Jebus this post makes me feel old. I remember my family’s Aerostar having rear-only ABS and a specific idiot light that said exactly that. Our ‘94 Explorer was the first four-wheel ABS vehicle we had.

Games don’t need updates... they should be complete when you buy them. Games shouldn’t need patches, they should be bug free when you buy them.

EEVBlog did a multi-part series on getting a custom LCD like this made a while back. Here’s part 1, if you’re interested the rest are linked from there.

That definitely makes sense.

Good point with the platooning, if you had self propelled trailers driven by a single lead vehicle you could get away with a lot longer “road trains” because stability control and braking become simpler.

That’s a good point, and makes me wonder how worthwhile it might be to equip trailers with the ability to regen. Of course at that point because AC motors and generators are pretty much the same thing with different electronics this train of thought has me considering the implications of self-propelled trailers, both…

In my experience most vehicles other than a few gas guzzling sports cars with small tanks can go at least 300 miles on a tank on the highway. That’s one stop for probably 3-5 minutes to refuel, maybe another two or three if you need to use the restroom and/or buy more snacks.

I am aware of the risks, I don’t usually intentionally take it that low, but I was bored and thought I could make it.  Had I managed to keep my speed down like I intended to at the start I might have done it, but I couldn’t resist creeping back up.

My friends often give me shit for my tendency to push the limits before refueling, but I’ve only actually run out of gas once, and it was when I was deliberately trying to see how far I could go with the range reading “0".

While they definitely sound like the best use cases for EVs (and they mostly are), the biggest problem I’ve heard of is certainly tough to overcome: cost. Electric versions can cost 150% or more of their ICE counterparts. And for municipalities, this can make all the difference. Even if you could show an overall cost…

My plan probably wouldn’t work as well in that case, though the swappable battery part could still potentially make it work.  That said I don’t think it’s that common of a behavior.  Where I’m at the garbage services are all private companies that have nothing to do with city or state plow fleets.

Back when the LLV replacement bids opened up I always thought the obvious solution was a chassis retrofit.  Everything I read indicated the custom bodies themselves were holding up fine, as aluminum tends to do, so a way to just pop those bodies off the S-truck chassis they started with and drop them on to a new EV…

Yup, the only real reason to care about displacement or power-per-displacement as a primary factor is if you live somewhere that taxes displacement. In those cases there is a clear advantage to smaller displacement.

Garbage trucks, school buses, and postal trucks have always seemed to me to be the best candidates for electrification. Stop-and-go is great for regenerative braking, largely fixed routes mean range anxiety isn’t a thing, and the fact that they return to a depot where they’re parked overnight makes charging a much…

I was at my local RV show as this article was published and was thinking exactly the same thing. At least there are a few brands that are doing things differently, so maybe in the next few years we’ll see the industry shift a bit.

As I see it the issue is that the quote uses the same old trope we’ve heard since the introduction of modern computer controlled cars, that every “old-school” car guy used while complaining about how somehow fiddling with screws and jets on a carburetor and tuning by feel was better than modern EFI just because they…

Glad to see someone already has this covered, the VX shouldn’t be insulted by being associated with crossover trash.  It’s a real truck, not a jacked up wagon that swears it’s not a wagon to appeal to morons.

Me: You could not possibly make a Nissan Versa worse.

That said, I am not a small man but I still fit fine in my Fiesta ST.  I definitely do not fit in a Lotus Elise though.

On the one hand, you’re not wrong. On the other hand, how many of those people actually care? How many cars in this class will get >2500 street miles put on them in a year regardless of legal status?