I had to Google Spiceworld, and Rivan. So you want an Electric pickup camper?

No, The Stick should get the electric SUV. Can even do "Tank Turns" or so they say.

Spiceworld is the tech conference I try to attend every year.

The only problem I got with electric vehicles is the range between charges.

Electric vehicles for a commuter often makes sense. For my needs, not a bit.

I wish a CNG conversion were not so dang expensive. I would love the run on CNG. Come home, plug into the compressor hooked to my natural gas line and always have a full tank in the morning. And the gas tank stays in place. Unfortunately is is over 20 grand to set that up.

How often do you go more than 410 miles in a day?

I do agree, for most stuff they don't make a lot of sense. I could use one as a DD, but road trips would be out. I wouldn't need a truck for a DD, a single seat would do. Maybe I should get an electric motorcycle for work!

A friend of mine in High School had a Little Red Express truck with a CNG conversion. It wasn't very expensive to convert just the truck at the time. Performance didn't seem to suffer as he could lay strips at will.

Yea, CNG is just about the same as gasoline for energy. It is cleaner.

When I was checking a big part of the cost is the tank. It of course is certified, and has to be replaced every so often. The installation has to be certified, and the home compressor station is really the cost now days. There are tons of CNG stations around here, but not as handy as gasoline.

One of my former co-workers lived 90 miles away. He commuted in every day. He had a old Dodge pickup, that ran on Propane. One of his friends delivered propane as a business. If you call for 50 gallons, and your tank only holds 45, he charged for bringing out 50, and just kept the extra. He would sell that extra to my co-worker at a buck per gallon. He had over 800,000 miles on the truck when we worked together. Rebuilding the truck is always cheaper than buying new, or used.

A hybrid that you could run DD trips on battery, then use an efficient desiel to keep batteries charged on long trips would be best solution.

in early 1900s Porsche had a car that had a small gasoline engine that charged a battery and the vehicle was all electric drive off the battery.

Stijn!!
 

Phew, the mean ol boss made me finish up the transmission oil change on the 911 today. I have to get it back on the road so we can go to the Stafford Air and Space museum tomorrow.

It is all finished and ready.

The Stafford museum is one of the largest space museums, and has a great collection of stuff. Lost of it on loan from NASA, but lots of Stafford's personal collection, and donations from other astronauts.

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Ready fer lunch at Lucille’s on RT 66

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Stafford museum amazing. This the two pieces of the worlds first airplane, that was taken to the moon, by some guy named Neil Armstrong.

Glen if you are serious about CNG swaps it can be done for way less. Used tanks are readily available with good dates and all the other bits aren’t too crazy. Some vehicles are hard to tune on CNG but your elky shouldn’t have that problem.

Hell my dads buddy had enough stuff to do it all a few years back that he’s pulled off various vehicles but I’m sure its all been sold now.


And on the electric thing, the rivian looks cool and the range they list is impressive, but the price is just nuts. You can find a lightly used Expedtion for 25k, I wouldn’t drive an SUV enough to justify needing the fuel savings.

Hey! I put those diner letters up! As well as all the rest of the signage at that place!


The big coke button to the right of the picture was ours too. Dad bought it and a little one at the sign time, and they are the real deal porcelain. Sold the big one to his client that owns Lucille’s for a nice profit and kept the much smaller one for his office.

Dinner is spelled with 2 “n”s, Sid. ;)

Sid, my wife got her degree from the university in Weatherford. After the Stafford museum tour she wanted to cruise around in Weatherford to see the changes. She graduated in (cough cough) and things have changed a a bit in the multiple decades since. We cruised past her old dorms, and several apartments that she lived at over the years there.

One of the dorms she lived in was first a men's dorm but for whatever reason it was changed to the women s dorm and the motto of the building is a quote from Will Rodger. "never met a man I didn't like." For some reason that was not appreciated by many of the women living there.

I was back when I commuted. Not anymore. My commute down the hall might produce some gas in the form or methane on occasion, but it does not cost anything. Now the vast majority of my driving is for my company. I keep a log book, and get a paid a rate of 58 cents per mile for business trips. After 27 years of ownership I am real sure it does not cost me 58 cents per mile to drive the El Camino, but hey it is a the law!

Morning all. Got back last night. The kid has about 50 minutes to get to his first class.

That should be easy if he is in a dorm on campus.

The high school I went to as a 10th grader was in Hawaii. My home room was in one far corner of the campus in a "temporary building" that was at least 10 years old. My first period was in a room at the diagonal other corner of a large campus. The bell rang and I had 5 minutes to get to class. I can walk pretty fast, and was a kid back then, and could cover some ground, but it took me 7 minutes to get there at a very brisk walk. My first period teacher wrote me up as tardy every morning for a week. Finally they sent me to the principal. I explained I refuse to have to run to class, and it was not my fault they put me in a home room as far away from 1st period as one can get on campus. He was convinced I could get there in time, so I challenged him to walk it with me and prove it.

We walked it, and it took 7 minutes with no kids in the way walking slow like I had to contend with when the bell rang. He admitted is is unreasonable to ask me to run to class every day, since it was hot and it was all outdoor walking. If it was raining, I had to walk under the covered walkways and it took 10 minutes at best. He talked to the teacher and said I could have 10 minutes to get to class, but my home room teacher refused to let me leave early, so I had to come in late.

The entire school was outside in the open walking between rooms. The main original campus building were normal building, but no halls inside a building at all. To go room to room, meant a trip outside to a covered walkway at best. So it was a school with no air conditioning and no heat either!

yep he is on campus. he is just not an early riser.

Not many kids his age are. Going to bed at a reasonable time is tough as a young-un.

It would interesting to see the percentage of missed classes by freshmen for the 8:00 AM classes. I suspect it is high. Of course at we all have worked for a living and had to commute through traffic to get to the office at 8:00 AM is is hard to feel much sympathy for a kid to walk across campus and sit in a class room on time.

I used to go in 20 to 30 minutes early just to beat the majority of rush hour. I could drink my coffee and get the processors fired up, and ready to start the day. Finally the boss let me move my work schedule to 7:30 to 4:30.