Recent content by Johnny Vector

I hope you’re joking. Driving with both feet is a terrible idea. Activating the wrong side of your body is generally more likely than a positional error in placement of your extremity. Consider wrong-letter typos. How often do you see, say, l/s errors vs. say, h/j errors? Unless you’re a...

kW, not kWh!

Fair enough. I was thinking in terms of formatting and organization, and how often the unchangeable default is something I can’t imagine anyone would want. But yeah the math’s gotta be right! Maybe I should have used PowerPoint as my example. My estimate of MTBC* for some products: Excel: 10...

Car is in my sig. Cameras were fine. 2000 miles of driving is plenty of time for them to calibrate. What kind of problem could there be that would affect EAP but not normal AP? And the merge lane thing was not phantom braking; it never happened when there was a merge lane with no cars entering...

Convinced that it was insane to send it out to everyone in its current state that is. I got my trial just in time for my 2000 mile round-trip to see the eclipse (MD to MO, mostly I-81 and I-40). 1. It’s 99.9% there. And while I would be ecstatic if, say Excel were 99.9% correct, for something...

Nice! I’ve been using a $15 (non-waterproof) duffel in the frunk, but I like the idea of a slightly larger one in the subtrunk. Haven’t needed it to be waterproof yet, but I’m bookmarking yours in case that changes.

Because you lose regen braking (not such a big deal now that you can turn on automatic blended braking, but still), and unless your trip is all on that first charge, or there are only V2 chargers along the route*, it makes almost no difference in the total trip time. On a V3 charger, the time...

Yeah, I stopped reading CleanTechnica a couple years ago when I couldn’t take the sloppiness. It’s bad enough when my local paper doesn’t understand the difference between power and energy, but when a site dedicated to renewables and EVs keeps making that mistake it’s a bad sign for the quality...

If your first charge is only 64 miles from the start, you are correct in supposing that there's no reason to start at more than your usual 80%. I really don't understand why ABRP is routing you to Flagstaff, unless it knows what I know: Flagstaff has so much stuff you want to see that you...

For safety reasons (and probably regulatory too), the HV battery has to be isolated when the car is "off". Which means you need a power source to run whatever mechanism connects it to the rest of the system (a high-current switch of one type or another). OTOH, it's not like there's no...

If he'd just take off his darn hat maybe we'd start getting somewhere!

The problem is when GPS fails it can fail pretty badly. Like in much of lower Manhattan (and other skyscrapery cities), there's so much multipath from all the buildings that GPS will regularly put you 100 feet from your actual position. Also, inside parking garages is not good for GPS...

This! It's important to understand that "Bluetooth range" is not a thing. (To be pedantic, I'm fairly sure Tesla doesn't even use "Bluetooth", it uses "Bluetooth Low Energy", which is different, although it uses the same frequency range.) Bluetooth and BLE operate at ~2.4 GHz, which has a...

It almost certainly depends on outdoor temperature and humidity, cabin temperature setting, and probably some other factors. Also, I would be very surprised if you can make any significant difference in efficiency by changing the fan speed. Like, with very careful measurements over the course of...

Am I missing something on the plans or are there really zero trailer-friendly stalls?