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Tesla, Emporia, Chargepoint, Wallbox, and Grizzl-E are the most recommended brands. Emporia has great load management.

LE isn't just a higher trim. It's a Performance with a bunch of included add one and an exclusive color. It's cheaper than if you got a Performance and added the extras.

What is that? That is not an R2 lol

You can't transfer. This is to prevent the possibility of a secondary market where people sell reservations.

Yeah and that's kind of the point I'm trying to make. An extra 20 minutes of planning. Limiting yourself to a hotel with a charger. Maybe going back out to move the car so you don't hog the only charger all night. An extra 30 minutes on the road on the way there. A whole weekend that needs maybe...

There's a significant portion of the market for whom 7 inches of ground clearance just isn't enough. There is a huge difference in soft-road and snow performance between an Impreza and a Crosstrek, for instance. Volvo and BMW doing mid sized SUVs with 7" will sell a lot of units, but there are...

Just as an example, we did a long weekend in Central NY recently. We hopped in the car, with the canoe on top, and drove the 190 or so miles to the hotel after work. Left around 6, got there around 9 and went to sleep. There's no charging at the hotel. The next morning we had breakfast at the...

I am too. We road trip once or twice a month, usually on the weekend, usually leaving after work. We often go places that are pretty rural where charging looks sparse to nonexistent. And we're usually on fairly compressed schedules. Charging stops will definitely take longer than gas stops...

The argument that EV charging on road trips is more convenient or takes less time.

This argument is so weird to me. Like, in my ICE vehicle I can drive 800 miles to Chicago with a single, literally 5 minute stop. I've done it, many times. I'm not going to be able to do that in my R2 when I get it. Not that I necessarily want to, but it's objectively true that EV charging is...

Is there any resistive heating in the vehicle? It doesn't get below 0F often where I live, but it definitely does sometimes. I've had days where the average is -10F so sometimes it's even colder than that. I'm concerned a heat pump won't effectively heat in those conditions.

I've hauled canoes and kayaks thousands of miles and never had one slip. If you use cam straps and position and tighten properly it's virtually impossible. Center the widest part in the middle. If you're not confident in your positioning and strapping, just put another strap from the yoke to...

They just opened a new service center near me in upstate NY. I'm convinced this makes me a little higher priority so they can get some market penetration in the area. And you can't convince me otherwise lol

Regular household outlet is most likely on a 15 amp breaker. Code states that continuous loads, such as an ev charger, must be run at maximum of 80% of the circuits max capacity. That puts you at 12 amps max. However, if there are other loads on the circuit, you might trip the breaker at...

I don't like white cars in general, but the R2 looks really nice in white.

TT-30 only provides 120V right? Are there portable chargers that can do >16 amps on 120v?

So I just used ABRP to recreate a road trip my wife and I did last year (with the kids and a canoe and an SUV full of gear). ABRP says that it would take 9 hours and require 3 charging stops. We actually did it, in the gas guzzler, in a bit over 7 hours with one gas stop. And that's without...

My wife and I do a lot of adventuring in places where charging is hard to come by, and we've done 3-4 trips just in the past year that would be much more painful with an EV. It's just the way it is. I will be getting an R2 as soon as I can, but we are going to keep an ICE for the forseeable future.

Some shop type tools (table saws and stuff) use a 5-20, so it's kinda cool that you could in theory power one from your car in the field.

The bag is marked as 40" long. So a bag will fit. Not the clubs 😂