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“No matter the trim, the FZJ80 is the Porsche 993 of the Land Cruiser world.”
Great quote from the Hagerty article listed above.
Check out Long Way Up on Apple+. Ewan McGregor and another guy called Charlie riding electric Harleys up from the end of South America to LA. Rivian provided 2 prototype trucks as support. Lots of manufactured and real drama about charging out in the middle of nowhere. Seemed they did well enough on fire road-type trails but talk about range anxiety...no thanks.I'm excited about the Rivian vehicles, too, and how they fare on the trail.
I hate to disagree with you, but liberals can cry all they want. Truth be told, it's those who control the levers of power that'll make all these decisions. In this case it'll be certain people, politicians, along with big corporations that stand to make BIG MONEY on these changes. So those who control the levers of power won't give a dam if poor people can afford an electric car or not, regardless of any liberal outcry.Talking about liberal states, imagine the outcry from the extreme left about people who can’t afford new electric cars. Ppl are still driving cars worth less than $1k.
Wow, that pic is something else. Haha. One of these things is not like the other!Check out this link from Hagerty's a couple days ago: 2021 Bull Market List: 10 collectible cars (and one motorcycle) on the upswing this year | Hagerty Media
I hate to disagree with you, but liberals can cry all they want. Truth be told, it's those who control the levers of power that'll make all these decisions. In this case it'll be certain people, politicians, along with big corporations that stand to make BIG MONEY on these changes. So those who control the levers of power won't give a dam if poor people can afford an electric car or not, regardless of any liberal outcry.
That is a great article! I love their comment on the LFA: "if Godzilla and a PlayStation got together to make a car, this would be it. "Check out this link from Hagerty's a couple days ago: 2021 Bull Market List: 10 collectible cars (and one motorcycle) on the upswing this year | Hagerty Media
I see a lot of potential electric infrastructure issues. For example in the city I live in, typically on one block of city street you have cars parked on both sides with pretty much no gaps. Where are these people going to charge a electric car? I don't even live in that congested of a city. You could convert all the gas stations to electric charging stations, but the gas stations are busy unless you go early in the morning or later in the evening. Since charging takes at least 15 minutes compared to 3 to 5 minutes of a fuel fill, that's going to add way more congestion. So theoretically you would need 4 times the amount of charging stations compared to gas stations. So my gripe with electric cars, is why why do they make them as they do? Why can't they make them like my rc rock crawler? When the battery goes dead, slide it out and throw in a new one. Takes 2 seconds except it's 1/10TH scale.
I have heard of some people thinking of putting them anywhere and plugging in wherever you park. 2 concerns I have with that. 1st is who is going to fix the charging station when it breaks if it's in some random parking lot. 2nd, in the city where I live a charging unit on the side of the road or in a parking lot if not attended would get vandalized like crazy. It would not surprise me at all and pretty likely if people just ripped them out of the ground to get the copper. At minimum the cables would get cut for the wire. Even at my work random people daily walk through the parking lot looking for easy money despite video surveillance.EV charging stations take up a lot less space, and can be placed most anywhere, unlike gas pumps. Lots of parking lots around me already have one or two spots for charging. The idea is not replacing gas stations with tons of EV charging stations (though many gas stations already have several charging stations, and they take up a lot less space than the pumps), the idea is get charging stations in a bunch of parking lots so no matter where you go, you can probably charge. Going to work? Leave your car on the charger (you can already do this where I work). Going to the grocery store? Park in the corner with the chargers. Etc.
Then there is the much more interesting (and farther off) idea that your self driving electric car doesn't even need to park in front of your house. It could drive itself to a nearby parking garage, charge automatically, and then you could summon it a few minutes before you need it.
That is a sweet RC Cruiser!
Someone, somewhere will start making electric motor engine swap kits at some point in time. Probably a drop in that mates to the existing transmission. Batteries will get lighter and easier to mold to fit anywhere you have space available. Not here yet (well, moldable batteries are here), but it'll come.
Bingo, we have a winner, not only from the end product pollution view point of what to do with all those used batteries. But also from the environmental impact from mining, and processing the raw materials used to make those batteries.because big giant batteries are just trading one form of pollution for another.
You just beat me to it, I was about to post the Hagerty article "2021 Bull Market List: 10 collectible cars...". when I saw yours. It was pretty cool to see the FZJ80 included in such a eclectic group of 10. I think my favorite quote from the article was, "The FZJ80 is the Porsche 993 of the Land Cruiser world." Admittedly I might be a little biased considering that my other car is a 1997 Porsche 993, but one thing is for certain, 1997 was a good year for cars.Check out this link from Hagerty's a couple days ago: 2021 Bull Market List: 10 collectible cars (and one motorcycle) on the upswing this year | Hagerty Media