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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • A lot of those old ones were selling kits that used overbuilt golf cart motors. They worked, but were underwhelming. As EVs became more mainstream, people started pulling EV drive trains from wreaks and either DIYing it or hiring an independent shop to do it.

    Edison has done real world, on road testing of their semitruck drive train with a loaded(and maybe overloaded) haul of logs. The family that owns Edison Motors also owns a logging company, so they’re interesting is using what they’re making. They’re also shipping the first full size pickup truck kits to their partners for testing.

    They also teased a smaller drive axle that would work with smaller trucks or jeeps.


  • I’m following the development of Edison Motors, which will offer Diesel/EV hybrid kits for pickups and semitrucks. An unadvertised aspect of this is that because they’ll also have too offer repair parts, you’ll be able to make a pure EV pickup truck as well. This will also have the added benefit of not having any spyware installed.

    I have an old square body truck on the farm that I would love to convert to EV.





  • SUVs are minivans for people too insecure to admit that they need a minivan.

    So much of the car buying community is just letting yourself get up sold by images of a family of 5, cruising the open road, probably Alaska or Wyoming, quickly swerving out of the way of falling boulders or smoothly going over potholes, when they’re ninety nine percent of the time, they’ll be stuck in traffic and driving the same hand full of miles.