Yep, we’re currently spending 1.5 months at a vacation rental in what is billed as (one of) the most remote counties in the lower 48 (Hinsdale, CO) with only a few hundred full time residents, and even here there are a couple of free L2 chargers 2 blocks away, and even an L3 in town. The wife drives about 170 miles a…

Probably depends when he drove it, my parents say that in the 70s Wolf Creek was narrow and up there with Red Mountain in sketch factor, now it’s a superhighway and no big deal at all (although still interesting during a Wolf Creek vortex snow event, with visibility to maybe the front of the hood, pretty funny to stop…

I sold my 06 A3 6mt last year, bought it with 19k miles and sold it with almost 190k miles, and never touched the transmission. It still shifted fine, although I think some of the synchros were starting to wear as 6-3 downshifts to pass were a little less smooth than when newer.

Yep, I’m sure we have plenty of high octane bio-ethanol to fuel the sub 1% of performance, characterful vehicles such as this and keep them powered by combustion, for the other 99% of generic vehicles with boring engines and automatic transmissions, I’d prefer electric.

I don’t know, but whatever they did certainly screwed up the charger.  A week later when we drove home it was back up and working fine again though.

Bad things apparently happen if you disconnect DC charging while it is still going. I’ve had someone charging before me disconnect before stopping the charge, and it disabled the DC fast charger, which then required maintenance.  This shouldn’t happen, but can’t trust people either.

I’m 6'5" and have had a Bolt for 3 years, it’s one of the only cars I’ve test driven for a while that has seats tall enough to fit me. The seats are narrow though, with no real lumbar support, so still might not work well, but height wise I have room to spare.

As it has “UV” in the name, is it better off pavement than the regular Bolt? Is it better at getting unstuck when I do something stupid?

Yep, Corkscrew Gulch on the Ouray side of Red Mountain

of course, I’m a moron.  At least I’ve started to learn to wear actual shoes in the winter, in the mountains, in the snow, at least some of the time.  

“the aforementioned Jeep-Owner Snow Mound Temptation that has baffled psychologists since 1941"

I’m more curious about when they will have a fix to the battery pack recall in my Bolt, and what that fix will be...

someone will find out soon- https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/01/20210126-proterra.html

Highway driving is ok as long as you aren’t in a hurry, and anything that would need trailering would be worthless for me. It’s a pretty obvious dichotomy between the jeeps that are actually used offroad that are poking along in the right lane, and the mallcrawlers that are tailgating in the left lane at 80mph (and…

I’m not sure I’ll ever really understand the need for high power in a lifted offroad vehicle, other than maybe a full on desert race type vehicle. Low end torque, sure, but I don’t care to take my XJ with just a 3" lift over 65mph, as the chassis dynamics are terrible. I’d rather keep the high speed shenanigans for…

As far as autonomous vehicles go, the only thing I would be interested in would simply be the ability to have the car transported for long highway trips. This could just be a flat trailer that stops at major interstate intersections, that any car could be parked on and hauled. It would would even work with the 25 year…

I’ve left my Bolt outside, unplugged for 5 days in February in the snow, when temps rarely broke freezing, without any sort of noticeable drop in charge. Just left it for almost 2 weeks unplugged in an unheated garage, so temps probably mostly in the 30s, with no apparent effect.

I’ve thought about this after some cars were buried in avalanches on highways a couple winters ago, the main thing would be to get an air supply, if you are buried deeper than this guy was (10 hours, must have had fresh air from outside). Turn off the engine, although I’d keep the accessories on and run the HVAC fan…

One of the more memorable smells from the old XJ:

Shovel.  The wife gets annoyed when she has to use a stick to dig me out when I’m stuck in the snow.