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Those same national security issues exist with American automobiles sending data back home to American servers. Why should Canadians trust an American automaker with that data any more than a Chinese automaker? It's not like American legal protections of Canadian data are any better than the...

1963 Lotus Elite, he bought in 1965 as a daily driver for my mother (he was driving a Austin Healy 100/6 with a transplanted Ford engine) at the time. When he retired a full restoration was his first project. Last year he turned 89 and decided to pass it down to me.

Mine lives outside and isn't plugged in at home in the dead of winter. It's sat below -20C for days at a time sometimes at a low SOC. This was a very consistently cold winter and we were -15C or lower just about every night from late December to late February. Never had any problems, I just live...

10.1.1 came in last night.

Ontario, Canada here, my Lightning is always outside. No issues.

davehu said: If they can't survive without subsidies a decade later then they'll never make it. This ^^. I always love the, "if they can't make it on their own they don't deserve to make it." comments. We subsidize all manner of very profitable businesses all the time: telco's, oil companies...

It's a 1000L (250G) tank, and 1L of water = 1kg, the difference in weight between maple sap and water is negligible, so full it would be 1000kg or 2204lb. I only have to move it ~800m but even so I probably wouldn't haul it full in the Lightning, but have done so many times on the back of the...

Hauling maple sap because the Unimog broke down.

The way my system is set up when I'm using a generator (Honda or Lightning) to charge my batteries all house loads draw from the generator, not the batteries. So if I have loads that exceed the capacity of the generator bad things happen, i.e. the inverter shuts down the house. The surplus that...

Not good enough! If you want to say that you live off grid then you have to walk into the forest naked, as a toddler, without the benefits of an education, modern medicine, etc. No tools for you! Forge your own steel from ore you dug up from your own mine, which (since you don't have steel) I...

No problem, one thing I've noticed about using the truck's Pro Power for long time frames is that there's a lot you probably want to turn off that you might not think about: auto-headlights, rain sensing wipers, climate control. No point in leaving those running. @Ford Motor Company I think...

I'm on an Outback based system so I have no idea if your setup would work the same, but I have both a gas genset (Honda 6500iu) and my truck. I have a setting that I need to toggle in my Outback software to tell the inverter which is providing power (only one can be charging the batteries at a...

I've been off grid for 20 years, but today I learned that I've been living a lie! Are roads a part of the grid as well? I drive on public roads too, don't pave my own or anything, just drive around. How about the postal service? I have a mailbox out at the road. Supermarkets? I don't grow 100%...

Off-grid here as well, I use the 240V plug in the back for charging my batteries. Are you looking to run the house off the truck, or charge your house batteries off your truck?

Hey there my battery bank is 1100AH @ 48V, or 52.8KwH. My house is 2500 sq/ft. We have all the normal appliances except a clothes dryer. I prefer hanging my clothes to dry so I don't miss it.