Recent content by flarbear

Things are a bit better here in CA. The DCFC stations are right off the highway as well.

I had to update my previous post because I realized I hadn't taken apartment dwellers and other people with no home charging infrastructure into account. For the near future, that continues to be a problem. But hopefully apartment complexes, condo structures, and public spaces will start to...

While accurate in the specific moment, this kind of analysis leaves out so many variables. On a road trip it is fairly close to accurate because the route is long and well defined and the gas stations are right next to the route. But, for everyday driving, you have to plan out where and when to...

Tow weight is determined by a number of factors of which the hitch is only one. A 1000lb car cannot tow a 10,000lb trailer no matter how beefy the hitch is designed. A big truck with skimpy little wheels and a basic suspention cannot tow much no matter how strong its frame or how beefy the tow...

Absolutely not. The tongue weight is not the determiner of how much you can tow. Making a stronger hitch doesn't mean you can tow more.

And Hollywood Racks concurs. https://hollywoodracks.com/pages/trailer-hitch-technical-information?srsltid=AfmBOoqGSNI5vp8Kzme-GVC8rh50U4H5HIee2olRhN--oMtJhbDlnKsS There may be another factor at play here which might be why many manufacturers don't mention bike rack weights. The standard for...

There is no car where the bike rack capacity is the same as the tongue weight limit. Some manufacturers just don't get involved and list the tongue weight limit and leave it at that. There is a standard for measuring the tongue weight limit and they follow that, but there is no standard for...

I feel like I might switch from the Hankooks to something less compromise-y if I get the 20" wheels now, so I'll then have less than the 437 that it will claim out of the gate. Combine that with wondering if the 21s really did have the exact same mileage as the 22s or if they simply tested only...

API is, essentially, the ability to use it with other home automation services other than their app. Things like "Alexa, can you open the garage door?". If you want to pull out/up your phone every time you open/close the garage door then myQ is fine. You could also use a regular garage door...

Just to clarify on the hitch weight... Tongue weight is how much you can push down on the end of the hitch (where a trailer would be mounted to a ball mount) before it threatens the structural integrity of the receiver. It's also balanced against the dynamics of towing. You can also measure how...

That's the weight for pulling a trailer (6000 lb towing with 600lb tongue weight). That is much more than the rated weight of a hitch carrying accessory due to the lack of leverage from not having trailer wheels at the opposite end. The lower accessory weight is not so much that the hitch...

I wish I'd given a serious look at the Buzz back when I was shopping for a Plan-B car. Since I was shopping for a car that I'd only have for a few months or so, the practical down sides of its battery size would have been overshadowed by its fun factor. Now I won't be able to tell "remember that...

Pretty cool! Except for the people who live in this building: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YCY3bS9HvTUzHhyVA 🙁

Ionna is deploying the same 400kw chargers starting on the East Coast and working west.

Used Timothee Chalamets cannot be returned once the packaging is opened.