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If it makes you feel better to believe this, then go ahead, but if you're talking about electricity from a power grid (as opposed to an isolated, standalone generation setup like you might find in the Outback in OZ) then the power in that grid is fungible. A Kwh is a Kwh is a Kwh...no matter...

Ah yes...engineers who "don't get out" much. Many decades ago, a senior executive at Cameron Iron Works bought a Rolls Royce. This was before any had ever been shipped to sheiks and such in the desert. He lived in Houston. The electric window motors kept going out... it seems that the British...

This happened to me a couple of times over the last couple of days. Background: I have the Rivian set to remain unlocked at home, but I've had ongoing construction that has kept me out of my garage in the daytime and my (full circle) driveway has continual truck and trailer traffic...so I...

I too have the Tractor Supply stall mat. I cut it to length to fit snugly and the pleasant collateral consequence of that is that now, when I release the tailgate, it pops open slightly. If I'm parked uphill, the tailgate opens itself (but doesn't do so with a "slam"). As others have noted, it...

If you've ever been in a Bucc-ee's you know that it's a God-given right to leave your vehicle parked at the gas pump while making a lunch/potty run through 35,000 sq ft of c-store. Wars have been fought over less

Texas is not heavily unionized. Back in 1975 I worked in a bank in downtown Austin that was building a new tower next to the existing bank. It was nearly complete. The parking garage was available to the construction crew (but not bank workers). I had a white 4x4 step-side F-150 with skinny...

I did say "in Texas" in my original comment. A bill was introduced in the last legislature to address this (on public property or private property where notice is given), but it did not get passed. You'd think that, after socking EV owners with an arbitrary additional $200/yr fee to make up...

If it's not a fire lane or a disabled space, no enforceable "ticket" can be written. Not even for a loading zone on private property. That leaves the alternative of towing. Fat chance a mall would EVER tow a customer (or even a dishwasher) for parking in "the wrong space". We have a hospital...

This whole "idle fee" mess is triply annoying in Texas for the following reasons: 1) There are no laws preventing not-actively-charging vehicles from parking in the slots marked for EV use in Texas. Since these are (usually, in the case of Rivian and Shell) placed in "primo" locations (as...

The real drawback to leaving your phone in the car with the passengers when you go into the store is that your wife cannot call you to instruct you to "Pick up some of [insert item name] while you're in there"...thus you end up going BACK in and checking out twice.

Auto Lock (when walking away) can be aggravating and has its own "dangers"...If I'm packing the truck and away from "home", I generally pop the driver's side gear tunnel open slightly. The truck won't lock itself. Confession: I usually forget that I've done this and then have to get out and...

What is being described here is the manifestation of the "marble theory" (If you don't know how "marbles" is played, then look it up...I'm sure there's a YouTube somewhere.) The premise of the "marble theory" is that there is only so much room available in your head in which to store...

I've had considerably less frustration with the occasional failure of the PAAK to automatically unlock the R1T upon approach since discovering and implementing this: Scenario: Truck is asleep, Phone is asleep...approach truck, nothing happens Solution: Remove sleeping phone from pocket, wave...

Neither the fob nor the RFID card requires a bluetooth connection to "enter" (nor to operate the vehicle). You don't even HAVE to have a PAAK set up. EDIT - I guess I should have said "Addressable Bluetooth".

this would make the assumption that they are standing at every intersection just waiting. We don't all live in NYC

As far as the suggestion to emulate "car wash mode", that would be a not-good solution. In Car Wash Mode, the handles do not "present" and there is not an intuitive indication that pushing on them will do anything...the only people who understand that mechanism are the ones operating the car who...

I didn't ask a question. I'm just of the opinion that it should not require anything non-intuitive for a "lay person" to open a door to help someone inside who may or may not be incapacitated. So you broke a window...Now what? Ever tried to get a person out of a car window when you can't open a...

All well and good if EMS/Fire is nearby. Now consider that scenario when they are 10 minutes or more away. That is an eternity when you're in a car that you want out of

It only stands to reason that they would "add back" the regen number to (only) propulsion...after all, it's the "rolling" (whether by gravity or drive train) that is producing the regen...i don't think the "coasting down" of the HVAC fan is regenerating any electricity when the fan shuts off...

It's irrelevant that they chose to build it in a (currently) non-union facility in a heavily unionized blue state. What IS relevant is that there is no way in hell that they even CONSIDERED building it in California.