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at the ~50% SoC that HeyBales battery was at, it was at ~220V +/- for most of the run. I wasn't sure until I looked through his datalog, but the motor inverter volts starts out at ~220 too, and then rises to over 350V as the run progresses. This is while the battery was still supplying...

HeyBales posted it here but there's a PID that will tell you max charge/discharge, he listed a reading of 27kW/32kW Oh I missed another point where the current rose from the battery in the run, I scrolled down through the table again and at around 10.6 seconds it hit just under 14.4kW from the...

It's not grid tied, no one pays me. It pays for itself in imputed energy costs It makes just over 60,000kWh/year, it comes out to just around 12k/year imputed energy costs. I get a bonus ROI from crypto on top, and I was able to put in a lot larger collector for the money off grid than most...

No, most of the torque was still supplied by the engine, in your torque graph there is one small error, you need to subtract the GM torque (it's negative in the sheet so you can just add the torque in column M to the other two columns) from the total torque, so you total torque is reading about...

I put in just over a $30,000 system, it's fully off grid, it paid for itself in just over 24 months and has been netting us hundreds/month since payoff. I installed it myself all ground mount, easy job really. The hardest part is once you have enough off grid for winter is making use of the...

We replaced about 90% of the the grid with solar on our farm which we use for charging the EV, it's the cheapest energy we can get by far, it's not even close any more. The cost per kWh delivered up here has jumped up to ~.12/kWh off-peak - .18/kWh on peak and self-installed, self-generating...

Most DCFC is outrageously priced, we've found the same. Our Bolt EV is too slow of a DCFC to make long road trips practical in it anyway, but we haven't replaced it with anything newer, as while the newer EVs like the EV6 are pretty good road trippers with most charge stops under 10 minutes...

Yeah I really prefer to get the ones with the brakes if I'm going any distance at all, for me a bigger consideration than the factory tow rating recommendations as far as road safety.

The 6x12 uhaul is nice as it's the only cargo one that comes with the surge brakes which makes it much better for stopping distance, but it also weighs almost 2k empty, max 4400lb loaded.

I've noticed the same thing at my local dealer where I bought, all the leftover inventory is Ecoboost and all the hybrids like mine are long gone, seems that way most places I look at inventory online. Congrats on the new truck, I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

It doesn't usually take much flaring to eventually wipe the friction material off the clutch faces, hopefully these remain rare occurrences but it would be good to know if there was a root cause for the slip that might be correctable, or if it's only a rare random mechanical failure.

TrailMaster is exactly right, we disguise our bias from ourselves and others nearly all the time, often unconsciously. It's pretty much unavoidable.

Indeed, one can frame any topic as a political topic, from the mundane discussion of a tow rating to the cost of an item. such is the thorny nature of censorship, all such rules are inherently subjective and left to interpretation, rather than objective fact.

Some people consider laws about economics political, but don't consider laws about vehicles like towing or safety features political, it's a combination cognitive dissonance and a selective bias to not see the vehicular topics in the same lens otherwise a lot of discussion we'd want to have...

The computer really doesn't have any use for a HP figure to do its job, only torque and RPM. We can calculate HP for ourselves though as long as we have those two values for any power segment of the power train, just: Torque * RPM / 5252 = HP You should be able to make a gauge or dial to...

I made another quick graph from your ~16 seconds of data to demonstrate the power flows through the transmission, and how much power came from the engine vs. the battery, I hope you don't mind: The green line is total HP, any time it is higher than the yellow line, some horsepower is coming...

Fantastic work!

Reagan lived through the Great depression, and talked about the economics of tariffs from that perspective. Last time, to reverse course, we got economic policy like Medicare, Medicaid, and social security among other changes. There is no guarantee of anyone throwing workers a lifeline in the...

Maybe you can turn the AFE correction up above 1000 too, and make the dashboard estimate even higher! Then when you post pics of your instrument cluster people will be even more impressed. Might get the first 60mpg+ Maverick 😁

That was kind of the original idea, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted with automation we'd have 15 hour work weeks and then everyone would have more time for vacations, and reading books, and playing with their children, without having to wait for retirement to do as many fun and...