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He's one of the few Patreon's I subscribe to.

Of course. I've been evaluating them over the last 4 years on my own channel, but this guy has a lot more kit to test with.

I got a car I never wanted to have, today. I'd pay any amount of money not to have it, even though it didn't monetarily cost me but $45 for the plates. It's a 2005 Buick LeSabre, with 129K miles on it, and I came by it via Texas DMV form VRT-262, Affidavit of Heirship. It was my mother's. So...

One of the guys in the vape community has a ton of equipment and does reviews on various cells. Capacity at various amperages, voltage sag, heat measurements, internal resistance, all that jazz. I found him because on the other side of the house using 18650 and 18350 is the tactical community in...

I have eight 18650s that are now 20-22 years old, and heavily abused. They work well, still. I am sending 2 off for detailed analysis later this week.

25k mi/year

I guess. I stopped keeping cars for very long around that time, though. One of my friends had her 2013 Dodge 1500 have issues at 30K miles, lost the trans, her friend had an SRT8 Charger do the same. A family member had one in their 1500 take a dump at around 60K miles. I dunno, autos are just...

Mustang 5.0, 1988, transmission died. It had set up for 2 years though, so not shocked. 1993 p71 interceptor. Never died, but wouldnt shift under wot so well. 2002 g20 infiniti. Complete catastrophic failure at 115k miles. I had the fluid changed at 110k miles, so my fault. 2010 jeep grand...

It's a heat pump with resistive strips. It works fine, move or sit. Super efficient, as well.

I serviced them. Sadly some were used, and had 60-100K miles on them by the time I bought them, so that killed them, but meh. I just hate slushboxes, although I admit the ZF8 is pretty legit. DCT's, I am not fond of.

Volvo did a whole white paper on the subject, cradle to grave of an EV vs ICE, same platform. From mining the cobalt, to disposing of the car. Seems that EV's take over at around 40-80K miles, regarding "carbon footprint", even in coal areas. Long story short, the EV is just cleaner, any way you...

I've gone through multiple transmissions and an engine once. You put 100K miles on most automatics and they're toast, or at best have some tq converter judder or some other annoyance in my experience.

EV range is exploding. We now have 500+ miles and 10min recharge times if you want to count Chinese innovations. The thing with an EV is that its 90% efficient. Sure, you can argue that power plants arent 90%, but solar and nuclear exist. A different fuel has been tried. E85. It required minimal...

My ev6 GT has done great in 100f and -10f. No heating or cooling issues, and I even run the HVAC in eco mode. The range is rated 208mi, but actual delivered in summer is 230-250, and in winter 160-180, presuming 100% SoC. If you keep it 20-80, which is best, lop 40% off of that. In short, it...

The awd in cx5 is boringly low maintenance. It is also pretty decent.

Fair. Much better, to be fair, too. Worthy distinction.

Wild how the first mustang was offered as an automatic v6 then, I guess. Would you roll up in a 5.0 and declare a v6 3speed 1964 1/2 at a carshow to "not be a mustang" ?

HI5N looks like a hot hatch in 5/4 scale.

Im just not big on Audi. I much prefer BMW in that space. The S58 is just on another level and the ZF8 is where its at if you want big power through a stock trans to work out okay. As far as looks, I am neither here nor there on the ev6. I bought it for the engineering. Single speed reduction...

I am so confused...you want a car proportioned like a Golf...or an RS3? Kia can call it what they want, its a wagon per the EPA and every other functional matrix. The best conventional comparison I have is that visually in person it hits like a late gen Acura RDX with an agressive drop kit...