interior work. I ran out of money last...
  13. SpaceEVDriver

    Quantumscape as battery supplier?

    This forum is getting busy enough the search function needs to be advertised much more heavily…
  14. SpaceEVDriver

    What my car’s built-in solar panels did for me today

    My truck is at 13% State of Charge right now. This time of day is peak demand charge where I pay $19.585 / kW for the highest 1-hour kW usage of the month (during this time). If I tell my truck to charge, it will draw 19.2 kW. That’s $376.03 for one charge, more than my normal monthly bill. On...
  15. SpaceEVDriver

    The Garage (What did you work on today?)

    I’m adding a small office to my new-ish workshop. I threw out my back a couple of weeks ago, so I haven’t done much lately, though. I hoped to add the PV rack back to the Lightning, but I’m not sure my back is in the right shape for that.
  16. SpaceEVDriver

    CCS and NACS

    A port on the back would guarantee the need to drop the trailer unless the charging station was pull-through or pull along. A port on the front means dropping is far less likely to be required. I know this from 60k miles of EV experience, not theory. This charging station along a route I...
  17. SpaceEVDriver

    The One-Ton Problem with Scout’s Harvester Range Extender

    RAM announced in 2023 with a 2024 production date, which nobody with any understanding of the market believed. Then they announced a delay to 2025. Then another delay to 2026 along with a major strategy shift. No consumers will likely own the truck until 2027 at the earliest. I would not be...
  18. SpaceEVDriver

    The One-Ton Problem with Scout’s Harvester Range Extender

    Well, for starters the RAM vehicle doesn’t actually exist. This is partly because their promises were far more difficult to achieve than they expected.
  19. SpaceEVDriver

    The One-Ton Problem with Scout’s Harvester Range Extender

    It matters where the weight is. The battery will be between the axles. The Harvester would move the weight to be directly over the rear axle, which reduces available user-added load on the rear axle, which reduces available tongue weight for towing.
  20. SpaceEVDriver

    CCS and NACS

    I wouldn’t be opposed to NAC and CCS1 since they’re both the same communications protocol, and wouldn’t be much of an EE engineering challenge, but it’s really unnecessary and would add unnecessary expense to the vehicle. An adapter is cheaper. I agree that the plugs should be on the front...
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