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Glenn I forgot to mention like all battery tools yes it will need charging because the last user didn't 🤣

While we are talking foreign countries: Canada's electricity generation (2018) by "fuel type" according to Canada Energy Regulator website Hydro / tidal: 67% Uranium: 15% Natural gas: 9% Coal/coke: 8% Wind: 5% Biomass/ geothermal: 1% Solar: <1% Petroleum: <1%

Ray on the Love Your RV channel did a video about installing a thermometer between the tank and insulation with remote read out.

Are those trains the battery electrics or the plug in to the grid versions?

Those water heater switch panels are designed to confuse rookie rv'rs'z right? ... um ... what does "I" and "O" mean on a switch again?

My Carriage has this ^ and then I also have a portable small Dyson for mattress vac'ing, flies off the windows, etc when I don't feel like rigging the central vac

My grand dotters market excess barn cat kittens over in our university cities with ads stating "good mousing genetics". 50 bucks each.

I really like my V8 Ford 3 fitty with 6.2 gasohol / 6 spd TorqShift for a tow/haul won ton. Not sure if that engine is available in the rv world? I've always been too chicken to venture into the world of Ford diesels. Bullet riddled or not.

Paccar MX engines also use(d?) hydraulic egr valves actuated by engine oil. Heat is the enemy of electro magnetical actuators.

I help a bit on a local farm during harvest. Last night I was tasked to take the "ol International" tandem truck and take a dab of wheat off the combines that didn't fit in the sem eye at the end of the day. Gas engine, 5 & 4 tran missions. About 300 rpm gear split, and the kind of horsepower on tap where you shut off the headlights to add that hp to the wheels when you see a hill coming... As they say "weren't those gears ground at the factory?" 🤣

It was a 280miles repositioning trip, so no pto or hydraulics needed. Lights work. He's got JD fittings Rick cause after all the world needs 157 different straight line connections to move fluid under pressure... he will have Pioneers soon... That won ton is a cab n chassis model Flatbed Ford 3 fitty Fordor, 'luminum bed, sweet 6 speed TorqShift trans, solid front axle, manual hubs, manual transfer shift, worn out tires, rear locker, gas engine ... 😲 The cart is a bit of a parachute when when the prairie winds blow from 30deg off the port bow.

I wondered why I have that virus looking sticker on my avatar- looks like I’ve been outted as a “collaborator” by the bots. I might have to go underground for a while I’ll say hi to him for you if I see him.

I had a camper with SeeLevel external monitors. They worked very well.

One day in 1976 I was driving a 1970 Freightliner COE, Cummins Super 250, 4 speed main, 4 speed auxiliary transmissions, five axle semi trailer tanker, hauling gasoline. I kept a count going on a clipboard on the doghouse. I made somewhere around 1400 shifts in a 200 mile trip. 🤣

My son has a 18v Milwaukee that works great.

I’m not entirely sure I think it is a free ride for EV’s.

rpsinc - that equipment looks more organized than my milk crate system.

So if a person had a trailer built on axleless suspensions and air brakes behind a HDT http://dallassmithcorp.com/products/lo-floor-trailer-chassis-modules/ you could kneel it on the ground and drive in and out the garage under the rear lounge, or store more stuff Air suspension allows over inflation to raise the trailer for low speed off road clearance Air brakes on normal axles would be nice

Now we are talkin' "essential weight"...

I did some looking around - there does not seem to be agreement in how much electric energy equivalent (kw) is available in gasoline so I used the US EPA number of 33.7 kwh of energy available in a USgal of gasoline. (The other kwH/gallon numbers I found are close to this). So a daily net work from 36,900,000,000 gallons of gasoline = 1,243,530,000,000 kwh / 1000 = 1,243,530,000 MWhours. From the EIA website - "At the end of 2020, the United States had 1,117,475 MW—or about 1.12 billion kilowatts (kW)—of total utility-scale electricity generating capacity and about 27,724 MW—or nearly 0.03 billion kW—of small-scale solar photovoltaic electricity generating capacity." What is suprising is 43% is generated using natural gas. I thought coal was the bogeyman ... I digress... EIA info So in theory the gasoline fleet could be eventually replaced with electric vehicles by doubling the total generation capacity available today, based on gasoline vehicles converting 30% of the energy/gallon to power to road and vehicle systems / 70% lost out the exhaust pipe and cooling system.

Saying there is no place for electric powered vehicles is like saying you want to go back to Briggs & Stratton engine powered clothes washing machines on the back porch. Politicians are setting goals for EV vehicle fleet %'s by such and such a year. What is the plan to develop infrastructure to convert other energy into electrical energy to power the EV fleet by such and such a year? I wondered. So I went to the EIA website and read: "In 2020, Americans used about 123 billion gallons of motor gasoline—or about 337 million gallons per day—and about 166 million gallons of aviation gasoline. Gasoline is one of the major fuels consumed in the United States and is the main product that U.S. oil refineries produce. Most of the motor gasoline sold for use in vehicles in the United States is about 10% fuel ethanol by volume." Here is where I need help: Let's say a light vehicle gasoline engine is 30% efficient - 30% of the energy in a gallon of gas is used for motive power, 70% being lost to heat, what does that represent in terms of electricity needed to power the same fleet of vehicles if they are electric? In other words, how many megawatts of electricity replaces the energy in 36,900,000,000 (30% of 123 billion) gallons of gasoline? What is the plan to generate and distribute it?

The highly efficient and functional public transit in most metros is brought to you by your money being spent by guvvermint. It's a wonder we even need cars after all these years, let alone guvvermint sanctioned electric ones.

While battery electric propulsion is suitable for a lot of light vehicle transport, work is going on around the challenge of reducing emissions in heavy vehicles and machines that are used in high hours per day work using mature piston engine technology. A visit to JCB's engine innovation lab

Hi DoublOsvn - I remember someone on the forum here having a power passenger lift installed on a Volvo.