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From what I can see and guess at, the EV hardware they installed in that F100 is a front-wheel drive assembly subframe that includes HVAC and electric power steering. That would leave lots of room for batteries under the cab and bed.

I'd love to own an iD3 but VW are not officially selling them in NZ yet. They can be imported privately but support would be nearly non-existent, not a good thing considering how many updates my Kona has endured in the last three years.

My Hyundai Kona EV has just dropped out of both the bumper to bumper and mechanical warranties this week so I'm going to step up and change the gear reducer oil at only 19,000 km. The reason for doing this so early is that there have been a small handful of gearbox failures globally and so I'm...

I have no doubt Hertz knows what they are doing. But without Tesla's established supercharger network and on-dash locator I couldn't see this happening. Here I am in a small town in a remote location on an island in the South Pacific, yet three 250 kW Superchargers have just appeared out of...

Only the fact that nothing fits all the requirements!

In this corner of the world my EV costs 1/5th of my ICE car to run, both cars are a similar size. If I used public chargers I'd still be paying half or 1/3.

Tesla now provide a heat pump in the current Model 3 and Y. My Kona also has one although they're not fitted in some global markets to manage price points. I don't think the ECO mode disables it but the ECO+ certainly does. In mild temps mine pulls around 300-600 watts on a continuous basis in...

A road tax system based on weight, axles and distance has been in use here in NZ for at least 40 years. It applies to every vehicle using public roads not powered by gasoline or LPG, the latter of which are taxed at fuel source. Diesel is not taxed at the pump. EVs have an exemption for another...

Car and Driver moaning about EVs? That's surprising, lol.. Here's the link if anyone want to read it. Unusually, the reader's comments are somewhat more sensible than the article, noting the poll at the end which extroplates 4x without foundation the range loss they claim...

Yes, but it's not going to be nearly as effective as for an ICE car and you get a good portion of that energy back when you decelerate. Unless you're at a drag strip it's just not as much a factor in the big picture as continuous losses such as aerodynamic drag, road gradient and rain.

Sometimes it seems like Cory must think he's visiting his dad in the retirement home. Sandy, 72, lives in a world I can only slightly relate to being 65 myself, but also a mechanical engineer. His staff on the other hand are clearly experienced engineers. As soon as any of them open their mouths...

Some Tesla buyers here have expressed a hope that their Model 3 order will be sourced from Shanghai and I think now they actually are. The Chinese-made MG ZS EV is the cheapest EV sold here and is popular simply because of that. Consider what production areas Tesla still needs to refine and...

It does have gears. A two-stage gear reducer, as do the vast majority of today's EVs. The reason the Model 3 uses an oil filter on the gearbox is because the gear oil is used also for cooling the motor. It needs a pump for that circulation and therefore needs a filter to keep wear particles out...

This is easy for an EV. The AC uses a few hundred watts and 15 min is not long. Say it were 400w x 15min/60min per hour = 100 Wh per event, you'd need 10 such events to use 1kWh. EVs you'd be considering would have at least a 60 kWh battery.

Either the Kona or Kia Niro EVs would handle this easily and I think are similar in size and utility to the Vibe. Jump in with both feet and get a full EV, you'll never look back.

Energy use in general not an issue, it's only that derived from fossil fuels. The EPA says this regarding the elephant in the room, for 2019. I really wish there was an easy solution but there isn't. Perhaps this is a hint as to why no other animal on Earth starts and exploits fire?

Just the reduction gearbox in my case, which is a 2-stage, splash lubricated with helical gears. It uses a 70 weight GL-4 gear oil and has no change interval. There's really nothing to do and so I bought a used ICE SUV to keep me from going cold turkey.

One of the reasons I now live where I do that health care is not connected to employment, so I've been able to work as I wish and always be 100% covered. I've slowed down working gradually over the last 15 years and now have formally retired at 65. I do miss the buzz of working with a team of...

Hmm, our '80 Mercedes 280 during a quiet morning on the Heilbronn to Regensdorf autobahn, foot to the floor with the manual 4-speed in top gear, around 6600 rpm for about 30 minutes to see what the fuel consumption was reading on the MPG device I had built which used a small turbine flow meter...

The first one I used long ago was a FLIR Photon, it was 640x480 and cost around $25k. I was amazed that it could see footprints left from someone walking on a linoleum floor.