Recent content by Earl

I either charge at work upon plug-in to be charged from the grid while it is at low demand and high solar output or at home, set for scheduled departure in the morning. My daily max charge is generally at 80%. I'll sometimes bump it up to 90% or higher if I'm going to be driving immediately...

Definitely do not worry. I live where temperatures in summer regularly exceeds +40C in the summer and I've parked my Model 3 with NMC batteries outside nearly every day for the past 6 years and there is no unexpected loss of range (still charges to ~287 miles). The key point is to keep the car...

I'm sorry, you're right. /sarcasm We'd all be sitting in long lines at the Costco gas station grousing about how expensive gasoline is . . . Why did he have to come along and invest his fortune into EVs to get them off the ground. /sarcasm /seriously: Don't get me wrong. I don't particularly...

Who knows? One of Musk's good points is that he has the guts to try and see if they can come up with a design that will make regulators comfortable instead of just saying it is hard and not trying. Like him or not: He fails, he succeeds. He make friends, he makes enemies. We're actually...

I would recommend the Enphase/Clipper Creek CS-100: https://enphase.com/store/ev-chargers/ev-chargers-business/cs-100-ev-charger You may be able to get them to swap out the connector with a Roadster-specific one if they still have them available. Otherwise you'll need a J-1772 -to- Roadster...

With an EV, there's no need to hobble them so they can't have high output, you can simply choose not to drive them at max output by not hammering the accelerator. The won't stress the powertrain as much and you may see a bit longer longevity although, today, there is little evidence that it...

The Amtrak auto train on the east coast is the only such thing I know of anywhere in the world. It, apparently, is a complete money loser and many wonder why Amtrak keeps plowing money into it. I agree that the idea sounds great. I don't know whether the complete concept is economically bad...

Generally, they are tweakers (Meth addicts). Most likely mindlessly conservative leaning themselves but probably encouraged by naive liberal policies.

Good point. If it is a ChargePoint station you've found to be a good candidate through plugshare, it can be beneficial to check their app to verify whether it is in use as well as this information on who has used last. For that matter, checking with EVgo, Blink, etc can be a help. I just find...

Unfortunately, in my experience, the only really useful information on public charging is on Plugshare and Tesla (for Superchargers). They aren't perfect but the other sources (primarily charging network and EV manufacturer websites/apps) are so inaccurate or incomplete that they are...

Hmm, so choice between dead in a microsecond or burn for a while first. Not much of a set of choices. I do agree about the issue with 10kpsi tanks. Back in the 1990's and early 2000's, folks were always coming up with the air car that could be fueled with a tire compressor. In addition to...

good point. However, I that a lot of people still drive around with gasoline bombs under their seats. Racers often also have tanks of N2O as well. I guess, like so many things: This could be done. Whether it should be done is different.

oops. here you go: I didn't check your math or parameters, however, I do question your initial assumption that the thrusters would be used for 1st order acceleration. Is there enough electrical thrust - f(motor torque and wheel traction)? I'm guessing that wheel traction is the limiting...

. I didn't check your math or parameters, however, I do question your initial assumption that the thrusters would be used for 1st order acceleration. Is there enough electrical thrust - f(motor torque and wheel traction)? I'm guessing that wheel traction is the limiting factor and, just...

Perhaps you missed my original supposition: Like with many Tesla things, you start with a technology that the rich will pay a lot for (like high-performance electric acceleration) to develop the technology. Then, once proven, you wrap economies of scale into it so it is affordable for all. I'm...