The ‘bar star around town crowd’ will eat up electric bikes. Touring? Not so much. If you watched the long way up you will realize how abysmal it is. My next truck will be a pure electric but motorcycles aren’t even on the horizon yet.

Now where’s my electric mid sized truck? Or better yet a electric with 160km of range and a small 2-3cyl range extender.

Former Canadian Red Seal Automotive Technician here. (Now a Red Seal Millwright/automation guy). It took me 4 years of school and field work under licensed guys to get my Red Seal. It took me 2 weekends to get my ASE Master license with a specialty in advanced engine performance. It was too easy and there needs to be…

Silicone spray is cleaner, but you’ll need to hit it regularly. Less mess on your hands.

However the 21700 (21x70mm) is bigger so you get less cells. Still, it is the smart way to go and the end result is a slightly better battery . Moving forward it is likely the 4680 (46 x 80mm) is likely to displace the 21700. Panasonic is finally ramping up production now, and Tesla as well.

*unless you factor in range per dollar spent.

If I could have bought a new astro van I would have.

The e-transit is a joke. 126miles (202km) of range for the low roof, 108 for the high roof. They are patting themselves on the back as the ‘average’ daily use is 74 miles.

Radar maybe, Lidar absolutely. And now that a whole host of dirt cheap lidar sensors just hit the market the other big players are happy.

For high density, rail is king. This plane is meant for the low volume market that goes to smaller population centres where the math does not work out. The big deal with this airplane is also the cost of operation. I’m talking 1/10th the cost of a conventional plane per kilometre.

The chevrolet/brightdrop EV600 deliery van has 250 miles of electric range, recessed sliding doors and meets most of the postal specs out of the box. And it’s already developed and just started production.

I think you’ll find most seats made in the last decade + have some kind of software limit for the motors. Those motors are simply not rated for continuous duty. This is nothing special other than tesla did it in software rather than seat hardware. Most seats have a microcontroller.

This is missing the worst ooooold feature. Spring AND fall tuneups. Old shitboxes used to need a different tune for warm and cold weather. Adjust the buzz box voltage regulator, tweak the idle mix, change the engine oil out to a thinner viscosity, maybe add a battery blanket.

Lithium battery recycling has now been solved and those batteries are worth gold in raw materials. They will fetch a premium as scrap. No worries there.

Anyone asking this question has not done a road trip in a car with a couple of screaming brats.

Ooooh. A hundred horsepower out of 1753cc’s. Even boring passenger cars are hitting 100HP per 1000cc’s now. Sport bikes are hitting 200hp per litre. My new dual sport bike makes 77hp out of 689cc’s and it is half the weight of the Harley.

The bolt was a electric car ‘practice run’ with a converted front wheel drive chassis. Sabotaged to be ugly with uncomfortable seats. I ended up driving a friends and do you know what? The powertrain was actually brilliant. Those narrow tires would protest under the torque at any legal speed.

Locking out independent shops is nothing more than holding customers HOSTAGE for ransom. Cars are not a cell phone. Most people can’t afford to bin it and buy a new one after a minor fault. Auto makers have teamed up and have a repair monopoly for their brand.

Pusher trailers are illegal here.

The model S plaid of course. I want quiet speed and it won’t be long til I hit traffic and have to slow down.