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Mark and Dale Bruss

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  1. Actually, the highway people have been working on per-mile taxation for well over 10 years. Your car does keep information on where you have been and the work has been on how to easily read that information and forward it to clearing houses. Look at the toll road scanners clearing for multiple states each getting their share of the toll money.
  2. Do you equally buy gas is both states? The per-mile taxation would be based upon information from the computer in the car which would provide miles driven and where. Each state would get their share of miles driven,
  3. Okay I agree that EVs should contribute to highway maintenance. I am in favor of the per mile taxation with the removal of the gas tax. The problem with the Texas law is in the math. The fee for an EV is $200 a year after the registration, while the report stated that the average ICE vehicle pays $130 a year is gas taxes. A new definition of fairness. I have a Mustang Mach-e EV and I live in Texas and the proposed fees are more like I was driving a dually and not a compact car.
  4. There is a lot more to coolant than color. Diesel Coolant | Heavy Haulers RV Resource Guide (hhrvresource.com)
  5. When mine was not working I found it was burned out light bulbs that were not easy to find and replace.
  6. Remember Medicare Advantage is a form of a HMO and not the best kind of plan for an RVer because of travel outside your medical area.
  7. The HH RV Resource Guide, https://www.hhrvresource.com/node/44.html was created to stop all the wife's tales about commercial, non-commercial, and other driver's licenses. It has copies of the state codes that define the need for licensing. Your state of residence, which also be the state of your driver's license, determines what you need to drive your rig.
  8. "and i bet people will love the ability to drive 200 miles then stop for 12 hrs to recharge there dead batteries." Numbers are off a bit, we just 1600 miles over 3 days including a total of 6 hours charge time in our Mustang Mach-e.
  9. When we had lot of work done on MorRyde suspension at the factory, we had to stay overnight. With severe limitations, we stayed in our trailer in the bay after the workers has left and work had ceased in the shop. We were basically locked in. Only disadvantage was the compressor statup at 4:00 AM
  10. 44K pin weight? Anyways, you should plan for the air bags to be loaded to about 1/2 of their rated capacity to get any spring motion.
  11. Used a 32K on my Volvo for 10 years. Great hitch. Only air hitch that dampens side-to-side motion.
  12. We had Quadra Big Foot do an installation on our Travel Supreme.
  13. GVWR is more than axles. The frame, the springs, the transmission, and the engine are all taken into account when determining the GVWR.
  14. I would roll thru with Windows 11 on the PCs in the house but my main PC, an Intel NUC, does not have the TPM chip and Windows 11 will not load except by some backdoor method I do not want to do. So far, I have not seen enough advantages to Windows 11 to spend the $1300 to replace the main PC. I am doing the qualified PCs.
  15. Found no reason to roll back. Windows 11 is less different than I expected. Having gone thru the Windows 7 to 8 to 10 made the differences in 11 minor.
  16. That is 0.6 volts meaning 13.4 volts from 14.0 volts. Worse is only 12.6 volts from 13.2 volts.
  17. Actually, a battery combiner will prevent back feed. The normal setup is that when the voltage of the feed side drops below the voltage of the other side, the contacts open preventing back feed. This system worked well on my boat where I did not want the starting batteries to draw down the batteries running the bilge pumps.
  18. Battery combiners are relays that are set you open when the direction of current is not what you want. They can be set to transfer current either way. There are many battery combiners like Amazon.com: Victron Intelligent Li-ion Battery Combiner Cyrix-Li-ct 12/24V - 120 Amp : Sports & Outdoors The advantage of battery combinators over diode isolation is that diode isolation always drops .6 volts across the diodes. When the contacts of the battery combinators are closed. there are 0 volts lost. Discussed in Battery Combiner (dmbruss.com)
  19. Check truck salvage yards. There are usually several add-on sleeper cab available.
  20. There are Ford dealers not marking up Mustang Mach-es because I bought mine at list. The issue today is getting one at all because of the chip issue.
  21. Just like the old trackless trollys we had in Milwaukee. Feasible exceptvfor the shortage of copper to drring the wires.
  22. Just finished a 2,000 mile trip to Hutchinson KS for the National HDT Rally from Mission TX and back. Only area without a plethora of charge locations is far south Texas. If you have been to far south Texas, you know why. We have to go through Laredo (west of Mission) to get a charge to make it to San Antonio. We use DC Fast Charger most of the way except in eastern Kansas where we stopped to see a friend and left the Mustang Mach-e at a campsite hookup using the 50 amp receptacle. That is an overnight type charge. If you count almost all campgrounds with electric, the country is covered with Level 2 charge stations. Most of the charge stations we used were Electrify America (Walmart Superstores) , a couple of ChargePoints (Super Tourist Stop , Harley Davison) , and a couple of Francis Electric (connivence stores) in Oklahoma. Our Mustang is limited to a maximum of 150 KW/hr charge rate and usually we encounter 80-120 KW/hr. Say we need 60 KW per stop at most, that is 30-45 minutes each. Hardly enough for lunch sometimes and just about right for the wife's potty stops. Electricity isn't free. At the charge stations the rates vary depending on how they charge, by minute, by KW. I estimate that our cost per mile is less than half the cost of gasoline in Texas which is pretty cheap compared to the rest of the country.
  23. I drive a Mustang Mach-e because it is fun.
  24. There are these videos by a fella named Munro who has torn a Mach-e and a Tesla Model Y apart and has a lot to about the EV industry. His analysis of the Hydrogen/Elecric story is that long range trucks using hydrogen canisters will the introduction of hydrogen and may the sole use. Trucks could load a set of canisters that can be rotated out on the road giving the range between stops needed for OTR trucking. Too complicated for cars where batteries will be fine. The trucking industry almost has an independent energy structure already. P
  25. Very few states require any licensing to drive large Rvs, just like the Coast Guard has little requirement for a piloting a boat too large for ther operator. Way back in 2006 when Maryland tried to enforce the Class B requirement for RVs that had been passed in 1996, I was in a meeting with the legislature, dealers and the RV standards folks uncovered the problem of how to license. Dealers do not want licening as it would deter sales. A CDL test requires you to be accompanied by an already licensed CDL driver and to have accompnied by a licensed CDL driver while learning to drive. Not hard for a company hiring you and having you learn, or a driving school. Real problem for an RV. There is no question that some kind of license endorsement, like a motorcycle endorsement, should be required for large RVs. Knowing the dynamics of 40.000 lbs in stopping is only reasonable. And the knowlege of the dynamics of trailer in tow should be known. You know how many diesel pusher drivers do not know what the buzzer alarm for air brakes mean? These enddorsements should be mandatory and could be implemented with written tests. No need for driving tests. The LEOs and the insurance companies with handle the actual driving.
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