“plan accordingly”

Put better A/C in it and it is the perfect vehicle for the ‘low speed vehicle’ retirement communities in Florida and such. It’s cheap, grandma’s little dog can chew all it wants on the cheap interior and when they smash it up they can just buy another one. Because it is cheap.

As a former Monza (v8/4spd) owner and an ex-professional mechanic that has driven over 10,000 cars I can confirm that while the Monza was a pretty craptastic car, and was also one of the most fun cars I ever owned. Miserable suspension, vague everything, doors that felt like they were going to tear off the car body…

A gas or diesel pusher in your trailer is an option if the tow vehicle does not allow remote charging when operating. I don’t see any problem with running a small efficient engine to help push the trailer along when I haul my sex dungeon to burning man once every couple of years. As long as 95% of my driving is…

Actually the tesla semi takes 20 minutes to replenish 400 miles of range from a megacharger. You are way off on your guess. The last 20% of the battery takes longer but how many semis can drive 500 + 400 miles in a 12 hours shift? Round about none. Honestly forcing a driver to take a 20 minute break after 400 miles…

Many (like me) are waiting for an electric and are well aware that the cost savings will make half of the vehicle payment if you put on a lot of miles. The Toyota Proace van hits the EU this october with a 1 million km 15 year battery warranty and CATL is supplying batteries like this for VW, Toyota and more. GM and…

Hot swapping is pointless when you can do fastdc charging. There is a new heavy truck charging spec so ignore the current charging rates, but most electric cars made today can do 80% charge in 20 minutes. That is the time a truck takes to unload. Also don’t estimate how good the range is getting. The Tesla Semi can do…

Don’t use range extenders! They are listening for your wifi signal and repeating it, cutting your bandwidth in half. Imagine someone yelling everything you yell. The airwaves get packed solid. Run ethernet and hard wire your access point.

Don’t use range extenders! They are listening for your wifi signal and repeating it, cutting your bandwidth in half.…

Anyone who is into electric cars just read the article about CATL bringing out their new battery that will feature a million km, 16 year warranty and has a 4000 cycle rating. There is a Toyota van called the proace that will be available in October in the EU that has a 1 million km/16 year battery warranty.…

Put a cameras/warning light/video display in the police car back window. If you get busted, the cop comes at you from behind, his car records the video. Then the cop pulls in front of you, taking a photo/video of YOU driving the car and a video display in the back window pops up the infraction/fine and it is sent to…

Seat occupancy sensors have been standard for years in front seats for Airbag/child restraint seat detection. Let’s hope they added them to the rear seats.

A heat pump. Finally. It’s idiotic not to add the crossover valve to air conditioning to make a heat pump. Most of your heater use will be above -20 and heat pumps are 1/5 the energy consumption of resistive heaters.

Do you know WHY that class of ‘tough van’ died? Because the EPA calculates mileage blindly based on nothing more than the square footage of the wheelbase. So a 4 door long box F350 gets ‘better mileage per square foot’ than an astro van. This is how retarded the EPA is, and why we have no good small tough 4x4's…

I used to terrify my roommate by drifting my old 2wd astro on a snowy freeway at 120KPH. My current 4x4 astro has a 5" lift and is quite capable off road. Shortest wheel base you can get with a full size bed in the back.

Someone tell this guy that he got the ev motor gearing wrong. he needs to find out his maximum electric motor RPM and maximum driveshaft speed at maximum speed but a tesla motor uses a 9 to 1 gear reducer. He might have a 3 to 1 reduction right now. He may need to add a nice compact small planetary gear reducer to the…