TurboFool
TurboFool
TurboFool

After failing to offload his old pickup truck online...

I sold my last car with a for sale sign in the window with the car at a Cars and Coffee meet.

Plenty of people, stop being a dick and look outside once in a while.

Why wouldn’t you?  Takes like a minute to make (or $1 to buy and fill out) and would increase your chances of selling.  Last vehicle I sold, I used both online ads and a physical for sale sign.

See “Retired school teacher”. “Internet” is where his bass and crappie go.

Why do you see what?

I think it is a matter of time before gasoline refilling will see outdated. How do I know if the pump works, how do I know if the gas is fresh, and how do I know if it will take my discount card?

And while it’s a relatively simple idea considering how connected modern electric vehicles are, it’s also one of those things that’s so obvious, it’s hard to understand why it isn’t already commonplace across the entire industry.

I live not far from this particular Supercharger station, and this does not surprise me at all.

To be fair, your $80k EV is what contains most of the smarts that controls charging.  So even with a shitty adapter, the EV should be smart enough to prevent any dangerous things from happening.

I’ve been hearing and am now in agreement. We did not EV tax Credits. We needed EV Infrastructure. Standardizing to the NACS plug for Level 1, Level 2, and DC Rapid Charging is the first step. But 80% charge at home. 20% do not. And 60% in total use Rapid Charging at least weekly.

Until you have more DC Rapid Chargers,

Should we combine Karen and Elon to make a special name for these people? I’m sure there will be more run-ins like this in the future. How about Ellens?

IMO it does not make sense to buy an EV if you are planning to rely on a charging network for anything outside of the occasional longer trip. If it is your commuter car, you’d better have a 40Amp+ charger in your garage or dedicated parking space. Anything else and you’re better off with a PHEV, HEV, or just regular

Range Energy is doing exactly that with Class 8 trailers. They have a battery pack, an electrically-driven axle and is controlled by the inputs from the trailer’s kingpin.

It would make sense but there is a lot of work to overcome the technical hurdles of connecting an additional battery resource cleanly to the existing EV supply.

It’s called knowing your customers.

That’s not fair, the Weiner Mobile might be the coolest vehicle ever made.

Even a Weinermobile would be cooler than what’s on there now.

My car gets about 20% less range with a small utility trailer so I am not surprised at the reduction but odd that the bigger one loses more- my wild ass guess would be aerodynamics 

Send the owner the bill for the clean up.