Recent content by CharonPDX

Mazda certainly marketed it as having off-road capabilities. And EVs have a "floor height" that is even higher for the same ground clearance because of the battery pack. It's why many EV makers market their station wagons or hatchbacks as "crossovers" or even full on "SUVs" when they have no...

Would have to see footage of the accident to know how useful AEB would have been. If you didn't have time to react sufficient to avoid the accident, it's possible that AEB wouldn't have either. And Tesla's systems aren't magic. Sure, they can avoid some predictable driver badness, but not all...

Yep. I never put betas on my primary device. *EVER*. (And I've been testing beta OSes for decades.) I always have a second device for beta testing.

Or maybe they're short-selling Rivian stock.

I will just say that "missing software features now" will be irrelevant if they add them by the time your vehicle would arrive. Sure, it's annoying for the very earliest buyers, but that seems to be very low volume at the moment. Unless you were offered a "receive it in the next month" purchase...

Went to college in Arizona, have family in Tucson, (actually on the border of Sahuarita and Green Valley halfway between Tucson and Nogales) and visit often. I am very familiar with driving all over the Southwest. ABRP in theory does take temperature into account. And yes, I have turned off AC...

"objectively easier" is just your opinion, too. There's nothing "objective" about it. Perhaps you meant "subjectively easier to me."

I would argue that gas isn't easier, it's just that people are "more familiar" with it. I find "take a few seconds to plug in when I get home" *FAR* easier than "go out of my way to add gas every week or so". Even on road trips, yes, the more common availability of gas stations makes it...

And yet Phoenix to Tucson has charging in between. As does Phoenix to Vegas. As does Tucson to San Diego, as does…. etc. Phoenix to Tucson is only ~110 miles. ~140 miles if you are going from the very North edge of Phoenix to the very South edge of Tucson. Should be a perfectly doable round...

The big EcoFlow Delta units pictured do have neutral and ground conductors in the sockets - because both operate in "grid-tied" mode when you plug them into grid power - fully passing through grid power to all three leads in the NEMA 5-15 and TT-30 sockets. And they have a ground bonding...

I have rescue-charged other EVs using my dual EcoFlow + 240V combiner before. Note that most of these portable batteries have a "floating ground" or no ground connected at all; and nearly all portable EVSEs insist on a proper ground. My Tesla Gen 1 Mobile Cord is the only one that works with...

I regularly take ridiculous road trips, driving 16+ hours per day, stopping just long enough to refuel/recharge, eat, bathroom, etc. Trying to combine all those into one stop. It has been *YEARS* since I was willing to go 4 hours between stops. In my 20s, probably was the last time. I suggest...

I know one person who had a bad experience with Ohmmu batteries:

If there's a hard "if the vehicle raises unexpectedly, it will press the vehicle roof against the garage door opener, which may shatter the glass roof or break the garage door opener" I wouldn't risk it. I'd go for a vehicle whose maximum height is short enough. (An R2 perhaps?) One mistake...

A Chinese company did patent a system that would yeet the battery pack after an accident: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a69002497/ejectable-ev-battery/ Because screw that pedestrian!