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  1. MountainDad

    Size comparison

    As compared to my 2017 Land Rover Discovery, the Traveler is actually a few inches shorter *without* the spare tire carrier, but a fair bit longer with it. This will make it difficult to fit in my garage without removing the carrier or doing some serious garage Tetris. The Traveler is about 2"...
  2. MountainDad

    Colorado Event

    Don't wait - email your state reps now. I emailed mine down here in COS as soon as I heard about the bill - my State House rep (R) hadn't heard of the bill and promised to look into it. I plan to follow up with them again. If you wait until the hearing they won't have time to get educated about it.
  3. MountainDad

    Colorado Event

    Wish I could have come up for it from Colorado Springs, but this is Space Symposium week - definitely interested in the Outside Festival appearance!
  4. MountainDad

    Dealership cartels - horror stories

    Yep, the "market adjustment" is the epitome of dealership cartels nonsense. Land Rover penalized dealerships that tried this when the New Discovery (Discovery 5) and New Defender came out, by reducing allocations.
  5. MountainDad

    Should There Be an EV "Tax Penalty"?

    @Cranky Canuck's situation in America's Future 52nd State 😜 is different than it is in most (other... 😝) US states. I have no idea how Canada pays for its road upkeep (it certainly is not free to him even if it is a public good), but I would imagine it's a significant bill - weather (not...
  6. MountainDad

    Should There Be an EV "Tax Penalty"?

    In Colorado, our registration fees are also based on the car's value with some portion of it based on tiered weight classes (for my Land Rover that's a little less than $16 out of about $500 this year for a 7 year old vehicle), but the vast majority of this is a specific ownership tax in lieu of...
  7. MountainDad

    Should There Be an EV "Tax Penalty"?

    Here in Colorado, 65% of the first 7 cents per gallon of fuel taxes and 60% of all fuel taxes collected above 7 cents per gallon go to state highway maintenance funds. 26% of the first 7 cents and 22% of all fuel taxes above the first 7 cents goes to counties for county road maintenance. 9% of...
  8. MountainDad

    Driving Distance Poll

    The key in my read of thelis poll is "...for at least one activity a month." While I might daily drive my Scout Traveler Harvester (40.miles per day), when I think of the word "activity," I'm thinking of things I really want this for - trips into the mountains for adventure avtivities, over...
  9. MountainDad

    Dealership cartels - horror stories

    Here is my story. Phil Long Hyundai of Chapel Hills in Colorado Springs. 2009. My wife and I, and our father-in-law, were shopping for new vehicles. My wife decided after some test drives that she wanted a new Santa Fe. Our sales rep handed us off to a sales manager. We offered a negotiating...
  10. MountainDad

    Dealership cartels - horror stories

    Colorado legislators have introduced a bill, clearly supported by dealership cartels, to reverse a law on the books in Colorado that allows direct to consumer auto sales. Ineos (an ICE vehicle), and Tesla are offered here in direct to consumer channels. Polestar allows you to use the automaker...
  11. MountainDad

    CLOSED! Audio System Brand Poll

    As an OEM for cars? They don't brand them if they do
  12. MountainDad

    Driving Sounds

    Please do not offer fake driving sounds, or if you do, allow them to be completely disabled. I'll fill the cabin with music from a premium audio option anyway. If I'm off-road on difficult terrain, I'll have music off so I can hear the tires on the rock and listen for other vehicles. I don't...
  13. MountainDad

    CLOSED! Audio System Brand Poll

    We spend a lot of time in our vehicles and we love music, so we want them to be nice places to be, and that means having high quality audio. We subscribe to Amazon Music HD, and want to hear the quality that service offers in songs recorded in 360 Audio and Dolby Atmos. We will generally...
  14. MountainDad

    Solar Panel Roof

    A full glass roof absolutely needs a sunshade. My Polestar has a full glass roof, but the glass is treated to reject IR and all spectra of UV. It still gets hot inside, but no hotter than a regular car with a regular roof. Still, I would prefer a fully retractable sunshade. My wife's Volvo XC60...
  15. MountainDad

    🚨 **Is the New Scout Shaking Up the Off-Road World?** 🚨

    Didn't get a mention on Expedition Portal. One thread is largely negative but only has 23 posts. This is perhaps *the* forum dedicated to Overlanding, which seems what Scout Motors is aiming at. So no, I would say there isn't a big splash.
  16. MountainDad

    Where are EV chargers needed

    Have seen them in Ouray, Gunnison, Crested Butte, Telluride, Buena Vista, Pagosa Springs...and of course Aspen and pretty much everywhere in the Roaring Fork Valley. Haven't been to Lake City or Silverton recently, or at least not with any interest in EV chargers. South Fork and Creede -...
  17. MountainDad

    Manual Transmission

    Now you can tow-charge an EV with a flat battery.
  18. MountainDad

    Manual Transmission

    Quite honestly, I love manual transmissions, and I grew up on them. But I absolutely do NOT want one on an off-road vehicle. Been there, done that, and glad they have been replaced by tough Auto boxes with paddle shifters like ZF's 8HP. I was pretty good - my factory clutches all lasted in...
  19. MountainDad

    Battery tech

    That's correct - they're large, but more volume efficient, so for the same overall volume, they offer more energy storage capacity. So maybe they could offer a slightly longer battery-only range, and thus a longer overall range on the Harvester than a comparably-sized pack made of other types of...
  20. MountainDad

    Battery tech

    If you have to have a physically smaller battery to accommodate the Harvester generator, then at least consider these batteries: https://insideevs.com/news/740256/rivian-r2-lges-battery-deal-4695-cells/ (Bonus: they're not made by a Chinese company)
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