I actually have a deposit down for one.

Take the unreliability of a KTM and blend in the unreliability and difficult to find parts of Husqvarna to end up with a machine that will help your mechanic build a college fund for his kids.

I disagree. Having some done some electric swaps in the 90's, it can make a fun nice unique machine. Even if the range was shit back then.

It’s about 6 bucks a gallon here in Canuckistan. And 6-8 bucks a gallon is common around the world with the dollar conversion.

I had one of these things. Unless it’s a v8, avoid. The slushbox is awful too, I swapped mine with a 4 speed. To change that one nightmare spark plug you make a tool that is a shallow 12 point socket drilled to slip over the hole with wrench flats ground in it. It works. Mine is still in my toolbox.

I dunno. I’d call the K1200 surprisingly boring to ride. Yes it has a boat ton of HP but it hits so soft I would call it one of the most disappointing test rides I have ever done. Only BMW could make a bike that powerful that ...boring.

I bought the Tenere 700 instead of the Africa Twin because the bike is too heavy, even for my eighth of a ton of strategically shaved gorilla body. That build is just silly. Never buy a bike you can’t pick up from the wrong side of a hill.

No onboard charger is a huge design mistake. It takes range anxiety to a new level when you can’t even plug into a regular 120V outlet. With a 2.3kWh battery you could charge it to 80% in 1.5 hours. That last bit takes much longer of course.

Sweet. Can I get the optional magnetic trailer to pick up all the parts that fall off as I ride it?

Contractor here. I will absolutely replace my van with a electric truck or van. It won’t be a year one model and the F150 has 3 strikes against it. The other two being slow rapid charging and insufficient range. I need my truck on the weekends. Chevy looks like it has the hot ticket coming out next year. 400 miles of…

This is EXACTLY why you get a union and the management can’t retaliate against everyone. Especially after what happened. They would get their asses handed to them by the union or a judge.

That looks like a nice toy that could be my future service truck with a canopy. You early adopters enjoy your ride and work out the bugs. I’ll be test driving one around 2025 when the charging infrastructure is better made and we are past the gen 1 sketchy vehicles.

Whatever that forever car is, it’s probably going to get electric swapped within a decade. At the rate batteries are getting better, I’ll be able to poach something drastically good from a wrecker soon enough.

Ex mechanic (electrical guy) here. IGNORE RED TO RED. Actually read the battery and look for the plastic plus symbol. You’d be surprised at how many times earl schleb installed a red or orange battery cable on the negative back in the day.

Tesla is failing miserably with the 4680 cell production and that truck is relying on it. The semi, model S plaid and cybertruck were all supposed to be equipped with it.

My (maybe) future cybertruck will be a blank canvas of crazy wraps that I change out every 3-5 years. The current crop of cars is dull and bland. Why not be wild with a finish that might go out of fashion in 5 years?

As the owner of a shiny new electric chainsaw I can confirm that they are every bit as good as the gas models now. However for a pro logger we will probably need to wait 5+ years for Stihl to catch up. And we also have to wait for electric trucks so the operator can charge spare batteries from the truck all day long.…

This is a super easy mod on any vehicle with air suspension. Add a pressure sensor to each air bag, read the voltage of all 4 sensors when the vehicle is empty. Then load it with a known weight, read it when full and work it out. Tractor trailers have used this trick for years.

Please tell me that piece of glass is optional. I’ll be bolting a pipe rack to the roof of any truck I buy and would rather have a dented roof over a smashed one. And it will get dented.

Canada here. It costs $100-125CAD (80-105usd) to drive a pickup truck 650km (400 miles) with our fuel prices. That new chevy electric truck? $20 worth of electricity if I am charging at home.