Commuting in Vancouver BC- Beautiful ‘zipper merges’. You’ll get dirty looks if you didn’t take the 1.2 car lengths you were given. It’s magic. Everyone keeps flowing like silk, never stop, always let the guy in. It’s polite and civil.

That midgate might actually make that chevy a suitable replacement for my trades van. Not being able to get at the front of your cargo in a pickup with a canopy on it blows.

It’s not the range that ford missed the mark on, it’s rapid charging. The chevy can charge at 350kW. Find an appropriate charging station and you should be able to finish up in under a half hour with 80% battery. Nothing wrong with that when you are saving over $100.

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Grocery stores  need to team up with fast charging companies. It’s the perfect 30-45 min pit stop/get your battery up to 80-90%. Now that long range cars are crossing the 400 mile/650km threshold most users only need to charge once per week. This is great for folks who don’t have a regular parking spot with a charger.

Wow, that guy has one IMPRESSIVE carbon footprint.

If buying a motorcycle lithium battery, many have a ‘jump’ feature that is a button that resets the low voltage cutoff. Basically it just turns off power completely if your bike is sitting and the voltage sags too low from a parasitic draw or whatever. Just press the button and it has enough juice to wake up and start…

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.