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Maybe I could have used a better word, but $1599 seems like a steep price for a fully manual tonneau, that pulls out as separate slats that fit into a storage bag. Especially if one expected a motorized one to disappear out of sight with the push of a button. I wouldn't pay anything, let alone...

I'm getting mixed messages because, in the context of recommending "competent aftermarketeers" for a tonneau, you stated, "Rivian should have noticed that neither Ford nor Chevrolet ever offered a factory tonneau cover in over 100 years of making pick-up trucks." It sounds like you are saying...

It's odd you think that making a well-made tonneau cover is too difficult for Ford, GM or Rivian. I don't think I would buy a truck from a company who thought it was too difficult to manufacture a functional and reliable tonneau cover.

If you put it in self-levelling Camp Mode does it even out? I say this because they wouldn't be able to say "It's supposed to be like that" if the actual purpose of the mode is to make the vehicle level!

Install a hard-wired charging station. EV's are not going away and eliminating the 240V outlet saves labor, saves copper wire (one less conductor needed), saves on electrical equipment (no GFCI or emergency shut-off required) and eliminates the most common point of failure of plug-in connectors...

Huh? I'm surprised no one pointed this out yet, but pretty much all automakers with a real presence in the US, including Porsche, have announced they are moving to NACS in 2025 and will have adapters for earlier CCS cars available for Supercharger access. Over a year before this happened, I...

You have to pay $1599 on top of the price of the truck if you want it to come with a manual tonneau cover and storage bag? That doesn't seem equitable.

Cherry-picking a couple of power producers and using their price and methods of generation is not a valid way to determine which fuel source is cheapest. Using that method, I could say nuclear must be expensive because our electricity through PSE costs $0.10/kWh, and has no nuclear generation...

Many people disagree, including myself. Tesla navigation is very good, even if a little vanilla. It just works. If you prefer Waze, fine, I like using the built-in nav on the big screen, not my phone. No navigation system is perfect, but Tesla's solution just plain works, and is easy to use. It...

Yes, Superchargers in busy locations have rates that vary with high demand periods. That's to encourage people to charge off-peak and reduce demand for additional charging stalls. Fast charging is not a very profitable business, to be profitable at all requires high utilization rates of each...

Chicago's grid has roughly 52% nuclear, 21% coal, 14% renewables and 13% natural gas. At and an average rate of $0.179 per kWh, it ranks more expensive than average, primarily due to the large amount of nuclear that was slated to go off-line for economic reasons but has been extended to meet...

The Tesla Model S was Tesla's first electric car built as an electric car. They only made a tiny number of Roadsters on the Lotus platform. They were learning battery management as they went, and they had crude thermal control (compared to modern Tesla) and very basic Battery Management Systems...

Rivian batteries only last 10 years?? I doubt it. The average motorist in N. America drives ~13K miles per year. That would be a lifespan of only 130,000 miles. They should go 3X-4X that far.

I'm not anti-nuclear at all, but only when it makes economic sense. Currently, nuclear electricity is the most expensive of any baseload electrical generation. It costs more and takes longer to bring on-line too. Solar and battery storage is competitive with nuclear, once all costs are accounted...

The difference between mining for batteries and mining for oil, is the old batteries can be recycled endlessly into new batteries, while every tank of fuel you put in an ICE vehicle is lost forever!

Not really. According to the link you cited, over 98% of fossil fuel used to generate electricity comes from coal and natural gas. You don't have to be a whiz kid to know that very close to 100% of that is sourced right here in N. America. EVs free us from dependence on fuels from foreigners...

There is nothing political about wanting to breathe clean air on the highway! Where did you get that idea? Manufacturing everything has an environmental footprint. The somewhat higher footprint of EV manufacture only is valid if the car never drives more than about 15K-30K miles, depending...

I disagree. A used EV will save you more money than a used ICE vehicle, in general. Not only will electricity cost less than gas, so will the maintenance. Whether it's gas or electric, buy an efficient passenger car, not an SUV. For example, a good solid used Model 3 can be purchased for...

Apologies if my terminology was not helpful to you. "Game-changer" is just another way to say the difference is not a small incremental improvement, it's a large jump in functionality. In this instance I was using to describe how it greatly improved the maneuverability of the truck is, in tight...

I have an EGO lawn mower, it's excellent! I didn't look very closely at their saws after my experience with the Dewalt chainsaw. Do you know what kind of bar/chain they use? Oregon? I think a chainsaw is a specialized enough tool that chainsaw experience matters. I'm only brand loyal when I...