Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

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Either a little late or a little early for April fools.
 
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Yes, the lack of any towing capacity has been a big problem for many potential EV buyers, small trailers is incredibly common here in Norway.View attachment 709834
This trailer is older than I am. I inherited it from my dad. Originally it had a wooden bed, but my dad replaced that with steel when the wood rotted. With maintenance it's good for another century or two.
 

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   / Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow. #4,134  
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Even AAA gets it wrong. Pressure increases faster in N2 filled tires because the thermal mass of N2 is less than air. Takes more energy to raise air 1°C than N2. Its really significant, like 32 PSI air, 32.1 PSI N2.

And another thing, "pure N2" fill is a myth because you never see the tire evacuated of air before the N2 hose is connected. You see this before filling your air conditioner.
 
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I would be curious as to the type of demographic of Tesla buyers right now, and if it is a narrow demographic, whether that customer base can assume to apply to the rest of North America. Eg a certain narrow demographic buys a Porsche, a certain narrow demographic wants a super safe Volvo. A certain demographic buys Pickups , one replaces the previous one for our 60 yrs of driving we get ( thats me) ...
Tesla, and similar models will not be wanted by us all.
 
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Yep. I always let people pass me if they want to. I expect the same courtesy from others, but, hey, you know how that goes. So if they don't let me in by speeding up, I back off and move back in behind them. Then they slow down again, I try to pass again, they do it again, I back off again. Third time, I pull behind them, back off and call the cops and give them a description of the car and license number. ;)
Two lane road, if I pull out to pass you, you get passed even if I have to run it up to 80. But I’m coming back down to 2 mph over your previous speed. On multiple lane roads I don’t care, we’ll all get there eventually.

On Interstate, the most fun is lane wanderers. If you cross the line into my lane, I’m not moving. When they realize and swerve back, I go with. Absolute favorite: knocking on the passenger window of the line hugger, at highway speed.
 
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Two lane road, if I pull out to pass you, you get passed even if I have to run it up to 80. But I’m coming back down to 2 mph over your previous speed. On multiple lane roads I don’t care, we’ll all get there eventually.

On Interstate, the most fun is lane wanderers. If you cross the line into my lane, I’m not moving. When they realize and swerve back, I go with. Absolute favorite: knocking on the passenger window of the line hugger, at highway speed.
I don't play games behind the wheel. If I get behind somebody driving erratically I'll either get past them ASAP, or back off. Last week I left the interstate an exit before I wanted to because of the way that somebody was driving; all over both lanes, speeding up and passing me then slowing down so that I had to go past him again. I think that he was just fooling around, but I decided that if he was going to crash I wanted to be a long, LONG ways away from him.
 
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The infrastructure build-out is happening faster than I anticipated.

 
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