What new vehicle has less than 17K depreciation in six years? It could be an interesting candidate for motor swap at that point. Luxo-sedan that should have lots of life left in body and interior.
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Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?
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Swap in an electric power train.
I’d love to swap in electric into some small vehicle but don’t have the mechanical / electrical skills for that type of swap.
Sorry, I was thinking like 3 years or so, not the full 6. You are right, most lose at least that in 6 years.
Except that you can't do that because California.
EV swap? Can carb lose their crap if you make your emissions go down?
I would assume you would need to strip it back to a rolling chassis. Toyota can't stop the wheels from rolling (although maybe they can, not sure what paperwork follows theses vehicles). Assume you lose everything including power seats and entertainment system. If you can get the BCM's to function, take it as a win that you keep the creature comforts.
Or shred the car and buy a new one. It'll be cheaper.
I can't see Toyota ever endorsing a conversion of these vehicles to straight EV, even if a bunch of the guts are already there (a fuel-cell vehicle is basically a battery-electric vehicle but with a bunch more stuff added that has to do with the fuel cells, and without as big of a battery pack). It would be tantamount to an admission of failure. Likewise, the government via CARB would probably do everything in their power to maintain some semblance of a hydrogen refueling supply (even though it seems that this supply isn't all that reliable).
Seems that Toyota has only built somewhere near 11,000 Mirais since inception, including the first-generation model and this one. It isn't worth the engineering effort to redesign them.
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I can't see Toyota ever endorsing a conversion of these vehicles to straight EV, even if a bunch of the guts are already there (a fuel-cell vehicle is basically a battery-electric vehicle but with a bunch more stuff added that has to do with the fuel cells, and without as big of a battery pack). It would be tantamount to an admission of failure. Likewise, the government via CARB would probably do everything in their power to maintain some semblance of a hydrogen refueling supply (even though it seems that this supply isn't all that reliable).
Seems that Toyota has only built somewhere near 11,000 Mirais since inception, including the first-generation model and this one. It isn't worth the engineering effort to redesign them.
US: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Sales Collapsed In 2020
Sales of hydrogen cars never were particularly high, but even since the peak in 2018, the fuel cell vehicle market is shrinking.
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I believe in Hydrogen tech. The US is slow to adapt, its far more popular in Europe.
As I stated far earlier in this thread, I honestly don't think Hydrogen cars will be on the radar until at least 2030 before it gets taken in seriously around here. But I believe it will. If not for cars, for big rigs, buses and such.
Frankly, I'm amazed that electric cars have taken this long to get where we are today from when this thread was started 4 years ago.
As I stated far earlier in this thread, I honestly don't think Hydrogen cars will be on the radar until at least 2030 before it gets taken in seriously around here. But I believe it will. If not for cars, for big rigs, buses and such.
Frankly, I'm amazed that electric cars have taken this long to get where we are today from when this thread was started 4 years ago.
Why would anyone want hydrogen after EV's have had 10+ more years to mature? It takes a fortune in R&D and a JT sized boondoggle in distribution to be an also ran with shorter range at higher price than EV. Economically it is never going to be there. It may maintain a presence as a research project to attract government money.
the reality is, Everyone would want one over an electric car if we had more refill stations. The old chicken and the egg conundrum.
Hydrogen offers longer range eliminating range anxiety, works well in cold weather with no reduction in range, and no silly plugging in every night or hunting for chargers.
As more and more electric cars come on the market, there will be lines ups and fisticuffs at charging stations.....
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On the topic of ACC, my new tractor at work has the adaptive system as well as a "you're following too close" nag system that beeps at you.
I'm OK with all that, a reminder to maintain more space, I'm good with that.
Today however I discovered that even when the cruise control is not engaged it can (and will) slam on the brakes if it thinks a collision is imminent.
I guess I'd kinda be OK with that as well...if it was not very clearly flawed in it's detection. Today while going around an offramp it thought the car in the lane to my left (while I was curving right) was in my path of travel. All was well until that car slowed down for oncoming traffic and my tractor was convinced the car was in my lane and had stopped...and I was about to ram into it.
It honked on the brakes and scared the bejesus out of me.
I'm sure it tattled to my company as well since the tractor is wired for sound with all sorts of telemetry. Sure hope it includes brake application PSI (so it can see there WAS no spike in air PSI, IE, I didn't actually slam on the brakes in reaction to an actual imminent collusion) and that I continued merrily on my way after the fact.
I'm OK with all that, a reminder to maintain more space, I'm good with that.
Today however I discovered that even when the cruise control is not engaged it can (and will) slam on the brakes if it thinks a collision is imminent.
I guess I'd kinda be OK with that as well...if it was not very clearly flawed in it's detection. Today while going around an offramp it thought the car in the lane to my left (while I was curving right) was in my path of travel. All was well until that car slowed down for oncoming traffic and my tractor was convinced the car was in my lane and had stopped...and I was about to ram into it.
It honked on the brakes and scared the bejesus out of me.
I'm sure it tattled to my company as well since the tractor is wired for sound with all sorts of telemetry. Sure hope it includes brake application PSI (so it can see there WAS no spike in air PSI, IE, I didn't actually slam on the brakes in reaction to an actual imminent collusion) and that I continued merrily on my way after the fact.
Do you have any sort of lane keep or steering assist?
Was wondering if tractors were going to get these systems with the amount of ks tthey cover
I teresting question. It would be a lot harder on a bug truck as you have a lot less wiggle room. You can get better camera angles though.
Not on ours at least. I think lane wander alert is a thing but at this point at least I've seen no systems that have any control whatsoever over the steering, which given my experience with the adaptive cruise and "collision avoidance" or whatever is a good thing.
TFL has gotten their hands on a VW ID4 and did this initial comparison to their long-term Model Y. It will be interesting to see how the real-world range compares - battery sizes and vehicle size and weight are pretty close, although claimed range differs.
I know there have been complaints about VW's infotainment software, but it looks like it works fine here. This would presumably be the production-ready release as opposed to a preliminary release that others have seen, which was supposed to be updated in February.
I know there have been complaints about VW's infotainment software, but it looks like it works fine here. This would presumably be the production-ready release as opposed to a preliminary release that others have seen, which was supposed to be updated in February.
Haha, I lightly baited a T3 at a light yesterday (tipped in a little more than normal just to put a car length on him below 30 km/h to see what his ego was like). He obviously destroyed me after that and popped over the top of a hill where there is always a cop waiting (dump on ferndale) and he got lit up. Probably 80-90 in a 50.
everyone always trying to race the s1kXR. I dunno why..
oh right, Racing Red colour scheme. ?
Lol, i remember last season a buddy randomly sends a picture of me bombing down Jane and says "is that what you teach your students???!"
Tesla Simps. Sounds about right.
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