I'm going to try to gas light myself about batteries and range

[nolen]

Then Mousie - I found out they can prescribe cats Prozac to be administered with ear drops. I'm definitely asking the vet about that at her next appointment. She's very high strung and sometimes attacks others for no reason. She also challenged the two bucks she saw in the woods behind our house and I absolutely believe she would have tried if she could get out.

 

[nolen]

Then we have the outside cats. Isabel is the oldest and is a cranky old lady who loves attention from certain people and only them.

 

[nolen]

Ghost and Crybaby are the newest - Ghost is named for the Gray Ghost character from Batman and Crybaby is called that because he won't let me near him yet but he sits in the woods and cries at me while I get the food together. He sounds so sad.

 

[nolen]

And saved for last is the grumpy old man who is probably the father of at least some of the ones in my house. I can't tell you his name because the auto-censor keeps changing it.

He earned it when he first came to the house because he was chasing that feral mom around until she was so tired she couldn't get away. He was mean and fought with everyone. Eventually, I got him and the other male who lived here then to coexist. If they started yowling at each other I would tell them that we don't act like that here and they have to get along and they would walk away from each other. A-hole would mouth off while he walked away and it was hilarious.

Now A-hole is the biggest silliest sweetie here.

 

[Chavannigans]

Ok - here goes the list! I'll divide it into a few posts.

This is our oldest guy - his name is Mr. Spock. My daughter named him that because he has pointy ears.

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“Resisting scritches is futile.” -Spock

Huckleberry is a portkey to the timeline where we didn’t euthanize Haramabe and everyone was born with 31,642 Bitcoin.

“I’m tired of your shit.” - Muro


“You lucky you bigger than me.” - Poppit


Ragdoll thinks the auto feeder should go off thrice a day.

“Also tired of your shit.” - Adzuki-bean

“The catnip must flow.” - Treeboy and Mikey

 

[THil08]

@Chavannigans hows the iPhone Air experiment going?

 

[nolen]

“Resisting scritches is futile.” -Spock

Huckleberry is a portkey to the timeline where we didn’t euthanize Haramabe and everyone was born with 31,642 Bitcoin.

“I’m tired of your shit.” Muro


“You lucky you bigger than me.” - Poppit


Ragdoll is thinks the auto feeder should go off thrice a day.

“Also tired of your shit.” - Adzuki-bean

“The catnip must flow.” - Treeboy and Mikey

Ilya is bigger than everyone. He was about 18 pounds last time we went to the vet.

We also have a dog that loves all the cats and especially loves kittens. His name is Dewey and they all like to snuggle with him.

 

[Chavannigans]

@Chavannigans hows the iPhone Air experiment going?

We survived the first real world day with the Air.

Left the battery pack at home.

Lasted my 8 hour shift of running tickets and doomscrolling (or whatever the kids call it), a Boy Scout Den Meeting, and some light scrolling at home.

It made it from 7:49 to 22:23 without plopping it on a charger. It was at 24% when I put it on my Qi2 nightstand thing.

Very similar to my experience to the 15 Pro Max, which had me pretty thrown off.

 

[Chavannigans]

Just checking in. So far so good. I havent managed to kill it completely yet.

Still consistently getting around 8-10 hours of screen time per charge.

Very impressed with this lil guy

 

[MountainDad]

We will see how it goes. It's one of many baby steps on my EV journey.

Years ago I scoffed at EVs and dreamed of importing a diesel 70 Series Land Cruiser Troopy, but over time I have seen EV performance surpase ICE vehicles in almost every measurable way.

The spec sheet is what brought me here moreso than sustainability and ideals.

But if a BEV makes more sense, that will probably be what I end up with.

I personally have not seen or experienced BEVs topping ICE in almost every measurable way. Or even a few. We have two BEV crossovers and large diesel SUV. We have to charge our BEVs each, every week. They both have 80kWh batteries (both are 75kWh useable). Both are far more aerodynamic than my SUV, yet one 120-mile round trip at interstate speeds costs them both 70% of their range from a 100% charge, which we are advised to rarely, if ever charge them to "in order to maximize the life of the battery." My diesel SUV? Less than 1/3 its usable range over the exact same trip. And I can fill it to the brim without any adverse effects to my fuel tank.

The benefits are this:
- my diesel SUV is not made for short haul stop-and-go trips. This actually reduces the life of the engine and can cause emissions system failures.
- BEVs have virtually no running costs and charging them is, currently, quite inexpensive. The exception is tires, because they are quite heavy. My Polestar 2, which is a compact sport crossover size, weighs nearly as much as my full-sized diesel SUV; same as my wife's Genesis GV60. I got about 9,000 miles out of my OEM Michelins on the Polestar.
- they are quiet and fun to drive, but I actually now miss manual sports cars and will likely replace my Polestar 2 with a BMW M2. We'll keep my wife's Genesis and she will likely keep driving a BEV because she likes it and only ever really drives around town anyway, so we can charge at home and it's cents per kWh.

 

[Chavannigans]

I personally have not seen or experienced BEVs topping ICE in almost every measurable way. Or even a few. We have two BEV crossovers and large diesel SUV. We have to charge our BEVs each, every week. They both have 80kWh batteries (both are 75kWh useable). Both are far more aerodynamic than my SUV, yet one 120-mile round trip at interstate speeds costs them both 70% of their range from a 100% charge, which we are advised to rarely, if ever charge them to "in order to maximize the life of the battery." My diesel SUV? Less than 1/3 its usable range over the exact same trip. And I can fill it to the brim without any adverse effects to my fuel tank.

The benefits are this:
- my diesel SUV is not made for short haul stop-and-go trips. This actually reduces the life of the engine and can cause emissions system failures.
- BEVs have virtually no running costs and charging them is, currently, quite inexpensive. The exception is tires, because they are quite heavy. My Polestar 2, which is a compact sport crossover size, weighs nearly as much as my full-sized diesel SUV; same as my wife's Genesis GV60. I got about 9,000 miles out of my OEM Michelins on the Polestar.
- they are quiet and fun to drive, but I actually now miss manual sports cars and will likely replace my Polestar 2 with a BMW M2. We'll keep my wife's Genesis and she will likely keep driving a BEV because she likes it and only ever really drives around town anyway, so we can charge at home and it's cents per kWh.

I guess you missed the inference that BEVs outperform ICE vehicles aside from range, which is kind of the point of this post.

Acceleration, torque, lower center of gravity, etc. Where it lacks is range.

If we could get 500 miles on pure BEV without the weight penalty and recharge to 80% in 20 minutes that would be a much more compelling offering for people expecting the same range and top up times of vehicles like your diesel SUV. I think a more fair comparison would be the Cadillac Escalade or Silverado EVs if we are comparing full size SUVs that are available right now though.



If you are missing the sport manual experience I believe Hyundai is the only one out there really trying to emulate that experience.

 

[MountainDad]

I guess you missed the inference that BEVs outperform ICE vehicles aside from range, which is kind of the point of this post.

Acceleration, torque, lower center of gravity, etc. Where it lacks is range.

If we could get 500 miles on pure BEV without the weight penalty and recharge to 80% in 20 minutes that would be a much more compelling offering for people expecting the same range and top up times of vehicles like your diesel SUV. I think a more fair comparison would be the Cadillac Escalade or Silverado EVs if we are comparing full size SUVs that are available right now though.



If you are missing the sport manual experience I believe Hyundai is the only one out there really trying to emulate that experience.

Yeah I have fast BEVs. I don't want that in an overland/off roader. "As slow as possible, as fast as necessary" is the mantra when traveling off road. My Diesel Land Rover does 0-60 in around 7 seconds and that's plenty good enough to get out of its own way on the streets.

And frankly, they do NOT handle anywhere near as well as the best ICE cars. Mass is mass, physics is physics, and Newton says that a mass accelerated will continue in the same direction unless and until a force is exerted on it to change that velocity vector. More mass means the more that mass resists changing direction. Fast BEVs generally handle like drunken elephants, and a fast BEV SUV with a lifted suspension and BFG TA KO3's is going to handle like a very angry drunken elephant.

The positive of this is that for as long as there are stoned assholes driving stolen Kia Forte compact ICE sedans at 80mph through red lights, they can slam into your BEV broadside and you're probably going to be fine, whereas they will probably not be fine. Ask me how I know. My 2025 Polestar is my second, and they weigh almost twice what said Kia Forte's weigh.

 

[J Alynn]

Yeah I have fast BEVs. I don't want that in an overland/off roader. "As slow as possible, as fast as necessary" is the mantra when traveling off road. My Diesel Land Rover does 0-60 in around 7 seconds and that's plenty good enough to get out of its own way on the streets.

And frankly, they do NOT handle anywhere near as well as the best ICE cars. Mass is mass, physics is physics, and Newton says that a mass accelerated will continue in the same direction unless and until a force is exerted on it to change that velocity vector. More mass means the more that mass resists changing direction. Fast BEVs generally handle like drunken elephants, and a fast BEV SUV with a lifted suspension and BFG TA KO3's is going to handle like a very angry drunken elephant.

The positive of this is that for as long as there are stoned assholes driving stolen Kia Forte compact ICE sedans at 80mph through red lights, they can slam into your BEV broadside and you're probably going to be fine, whereas they will probably not be fine. Ask me how I know. My 2025 Polestar is my second, and they weigh almost twice what said Kia Forte's weigh.

Seems to be a thing with stolen Kia’s and crashing. I know the kid that was in the room on the second floor when the car hit at 2am in the morning. Could see through to the hotel lobby.