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Tesla's AI-driven FSD (supervised) is completely in the vehicle.

I bought the 5000W inverter Predator on Black Friday sale. Gasoline/Propane. Remote electric start. 3600W continuous on propane, 3400W on gasoline. Haven't unboxed it yet, saving for a project.

Once Upon A Time GM was supposed to be shipping an "EV Crate Engine". An electric motor and motor control that either bolted to a GM transmission or replaced engine and transmission. Just add a battery, BCM, and charge port, also available from GM. Ideal for converting classic GM vehicles to...

I have seen ladders carried that way by painters.

We don't live in a Free Market Economy: https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/06/india-proposes-nearly-3-billion-in-subsidies-for-electronics-makers-like-apple No one makes a large investment anymore without government's blessing and lavish funding. Pretending only EV makers get such funding...

And my point is that Tesla isn't getting anything a pencil manufacturer wouldn't get for building similar factory. No matter the country.

Who has built an automobile factory who didn’t get such deals? Or even a pencil factory?

No, its S.N.A.F.U., every industry gets "special" treatment so that in effect nobody gets special treatment. Other than the little guy who is left out in the cold not able to afford to buy a pet politician.

Many specific tax write offs are created for situations tax law didn't allow for the write off but the spirit of not taxing expenses necessary for production said the write off was only fair. Meanwhile politicians get to appear to be heroes coming to the aid of their constituents. So there...

What rebates are you talking about? There has been an off/on Federal tax credit for EVs. When Tesla burned through their allocation of 200,000 per manufacturer in 2016 it didn't make a dent in their sales. All the while buyers of other EV manufacturers still qualified for the $7500 credit. As...

A similar survey once found red cars had poorer reliability than any other color. When CU was fair and honest they found the exact same GM 350 V8 in a Camaro or Firebird had poorer reliability than when installed in any other GM vehicle. Go ahead an lump in the crap produced by everyone but...

As an amateur student of the economy and government largesse I am not convinced the oil industry got the favoritism oil haters have successfully painted to be. The oil haters count tax deductions for equipment necessary for the production of oil and gasoline as a "subsidy". No honest businessman...

Tesla gets relatively little of that yet dominates the EV market. Everyone else is running scared trying to catch up to Tesla by spending money like it comes from the government. Oh wait, their funding does come from the government. We no longer live in a Free Market Capitalist economy. We are...

Post 462 says nothing like your interpretation. You claimed specific cold temperature range losses with no citation of sources, or even knowing what battery was in use. And without citing temperatures.

And no pricing. I see 30 mile range listed on the website.

You think Al Gore sold any EVs? Or hybrids? Once again it is the anti-EV crowd who focuses on "green". And proven idiot politicians who are looking for a marching band in a parade to run in front of to wave their arms pretending to be leading the band. When I bought my first Tesla there was no...

Personal weather stations are nice for recording things such as windspeed overnight.

Golly, there have always been EVs, even before gasoline. So how did "green" cause those early EVs to be? Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and similar magazines routinely featured DIY EV conversions 50 years ago. Green? 1978 on 100 mile drive to collage I would daydream about what it would...

Golly, you have a hard time with reading comprehension as I have never denied fact. However I will challenge any who makes unfounded claims such as, "Eggs are yucky" without any further details such as, what kind of egg and how was it prepared?

Wash the tank out first. Temperature is only 600-700°F.

Cold air intakes get more air mass in the same space at the same time. More oxygen for combustion, more opportunity to make power. Intercoolers are used on turbocharged or supercharged engines because the compressed air rises in temperature. Cool it a bit and once again one can get more air...

Wonderful! Generic information from an uncited source! ICE loses range too. At 40°F my Subaru got 26 MPG at 70 MPH. Or 32 MPG at 70°F. Miles Divided By Gallons, not the number shown on the instrument panel. Now what battery is in the cited vehicle? And based on the data you copy/pasted are...

Again, what do you know of the cited vehicle? It doesn't have a heated cab. We don't know if it has any thermal battery management. We do know when used lithium chemistry batteries self-heat. We don't know what battery chemistry that vehicle uses. Is not as if diesel is a delight in cold...

Over 20 years ago faced similar problem. New gas tank discontinued, aftermarket dried up. This is the crack: Tried to glue it with special "plastic" glue, this failed. Then purchased an "ATV Fender Repair Welder", a modified soldering iron with formed tip to accept welding rods. Forgot if...

Agree. It reads like a writing assignment where one doesn’t know the subject but writes to a predetermined conclusion. So what if fossil fuels are consumed in the production of an EV? The cost of the vehicle is comparable to ICE, so the quantity of resources consumed in production are also...

Please elucidate. What? Where? When? Or did you just see it on TV? What do you know of the battery in the vehicle cited in this thread? You haven’t stated point blank the EV utility vehicle will have less than half the range in cold temperatures. Based on what evidence? You seem to believe...

Boo hoo hoo! Am reminded of the definition of an actuary: what results do you want? 97% of “climate scientists” fully agree with whatever their grant writer asks for. The fact is that under the same regulations as applies to ICE I paid similar price for an EV which is proving to be a better...

My purchase is not eminent but EzGo golf carts are looking attractive for having real experience with electric power. Creek crossing and hill climbing are not high on my list.

You have no knowledge of cold temperature range other than the biased media sources you follow who also have no real knowledge but just repeat to each other the same dogma over and over because they heard someone say once upon a time.

How do you know this property of "25 or less in cold weather"? You have any experience? With every bit of experience you have I could say the 50 miles reduces to 5 miles. Or, "Can't even leave the driveway."

Am thinking I should be looking for an EV SxS. No fuel to fuss with or go bad. No noise.

Wait! Now you tell me others don't want to drive Model Y Long Ranges? That I'm not the envy of all who see me? 😲

A life isn’t worth much to the Chinese Communist Party.

Barely. They might have garden patches behind their factories for workers to grow vegetables. That doesn't make them farmers.

Nissan has proven themselves unwilling to make a good EV, only the most recent designs have added liquid cooling to the battery. Something serious EV makers recognized as necessary from the start. While the Honda Insight was the first mass produced hybrid, it used Honda's lazy Integrated Motor...

The past Globalism has been about, "peace through mutual dependancy." There is a valid argument for certain levels of specialization but that has reached the point certain specialists dominate and control the world with a monopoly on certain resources and production capabilities.

We have always had plenty of lithium and "Rare" Earths in the USA. Just recent decades lacked the will to make use of them.

That should serve to keep those Evil EVs off the streets of Wisconsin!

And you propose that was the Cybertruck exploding and not the load of explosives it was carrying? Next, did Ford's self driving software in an F-150 Lightning (100% EV) kill all those in New Orleans? Honestly, the driver had to study the system well enough to know how to disable and override.

Ooh! How wonderful! They are going to focus on affordability and equity! The Woke Mindset at work. This looks to be part of the $7.8B EV charging infrastructure buildout. What one needs is a $500 10kW-ish L2 home connection to charge overnight. FWIW I bought (2) new Tesla Wall Connectors for...

Those standards did not come to be without Detroit’s permission and greed eying grants and other free money to make the change. Is just that reality kicked in and they found EVs are not so simple as buying batteries and electric motors to slap in existing factory product lines. Tesla doesn’t...

You have proven yourself not smart enough to intelligently back anything you have said. I no longer believe your Tesla is blue.

... or EV. https://www.tesla.com/findus

Not at all. There was zero government money involved in the development of the Prius, unless you consider Clinton's misbegotten $800M to Detroit in promise of a 70 MPG automobile in production before the end of his 2nd term. Toyota said, "We are an American automaker too, and want in on the...

Decades ago the owner-operator concept was explained to me: An owner-operator will get at least 1.5M miles out of his first engine and transmission. A hired driver won't get 500,000 miles. I don't doubt automatic transmissions last longer in the hands of idiots than manual. You don't know how...

Because you get 5-10 MPG that way. You don't think what you suggest has not been tried these past decades? These guys got pretty good results comparing a little BMW i3 to larger diesel vehicles: https://thedriven.io/2018/12/14/diesel-charge-evs-remote-locations-greener-than-you-think/

15 MPG on 36 gallon tank. But this is as yet a vehicle which does not exist, and preproduction models are so poor marketing isn't saying.

Received a box of Christmas fruit. Left the lid on the floor for the cats. No interest. They didn't like the way it smelled.

I have driven EV since 2013. I know what I know. Drove a Prius 8 years prior. I charge my EV at home. I don't have to drive miles to a gas station. I don't have to carry a transfer tank in the bed of my pickup truck to take fuel to my vehicle. The serial hybrid is a flawed concept. A parallel...

So would you buy this if it got 10 MPG?

Notice RAM is only claiming maximum range and not saying anything about energy consumption? Is going to be awful. You get your pipe dream of an onboard charger but it’s use will come at a high price. First Volt prototype was a series hybrid. Fuel economy sucked so bad the project was delayed...

That is the Toyota Synergy Drive system. Toyota found it terribly hard to control with software but prevailed. Ford licensed by sharing clean diesel technology. Licensed the right to build their own, did not license a copy of Toyota’s work. Doesn’t seem to be using in their PHEV truck.

A big problem with early homebrew EVs was using an industrial motor and motor controller, and not spinning the tires off the line every time. In a locomotive application shifting gears with a mechanical gearbox is totally impractical so the inefficiency of converting mechanical power to...

The tiny BMW i3 REx serial hybrid got 30 MPG. A larger Prius gets an easy 50 MPG.

There you go again, projecting EVs onto your Flat Earth.

The RAM website says nothing about MPG or battery size or kWh/mile. Serial hybrids are not MPG efficient, the BMW i3 REx failed flat on it's face in this aspect.

Is a serial hybrid. The least efficient means of implementing a hybrid. Mechanical energy from engine converted to electricity, most stored in battery some used immediately on motors, then later used from battery. Not as efficient as directly driving the wheels from engine. This is just the...

So the magic trick is the caveman with perfect white teeth?

Your High Priests have long said the 24 Hour Sun was impossible on their Flat Earth, then all on The Final Experiment witnessed it. Flat Earth debunked, disproven, to it's highest and most devote practitioners.

Lets be clear, opaque propane tanks are spherical. The Flat Earth is inside a propane tank because under Flat Earth Doctrine that is the only way to contain the atmosphere. Terry Pratchett's discworld didn't need a perimeter ice wall nor propane tank ceiling.

Two 55W headlight bulbs for an hour is 1/4 of a mile of range in my Model Y (if it used incandescent headlights). So in stead of going 70 miles in an hour, with headlights one only gets 69.75 miles.

You were a laughing stock in the FE thread.

Wait! We are lead to believe ICE suffers no range reduction in the winter! That reduced range is unique to EV! Headlights? Really? ICE heater is supposed to be "free" excess heat from the engine. Have we been lied to? Nothing to be sorry for, is right on topic.

Not relative to moving the vehicle at 60 MPH.

Let me know when you understand how little power an EV consumes when it is just running the HVAC, even at 120°F.

Simply awful! 16 250 kW Superchargers at Victorville. 16 150 kW Superchargers at Barstow. 22 150 kW Superchargers at Yermo. 96 250 kW Superchargers at Baker. 42 250 kW Superchargers at Primm, NV. And several more in Las Vegas.

So you are now wise enough to declare EVs are not suitable for most? You are as misguided as those trying to mandate EV for all.

So you are still guessing? An idling EV in traffic is surprisingly stingy, even with the heater running. I have said many times the purpose of a bigger EV battery is not the range one can get from full to empty that ICE-trained marketing executives feed you. The point is to be able to...

Sorry but sometimes a little snark is necessary to wake sleeping brain cells. It takes an active imagination to associate laptop, cellphone, and ICE starter batteries with EV batteries. There are similarities on the surface but still have great differences. Takes a deliberate act to ignore the...

On what do you base your concerns? You have an EV or you read the lazy media? Do you keep logbooks of fuel consumption of your ICE vehicles to document their higher winter fuel consumption? My Subaru Outback got 26 MPG at 70 MPH below 40°F, 32 MPG with the A/C running above 70°F. I do keep...

Not at all. You don’t follow my postings else you would know I consider Tesla is in a completely different league than any other EV. Everyone else half-assed their EV product lines. “This EV thing is easy! Just buy a motor, buy a battery, done!”

So, what does your active imagination think will change? You think cellphone and laptop battery experience applies to EVs? You think ICE starter battery experience applies? At 10 years my 2013 Tesla Model S 85 had 93% of it's battery's original capacity.

So, you conclude based on the Equinox EV that all EVs will behave the same. That must be true because all ICE behave the same in the cold. Not! I haven't had much time at 10°F in my Tesla Model Y but I don't expect it to be nearly as bad as you describe. What I find on days which are roughly...

Eurospec Porsche 928 had driver-adjustable headlight height aim. Knob on floor to the left of the driver's seat. Many in the USA figured out how to retrofit this feature. Remember the 928 headlights fold pointing up at the sky then lift into place when turned on. Even the USA model has to keep...

Used to be a requirement in the USA for HID to be self-adjusting for height. Might still be. Seems to have been dropped for LED.

2000 Toyota Avalon with halogen headlights was better than 2007 Prius with HID. 2013 Tesla Model S with HID was very good. 2018 F-150 XLT halogen are quite satisfactory. 2023 Tesla Model Y LED is quite nice.

I totally disagree. A 2007 Toyota Prius comes with token "fog" lights which are little more than white parking lights. Every 3/4 ton truck I have seen comes with blinding "auxiliary" lights in what most drivers call the "fog light" mode. DOT/NHTSA/CFR definition of "high beam headlights" is...

My 2016 Subaru came off the lot with headlights aimed way too high. There is a privacy fence across the street for which I am used to seeing my headlight beams. Way too high. Took it to the dealer rather than fix myself, they adjusted to that which I am used to without being told what I am used...

I blame it on modern digital dashboards. The dash is lit so the driver thinks the headlights are on.

Loud Paint Saves Lives!

Acura Honda had a car with 4 wheel steering about 30 years ago.

Just like the Tesla Cybertruck? Steering is by-wire so the computer can control front and rear wheel steering independently, as needed.

Have said it before but is often missed when other points were focused on. This site has spent a lot of effort to accurately model different Teslas. Not updated for the latest but you can compare a Model 3 to Model 3 Long Range. Plot a 500 mile trip, toggle between models. Compare the total...

What poorly informed consumers don’t seem to understand is that the point of a long range battery is to be able to add 100 miles of charge faster than for a smaller battery. Space charge stations 125 miles apart one will make a 500 mile day faster in a 300 mile EV than in a 200 mile EV, stopping...

I put a Dewalt 1.5Ah battery on a Dewalt light a couple years ago and only just now had need to charge. Am impressed and don’t miss my 18v Dewalt tools whose batteries always seemed to be dead after sitting a few months. Still have the 18v tools laying around.

I expect the end user will be the one paying the subscription direct to Tesla. Same as today.

Most cats have to be trained to the leash/harness as kittens. A good friend used a simple ribbon. I want to say as a figure 8, or as a suitcase handle, sort of both. The ribbon was tied in a loop, cat's front legs through the loop then she lifted the sides and clipped them together with the...

Some years ago a semi hauling a massive crane struck an overpass on I-565 in Huntsville, AL. Knocked the overpass off it's foundation. Believe it was Research Blvd, a 4 lane limited access road into Redstone Arsenal. That prompted a high priority rebuild of the bridge, bigger and better than...

There is! But it is on the wrong side of the bridge!

The bit less fancy 24 cu ft LG I recently purchased was 200 pounds. A Tesla Model Y hitch receiver is rated for 3500 pounds towing, nominally 350 pounds on the receiver. However it is only rated 165 pounds for a "bicycle rack" which adds a significant moment arm on the receiver. As a result the...

Boo hoo hoo! Cobalt! Child labor! Doom and Gloom! Them only reason there is child slave labor in Congo is that is accepted practice there, and mining/processing of cobalt is essentially outlawed here. We do it cleaner than anyone, we used to be the world’s supplier. Then enlightened Globalists...

Is that the Flat Earth edition of the Model 3? 😇

November 11 I came out from my infusion to meet this sight in the parking lot: Thankfully it was only smoke and mirrors. Lighting and reflection.

With any hope, D.O.G.E.

Perhaps it has nothing to do with getting anything done and everything to do with making government bigger by spending more and more money? The authority and respect for a government agency has almost nothing to do with what they get done and everything to do with the size of their budget.

And now for something different:

Ooh! My father had one of those! Lifts feet, back, and can even extend to put him on his feet!

The haters must hate. This is in the back of my Model Y: Harbor Freight had on Black Friday sale for $800. So I bought the 2 year warranty for $250. Said to be as good as the old Sears Roebuck warranties.

Tried A.S.S. Monday. First place it started backing out of a parking space, turned the wrong way to come to me. And then I chickened out fearing it was backing into a curb. Second attempt was in a busy Walmart parking lot. Everyone kept driving and walking behind it even with backup lights on...

First an electric car, now electric fences! What next? 😇

A simple Bauer battery electric chainsaw:

I haven't been brave enough.

Some here might contribute to purchase a Plaid for you, based on that accident history.

I believe concrete is a heat sink which is bad for battery and gasoline storage. Couple of times over the decades I left a car battery on bare concrete within a month or two the battery froze, cracked case, leaked. A simple board underneath has not produced this result. Have left gas cans on...

Surprised a Subaru WRX or Dodge Challenger is not the most accident prone.

EGo says to store the batteries where they won't freeze. And that the battery will automatically self-discharge to 50% after 30 days. Newer EGo batteries I have have not self-discharged, so perhaps they are using LiFePO4 now?

I think I have a patch of Fescue growing among my Zoysia and/or Bermuda grass.

Ditto. I had this conversation with a friend several times and it didn't stick until after repeated use of the manual latch and his shout, "I don't see what difference it makes, why did they put it there if I am not to use it?" "First and foremost, I repeatedly told you not to use it. That...

My stupid grass is still growing too. Mowed the leaves last week. Mowed more grass under the leaves than expected. Now no leaves but grass continues to grow. Is like Wilson Forest Land says on YouTube, "Bears are why we can't have nice things." Nuisance grass keeps growing when it is supposed...

Agreed. Electric brakes, yes.

Nice log article on the evils of electronic door latches. Goes to length discussing breaking windows. Uses stock photos. Doesn't get out of their basement to take photos of fallback manual door latches in all cars with the electronic latches, just says to blame your salesman if you die because...

For all the snow I don't see tire tracks from the bicycle or the trailer.

So what? Go price a used Mercedes-Benz S-class. About the same depreciation as a Tesla Model S Plaid. No different from other exotics. You do know what a Tesla Model S Plaid is, don't you? Didn't think so.

Man towing an out of gas ICE with an ox would not get in the press. Might well have been charging the EV by towing it with the ox. Try that with an ICE.

Gee, no one has ever towed an ICE with an ox before!

1: Higher Upfront Purchase Price I paid less for my 2013 Model S and less for my 2023 Model Y than the cars I shopped against. 2:Costs of Replacing Batteries After 10 years my Model S's original traction battery was down to 93% of it's original capacity. What is this "cost of replacing...

We've covered that already. "Problem: I can't figure out this keycard." "Problem: My transmission isn't shifting." "Problem: Where is the gas cap?" "Problem: How do I adjust the heater?"

Or other aircraft. Or birds.

Tesla does it better. There is a gentle tug from FSD then it surrenders. Meanwhile FSD expects gentle tugs from the driver else alarms sound. Don't know for sure, if one continues to ignore FSD parks the car.

Tesla's FSD is easily overridden. Just as with cruise control, push the accelerator or brake. Or turn the steering wheel.

One thing the detractors of FSD skip is how with FSD the human and the FSD should be each other's backup system. Once Upon A Time we used to say, "Two heads are better than one."

FSD thinks a local 4 lane limited access highway is 35 MPH, posted 65. I've been deliberately activating my FSD demo before reaching this spot, then kicking it off and sending my report. Previously click the voice command button and say, "Problem report speed limit is 65 not 35." Don't know if...

Gee, no human driver ever has done that! 😇🤣😇🤣😇

Makes it old news, but it supports what I have been saying. I've long said The Gas Station Model for EVs is a Fallacy. It doesn't work and the above article backs exactly what I have been saying. Public charging is useful for long trips. Is seriously flawed for one's daily use.

So? Ain't Gonna Happen™ So quit pretending one corner condition where Poor People can not afford New Cars is any sort of justification for no one else to have EVs.

By golly what sort of a world do we live in when Poor People have to do without something!

Article from 2022. Only detractors of EV use believe in Public Charging as a solution for EV adoption. Is The Gas Station Fallacy. I’ve said it over and over again. Home charging is the solution. Public charging is only a last ditch emergency solution. A means of facilitating long distance...

Today’s automatic transmissions internally shift like a manual, torque converter locks up like a manual clutch. So when “technology improves” we’ll be right back to a cable plugged into the connector. Compare the energy consumed by an EV vs horse.

A 10% waste heat penalty adds up. Parts will require cooling, 10kW L2 will charge 9kW and waste 1kW. On top of that the added weight of the hardware, the added cost. All to save 15 seconds to connect, 15 seconds to disconnect. Lazy is an appropriate term.

Found that! Now wondering if it goes away when FSD trial ends? Release notes doesn’t say either way.

I didn't think that was available in the Y, only the S and X?

One can override. There is a cruise control speed "trim" to bump speed up/down 1 MPH or 5 MPH. I have the base Autopilot which is adaptive cruise control with very good lane following (Autosteer). My ACC is configured to "current speed" when "speed limit" or "speed limit +- offset" are the other...

You were only looking at a $75k Lightning? Bottom of the line then. Top end big battery is a 10,000 pound tow. As for range when towing, quite frankly everything's range decreases when towing. Do more work, use more energy. With an EV there is less energy consumed in overhead so when one...

Tesla/Google speed limit on a major limited access 4 lane divided highway near me is 35 MPH, but 65 MPH posted. Those using FSD or even Autosteer will be a nuisance for a couple of miles before it gets it right. And, the car reads the speed limit sign, correctly displays 65 MPH in the animated...

I have had 2 blind cats who were the best house cats ever. This one born blind took about a week longer than her litter mates to remember where the litter pan was. Thereafter, no problem. Took this girl 10 years to decide she liked pillows, then hardly ever left her pillow. When younger she...

“EV” incentives and legislative/regulation force is the worse solution possible. Today there are many vendors of metered L2 EVSEs. May use credit card, may use private membership card, or both, up to the operator. Up to state and local laws as to whether it is legal to resell electric power by...

Found FSD (supervised) offer in the car this morning. Didn’t say how long it would be enabled. Guessing 30 days. Another concern is that free Slacker appears to be ending end of November. That the new Slacker costs $4/month $35/year in addition to Tesla’s Premium Connectivity.

Semi-related to my EGo Chainsaw, power was out last night for nearly 3 hours. Broke out my EGo Nexus and collection of EGo batteries to power my CPAP not knowing when power would return. Display claimed I had over 24 hours of runtime. Dead quiet. No emissions in my bedroom...

So why show a Tesla in the picture?

Can't read a file off your computer from here.

I don't see the relationship between Cybertruck and Model Y. Nobody currently getting to the head of the line ever saw a Cybertruck but online at the time of the order. Once one sees what it is, sees one in person, some are certain to have a change of heart.

With ethanol in gasoline there is no water in the bottom of the tank. Initially this was a huge problem when there was water in the bottom of the tank and the station received it's first delivery of "gasohol". That existing water contaminated the fuel, ruined it for any use. Was quickly...

Don't have to read of it to know it is going to be a problem. Then again you are still trusting the media to be fair? The media is going bananas over "EVs exposed to salt water catching fire!" but then drill down to the government data they claim to have 48 lithium-ion fires, 11 EVs of which...

They have to somehow. The station closest to me, Texaco, closed for a couple months getting their concrete ripped up after selling water laced gasoline for a day. Their insurance company paid for a lot of repairs. Previously they priced 10¢ or more higher than Walmart across the street. Since...

That was true before ethanol was added at the fuel depot. With ethanol the first water in gasoline-ethanol blends goes into solution until finally the ethanol can no longer hold it all. This is the nasty "phase separation" where water pulls ethanol out of the mix. The fuel is ruined with just a...

He didn't start with a "level trailer". That was not a given.

Know your audience. Know the room. You are speaking to an imagined audience.

You were talking about Tesla therefore Tesla doors are the topic.

Ah, so you cite a number for a 7000 pound trailer in reference to an EV towing a 1200 pound genset. Got it. You should work for The Atlantic or Politico.

What I suggest you do is unhitch the trailer. Measure the truck unloaded no trailer. Then stand on the bumper and measure again. Lets say you weigh 200# and the bumper lowered 1". Now we have a good ballpark as to how much the hitch is carrying per inch the bumper drops. Ain't perfect "but...

As I said previously, "There are many 'known things' which are dead wrong." A drop hitch drawbar will lower the tongue and make almost no difference in the weight on the tongue. Proving your statement to be wrong.

There are a lot of "known things" which are dead wrong. Yes, negative load (lift) on the ball is a Very Bad Thing. But for the trailer to be sloped up does not indicate a tail heavy trailer. And does not induce sway. If the hitch is high with proper 5% to 8% on the tongue then one needs a...

That guy is a dumbass and knows almost nothing about Tesla batteries. The 12V battery was dead. The "Tesla" was not at 0%. The jump start terminals on the original S are under the center front bumper insert. No need to open the frunk.

You don't seem to know "corrosion" is what we call copper or aluminum "rust". Rust is oxidation. Corrosion is oxidation.

And in how they pretend there are stark raving mad coal hating environmentalists here.

You were making generalizations on gullwing doors. Strictly speaking the X has Falconwing doors. An extra hinge in the middle.

Citation please. You said 80 miles. https://search.brave.com/search?q=cybertruck+towing+camper+range&source=desktop&summary=1&summary_og=965e6d3fa156e6c2fc26b0 4000 pounds resulted in 160 miles in a Cybertruck, 235 miles in the Model X. And 11,000 pounds went 111 miles with a Cybertruck. The...

Who here is this "environmentalist" you speak of? Ain't none here, at least none here who post. So why do you think train loads of perfectly good EV fuel is somehow a brilliant contribution? You are speaking to an empty room. It's hilarious!

Bring me that genset and we'll find out.

Clearly, envious. Else they wouldn't be posting all those pictures of coal trains of EV fuel. But strangely coal is good enough to power their computers to post on TBN.

Gee, I've never seen a car pulling a portable genset before! Of course this totally negates the naysayers claiming an EV can not tow.

ICE drivers are envious of how an EV can run off coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear, wind, solar, etc.

What if one thinks out of the box and puts a hinge in the middle of the door as well as one on the roof? Tesla Model X.

Really? You are so 1960's Mercedes-Benz Gull Wing. Or 1974 Bricklin. Go find someone with a Tesla Model X and ask for a demonstration of the rear passenger doors. Can get in/out easier in a tight space because the door is overhead and not between you and the car beside.

That is not always the way things work. Often a stock gets pumped by those imagining far more than anything promised. Then reality hits. AAPL almost always drops after earnings announcements, even when exceeding market predictions and guidance.

I got 2 software updates in the past week. The first still brakes when it sees a semi coming around a corner at night. The second was installed last night.

Why do you assume an ICE can be rust proofed better than an EV? That an EV can't protect all of it's electrical connections? Early Teslas have been found to have a corrosion problem at the rear of the battery assembly. The fire pictures circulating have been of Model X, with the early battery...

Bolt. The Chevrolet Bolt was the fire hazard. Not a Tesla, the above fire is an F-150 Lightning. Ford and GM thought they could quickly and easily build EVs by purchasing components from the lowest cost bidder. Both got "burned" by their battery suppliers.

So it is likely to get electricity restored before gasoline and diesel supply is restored?

If I charge every day at home before such an event then if caught unawares I still have 250 miles or so of range in my EV. So what is your issue? Same as an ICE sitting in 2' of salt water. Chassis will forever be compromised.

You are not supposed to do math on this forum! 😇

The old 14" EGo (not same design as the 18") was noticeably weaker on my 2AH battery than on the 5AH. Blower is not weaker on 2AH, just much less runtime. I don't know if it is just that my very old 2AH battery can't source the current of newer EGo battery cell suppliers.

Other Government Brilliance: $750 assistance loan paid via check. How does one cash a check when banks are closed? Same place as one charges one’s battery chainsaws?

Thought this was relevant. I like my EGo 18” but sadly this is typical government insanity: https://notthebee.com/article/government-sends-electric-chainsaws-to-community-without-electricity

That is a funny looking Dodge.

In late 2018 my Ford dealer had plenty of SuperCab (suicide rear door) F-150s. They'd deal on a SuperCab but not so much on a SuperCrew (big back doors). IIRC I got 25% off sticker for cash.

"Look! The strap held!"

Search says no one has recommended "Jules" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15428940/ Aging Milton (Ben Kingsley) finds an alien has crashed in his back yard. Movie is available on several streaming sites. Included in Paramount+.

Ford still does. Standard Cab, Super Cab, Super Crew, is the pecking order.

I don't know. One source suggests less than 30 minutes from 30% to 80%. https://evkx.net/models/tesla/model_y/model_y_long_range/chargingcurve/ On a long trip one would probably drive down to 20% or 66 miles and charge to 200 miles (60%) or so which is about 18 minutes. The one time I used a...

“It depends”. It depends on what EV you have. It depends on the charging facility you stop at. It depends on how far you charge to, the higher the SOC in the battery the slower it accepts additional charge.

What cab do you consider to be "extended"? SuperCab or SuperCrew?

Doesn't change my argument at all. The Gas Station Model is a fallacy when applied to EVs. Charging only when the battery is low is the worst thing one can do for an EV battery. Is so very Gas Station.

Consider your daily use and cut down to 70-80%. Also think about the "longer trips" as to whether 100% is necessary. If you have lithium-ion chemistry the difference in wear is significant.

Storm was supposed to curl west, not east. How much warning did they have?

Or, the EVs are better off because they charge at home daily and were not caught with a 1/4 tank when the hurricane hit.

Yes. I have the SuperCab, not SuperCrew, which means suicide doors for the rear and not quite as long. Bugged the heck out of me for the 6.5 bed isn't long enough to put dirtbike in lengthwise and close the tailgate. Bought a "bed extender" gate to fold out on the tailgate to keep things in the...

Trucks stopped being trucks when they put carpet on the floor.

No, but you do to know some of the special things it offers you wouldn't otherwise find.

Chickanic recommends draining the gas and putting a few ounces of straight 2-stroke oil in the tank then priming the carburetor with the pure oil. Says the oil preserves flexibility of the diaphragm(s) in the carburetor, doesn't gum up. When you need the saw again drain what oil you can from...

Is just different.

It has both. The latest manual is on the console with search. Some voice commands work. Also in the app. And online for anyone to download.

Is on its 4th or 5th generation. They dumped Microsoft early for poor tools for debugging, finding race conditions, and managing the “real time” properties they desired. QNX is far more mature and capable. Merged with the the BlackBerry cellphone guys.

The new Models have a 15.5v battery.

Where should I look? Not in frunk. Not in trunk. Not in glovebox.

Meanwhile an actual owner of two Teslas reports his 2013 Model S and 2023 Model Y did not come with printed manuals.

Blue is better! Hope you used a referral code from another owner. $1000 off.

I got a PDF, no printed manual.

Not at all. Academic papers provide references to back their claims. Provide computer algorithms used to reduce the data. Provide sources of the raw data. All so others can double check. To verify before using in their own paper. You are either a sheeple and trust what "reputable" sources say...