Doomsday Faraday Shield Tent for your Rivian

[Laserboy1054]

Just a bad joke. My bike has zero electronics.
But seriously, I think I'll just store my bike inside a Cybertruck. It's metal, so it should act as a Faraday cage, right?

Dude, you pressed my "pedantic" button! So, responding to a facetious question with a serious answer: yes, it should--mostly. But it _does_ have windows. They'll pass a significant amount of long-wavelength (very roughly, anything larger than about the size of the window) signal and a great deal of short-wavelength stuff. Also, trucks are poorly grounded. It _would_ be possible, indeed far easier than building a metal house for a metal truck, to put metal screens (as has been pointed out, chicken wire is probably just fine) over the windows (making sure to get good electrical contact with the body) and clip a grounding wire to the the body.

Speaking of bicycling and EMP protection: I used to work at the Air Force Research Lab, in Albuquerque, NM, and would routinely bicycle through the desert passed this remarkable EMP-test rig:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/atlas-i
Great place to ride! Just, when you see guards with automatic weapons standing next to a road with a sign reading "deadly force will be used," don't even wave--just ride in a different direction!

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[Zoidz]

Dude, you pressed my "pedantic" button! So, responding to a facetious question with a serious answer: yes, it should--mostly. But it _does_ have windows. They'll pass a significant amount of long-wavelength (very roughly, anything larger than about the size of the window) signal and a great deal of short-wavelength stuff. Also, trucks are poorly grounded. It _would_ be possible, indeed far easier than building a metal house for a metal truck, to put metal screens (as has been pointed out, chicken wire is probably just fine) over the windows (making sure to get good electrical contact with the body) and clip a grounding wire to the the body.

Speaking of bicycling and EMP protection: I used to work at the Air Force Research Lab, in Albuquerque, NM, and would routinely bicycle through the desert passed this remarkable EMP-test rig:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/atlas-i
Great place to ride! Just, when you see guards with automatic weapons standing next to a road with a sign reading "deadly force will be used," don't even wave--just ride in a different direction!

Chicken wire may not be sufficient. Purposed designed EMP devices can emit up to 100 Ghz, which is about .12 inches wavelength.

Covering the windows would leave the headlights, tailights, etc. fully exposed. They would receive the EMP just fine and conduct the pulse to other sensitive components in the vehicle.

 

[Laserboy1054]

Chicken wire may not be sufficient. Purposed designed EMP devices can emit up to 100 Ghz, which is about .12 inches wavelength.

Covering the windows would leave the headlights, tailights, etc. fully exposed. They would receive the EMP just fine and conduct the pulse to other sensitive components in the vehicle.

Good point about the lights! They'd just be antennas at that point! Hadn't thought about that.

Yeah, at 100 GHz (assuming line-of-sight to the source--which probably also means the truck is a puddle of slag), chicken wire won't do it. But the aluminized mylar in most window heat shields would probably be fine.

 

[COdogman]

EMP proof

 

[atebit]

All the better to rule the post-apocalyptic wasteland with.

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