Ontario BS Thread

I spot a 1GR-FE!

 

First Tacoma
First day
Factory fresh

 

Purdddeeeeee.

Pssst, its totally going to stay beautiful like that forever.

some familiar emojis for ya



just kidding, nice looking rig..

 

traaaaaaaaaaail limooooooooooooo!

 

Welcome!

Nice truck...

Flag's a little faded, step up...k?

 

Go big or go home! We all know reason people get anything smaller is because they are too cheap to get the entire truck.

 

I'm over GVWR just putting camping gear in a short bed!

the last thing I need is a longer bed with lower weight limit, because I pack every "just in case" item I can fit

 

Fixed it for you

 

fairly stated...on it

 

Don’t mind @TeecoTaco he is just blunt and gets right to the point

Beauty truck and welcome to the Ontario TW brotherhood

 

Since everyone’s talking about kayaks today here’s a picture of how we moved ours around yesterday at work……Homemade plywood rack/roof

We have a youth duck hunt coming up and part of the program is to come out and volunteer with nesting structures beforehand

It was a hot day retrieving Mallard tubes but the kids and parents survived.

 

Welcome @Slainte72 ! Congrats on the new truck!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp1uI4D7NRQ

don't mind me, just enjoying the how-to EV swap build that might be an option if i detonate the engine

 

So cool. Honestly when it comes to power and torque the ev has the upper hand. It’s just batteries and being able to recharge them. Can’t imagine a group of Overlander’s showing up to trudys to charge their shit haha.

 

Or living somewhere you can not now charge your EV? Example California. They are in such a drought they have no water to supply power, they get a massive amount of their power from water dams. They are being told to not charge EV's.



What a fukin joke.

 

that's why you get a spare Honda 7000W generator just to chill out in the bed of the truck. fire her up and power/ charge everything!
solar powered leds? GET A 120W LIGHT BULB
99%efficient overlander fridge? BRING 18CU FOOT FRIDGE
-40c sleeping bag? ELECTRIC BLANKETS



HELL WITH IT, BRING THE HOUSE!

WITH THE TORQUE FROM AN EV, YOU CAN PUL EVERYTHING

 

I have big faith in the potential for electric vehicles, obviously there is infrastructure changes required to make it happen.

Any old corner store gas station in rural places could simply get a few Tesla Powerwalls, installed with solar charging, and some hookups to charge electric vehicles, rather than doing the whole electric grid change.

After all the costs to do that would be less than the cost to install or refresh existing gas station infrastructure (tanks, pumps, concrete footings, etc). A life span of underground tanks is like 25-30 years if I remember correctly, so at the end of the life I think we should see a lot moving towards smaller tanks with electric charging installation.

not to mention that you don't need to pay an employee by the hour for charging stations. Tesla for example, you just plug it in and your card is charged for your usage automatically.

 

Doubtful. This entire push for EV is a joke. They are NOT better than gas vehicles. Not yet anyhow.

https://canada.autonews.com/technol...s-yanked-transit-lots-because-they-lose-money

 

There's a lot to disassemble from that article. You need to question a) why are the operating costs so high? b) why is revenue so low? c) why did they install so many stations?

a) Electricity is still a supply/demand resources like everything else. Infrastructure needs upgrading to provide the supply. Plan was developed in 2013 when costs were significantly higher to implement the stations. Also, are they doing activity based accounting for these? Are they attributing a janitor cleaning garbage in that parking spot to the EV station? this matters because he will be doing that in the spot regardless.

b) Pretty obvious, electric vehicle usage is lower than gas. You can't gain revenues until people buy more EVs, but they wont buy more until the stations are readily available.

c) The plan was likely amortized over a LONG period of time with some sort of unrealistic growth number, where they would be using 24 stations all at once within 5 years or something.

Costs = 24 stations x $2000/ea = $48,000/y to operate.
Revenues = 24 x $450/ea = $10,800/y

they could have reduced to 5 stations to make it positive on the revenue side, and increased the charging fee 5%.

not to mention a Go Station isn't really the appropriate spot for a EV charging station, most people I assume would be walking or biking there to commute to their job...

 

Until I can recharge my battery under 5 minutes to full charge (takes me that much to refill at gas station) electric is worthless. Also I’d like to be able to carry extra fuel, which isn’t possible with batteries - say I need to leave behind gas cans somewhere it’s fine, but leaving extra battery, expensive.