Electric Vehicles

I suspect he also grossly overestimates its value.

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It’s worth the effort. About six years ago my wife and I could barely walk through our two-car garage. A month later we were parking both our cars inside.

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If there’s stuff buried in there that you haven’t used in years…sell it, donate it, trash it.

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My garage is full of wine. It seems to be the most appropriate use of the space.

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Can I come park in your garage? I won’t bring a car.

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If my garage didn’t get 147 degrees with 104% humidity in the summer, it’d be full of all sorts of stuff, including wine. This time of year is nice because I can set up stuff on the bench and work on it in relative comfort. I have some old hifi gear I’ve been wanting to work on, but can’t in the summer because it’s like working on them in the shower.

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I could be convinced of the merits of this plan.

ETA: You have to bring a brisket. I miss proper bbq.

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Kara and I looked into insulating our garage last summer. We inevitably have to bring the wine into the house for a few months when the temps start hitting the 90’s out here.

Then we discovered we need a new roof.

I can honestly say it is a superb garage.
Can’t wait to put a dent into that vino next week…

Depends on where y’all live, Neil.
I’m in SoCal (surrounded by self righteous cunt dojer fans) but I’d love to bring it by and show it to you all never the less!
Might even watch the Astros, too,

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I’m a ways away from buying an electric truck but the recent Consumer Reports reliability report (Tesla did not fare well, fwiw) did make me think: what do you do when something inevitably breaks? Who works on it? Where?

That’s a fair question, no doubt.

From what I have read, the most common peril is a software update gone haywire for whatever reason. Unreliable wifi seems to get a lot of the blame. Whatever the case, you call Tesla or whoever and they send some dude out with a laptop to finish the update. In the mean time how you’re supposed to get to work or pick up your kid from school or whatever else you need to be doing is unclear. Maybe this will end up being the excuse to bring ethernet into the garage so many of you have been seeking. Can you entrust your EV software updates to a mesh network? I don’t think so.

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I’m hopeful for one of the big 3 to get a heavy duty electric truck built right in the next 5 years or so, that would solve that problem. You’ll be at the mercy of dealership rates and schedules (no idea what the warranties will look like) but I don’t see a huge influx of autoshops with the ability to work on software/hardware anytime soon.

In all seriousness, I think the general idea is that without a combustion engine the mechanics of the thing are so stupidly simple that actual mechanical repairs as we know them are typically just not a thing.

The drive train or whatever they call it is about the only series of moving pieces that I can think of. And when the hell does anyone ever have a problem with any of that except once every 25 or 30 years in the mountains of Pennsylvania?

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I put a mini split in my garage/workshop last year.

Routinely reached 110 degrees in there before.

Now I can work out there year round and it opens up some storage options for things we wouldn’t want to incinerate in the attic.

(they run on electricity and vehicles go in garages so this is technically on topic)

I get that for sure, but what moving metal parts that need to be greased are there still, on a HD/4X4 type vehicle? Differentials? Are brakes the same? Suspension?

I’m no longer familiar with the “weekend warrior” commuters in the cities who own trucks and use the bed once a month, but there’s a million of them around me who use them every day. I would think it goes: 1st you get the commuters, then you get the fleet vehicles, then you get the work trucks.

I am admittedly not well-versed or researched on this and am posting off the top-of-my-head while watching CFB and and a pork butt.

Hell, I don’t know. Do all my comments regarding topics I don’t know shit about deserve close scrutiny?

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We’re spitballing here, amigo.

This is recommended maintenance for the Bolt, apparently. They rotate the tires a bit less than I rotate mine, and they have a lot fewer oil changes. What Does It Take To Maintain An Electric Vehicle?