Recent content by Hunter

True enough. I agree that many EVs have too much range for an island. I lived on Kauai for a few years. We had a Nissan Leaf there. We loved it. It had about 100 miles of range. Plenty of range where we lived which was about in the middle. Sadly, the Nissan dealer on Kauai is badly...

:-) And I don't think a seat belt will save you from a roll off a hill like this. He should never have been up there, and especially not with all around tires like he had. Should have backed out long ago. Notice how the rocks roll the car down hill on the back wheels after the front has been...

Interesting to contemplate both getting a CT stuck like this, and getting it unstuck. Possibly this is a place for the crab-walk.

People don't make buying choices on logic, e.g. the right buttons or frame. Instead, humans make emotional-logic buying decisions. .. Oh, we think we're logical, but we're not. We run on emotion. Any good salesman will confirm this fact. .. Look at car ads. Do they list features? No. instead...

The doldrums are sometimes when the wind stops, then turns around and blows the other direction. It's ok for it to be quiet sometimes.

I also use a GFX device to pre-heat the incoming cold water from the warmer outgoing drain water. It works pretty good for showers. Not so good for doing dishes. And no help for baths, but then I don't have a bath tub. (Local hot springs help out too at times. Everybody's situation is...

Also check out a sliding lockout bar, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/generator-lockout-kit/s?k=generator+lockout+kit which is simpler than a transfer switch box I think, or perhaps it's the same thing you were referring to. Anyway this is what I use for my emergency backfeeding to my house. I...

No. For me Tesla is about saving the earth from climate destruction! Rivan seems to be about taking advantage of the situation to make a buck. No thanks. Good for them, but no thanks Mr. co_hand_guy. Just like Space-X is about possibly saving the human species with a colony on Mars as a...

It would be nice to have the ability to bolt on a temporary heavy-duty rock plate underneath, mostly just in the center section which is most vulnerable to high centering. Some of the back roads I visit for hunting or to cut fire wood are rough and rocky. We don't call them roads; they are...

Most stainless isn't 100% perfect, and contains small imperfections where the chromium didn't get distributed, and so you get tiny rust spots in the unprotected iron. Paint also has a very similar problem. I am not one to care about little defects on a work truck, so long as most of it holds...

Keep the old one, and slowly adjust to the new one, is how I will go at it. This is how we transitioned to our 2 electric cars. There are times the Jeep makes more sense, rather than our Leaf or Model 3. But slowly we're going 100% electric. Things will change with the CT for sure. For...

What is a CDL?

How about towing up and down a steep hill? Where is the breaking point when a heavy load meets a steep hill? In other words, if I know I'm going to have to climb a hill with a load, how do I know the motors can handle it, both up and down. Our M3 does ok on steep hills, but that's only with...