Recent content by Elfin

The overhangs are short, it's the center that needs protection. Personally I think they should cede the off-road EV segment to Rivian. With air suspension the Gravity will do fine on normal dirt roads as-is.

It's a gearbox in the hub that adds ground clearance (and usually has a reduction gear to increase torque for larger tires). G-Wagen is only car I know that has them as a factory option: I am joking though, obviously GravityX will be an appearance package. I don't actually expect them to...

Because they could have just made it like this: It would hold more than 2 bikes, cost less, weigh less, and wouldn't need a dongle. I would gladly accept all that for some extra seams in the black plastic.

Except for Joshua Tree which has 4 NACS stalls (picture is at a NACS stall.) I wonder if NACS has the same limit? All Teslas charge at more than 500A (900A! for Cybertruck). Only other car I've heard of is Volvo EX90 but nowhere to charge it that fast in the US since Tesla limits non-Teslas to...

Gravity Outback? Hopefully it has portals, 40s, and central tire inflation.

If I were designing it I’d have a small dc dc to generate low power 12v for the always on stuff and leave the 12v battery for emergencies. I swear I remember seeing that some EV was doing it this way. Tesla has killed a ton of 12V batteries by cycling them while the car is parked. It has...

Do you mean the charge port? That can connect directly to the EV battery. But for vehicle to grid the "wunderbox" converts the DC battery voltage to AC and outputs out the charge port. Or do you mean the AC outlets, I think those are also powered from the "wunderbox" which is connected to the EV...

It will be top 3, not sure it will beat Taycan and Air GT. Air added 216mi of EPA range in 15 minutes, Gravity adds 260mi (starting from 0% so might be a little less starting from 10%). I bet the Air gets much closer to EPA efficiency than the Gravity does at 80mph. It's going to be very close.

The problem is 75mph range means three different things that are not 75mph range. Driving between 65mph and 75mph. Oscillating between 65mph and 85mph. Driving 85mph and looking down at speedometer annoyed when someone slows me down to 75mph. This is why there is such a large variance in...

What are the sensor difference between dream drive packages? Did they end up including LIDAR? Where is it located?

If you purchase you don't get it because of $80k price limit. You're right about income too. I hope very few people who qualify for the credit are buying $100k vehicles. Right now the German companies are dumping EVs on the market and losing money (great for consumers!). With state zero...

How does the efficiency compare to your Rivian?

There are a few 1000V NACS chargers out there and the Cybertruck doesn't charge any faster on them than it does on V3.5 Superchargers. It's limited by the crappiness of 4680 cells (very happy Lucid decided to go with tried and true 2170s) Even the Gravity is only 6 minutes faster on 400kW...

The difference is very small if there is one. It pulls the same ~325kW up to about 20% SoC that it does from V3.5 chargers.

There are no true V4 superchargers yet. The "V4" superchargers that exist are V4 dispensers with V3 cabinets so they are still ~500V chargers with a 500A current limit (for non-Tesla vehicles, Tesla vehicles can pull more). The Gravity is limited to 225kW on ALL available Tesla Superchargers...