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I'm guessing you have never launched and retrieved a boat solo from a trailer. I could be wrong, but I say that because the process is extremely tedious requiring a lot of getting in, getting out, balancing on trailer tongue, climbing over bow into boat, or dock to boat if you are lucky, and...

So it can handle land, it can handle water. But muddy transitions can stop it. I started thinking It needs a pair of deployable ramps that can be carried as cargo. They can be set down in front of wheels, be driven over, then picked up behind. They can be used to climb into and out of water...

Not a joke. Apparently my writing today is subpar if you need to ask. I am really on your side. I want better charging stations at work and ultimately so will employers and employees. Something better than a single incremental raise would pay for. That estimate was BS. I want charging...

Yes. That is how cost works. It is the price you pay in order to receive the benefit of the thing it buys. I paid for a home because I want a place to stay. It isn't suddenly free because its something I want. Charging is always a cost. That cost is offset to a greater or lesser degree by...

I see! My only EVs are a non plugin hybrid and electric wheelchair so I've not encountered a charger price sheet before. Learned something new today. Those terms kind of piss me off. Everything I do in public takes longer than expected if facilities aren't handicap accessible. A bathroom...

It is always a cost. Land, chargers, and electricity are not free. Who bears that cost shifts depending on the situation. Sometimes the cost to charge is already sunk, sometimes not, but it always exists. That is what makes it a "hidden cost". It is not an inherent characteristic of EVs...

Either you expect the employee to buy infrastructure for the employer (very strange), or you meant "Witholding a small raise can pay for a number of EV chargers and solar panels." As an employee, which would you prefer? Keep in mind you will likely not have any say in the type or network of...

Help me think through this. Do we actually want chargers at small gas stations? I don't think so. We can still access the attached convenience store by parking in any spot available, even at pumps. Good enough. Maybe a level 2 charger attached to the building, behind lock and key on the...

How the hell do you do that? Charge alot? I'll damn well get my moneys worth and stay here as long as I want. Charge a little, or even free? Yippee I like this place. I'm gonna stay here for a while.

I've been hoping for the same kind of access. Fingers and toes crossed for mid-gate. Its absence would be mid-gate-gate. Lets hope they submit the future Cybervan design to community input as they did with Cybertruck. The delays have provided ample opportunity to incorporate user desired...

Ok. Describe how you envisioned that please. Was it slotting into the battery/floor as I described previously, just not sharing capacity? Or something else I'm not visualising? Because the way Cybertruck appears now, I don't actually see any way to get a wheelchair/optional offroad/urban crawl...

I'm not saying it cannot be done, but here is a point of reference for stability. My chair is a Permobil M3. It is an extremely good and stable chair by US standards with programming to prevent driving in unstable configurations, 2 center drive wheels and 4 casters at the corners. I wasn't...

It is the same size as a 12v 50w solar panel but 8" thick. 4680 are structural, so the weight does not need to go up by much. My current chair is over 400lbs and I am 310lbs. It is way overbuilt. I haven't broken a path yet. 700lbs / 16"^2 tire contact patch = 43PSI ground pressure. The...

Round number estimate 2P 110S 4680 cells in 2 layers for ~400v 18Ah 20" x 21" x 8" 78.1kg or 172lb That will fit in a chair, wheelchair motor peak current at 1/2C discharge, wheelchair motor max continuous watts for 18 hours. That sounds like acceptable performance.

Valid point. They will wear unevenly to each other, but evenly within the same pod. Being smaller, thus cheaper than a full pack, on wheels, and quickly removable, we've reintroduced user swappable batteries. Its like having a powerwall unit under each seat. Have a spare at home, another at...

The significance of that part escaped me till just now. The road going EV has a skateboard battery. The personal EV (wheelchair) has a skateboard battery and must be detachable/attachable to the road EV. Let the wheelchair battery pack be a connectorized removable 'chunk' of the road battery...

Optimus fishing robot sitting on roof. You do your fishing from an app on the touchscreen just like you do now. Vault opens partially to allow your catch lowered inside, then recloses. The REAL secret purpose of Optimus is to remove the icky hook?

Three wheeler riders lean opposite to a motorcycle in order to lift the inside rear wheel in a turn allowing it to spin. This was required because Honda applied the principle "The best part is no part." Three wheelers had no rear differential and no suspension other than the balloon tires...

I'll join the river convoy as you float past Memphis. Inner tubes with coolers, etc.

I'd read that.