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I got hit by a $30.50 idle fee in Hays Kansas at a RAN Charger when I was the only user at a 6 charger site. I even went out in the middle of the night to avoid it. I was expecting the idle fee to be $0.50 per minute starting at an hour but it charged retroactively the whole hour. Tesla has...

Ionna has opened a bunch of chargers along I-70 in Kansas. Just stopped at one and it was great. No idle fees. Just swiped the credit card like a regular gas station. Awning, window squeegee, trash cans, clean restrooms. 200kw peak rate charge. Not trailer friendly. But otherwise excellent...

As I understand it. The specs we see in the press releases are a bit aspirational. So the OP probably did see all those advantages claimed. But last I heard, everyone's except CATL's were bigger and heavier. I doubt we will see anything from Rivian till they have a supplier under contract and...

Rivian is not really in the business of selling used cars. The offer shows that. You will likely get a much better offer elsewhere. The Tesla Model X is the most comparable to a R1S. https://www.kbb.com/tesla/model-x/2024/ Looks to be similar to where you are at. The 2025 is too new for KBB...

BTW. The charge current ramps up from the start and the one hour mark may be related to that ramp rather than heat alone. No touching a 50 amp circuit will not put 50 amps through your body. It will put however many amps 240volts can push through your body. Not 50. Probably enough to kill you...

I stand half corrected. I knew there was a square in there but the lighter car also suffers from the square so I discounted it. But as I think more about it you're probably right. Doubling the weight of the vehicle doubles the traction but the energy is squared. This would result in double the...

The primary physics here is: Traction = Coefficient of Friction * Weight While the added weight does take more energy to stop, the weight also adds traction in exactly the same proportion. Yes it gets more complicated than that, but that is the biggest factor by far till the wheels slip. So we...

I'm good in this department. I have the reduced tire life to prove it!

One important thing to remember is that AT tires are much noisier than the 21" OEMs. Everyone said the factory ATs are not that noisy but after a couple of thousand miles mine are the loudest thing on the truck and I thought they were noisy to start with. I know that I am picky, but I switch to...

Sounds like you're going to be fine. Yes, more aggressive tires would let you do more aggressive off-roading, but if it's just what you said, then those tires are fine. Not that the other suggestions would not also be fine. The only additional advice I would give is to be careful of trails that...

There are lots of reasons to prefer a scissor jack. They are cheaper, don't leak, store smaller, last longer under zero maintenance conditions, are generally lighter. But the biggest advantage that they can fit under a car with low ground clearance and get it out of the mud does not really apply...

Sorry to hear about your difficulties. I think this has more to do with the lack of attendants at chargers than anything else. When an employee has to drive 30 minutes to put an out of order sign up and put in a trouble ticket that goes to an overloaded installation and repair staff, customer...

Elon's original Cybertruck specs were just take an R1T spec sheet, add a bit in performance and subtract a lot on price. It was all aspirational. Seemed obvious to me.

Did you delete the key from the phone and restart the phone. Mine did this when the phone updated rather than the truck. I can't tell from your post which device's update caused the problem to start.

I am in the same boat of wishing for 240v output. I would rarely need it but it would be nice. The 120v comes from an inverter located under the passenger seat. Having it on requires that the whole computer system be awake and running. It burns ~400 watts just being turned on. Enough to heat up...

If you make it harder to recycle small quantities, you just push the issue to the larger scrappers rather than the recycling centers. The thieves will take their plunder to whoever will take it without asking questions, and those people will be sophisticated enough to remove the detectable...

I saw chargers in europe that had no cable. The driver brings the cable and plugs into an outlet on the charger. The downside is that you can't liquid cool such an arrangement so you're probably limited to 100kw or so. For a liquid cooled cable, add some pepper spray and die to the liquid. We...

Others I talked to have said $5000. That is about the same as a medium paint job. I have heard that it does not scratch as easily because it is softer/tougher. But it only lasts about 5 years, can become impossible to remove, and damage the paint underneath if you leave it on longer. As to...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/red-handed/ Yep, this article also busts the myth that red gets more tickets. But hidden in the middle of it confirms that all colors except WHITE get more tickets. But if I have to take an occasional hit to drive a cooler car, I'm ok with it. YMMV ;)

It is not a motor mount. It has a cadence to it that correlates to the wheel speed, so it is a part that turns with the wheel. That likely means a CV joint. Because it mainly happens when you turn the wheel also points to a CV joint. And because it is so loud, that means it has a lot of energy...