rynosback
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Are you staying in a hotel while it is being done? If so, why not just store it in your room? Sure it might be tight, but it is for a short period on time.
Sorry for all of the replies, but different angles pop into my head.
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Put an add on Craigslist. But keep in mind that if it not a business they are not bonded nor insured. I think most places rent out for a month at a time, and they do not prorate it. Especially since you are looking for days to a week at most.
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Did you look at Pods?
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On 12/20/2019 at 6:41 PM, RV_ said:
If I wasn't long ACB and NBEV I'd be worried about the drop in their stock market prices.
And their reverse split was not a good thing at all.
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Garmin Dezl 770
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1 hour ago, podwerkz said:
I just raise the Mobley up on a pole.
A new way of surrendering? LOL
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16 hours ago, RV_ said:
Just stop at a Supercharger en route. If it's on a trailer. Or being driven.
Defeating the objective.
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1 hour ago, stripit said:
So far I have not taken my Tesla Model X along to a campground but am looking at a way to plug it into the 50 amp service in the motorhome. I can get only 2-3 miles per hour back into the battery with a 110 power, but 40 miles per hour back in with a 50 amp Tesla plug in my garage. Just a normal 50 amp plug shoud give me about 20 ish miles per hour. Full charge I'm showing 352 miles range. If need be with the adapters i have I could charge at most any chare point. They seem to be adding those charge points more and more.
This is why I started this thread. Your motor home has a 50 amp female plug? You must have some sort of super smart management system that can allow the max amount of power to be drawn from campground between the changes of what your rig needs and then sending the rest to the charger for the car. Not to over load the pedestal. Could you please inform me of what that system is? If my rig is plugged into the 50 amp service the car will not be able to. Hence the problem that I explained in the first post. That a 110 outlet would take FOREVER to charge up an EV.
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6 hours ago, kurtsara said:
Big cities might get taxes but when you camp in my town campground instead of walmart the town gets no tax money
Every local ordinance is not the same. There is a chance that you may be paying taxes and would never know as it is built into there nightly rate. But a lot of places add taxes after the fact, as it is something that they can not controll. This article might help,
https://www.avalara.com/us/en/blog/2017/05/complicated-camping-taxes-wacky-tax-wednesday.html
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4 hours ago, bigjim said:
Was meant to be tongue in cheek for the first part. The second part I was just being an old guy relating a sort of humorous true story that I experienced. I think I have cabin fever from the Covid situation.
Please don't tell me now that the sky is falling. I might just believe it and I have enough to worry about.😀 Also if it gets to upper levels of the government it might get tweeted out as fact.
LOL, I will not tweet that as you might be right. Look at the doctor recently that was retweeted. What a quack.
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2 hours ago, bigjim said:
Oh course there is the possibility in some cases that the local campground is full. Then of course you may have to leave the town without spending any money to go to some other place to park even for one night. All hypothetical of course.
I did leave a place once that treated me poorly right off the bat. I was just driving through and saw their lovely campground and it was so nice and not one other camper there so I said to myself, Self, I might just stay here for a few days and check the place out and visit local restruants and stores. I'm usually pretty patient but they just got my goat so I moved on without spending a dime. That resulted in me driving longer and having to spend the night on a Wmart parking lot a few towns further east. And of course you almost can't stop at a Wmart without spending something.
The sky could be falling also. Was just trying to address the posters post.
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7 hours ago, fly2low said:
I hope not, as I am putting mine on the market in a week or two
Should sell quick.
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4 hours ago, Ray,IN said:
WalMart has not changed their official policy for overnight parking though, re-read their website.. That CNN article is a "he said" piece, with no comment from WalMart.
The vast majority of parking bans are initiated by local RV parks toward local government that controls where RV's can park.
Yes, it is really more of the local ordinances over Walmart’s policies. I would agree local campgrounds are some of the push. But keep in mind the city is not collecting their taxes when you park at a Walmart.
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RV, have you looked into Nio? With a battery subscription looks interesting. As you will keep up with newest battery technology. I have been in it for about a year and cost averaged as it went down.
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5 hours ago, Second Chance said:
Hmmm... wonder why they've insured both of our fifth wheels, then - including currently?
Rob
Edit: I'm wondering if it has anything to do with state of domicile. There are difference insurance regulations in each state and USAA is licensed separately in each state according to the residence of the policy holder. We are domiciled in Texas.
I’m also full time. When getting insurance I do not hide the fact at all.
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13 hours ago, Second Chance said:
We've not done anything special. We followed advice early on and only used "#" in our Escapees address rather than "PMB" or something else. Example:
161 Rainbow Drive #[xxxx]
Livingston TX 77399I know that the Escapees' system has been tested in the courts and held up - perhaps it's something with your SD PMB address. We have other friends who use the Escapees Livingston address (with "#") with USAA and don't have any issue with it, either.
BTW, USAA will insure towable RVs - they just farm motorhomes out to Progressive.
Rob
Not true, I have a 5th wheel and they farmed me out to Progressive. We get a discounted rate over the regular premium because of the relationship.
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7 hours ago, RV_ said:
On edit: I erased my middle and last name on my receipt, and my Vehicle ID # only in the tax receipts and registration below..
Lou,
I disagree. Here are my receipts from registering my Tesla Model Y in Colorado. With all the road taxes. Some states are causing EV owners to pay double what gas and diesel owners pay annually in road taxes, trying to stop the inevitable move away from fossil fuels.
As well:
"The oil industry subsidies have a long history in the United States. As early as World War I, the government stimulated oil and gas production in order to ensure a domestic supply.
In 1995, Congress established the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act.10 It allowed oil companies to drill on federal property without paying royalties. This encouraged the expensive form of extraction since oil was only $18 a barrel. The Treasury Department reported that the federal government has missed $50 billion in foregone revenue over the program's lifetime. It argued that this may no longer be needed now that deepwater extraction has become profitable.
Here is a summary of the 2011 oil industry subsidies compiled by Taxpayers for Common Sense in its report, "Subsidy Gusher."11
- Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit - $31 billion.
- Intangible Drilling Costs - $8.9 billion.
- Oil and Gas Royalty Relief - $6.9 billion.
- Percentage Depletion Allowance - $4.327 billion.
- Refinery Equipment Deductions - $2.3 billion.
- Geological and Geophysical Costs Tax Credit - $698 million.
- Natural Gas Distribution Lines - $500 million.
- Ultradeepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and other Petroleum Resources R&D - $230 million.
- Passive Loss Exemption - $105 million.
- Unconventional Fossil Technology Program - $100 million.
- Other subsidies - $161 million.
Greenpeace argues that the oil industry subsidies should also include the following activities:
- The Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
- Defense spending that involves military action in oil-rich countries in the Persian Gulf.
- The construction of the U.S. federal highway system which encourages reliance on gas-driven cars.
The BEA argues that these federal government activities were primarily done to protect national security and not promote specific activities within the oil industry. Even though the intent was not to directly subsidize it, they may have benefited the industry indirectly.
The Bottom Line
Any financial benefit, whether cash or tax cuts, given by the government to businesses or government organizations is considered a subsidy. Subsidies are given to help companies reduce their costs of doing business. In doing so, the government helps boost certain sectoral activities for the economy.
The U.S. government grants subsidies to the following industries:
- Oil.
- Agriculture.
- Housing.
- U.S. farm exports.
- Automobile market.
- Healthcare through Obamacare subsidies.
The ethanol industry used to be subsidized until 2012 through corn subsidies.
Some economists though are opposed to government subsidies. They believe these end up doing more harm than good in the long run."
Source with additional info on ethanol subsidies:
You pay this every year?
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7 hours ago, RV_ said:
Has he let you drive the Y yet?
He lives in Bethesda, MD and I’m in SD now. I live on the road full time. But when I go back I will. He is also on the waiting list for the Cybertruck.
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If they want to know where you are, they will just track your phone. As you have that with you more then your car. The government does not care about where your car is or was.
Don’t be fooled, they have been watching us for a while. Heck there are tag readers all over that track you if they wanted to.I could careless as I have nothing to hide and am not doing anything illegal.
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5 hours ago, Bill Joyce said:
Lately we have been running into campgrounds with signs that say you can only plug one thing into the power pedestal. I suspect that will be more common over time.
We borrowed our friend's 2018 C-Max plug-in hybrid when our old car was in the shop and it was nice to experience it before we got our hybrid. I wish our friend had told us the 110 cord was under the door, since we would have charged up in our campsite from the now unused basement freezer plug. The Escape plug-in was $5K more and only came in FWD, both shop stoppers for us.
Interesting. If that was the case I would only offer one 50 amp connection in the box. If you have a 30 amp rig, your would need to step down. Much easier to do that instead of trying to enforce a rule.
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2 hours ago, Lou Schneider said:
Right. Electric cars are not charged 18.4 cents a gallon Federal and 41 to 75 cents a gallon State taxes for their fuel. They get a free ride on the roads these taxes build and maintain.
Other maintenance costs are deferred until their battery packs need replacing.
Plus some are even getting tax credits for buying one.
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I think a good way instead of a gas tax to maintain the roads, how about a tire tax? If you change your tires a lot, that means that you are driving a lot. They might have to have prorated exceptions for blowouts or non repairable tires. It would be a percentage as bigger and heavier vehicles tires are more expensive. This would level the playing field.
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8 minutes ago, durangodon said:
I'm not sure that's completely true. I think I've read where some States are charging road use fees for EV's, in some cases higher than it would be for a comparable gasoline model. I suppose someday we might all be paying road use fees based on how many miles we travel and our vehicle weight. Until then, we'll have a hodgepodge system of fees.
EV's have tires, 12 volt battery, brakes, axles, bearings, light bulbs, air filters, and other wear items. They don't have a gasoline engine, but they are not totally maintenance free.
I never said that they are maintenance free. You have to replace tires, brakes (should last longer as you regenerative brakes), wiper blades, cabin air filter. Where as a gas car you need to maintain all of that plus air filter, engine oil, belts & hoses, trans fluid, antifreeze and emission components and do testing on it. Lights are about a wash as a lot of newer cars are using LED lights. EVs more so then it’s counter part.
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4 hours ago, RV_ said:
Scott, What kind of EV do you travel with? On edit: Scott you answered since I started my long post. I had to do something for SWMBO and missed your later post explaining the Ford CMax. They discontinued them? Sorry I never looked into hybrids.)
Guys, we can control scrubbing even a coal fired power plant exhaust much better than the millions of tailpipes. I used to do diesels and mine were tuned just enough to equalize/level the injector loads from the pump output. This was to maximize power without creating clouds of black smoke. Even then I could totally floor it and coal roll and discourage a tailgater when they were really bad, especially texters on my left rear corner blind spot. My whole time owning diesels I'd done that maybe three or four times.
I still love Ram trucks but can't store one in my two car garage. And as a city dweller now in a subdivision do not need one. We still have the Subaru Baja parked out front and I am about to lower the price to liquidate it. I have a trailer hitch on the Forester and can rent a trailer for anything I'd need for this tiny house.
I am not a greenie with my Tesla. But it always seems the folks who don't have/like/understand/ BEVs bring up pollution by immediately using the old tired 2010 anti Tesla crap we all know better today. I don't believe I've ever touted clean air as a primary advantage.
I wanted to own a BEV ever since we skied Zermatt Switzerland several times in 1994 and 1995. Since 1978 no ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) age vehicles were allowed. You have to park below and take the cog railroad up back in the 90s. You still can't drive up because they want no pollution there. It is the village just below the Matterhorn that we skied around and down into Italy. I'd seen golf carts but never the little BEV pickups and buses that constantly circled the town transporting us to and from the lifts, apres ski places etc. Totally free of extra charge when we were there:
( if you let the next video come up automatically the following video shows the highest 3S cableway in the world there we rode many times to the top slopes. One ski run is 7 kilometers from the trail head down to Cervinia Italy, with an Irish pub in the middle (yes we drank there) and a really tall gondola back up to Switzerland. So that is where my personal fascination with BEVs started.
Then in 2003 when I heard of Tesla I was really excited BEVs were coming to the US.. It's a shame we can only do windshield tours as the folks outside feel no need of masks so we are essentially quarantined. Personal choice, YMMV.
Back to the main topic. Charging is really not a big deal. When we got our first diesel truck in 1997 we had to drive a ways as there were few diesel pumps in town, and those few had prices higher than a cat's back. So we had to drive a bit too - at first.
Tesla chargers are two kinds today, Destination chargers, and Superchargers. Destination chargers are at places you most likely will spend several hours at. Therefore they are less powerful because they can charge for several hours. For the entry fee to zoos and Disney parks and destinations and similar, you bet we would plan a whole day there. So we don't need a Supercharger there.
Superchargers are 120kW and will give a full charge in under an hour. If you want look at Tesla charger maps. The other maps on Plugin and others are as little as 6.6-7 kW chargers. Example, look at the kW! https://www.plugshare.com/location/123713
Here is a non Tesla EV website with lots more info. https://normalnow.com/?utm_source=bing&utm_campaign=Unbranded_Flight2_49States&utm_medium=search&utm_term=na&utm_content=ad&msclkid=622b8809a8971fa1e4d2d72ba82cb721&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=EA_Cycle 1_Flight 3_US49_NonBrand_BMM&utm_term=%2Belectric %2Bvehicle %2Bcharging&utm_content=EA_Cycle 1_Flight 3_US49_Nonbrand_BMM_Car Charger&gclid=CL-ewb_J8-oCFZmrxQIdk2UCoQ&gclsrc=ds
Here is a very comprehensive charging map for Tesla and some others. You need to zoom in and find the charging kW, as well as what kind of plugs. My Model Y came with a charging cable and an adapter for non Tesla stations. I bought the
This is for apartment dwellers in a city: https://electrek.co/2018/08/13/tesla-expands-charging-infrastructure-new-york-urban-supercharger/
I'll stick to Tesla Super and destination chargers on the road and get a full charge in less than an hour. My car has a range of 316 miles per charge. To prolong the life opf the battery pack I charge at home to 284 miles as it comes default. For a trip I top that off.
So the arguments become that it pollutes more to make a Tesla than ICE cars, coming from ICE drivers. Horse manure! If you disagree please cite a source.
Excerpt:
"Another argument is that, because your local power station may run on coal, the pollution is just being shifted from the tailpipe to the smoke stack. This is equally fallacious.
This is because a power station is much more efficient than a small ICE in a car in converting fuel to any end product. The electric motors in an EV are 3 times as efficient as an ICE in converting energy to forward movement. The emissions from a power station are more controllable than those from thousands of private cars, and are normally emitted outside the city, not in city streets."
Go to this link for US energy sources from 1776 to current. It's at the bottom of the page under the energy chart showing the percentage of renewable energy used today. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/renewable-sources/
That information is from The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) that collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policy making, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
My charger at home plugs into a NEMA 14-50 outlet and charges at 29/30 miles per hour of charging. https://shop.tesla.com/product/gen-2-nema-adapters If I splurged on the Tesla walll charger I'd get 44 miles per hour of charging. But since I don't put many miles on my car I just did the much cheaper 14-50r receptacle..
I knew that you would chime in. It looks like at this time that the logistics for full timing and staying in campgrounds is going to be troublesome at this point in time. On a side note, my best friend just picked up a model Y a couple of weeks ago.
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Still waiting for it to get worse. My green-backs are tired of sitting on the sideline.