What vehicle do you drive?
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Burren
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I can’t tell the difference between most cars on the road, unless I see a badge. They all look the same; boring, conservative, soulless, ugly boxes (mostly describing crossover crap). And they are ALL white or gray.
The Teslas at least have a little more character, if you like the look of melted plastic blobs.
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Mizake
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Most cars are completely mundane and indiscernible from each other. To me, all trucks look about the same. Most sedans look the same. Only a few cars, like 911s , Beetles, and G-Wagons are so iconic they are immediately identifiable. Even Ferrari's no longer stand out when the new Corvette has copied their look. Teslas are fairly easy to spot, I've never seen one and mistook it for another car.
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RobXIII
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I have one, and still can't tell between the 4 models without getting way too close.
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kazjim
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Got abox of parts for my '65 today, so have been fitting up new brake cables, brake light switches, and adding a speedometer.
Took it for a little shakedown run - first time into 4th gear at any speed.
Bit of a boneshaker - but that's what you would expect of a solid mounted, hard tailed 650 Parallel twin!
Getting inspection and plates in the next few weeks, then the real fun begins!
Took it for a little shakedown run - first time into 4th gear at any speed.
Bit of a boneshaker - but that's what you would expect of a solid mounted, hard tailed 650 Parallel twin!
Getting inspection and plates in the next few weeks, then the real fun begins!
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Fucker
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What is even worse are all the bland interior colors they have now. Black or black and grey. Maybe the occasional baby shit brown thrown in to round things out.
Palum
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I think it's all about using them where they best make sense....
My goal in the next few years is to have a nice chunk of acreage out away from town, big workshop for my tinkering, small farming for some food, and preferably be solar enabled for power so "city electricity" is an option/backup.
In that scenario I plan on having one or more rechargeable electric "over-glorified golf carts" for getting around on the land since it will limit trips to town for fuel. I could see having an electric car/truck for getting back and forth to town assuming I could get one where that round trip was under half a charge. But you're right absolutely none of this is exciting.
I've done customer events where we went to a place not too far from me called "Motorsports Ranch". They had two tracks and a stable of supercars and you could do laps in all manner of dream vehicles that get one very excited... (I checked Lambo, Ferrari, and Dodge Viper laps off my bucket list). This is for people who really enjoy to visceral thrill of driving. But something I even noticed there, of those three cars, the Viper was the only manual transmission. The guys there explained "All the supercars are effectively automatics with paddle override now, because nobody can out-shift and out-perform the electronic transmissions now." So technology is coming for all aspects of this, eventually the idea of understanding how and when to downshift, how to maximize power through a corner, etc, will be an esoteric quaint old fashioned hobby.
With that said, I think the whole "electric supercar" thing is more a need on the part of those manufacturers to prove they can "belong" in all aspects of the automotive world. Akin to when they released that abomination which was the Electric Mustang.
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My Nissan Leaf... a glorified electric golf cart heh... but it had a 24 or so Kwh battery. Got about 50miles of range.
If you are considering /fully off grid/ and /EV/ - it wont really go very well together. You would want grid power if your wanting to charge an EV.
A current tesla powerwall is 13.5 Kwh battery per module. This really shows how poorly efficient even the most efficient EV is, if you compare it to your house lol. Most smallish homes can run for like a week off of 2 power walls using full power, and longer if you skimp on things, AC etc. and them slowly charging up during the day and keeping 1/2 power walls going is fine... but if you have to dump your entire battery reserve to do 1 charge of your car...
So if its a nice little cabin house, you need 2 powerwalls to hold "1 charge" of a small EV, and then another 1-2 power walls to then be your power supply.... You cannot rely on "direct" solar to charge your EV.
Scapping cars to convert their batteries into "powerwalls" is a thing lol.
If you are considering /fully off grid/ and /EV/ - it wont really go very well together. You would want grid power if your wanting to charge an EV.
A current tesla powerwall is 13.5 Kwh battery per module. This really shows how poorly efficient even the most efficient EV is, if you compare it to your house lol. Most smallish homes can run for like a week off of 2 power walls using full power, and longer if you skimp on things, AC etc. and them slowly charging up during the day and keeping 1/2 power walls going is fine... but if you have to dump your entire battery reserve to do 1 charge of your car...
So if its a nice little cabin house, you need 2 powerwalls to hold "1 charge" of a small EV, and then another 1-2 power walls to then be your power supply.... You cannot rely on "direct" solar to charge your EV.
Scapping cars to convert their batteries into "powerwalls" is a thing lol.
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I've actually been looking at this exact scenario. Plus I have been reading up on some DIY capable powerwalls one can build. I do know that it would take a lot of batteries to have an EV live off solar. I've also been looking at EVs where they can participate as one of the batteries in the said home power solution. In my "out in the country" scenario I'd have a car/truck and maybe do one round trip to town a week outside of emergencies. Then literal golf carts for puttering around my land. The wild card in that is that I'd still need a small tractor for a lot of what I would be doing and that would still require traditional fuels.
Oh and unrelated for those who care. My current daily driver is still my 2017 Caddy CTS V-sport with the 3.6l twin turbo... Graphic possibly related :
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jeydax
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Not a car guy but can I see under the hood of that twin turbo in the white there? I'm intrigued.
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Control
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I haven't checked into any of these numbers, but it made me curious. So you're saying that basically one week of household electricity = 300 miles in your ev? Call that 12 gallons of gas I guess? Any idea how long 12 gallons of gas would run your house from a generator? Just wondering how the numbers looked in the other direction.
Sludig
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Too many variables but maybe a few hours.
My I think 250 gallon Propane tank would last about 3 days in my generator for the house 24/7
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Siliconemelons
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The Audi etron has a huge battery and barely gets over 200miles but their depreciation is high so may make a good target lol
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I'm super paranoid around electricity, but that looks like none of the batteries hook up in parallel until they are plugged in to whatever item interfaces between the batteries, the house (inverter?), and the car. Although it also looks like he used a male outlet on the battery side (at the end of the circuit board), which seems like a safety oversite as all of those tines sticking up are hot? Someone looking away or getting distracted while trying to plug it in and instead jumps the tines with their finger is going to have some discomfort.
Anytime I see DYI electrical stuff, I think of various mad men flirting with death. Like this guy:
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