EV Myths (Cold Winter Range 1/2 rated nominal range) especially climbing mountains at freeway speeds!

On cold dark winter days when you need to run the cabin heater & AC to defrost the windows, your 100kWh latest new battery EV with 300mi of nominal range only gives 140mi of mountain pass climbing in sub-freezing temps while going 70-80 mph. 

Firstly, motor vehicles, powered by batteries recharged, gasoline, diesel, ethanol, methanol, propane, biofuels, synthetic fuels, cow farts or whatever, even nuclear, are not eco-friendly. Industrialization toxic to the biosphere as is human activity on the scale of 8 billion people at the same time. Back to splitting hairs about the differences between ICE refueling range & speed vs EV's with a flaky charging infrastructure that doesn't work during power outages. L1 charging on the go painfully slow. Even L2 way slower than gasoline refills. 

Solar PV be that Monocrystalline Silicon or even better CIGS, those are not eco-friendly to make or recycle. They are the product of carbon intensive heat intensive, chemical intensive, resource intensive, industrial processes & a supply chain that's mostly energized by conventional diesel in commercial trucks, or on heavy fuel oil burning container ships. 

Not emissions neutral, actually Solar PV & wind power turbines have huge manufacturing, distribution & installation emissions before they ever make DC to make AC to power your home or charge your BEV at home, or to charge your home LFP energy whole home battery UPS system, etc 

Anything industrial is eco-toxic. It's called globalization & we are in the middle of #4IR or t he forth industrial revolution. Say "widely applied artificial intelligence or information war" who ever controls the singularity & all information will own all future human societies, economies & governments.  

I can add 600 mi of gasoline range in less than 5 min in our 22 Corolla Hybrid. There are no EV's that charge that quickly widely available like Hybrid gasoline cars from Toyota. I am sure there is some custom super-capacitor EV that charges up in 15 seconds or something, but that's not a real-world car like the Prius which has sold in the 10+ million scale. 

Parking at the ski resort when its 22 degrees F outside & snowing & going skiing or snowboarding for 8 hours (1 hour for lunch, 1 hour for dinner) then you come back and your long-range EV that had 64% battery when you parked. Sadly, for you the 7kw battery heater ran all day to keep the batteries low in chassis above 40F so the lithium-ion battery pack can pick up some regen on your way back down the mountain pass to the city where you live & came from in the first place. But that leaves you with only 15% remaining charge, not nearly enough to get home, even if you capture enough regen to add 30mi of range (optimistic, probably less)(regen usually boosts BEV range in city stop & go by 10-15%.)

Meaning you have to stop & public charge, but there is a problem with the public charger or supercharger or LEVEL 3 charger, and no L2 charger working nearby because of power outages from a winter storm. You find a outlet used for block heaters & reluctantly plug in your EVSE level 1 slow trickle charger that only boosts your battery by 3-5 mi of range per hour of charging, meaning you have to camp in the car or nearby for 10+ hours to pick up enough charge to get home. 

 Its so dark & cold that your vehicle roof mounted solar PV panels did not add much charge, especially while buried under dozens of inches of snow that has covered the BEV while its parked at the ski resort. How do I know about this, 3 different Nissan LEAF's, starting with the 24 kWh model in 2013, then a 2015MY 30kWh version, then a 2019 40kWh SV. I traded all of them in for hybrid electric vehicles, A 2005 Toyota Prius II, 2010 Prius III, 2015 Honda CRz, and the latest a 22 Corolla Hybrid that gives over 50MPH & above 60MPG & even more than 70+ MPG on regular gas when mild or extreme hypermiling :) 

Public chargers are often not free either. And don't for a second think that electricity carbon free. The average kWh of electricity in the USA produces nearly 400 grams of carbon emissions. Oh, and to get that vehicle to you from Germany, Japan or somewhere else distant in Mexico, Canada or some US state not nearby, that means 30 tons of carbon emissions from the diesel trucks that got your 2-5 ton BEV to your local market where you purchased it. 

Did I mention that EV's shred tire tread away owing to their fun instant acceleration torque. Many Tesla BEV owners note having to change $2000 sets of tires in less than 10,000 mi and some in less than 5000 miles. Tesla models this or that are way more expensive to insure, way more expensive to repair, and that water based paint that rubs away more easily means that many Tesla owners spends several thousand dollars having their newer Tesla model whatever viny wrapped. 

A Hybrid Sienna, Tacoma, Tundra, Highlander, Rav4, Corolla or even the ever-popular Prius, now in 2023 with 196HP & e-AWD that still gives more than 50 MPG on real world regular unleaded gas in normal operating conditions when driven by regular people on average real world driving routes and on road trips. 

Try taking your new 100kWh BEV on a 8000-mile summer road trip like Meg & I did in her 2010 Prius III & enjoy many weeks of delays charging, when a few hours of gas station fill-ups did the trick for us. 

Also, we are not running out of gasoline for 300 years because of synthetic gasoline that's naturally unleaded & super clean burning like propane, made from natural gas, bio gas, or even coal gasification gases. Synthetic diesel & Jet fuel can be made with Shell GTL gas to liquids processes industrialized at the giga scale. 

In our Prius III or Corolla Hybrid, we can add 11 gallons of gasoline & go 500+ miles before the next fill up. With gas prices falling like home loan interest rates, we are seeing lower operating or fuel costs now as well. Regular gasoline peaked at $5.40/gal, but now under $4.50 a gallon & even less than $4 a gallon nearby at some stations. There are still millions of gas stations in America, they are not going away either. With Synthetic & Biofuels, there will be liquid fuel gas stations for hundreds of years. NH3 or Hydrogen & DME stations, along with more Propane stations, we will see these cleaner & sustainable fuels replace fossil fuels in the future. 

Hey, for local commuting, a BEV or battery electric vehicle is fantastic. I loved every Nissan LEAF that we owned. I only gave them up because I need more range, more freeway speed with Heat & AC on. I need to be able to road trip my car long distances and have a longer commute as a result of moving further from work to realize lower housing costs. 

EV Future Much Brighter

1MW or faster LEVEL 4 or LEVEL 5 pubic chargers that do 0-80 charging in 10 min or less
** requires industrial sub-station level power connection (not widely available) 

Better EV motors with axial flux & improved magnets, better power, lower mass, better regen. 

Better EV motor controller electronics with better EV motor control software, better efficiency.

Greatly enhanced regen with newer better batteries that can soak up current fast without damaging

Greatly improved battery chemistry that lasts longer, more cycles, more years, fade free, safety maximized & puncture & accidental crash safe without fire or smoke or flame. Way better energy density & improved volume density with packaging flexibility to fit more batteries in more places in the BEV. 

New flexible room temperature super-conductor wires with less resistance & better current flow improve all aspects of power movement through the BEV, battery pack, motor & controller. 

Better electronics with high power SiC silicon carbide chips. 

Gasoline piston & rotary & liquid piston & opposed piston generators will operate at one super-efficient clean burning RPM setting that reduces fuel consumption & lowers emissions while maximizing electrical power generation to energize the ranged extended EV traction motor & charge its traction battery pack. 

PHEV or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are just like this now. The Rav4 Prim has almost 500HP & the fastest accelerating RAV4. Its also full time AWD traction master with the best grip in all weather conditions. The downside is that it's also the heaviest & destroys tires the fastest as a result. 

Cannabis Use Doubled in the USA over the Last Few Years

Some early research into older populations that use cannabis show an uptick in heart attacks, stoke, clots & embolisms. Too soon to tell if the Phyto cannabinoids in cannabis that activate human CB1 & CB2 receptors are actually bad for human health. I suspect a relationship between dosing & beneficial effects as is broadly seen in other prescription drugs, recreational drugs, alcohol, and other drugs of abuse, or narcotics. 

Caution

Using cannabis can reduce your reaction times while driving or operating heavy or dangerous machinery

The use of cannabis can also induce paranoid thinking and has the potential to catalyze latent mental illness into emerging. People with a family history of schizophrenia for example are often advised by doctors to stay away or abstain from the use of psychedelic drugs, and THC in cannabis is a dose dependent psychedelic. 

Getting high with cannabis can make food taste better or more intense, make listening to music more enjoyable, make relaxing & calming down easier, can help to reduce stress, aid in forgiving issues or people that cause chronic stress & can be emotionally beneficial in small doses, infrequently to help quiet the mind, induce peace or tranquility, and been used for centuries for relieve from pain. Look to the historical use of cannabis & the science of what cannabis does to the brain & body when we get high using cannabis. I cant do that anymore because I gave up cannabis use in order to get a CDL and become a school bus driver. 

Cannabis use or getting high can be highly intoxicating, especially if administered with alcoholic beverages, hop water, GABA or other sedatives like benzodiazepines or pain medications. 

Caution when drinking beer or wine & using cannabis. Nicotine can also enhanced the potency of the high from cannabis. In both cases the level of intoxication increases and can produce feelings of swirling or losing control, like your spinning on the inside & unstable. Be very careful & stay where you are & phone a friend to pick you up, and absolutely do not drive, ride a bicycle or walk near traffic while intoxicated as doing so hazardous & dangerous. 

I advise never becoming inebriated or intoxicated. Less is more. Think 5mg of THC then wait 5 to 30 days, if it was weak, possibly 10mg. 1 or two alcoholic beverages, never more at once, see how you respond. Everyone's body slightly different, and the way we respond to cannabis or alcohol influenced by many factors and is different for everybody. 

Lower Doses Safer / Less is More

Ask yourself why you are using something in the first place. Is there a healthier alternative? Can deep breathing inspired by researching Wim Hof the super cold athlete, can that obtain the kind of relief you are looking for?

EV vs Hybrid & Efficient Turbo Gasoline GDI or TDI or Biofuel

Not all roses & sunshine to own an EV. I went down the EV path starting in 2013 with a 24kWh Nissan LEAF S. While the annual tabs for my Prius II were about $140, the LEAF tabs were over $600, in part because the State of Washington applies special EV taxes because of lost revenue from gasoline sale taxes that EV drivers are no longer paying. But the $350 EV fees are the same as gasoline taxes paid on a 14 MPG truck driven 15,000 mi per year. Thats not even close to what the 24kWh LEAF could accomplish, especially not if you used the cabin heater or AC for defrosting the windows or cooling the cabin in hot summer weather. 

The whole time we tried Nissan LEAF's we had our 2005 Prius II hybrid gasoline powered car, that now belongs to Meg's dad Allan. Along the way I had purchased a new 2015 Honda CR-z with 6sp manual transmission & it was not until I broke my right wrist & had ankle problems that I reluctantly traded it in 

In 2018 I got a used 2015 Nissan LEAF SL with the 30kWh battery, and it boosted range about 30% all around vs the first one. Had a nicer ride & better performance & more features too. We traded this 30 kWh LEAF for Meg's 2010 Prius III which is still her daily, and our Road Trip car until just recently. 

In early 2023 I purchased a used 2019 Nissan LEAF SV & loved it when I had a shorter daily commute of only 20 mi round trip total daily. Then we had to move further away to lower our monthly costs & the route became all highway at higher speeds on a more mountainous route. We traded this in for a lightly used 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid, that is currently getting more than 60 MPG real world. 

EV's are promoted as some sort of eco-friendly vehicle alternative to gasoline powered conventional vehicles, but there is more to it than such a simplistic assumption. 

First mining the extra copper, making all the extra computer chips, not to mention the cobalt, aluminum, nickel & gold for electrical contact corrosion prevention. Just the EV specific parts, especially the minerals in the permanent magnets in the EV motors IPM or Axial Flux, those require rare earth minerals like dysprosium, neodymium, boron, lanthanum, silicon, vanadium, cerium, gadolinium, scandium, gallium, indium, between the computer chips, motor controllers, battery chargers, BMS, ADAS, computers, the wheels, tires, metals or composites or plastics, cars or automobiles are not & never have and never will be truly eco-friendly like the lifestyle of an pre-modern indigenous person living off the land in small groups of people living in the Rainforests of South America. 

People are toxic to the biosphere of the Earth because of War, genocide, crime, pollution & many other factors. Ever wonder where all those tire tread erosion products end up? Yes, vehicle tires are the leading source of microplastic emissions. The tread that wears off your vulcanized rubber car tires ends up going everywhere into nature, including into other people's bodies. 

Sure, petrochemical fossil fuel-based gasoline has a lot of problems from the way the crude oil or petroleum is mined or pumped out of the ground, to the way oil refineries processes petrochemicals in ways that produce many toxic emissions. 

When these fossil fuels are burned in engines air pollutants released are toxic to the environment, people & animals, fungi, insects, bacteria, tail pipe pollutants like CO2, NOX & SOX make rainwater acidic, causing accelerated rusting & corrosion of metal vehicles & infrastructure by damaging stone, concrete, rebar, steel & other materials commonly used in buildings. 

Acid rain is also toxic to marine wildlife, causing the acidification of lakes, rivers, streams, tributaries, oceans & with the greenhouse gas effects of global warming, those carbon emissions are also melting Earth's ice caps, which in turn also progressively raises sea levels. Warming from carbon emissions also makes storm systems more powerful & damaging. 

Longer drying droughts with more forest fires. More intense rain & flooding, really powerful tropical cyclones & hurricanes made more powerful as all the carbon burning released ancient sunlight chemical emissions that trap more of the Sun's energy in Earth's atmosphere. 

These are facts from Science, not my personal political or otherwise biased opinion. It's called Climate Change & it's being made worse faster by people who protect the entrenchment of the carbon energy industry, including all the oil that goes into make modern EV's, which like I said before, are not ecofriendly. 

Industrialization is toxic to the biosphere of Earth, bad for environmental health & bad for public. It is well documented in medicine & physiology science that carbon combustion pollutants cause diseases that are costly to societies, costly to government, costly to business, & painful & costly to families who lose a loved one to premature death from cancer cause by pollution exposure. With tail pipe emission in traffic congestion, I am talking about lung, kidney & brain cancers. I am talking about leukemia or cancer of the blood or born marrow. I am talking about lymphoma or lymphatic cancers. Asthma, COPD, stoke, clotting & embolism, all of these medical conditions worsened by patient exposure to common pollutants. 

If it was GGS or Guns, Germs & Steel back then, today its OVPCC or Overpopulation, Viral Pathogens, & Climate Change. The enormous & increasing scale of human activity, growing demand for more electricity, increasing global demand for automobiles, demand for advanced housing with utilities, stabile power, water, natural gas, sewer systems, & high-speed internet to stream 4K content to large LED LCD flatscreens or OLED TV or monitors. Fridge, microwave, dishwasher, content, stress, expense, failing fiat currencies, toxic negative news 24/7, it's enough to drive any reasonable person MAD & mental illness on the rise just like public mass shootings & other chaos & entropy trends. God never been rejected in more ways. 

Not exactly roses & sunshine & no amount of EV's going to solve all those problems, especially given that the higher instant torque of EV motors shreds the tire tread off faster than ever before, noting also that longer range EV's are heavier, slow to charge, expensive, and scrub away microplastics off the tires faster. Sure, when charged up with renewables, the EV is a better solution, but the world we live in today is still largely energized by coal power, natural gas peek-er plant power production, gasoline, diesel & jet fuel. 

Noting also that there is no practical way to upgrade every vehicle in the world with EV propulsion. It takes decades to phase out antiquated entrenched ideas like Diesel and a scandal like Diesel Gate emissions Cheating by VW to kick off the political persecution of bad dirty technology. Besides, diesel engine vehicles are better for pulling a boat, RV or heavy equipment, not as a passenger vehicle to ferry around people & small amounts of goods. 

Slow Recharging does not match a 10-minute gasoline refueling session that adds hundreds of miles of range in a few minutes during a normal gas station sale of gasoline pumped into our Toyota Hybrid vehicles for example. 

There are emerging 1MW level 5 charging station technologies in early commercialization, but the cables are liquid cooled & thicker than a fire hose & heavier still. Even Level 4 at 800kW not a big thing. Even level 3 chargers with 50-350kW are not nearly as common as the much slower level 2 public chargers at only serve about 20-60 miles or charge range per hour of charging! Thats way slower than gasoline vehicle refueling sessions. 

Meg & I took her 10 Prius III all over America last summer, some 8,800 miles worth & two oil changes along the way, once like MacGyver by yours truly in some very rural area, once at an oil change shop in a big city. Prius III gave us 48.9 MPG average over the entire epic road trip. 

Mixing LFP with NMC so the LFP cycles for shorter range use & the NMC helps to keep the LFP full for longer trips, the hybrid battery technology emerging going to be used in IX BMW EV's soon. Toyota coming out with solid state lithium-ion battery electric & hybrid & plug-in hybrid vehicles starting in 2025 ^^ 

I think super capacitors & ultra capacitors can improve EV' energy storage systems, with more peak power output & faster charging or much higher current absorbing during regenerative brake energy capture. The capacitors can reduce loads on the LFP & or NMC, making the batteries last even longer. 

Better motor controllers with SiC transistors, enhanced software motor control, better motors & better batteries, EV's will continue to improve for hundreds of years. Eventually the BEV will be better than conventional vehicles running on synthetic or biological gasoline, long after petrochemical fuels have been phased out, banned to motorsports obscurity or outlawed. 

Automakers love turbo-charging the 2L engine which is used today in more than 700 different automobile models. GDI got going 2011 when Hyundai had the bravado to give it a try in low-cost car engine applications, where it was previously only used in aerospace engines. Sadly, without gasoline port injection, the intake valve seats tend to get coke soot deposition that reduces engine compression & causes many other problems. 

Better engine setups include a valve cleaning gasoline intake injector to prevent valve seat carbon buildup blockages. Better emissions controls clean up the tail pipe emissions to make lower toxicity exhaust gases that are less dangerous. Consider how a catalytic converted converts oxides of nitrogen or NOX emissions back into N2 and o2 safe nitrogen & oxygen gas. Continually variable valves, HCCI, SCI, new adaptive multi-mapping ECU modes, laser ignition, microwave ignition, higher compression gasoline engines, multi fuel engines & more :) 

I will stick with our 10 Prius II & 22 Corolla Hybrid for a long time while EV continue to improve in all the ways mentioned above. Gasoline engines will continue to improve. Consider the Dynamic Force engines from Toyota Today with over 41% thermal efficiency. That GR Corolla looking even more sexy if it gets better fuel economy when driven normally in traffic, but still gives audacious fun performance when you get after it on a dirt road rally racing style :)

I am reminded of some hyper efficient supercars from Koenigsegg or that XL1 from VW. They really can make exceptional technology (Tesla Model Y) when they try, says Sandy Monro & associates in their related review videos of the Model S, 3, X & Y or SEXY if you will. Yes, BEV's can be dope, fresh, sic, ill, nifty or cool depending on your era, slang usage, thoughts & ect.  

Solar Electric cars covered in CIGS modules, 5-15kW of high efficiency solar PV parked outside all the time, when the sky is bright, to capture those solar photons into the SBEV battery to use to drive the vehicle down the road later. Energy capture & energy saver. Efficiency means not being wasteful in order to spend less or safe more or become more capital efficient by lowering long term operating costs. Think like a business & save even more by fully using all you equipment from new till end of life. This is why I like reliable automobiles Made in Japan by Toyota :) say Lowest Total Lifetime Costs :) LCO or LTC :) Again, frugal, cheapskate, wise, tightwad, efficient. Hypermiling to go further with less fuel & lower emissions. 

I stopped using cannabis years ago & that enabled me to get a Class B CDL & become a School Bus Driver

In medicine, many small molecules do not bring patients relief from issues that many cannabis users were using cannabis for in the first place, long before it became a legal recreational drug in some US states where marijuana was legalized for retail sale to adults over the age of 21 years.

Known also as the entourage effect, cannabis contains many bioactive pharmaceutically active compounds & substances that in general bring uses of cannabis enjoyment, joy or happiness. After all, people get high by using weed because they find doing so enjoyable. 

Stress, anxiety, fear, and depression, even PTSD, many AIDS & cancer patients too, it seems that medical cannabis very useful because of the CB1 and CB2 receptors in the human body & some of the terpenes present in different strains of marijuana cultivated for human consumption, be that as smoked dried cannabis flowers, edibles or even THC & CBD containing drinks. 

Enjoyment good for the heart & soul, so that must mean that joy is also good for your mind. That matches what God was saying in the New Testament of the Christian Bible about centering your mind on that which is good, honorable, of good repute, that which is decent, fair, reasonable & lovely. I am of course summarizing the general sentiment of the healing & restoring stories in the Bible that I really enjoy reading & discussing with Meg. Romans & Ephesians are my favorite chapters, the Psalms are also very beautiful! Praise be to God

I am not endorsing or condoning the consumption of cannabis. I like CIGS solar PV & LFP battery energy storage technology, & well made pure sine wave inverters, hybrid electric vehicles, axial flux electric motors, superconductors, LED's, computers, networks, information technology, software. I am an electronics & technology evangelist. Remember, industrialization would not harm nature nearly as much if there were far fewer people in the world at the same time. Human overpopulation drives up the scale of negative impacts that society has on ecosystems around the world.

If you think we are running out of gasoline, think again, GTL by Shell converts coal gas & natural gas into synthetic gasoline that so pure & clean it almost burns like ethanol or butane or propane with a clean smokeless flame. Synthetic & biofuels will enable combustion engines to make energy to move people & goods around for thousands of years from now. 

In the next 60 year we will phase away from crude piston engines burning mined fossil fuels, to fuel cells that convert ammonia to hydrogen to make electricity to drive range extended electric vehicles with a composite NH3 ammonia fuel tank onboard. Most heavy duty commercial & industrial turbo diesel vehicles will be retrofitted with DME fueling systems since DME can be made industrially like ethanol using biotechnology for less than $1/gal eq. South Korea already retrofitted their commercial trucks with DME. Its sort of like a propane conversion for a gasoline vehicle, given that DME a pressurized gas like butane or propane.  

Warm Car Camping with about $900 of kit :) in the trunk of our 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid with the rear seats folded down :)

EcoFlow River 2 Max 512WH LFP
500-1000W Sine Wave Battery Generator

Energy to power the queen size fleece 220w electric blanket & tiny 200w space heater stored in a Ecoflow River 2 Max unit with 512 WH of LiFePO4 Batteries. A plush queen size fleece blanket & camping pillow complete the sleep bag alternative with heat solution. (see images in the post for a look at the products)(all were purchased on Amazon via Prime subscription)

The EcoFlow River 2 Max power station can charge via an AC power cord at up to 660w in about 60 min or accept up to 100w input from a USB-C charger via the front USB-C port. I recently found a USB-C laptop charger at work for free that will also work to slower trickle charge the unit :) I will mostly likely regularly use the AC charging cable since it's the fastest solution. 

The AC outlets on the unit will power the tiny 200w personal electric space heater & 220w electric blanket that making wintertime camping in the car a warmer experience. Thats the entire reason for the Battery Generator acquisition or purchase, so that it can store energy to later energize the heat generating devices to keep me warm while napping in my car during cold winter weather. 

This means that even on the coldest winter days I can stay warmer while taking a nap. The RIVER2 Max can pump out 500w in normal & 1000w in X-boost, but even the space heater & electric blanket will rarely draw less than 420w, even less since the electric blanket has 5 power modes. If it can pump out warmth for about an hour, that will work. I can charge my iPhone or Apple Watch while taking a nap too. 

No affiliate links or anything, this is not an AD, this is just Aaron Kenneth Schwarz buying & reviewing stuff on my own volition without any payment, using my own money earned from being a School Bus Driver. 

This way I can say whatever I want & give you honest reviews with integrity. I share my solution for car trunk camping so you can try it yourself using my kit as described & modify to your heart's desire with additional gear or kit to make it more powerful for deep cold sub-freezing American interior winter cold days where a much more Powerful EcoFlow Delta with 2kWh battery & 2000+ watts of pure sine wave power output can energize a much more powerful electric heater solution to warm or defrost your vehicle cabin on the coldest winter days so you can have a warm nap in the trunk or car camp without getting super cold, all without running your vehicles engine, without using a smelly fossil fueled generator, all with LFP battery energy storage that's good for 10+ years & or 3000+ cycles. 

I car camp to take a nap in my car during breaks at work. This mid-day nap helps me keep going all day. I leave home for work at 5:40am & get home around 7pm, so that mid-day nap really helps to keep my mind sharp so I can safely drive the school bus :) 

Update as of Sunday 11/5/2023 the big fuzzy queen size black fleece blanket, large dark grey fleece 220w electric blanket, and camping pillow arrived vacuum packed in very tight bags inside boxes, sealed from dirt or other junk & very clean, so we started demoing or test both on our friend Dr. O's couch, since we are currently house sitting for her thankfully :) 

Meg found them so comfy & relaxing that she asleep snuggled up in the warm soft fuzzy lovely kit :) That shipping was super-fast in less than 1 day or almost same day shipping, making the Amazon Prime subscription very much appreciated. I also use Prime on the TV in our Tiny Home rental to stream content for free, further justifying the cost of the Prime subscription! We use Alex devices as alarm clocks, timers, to check the weather, & to look things up online with natural voice language questions, which brings even more value to our Prime subscription. We are still waiting for the power station, space heater, egg foam & iWatch band. 

Update 2. After reviewing the trunk area, we decided to get a large Full-size egg create foam 3in thick to put on top of the all-weather trunk liner. Then we will put the Faux Furr Queen blanket down. The electric blanket will be used at the top sheet sine cool air in the cabin will be the main issue to combat, which the small electric space heater can also be used to address on the coldest days of the year. 

Best Price Mattress 3 Inch Egg Crate Memory Foam Mattress Topper with Soothing Lavender Infusion, CertiPUR-US Certified, Full / it smells like lavender too, not too intense, but noticeable. 

This provides a soft surface under the Faux Fur blanket so that its more comfortable & flexible to lay on. This also acts a sound absorbent material that reduces NVH or sound intrusion from the rear of the car with the rear seats folded down. Thankfully the windows are also tinted dark black, which contrasts nicely with the white paint color & cool styling of the 12th generation Corolla Sedan design :)

** Today 11/10/23 I use the weatherproof liner as a template to trace with a red sharpie market, then some nice scissors to cut the foam to shape of the trunk liner, and even though the edges are imperfect, it fits great. I covered it with the electric blanket & put the River 2 Max in the back. Now testing will commence on Monday when I return to work after the super cool 3-day weekend :) 

Wapaneus Electric Blanket 72”x84” Flannel Heated Blanket Full Size with 5 Heating Settings 10 Hours Auto-Off, Fast-Heating, ETL Listed, Machine Washable, Dark Grey. This thing gets really warm with dual 110 watt heating elements. This means it will enable both Meg & I to warm sleep in the back of the Corolla Hybrid trunk & back seat folded down area. We are going to add some foam to level out the surface more, then apply the fuzzy blanket, then use the electric blanket on top & space heater on the coldest winter days to warm the trunk area. 

Lasko MyHeat Personal Mini Space Heater for Home with Single Speed, 6 Inches, Black, 200W

Sleeping in the back of my cars a long tradition of mine to try glamping or car camping. Larger cars & SUV & some trucks & vans are easier to car camp in than a compact sedan like our 22 Corolla Hybrid, but with the rear seats folded down, I can easily climb into the trunk & let my legs hang out in the passenger cabin rear seat area above the folded down seats. Using oversized queen-sized blankets means there will be extra to wrap around my body like a loose sleeping bag. The pillow provides a nice head & neck support device since the weatherproof rubber liner of the trunk not exactly comfortable to rest my head on.  

MOON LENCE Camping Pillow, Compressible Lightweight Travel Pillows, Hammock and Car Camping Pillow with Removable Pillow Cover, Medium Size / I really like this travel pillow, its small enough to be practical in many ways in many applications. The fabric is breathable & the fluff inside fluffs up nicely from a very compact stored form to a very expanded pillow form that give good neck & head support without being too hard or soft, or very well balanced. 

I wanted to stay away from gasoline, diesel, propane or biomass combustion-based heat or electrical energy because I am going to be sleeping while the system operated inside the tiny, enclosed space in the trunk of my car & backseat area.

This means that portable battery generators were the best option. I wanted to keep the budget reasonable & I am not trying to cook in my automobile as my workplace lunchroom has a full kitchen with stove, multiple microwave ovens, hot water kettles, a commercial Keurig coffee maker that brew pods. The work kitchen also has a giant commercial freezer, and giant commercial fridge too. Even a sink & dishwasher. Given the cost the SMA architecture designed building from 2014 Platinum Eco-Friendly with heat pump & solar PV systems, it was many millions of dollars. 

Bedsure Faux Fur Blankets Queen Size Black – Fuzzy, Fluffy, and Shaggy Faux Fur, Soft and Thick Sherpa, Cozy Warm Decorative Gift, Queen Blankets for Bed, 90x90 Inches, 640 GS. Wow this faux fur blanket is super soft & fuzzy, and fluffy & snuggly comfy :) Amazing & seems well made during our early couch testing this evening (Sunday, Day 1 with it) 

My car is parked in the parking lot, near some concrete walls that get hit my sun, acting as heat batteries. The inside of my car still gets really cold on winter days, hence I wanted a non-combustion-based energy solution to power the electric blanket & 200w personal electric space heater. 

These battery energy generators & power banks come in all sizes from a few AH to multiple kWh. In the 300-1000w output space the units with pure sine wave inverters can perform as well as very low power 3 stoke gasoline generators.

For example the EcoFlow River 2 Max can output 1000w in boost mode, with a nominal output of 500w max. At 5kg or 13lbs, the unit is also extremely rugged, water resistant, cold & hot operational from -4F to 122 F, the LFP battery of 512 WH or about 1/2 kWh, can be used for camping, fishing, as a UPS for power backup, to charge phones, laptops during power outages. 

They can be really useful in mobile applications where the noise, fumes, fueling, oil changes, CO, CO2, & water vapor can be problems, especially inside the closed cabin of a smaller automobile. Fuel burning generators or heaters have to be used in ventilated spaces so the toxic carbon monoxide can escape. 

Every winter some people are killed by running gasoline fueled emergency backup generators inside their apartments with the windows & doors closed. They end up dying because the CO or carbon monoxide emission from combustion ends up blocking oxygen transport by binding to the oxygen carrying sites on red blood cells. CO poisoning similar to hypoxia in that its like cutting of the supply of oxygen to the brain & other organs & tissue. 

Taking this medical information about inhaling combustion emission into consideration, the pure sine wave AC power output & LFP battery-based generator was the only rational portable energy solution to use inside the car. If I turned on my car to make heat for the nap, the noise of the hybrid energy drive system turning the engine on & off again would wake me up repeatedly, it would also waste fuel, wear out my car faster, and ruin my fuel economy records that I aggressively try to maximize with a collection of efficient driving techniques known as hypermiling. 

Black aluminum iWatch Series 8 gets a band inspired by car camping & I love orange the color :) 

ULTIMAL Band Compatible Apple Watch 49mm 45mm/44mm/42mm 41mm/40mm/38mm, Tough Breathable Nylon Sports Strap, Hollow Out Design iWatch Series 9/8/7/6/5/4/SE/3/2/1/Ultra (1/2) /

Been wearing this band with my Apple Watch Series 8 for a few days now, and it goes on & off very easily. The Velcro works really well & it seems to be well made & dries off quickly after getting wet in the shower. I press it with a dry towel to soak the water out & then set the entire unit & band on the inductive charger dock where waste heat from the charging seems to dry it out entirely within 20-40 minutes. 

It's kind of big & clunky, but also breathable & flexible & works well with my shirts & jacket cuffs accordingly. This is not a low-profile nylon band, its chunky & cool looking & I absolutely love the orange color & cool logo's! Yes, I am an ultra-deep Professional School Bus Driver with a Class B CDL and lots of driving experience, and an excellent driving safety record. 

**Latest 11/9/2023 Solar PV 100w Mono Capture for Car Dash capture under front windshield. If I can get 15+ watts out of this to trickle charge the Eco-Flow River 2 Max, then its worth it. Others have said through a quality MPPT they are getting 160w output, but many other warn the low grade included PWM controller lowers voltage from 18-20vdc from the PV module to 14.2vdc current regulated, so charging with less than 50watts even in direct sunlight. If you plug the panels via the SAE directly into your battery generator unit with an MPPT, you can get more of the solar DC current created by the panels. 

DO Not Bend of Flex the PV panels; Bending Ruins the Mono Solar PV crystals with cracking! 

100 Watt Monocrystalline Folding Polymer Solar Unit with mediocre PWM controller that will not be utilized as the EcoFlow River 2 Max contains an MPPT charge controller on the XT60 DC 10-50vdc automotive charging & solar charger input port on the back opposite the AC charging cable input port. One cool feature of the low grade charge controller included is its ability charge a smartphone or electronic over the USB ports without attaching the unit to a battery, so the solar PV energy can charge your electronics directly. I paid $97.98 total via $30 coupon applied on Amazon.com via our Prime account. It can be had for less if you land it as a lightning discount deal. 

Allways oversize your Solar PV kit to battery ratio. In this example I am charging a 20AH LiFePO4 battery generator with 110w of solar PV or about 5:1 ratio of solar watts to amp hour of battery. That means your battery will be able to capture energy in very dark winter sky conditions that make your PV only output 10% of their rated wattage. At least you can always trickly charge with an efficient MPPT controller in your battery generator or aftermarket model. Save the PWM controller included as a backup spare, since it is the reason this kit gets so many bad reviews. The panels themselves are good & hold well if your are gentle with them & treat them as if they are very fragile. Any bending of the solar PV in this kit will reduce power output by damaging the solar cells. 

Be very careful not to flex these flexible solar panels, as doing so causing micro-cracking of the solar PV crystals, giving rise to loss of power output or degrading performance faster. If you can mount them unfolded to a stiff hard non-bending surface like a metal, wood, hard plastic or glass panel, it will greatly increase the useful life. Also, if your battery generator has a MPPT controller, do not use the PWM controller included with the kid, its very low quality & wastes energy. Use the SAE from the panels to cable adapter & plug that adapter directly into your battery generator unit. 

DOKIO 110w 18v Portable Foldable Solar Panel Kit (21x28inch, 5.9lb), Solar Controller 2 USB Output to Charge 12v Batteries/Power Station (AGM, Lifepo4, Jackery) RV Camping Trailer Emergency Power

【LIGHTWEIGHT AND ULTRA-THIN FOR EASIER MOVING】-- This solar panel packs 110W of power yet is only 0.5inch (1.2cm) thick and weighs only 6lb (2.7kg),Foldable Dimension:21*20*1inch (54*50*2.4cm), making it easier to transport, hang, and remove.

【PERFECT CHOICE FOR OUTDOOR AND EMERGENCY LIFE】-- 9.85ft (3m) cable length from panel to controller, For most power stations (Jackery, Goal Zero, Ecoflow, Paxcess) and 12-volt batteries(AGM,LiFePo4,Deep cycle batteries),RV, car, boat, trailer, truck, pump, camping, van, emergency power

【COMPLETE KIT，WORKS OUT OF THE BOX 】-- Smart PWM charging Intelligent protection against reverse polarity, overcharging, short-circuit, and reverse current.  Integrated 5V 2A USB ports to charge phones USB devices. If you use the built-in MPPT Power Station, you don't need to connect the attached PWM controller (the MPPT works way better than PWM & helps you capture more solar energy in more kinds of light levels in different weather conditions, more of the time. 

【AFFORDABLE AND HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY】-- With high efficiency monocrystalline solar cell, you will get greater power efficiency even though the panel is smaller than a traditional model. Maximizes system output by reducing mismatch loss.

This solar PV charger kit is for Glamping, or car camping. Check out this image from the manufacturing marketing page on Amazon of people with a Subaru & RV using the unit on the front windshield of the Subaru to capture solar energy & then the 9.84 ft included cable setup to XT60 connector into the battery generator or battery bank setup. 

They even show the kit in the camping image without using the ow grade included charge controller. They even recommend using a high quality MPPT controller in the listing for the product :) If that does not spell it out, I am not sure what the people leaving bad reviews for the bad controller were reading when doing product research before buying this kit, but I suspect they did not due their due diligence to understand what they were buying, then left negative reviews about the whole kit, even though the solar PV panels & cables are good quality and reasonably priced given that alternative name brand Jackery or Eco-Flow panels with the same output cost 2 or 3 times more. 

** 11/10/2023 Compact 9BB Mono Panel 12v 100w after many hours of Amazon & Ebay Reseach

Newpowa 9BB Cell 100W Monocrystalline 100W 12V Solar Panel 100W 12V Compact Design High Efficiency Module RV Marine Boat Off Grid (100W) for only $71.55 all said shipped with tax :) 

You might wonder why I would double down on solar PV solutions at power input, well I also have a folding 60W charging kit & 6w folding battery bank charger. That means we have 266 watts of solar capture with all these devices in full sun, but the reality is very different. I am in Washington State where overcast drizzly weather tends to dominate the October to February "Winter" interval where solar PV modules might only make 10% of their rated output, even when always facing the sky. 

This durable long lasting 100W mono 9BB compact panel really being tested for use in a 10-30 panel RV / Tiny Home or Manufactured home rooftop solar PV energy capture system. Such a system will be operated at much higher voltage, all DC into 200 AMP MPPT charge controller into perhaps 10kWh or larger format LFP batteries for a whole home UPS energy system completely offline & not connected to grid power, except for perhaps worst-case charging using our EU2000i generator at 1.6kW worst case. I will also need internet at home one way or another. I might also go the route of bifacial panels in the 200-400watt each range for a 8kW or larger array. Time & future budget will tell. For now, it's just DIY adventure car napping with heat & solar energy. 

 

Ethical Information Declaration. 

To be clear, these are not product endorsement & I do not get paid to post these products, review them or any other kickbacks from Amazon, its vendors, the manufacturers, or anyone else. I simply share my solution, the parts that I buy with my own money, my kit & its contents, like experimental data in science so others can repeat my experiment in their own lives & see how it works. 

I give solid advice about doing 5X more solar wattage then amp hours of battery, so the solar PV battery works all year even on darker colder winter days. Actually, the solar PV works great over snow if you have better higher quality bifacial solar panels. 

I have years of professional experience building solar energy capture batteries, e-bike batteries, BMS controlled NiMH, NiCD, and Lithium-Ion battery packs, with nickel strip tabs welding the terminals together & soldering in the BMS wires & thermistors, and shrink wrapping the entire setup in PVC, including hot PVA glue & Kapton tape insulator film. I even made custom labels & applied them to such packs with battery specifications & special charging instructions. 

Tiny Diesel 8kw Heater for $86 on Ebay for a Shop Building, Work Shop, Tiny Home, RV or even a VAN or Car or SUV in very cold winter weather!

8KW 12v Diesel Heater on Ebay <Click Link) 

I am not normally prone to suggest using diesel fuel since it leave carbon deposits & can be smelly or annoying to deal with. But in terms of cost per unit of heat with low upfront capital investment, these low cost heating units are actually very popular in vehicles in very cold northern locals where winter temperatures can go far below the freezing point for water to sub-freezing almost arctic like conditions that can cause people in RV's, Shops, Cars, Trucks, SUV, Campers & other Recreational Camping vehicles to become very cold or freeze in a painful uncomfortable state. Many of these motorhomes or similar have propane heating systems that cost more to operate but are far cleaner burning. Using electric heat in resistive heaters in mobile energy systems ends up being very expensive since they have low efficiency. The most efficient heat system for stationary applications like a Tiny Home or Shop is a mini-split air source heat pump with a higher COP coefficient of performance rating. Very efficient mini-split systems can cost $2,000 or more for the same kind of heating capacity as a tiny wood stover or tiny diesel heater system like the one linked above. 

Liquid hydrocarbon diesel contains about 30% more chemical energy than gasoline, and about 45% more energy than ethanol. In Scandinavian car heaters they use liquid ethanol as the fuel because like propane, ethanol supper clean burning, but ethanol easy to pour as a liquid to refill these littler vehicle cabin heater units. Many heated clothing items are available for cold winter conditions, like heated gloves, heated hats, heated jackets, heated pants, even heated shoes. I am talking about for -10 degrees super cold northern Canada or Norther Europe or Northern China in Mongolia, or Northern Russia in Siberia or the Artic, but even US norther states like Wisconsin can have dramatic extreme cold winter weather. Anyone camping in a vehicle without a heater during such deep cold weather risks hypothermal while sleeping, which can be fatal, or extremely dangerous, painful or very uncomfortable.

I just purchased a large queen size 90x90 inch black fleece sherpa blanket & similar camping pillow for sleeping in the trunk of my 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid with the rear seat folded down so my legs can dangle out into the cabin. I have an all weather trunk liner & have already taken a nap on it. I leave for work at 5:40am & get home around 7 pm, sometimes a little sooner or later, but I also have a gap in my schedule from 9am till 2 pm, so I often eat brunch or lunch & take a nap. Returning home to do the same doubles the amount of miles driven & fuel used, and gas prices are near $5/gallon or about $1.32 per liter locally, but my relatively lightly used 22 Corolla Hybrid gets between 50 & 75 MPG so its operating cost in fuel very low, though I am already driving more than 60 miles per day in the giant large 40 ft school bus, so adding even more miles to my commute sounds terrible. Thus while it sounds odd to sleep in the back of a compact car like this, it really fits my general lifestyle. I have long history of car camping in the 2005 Toyota Prius II that I sold to Meg's dad Allan recently. 

I toyed with the idea of using an electric 12 blanked & a battery generator in the trunk, but that solution costs many hundreds of dollars, where I spent less than $80 for the giant blanket & camping pillow in black fleece, warm, soft & fuzzy, but also breathable. I take my shoes off in the wheel well before camping in the trunk & have all weather floor mats made of rubber in the cabin footwells too. Those hose off clean with water, soap & cleaning brush much more easily than carpeted floor mats, especially in the kind of raw soil farm where I park at night & our possible next home located in farm land with outdoor soil gravel all weather uncovered parking etc. I also like to go hiking & sometimes our hiking shoes or boots get dirty or muddy. Given that the Corolla Hybrid has 10-30x more practical range than our Nissan LEAF SV, that means we no longer have to use Meg's 10 Prius III for road trips & car camping. Locally we have temperate weather where under 20F very rare & the lowest winter temps tend to stat above 15 F even on the coldest January Month winter days. 

Tea & Coffee in Moderation Reduce Risks of Mental Decline

I am a coffee nut, obsessed with making exceptional coffee using fresh hand ground beans steeped for 5 minutes using 185 F water inside a large stoneware French Press. Meg & I drink the flavorful tasty, delicious coffee produced black with nothing added. 

I watched James Hofmann videos about Coffee on YouTube for hundreds of hours before getting a Eureka Mignon Notte grinder & Espresso Machine. Meg & I had been operating an AeroPress for years before going to Espresso shots. 

We moved into a tiny home & went the route of a TIMEMORE manual coffee grinder with stainless steel conical burr & 30g capacity with enough settings to go from Turkish Super Fine to ultra course grains for cold brew or pour over. Called the Chestnut C3 max, its normally $89 but I got it on sale for $65. The double bearing system making hand grinding buttery smooth & the textured anodized black aluminum body & cap container are well designed with great ergonomics. Rated for 200 KG of throughput, I grind about 60 grams daily, so it could last 3,333.33 days of use, or about 9 years of daily grinding 60 grams of whole roasted coffee beans to get the most flavor out of the resulting coffee as James Hofmann the British YouTube coffee expert taught his faithful well-beloved student, yours truly :)

Coffee Amazing for Many Reasons

Phyto Nutrients
Vitamins
Soluble Fiber
A little fat
A little protein
Lots of roasted yummy flavor
A nice early morning wakefulness promoting agent that also promotes a #2 emission :)
Improves cognitive performance like ADHD drugs without all the nasty side effects.
Coffee has a deep worldwide history & very interesting pathway to broad worldwide popularity.
Laxative effect increases intestinal mobility to combat constipation that many older people enjoy :) 
Boosts brain memory & focus performance too :) 
Helps reduce risks of mental decline, like dementia or brain fog :)
Helps keep people awake when driving in while performing other hazardous tasks like flying airplanes
Helps 911 operators & air traffic controllers keep a sharp eye on emerging emergency situations to summon the correct response agency, police, fire, FBI or other agencies. 
Helps doctors & nurses with long shifts to make fewer errors at the end of their shifts.
Improves eye & skin health. 
Good for preventing kidney stones. 
The list of benefits of drinking coffee extensive

Coffee Moderation for Sleep Health Important

Drinking too much coffee or too much caffeine can degrade sleep health, making it harder to fall asleep or stay asleep. More tossing or turning at night means you might want to drink a little less coffee or drink your coffee early in the morning & never later than 2 pm or 12 noon or 11am depending on when you wake up. 

Brain Stimulation Technology Emergent

Rhythmic firing of neurons as coordinate systems promoted enhance brain functions. When listening to music that a person enjoys, their brain has complex 3D coordinated neuron firing patterns that simulate the kinds of brain patterns seen in peoples who consume psychedelic drugs like endogenous DMT that the brain makes for itself to enable highly detailed visual dreaming during REM sleep stage. 

Many people spend about 30% of their time alive asleep & about 1/6th of this time spent in REM dreaming. This means that a typical adult human will spend 6 years of their life in photo realistic dreams that they can only distinguish from waking reality by noticing that something was very different upon waking up. 

I started having scary nightmare dreams about driving School Busses after becoming a school bus driver. Most dreams contain themes of things you have been thinking about for last several months, kind of like the Hb1Ac test tells of the average oxidation of red blood cells by excess blood glucose levels from Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes, Type II or Type 1 Diabetes or Insulin Resistance associated with Disease of Civilization, or more specifically the Western Diet composed largely of processed foods & ultra-processed foods, sugary drinks & unhealthy or questionable food additive chemicals, like many pesticides, herbicides, fungicides & other synthetic resides from pollutants remaining on produce, veggies & fruits. 

This is why washing your produce so important. There could be viral pathogens from cold or flu viruses, fecal matter from people touching your fresh items on the shelves at the grocery store, peoples who did not wash their hands correctly after going #2 for example.  

Brain stimulation can be achieved with LED light pulses to the eyes, binaural beats in headphones as differential audio signals in the ears that produce an inner tonal frequency that the brain creates by differencing the left & right ear signals. 

Head caps with electrodes or compute controlled electromagnets or RF emitters can affect brain frequencies, which parts of the brain are active, cerebral blood flow, & many other aspects of brain function that influence the mind, executive function, agility, focus, attention span, learning, forgetting, figuring out what is important to remember & what is not important to remember. 

Consider the value of something or making predictive analytics about the future possible outcomes of choices being considered as alternatives for comparison. 

For example, when a person is looking at different housing options, they may consider many alternatives and compare the long-term financial outlay to the commute distance or time, or other aspects like how livable the space is, how much space is available, storage options, land size, access to roadways, road noise or many other variables of considerable interest or importance to the prospective investor, renter or home buyer respectively. 

Many people shopping on Amazon with a Prime Subscription spends a considerable amount of time comparing alternative products in the same category, such that many thousands of wrist watches are available but the buyer is looking for something special or different to add to their wristwatch collection. I am a wristwatch collector & technology evangelist because I see the best of what industrialization can do to remedy economic development with environmental sustainability. 

Consider a Air Source Mini-Split Heat Pump with a SCP of 5.1-7.3 that can turn 1 unit of electricity into 5 or more units of heat or air conditioning cooling capacity in the same unit. This way you can enjoy warmer homes in the winter and cooler homes in the summer with a lower electrical utility bill.

Heat Pumps that reduce a person's utility bill enables them to spend more money on vehicles or housing updates, repairs, upgrades or maintenance. People who spend less on energy can spend more on higher quality foods that are healthier for better health & wellness. 

Microsoft Edge Copilot AI Image Creation Tool Powered By DALL-E 3

Image Generated w/ AI powered by DALL-E 3

Microsoft's Edge Browers packed with new AI assisted features for writing, reading, image creation, image search, enhance browsing speeds, enhanced network security, information protection, privacy protection, encryption, sandboxing, layered security, fast authentication with 2,3, or 4 factor deeply secured access.

In the Chat bar with COPILOT I was able to create an Astronaut Image of me within seconds & download the resulting JPEG image for my windows 11 desktop. See the Blog Title Image as this was the product of a natural language text input to image creation via Image Creator, Generated with AI, powered by DALL-E 3 

In Automobiles, cars, trucks, SUV, busses, & other passenger vehicles, AI hosted on hundreds of integrated compute modules in the vehicle enhance driver & passenger safety, assist the driver to keep the vehicle centered in the well-marked lanes, to prevent collision with Automatic Emergency Braking, to provide gentle steering correction with electric power steering to assist the driver in maintain a smooth lane of travel between the lane boundaries & edge fog lines, yellow dots or white painted lines in America for example. Many driver assist features use MM-wave radar in the front bumper for Adaptive Radar controlled Cruise Control, street sign ID that is then reposted on the DASH so the driver can know the speed limit or other information even if their eyes missed the posted physical signs as they drove past them quickly, thus the pertinent information remains displayed on the MID in the drivers visual field as fast easy to read at a glance information, even better with emerging HUD or heads up display on the front window. 

AI enhanced ECU combined with Variable Engine Mapping or Hybrid Drive Modes mixing electric motors, traction batteries, gasoline engines & many computers like the famous Toyota Prius been doing for 20+ years now in millions of Hybrid Synergy Drive or HSD equipped vehicles like our 2022 Corolla Hybrid that gets 53-77 MPG on regular unleaded gasoline such that 11.9 gallons gives more than 600 miles of range per fuel refill. 

Autopilot or Automatic Driving or Autonomous Driving in these new rolling data center vehicles using bleeding edge automotive sensor fusion of camera CMOS, radar, lidar, sonar & other sensing technology to create real time 3D maps of real world features simulated into the onboard computers so the vehicle can drive itself automatically without human driver inputs in many real-world scenarios. 

Even conventional gasoline, propane, biofuel, diesel, turbine, jet engine & other fossil powered vehicles can be enhanced with AI operation enhancement to reduce fuel consumption, lower emissions, lower operating costs, improve efficiency, improved reliability, improve diagnostics for maintenance, and repairs, while also improving corning handling performance, braking performance, faster acceleration, enhanced vehicle performance, greatly improve vehicle stability control or VSC or ESP. 

With more applied technology & innovation, vehicles will become more expensive, but also better in every technical respect, especially improving public safety by preventing many types of automotive road accidents with automated safety features already widely available on many new vehicles sold within the last few years since 2018. Toyota Safety Sense 2.0 now 3.0 then 4.0 on onward offers combinations of these advanced driver assist features. Similar on offer in VW & Mercedes vehicles & from many other automakers who integrate these & many other technology from many hundreds of suppliers as even Toyota not entirely vertically integrated as an automaker.

Applied Artificial Intelligence

~ Make legal documents custom tailored on the fly fast & cheap
~ Write & debug software faster for APP creation & commercialization by small groups
~ Improve manufacturing with lower operating costs with AI control optimized fans, pumps, lamps, lights, conveyers, processing equipment. Consider the role of AI optimizing FOUPS wafer processing in CHIP fabs at Intel or TSMC chip making factories. 
~ Real time traffic routing optimization for shipping, distribution & logistics, even School Bus Routing.
~ Reducing traffic congestion with automated intersection light control systems that improve traffic flow & reduce travel times, while also improving public safety & reducing net vehicle fleet system emissions of large groups of passenger vehicles owned by different people or parties. 

Furthermore AI has many applications in computational enhance engineering of aerospace vehicles like emerging blended wing body systems for passenger aircraft that use ~67% less fuel than Boeing 787. NASA has shared the basic IP for blended wing aircraft with Airbus & Boeing to help speed up the commercialization of vastly more fuel-efficient passenger aircraft.

Automated Drug Research Valuable in Many Domains of Health & Medicine 

~ Modeling all chemical, cell, & organ systems of each patient, their unique DNA & unique EPIGENTICS integrated into patient custom models to develop custom therapeutic substances, especially engineered proteins for Check Point Therapy to cure cancers. 
~ Large complex biomolecular medications with fewer side effects & greater efficacy. 
~ Novel drug creation for rare genetic disorders
~ Age reversal blockbuster sales record breaking $trillion-dollar industry products
~ Energy improvement, cognitive enhances & other nootropics that boost brain executive function.
~ New athletic enhancement doping agency that boost muscle strength, stamina, agility & endurance.
 
AI will be used to make amazingly high value added products with amazing profit margins that will create new trillionaires in the future. Whoever controls information in the future will own the world economies, long after all the fiat currencies fail & become worthless. 

A Cautionary Story of the AI Explosion Hazard or Singularity

Without strict regulations & government controls, AI or artificial intelligence can be radically disruptive by creating FAKE NEWS articles containing misinformation, disinformation, factually inaccurate information, junk, lies or worse. 

AI can furthermore cause extreme market instability as loss of currency values of common Fiat Currencies issued by many world governments as money today. 

In other words, AI can be ruinous to economies, causing radical increases in income inequality, the destruction of the middle class and extreme financial enrichment of the wealthiest elite income earners. 

In this way AI can make life more unfair & more unaffordable & more costly & more negative with less opportunities & extreme barriers to vertical mobility. This means that it will be harder for nearly anyone to escape poverty or low-income states. 

Thus, the whole world will become more like Russia is today, with thousands of billionaires & virtually no middle incomes, such that most Russian People are poor or impoverished. This is, in part, why ethanol or alcohol abuse so common in Easter European countries, especially Russia where drunk driving an epidemic problem that creates many Driving Fails captured by Dash Cameras from Russian driver automobiles.  

Some robots are today only limited by battery technology. With better batteries the robot can become superior to even elite human athletes in mechanical abilities or performance. Boston Robotics created some of the early AI robots & Alphabet INC & google have accelerated the development with SpaceX & Tesla maker of the high performance luxury electric vehicles, Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y or Models S3XY ^^ Made in America, Made in Navada, Made in California woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot woot! Level 5 Autonomy People. Today many Tesla vehicles feature autopilot modes, but they are buggy & not ready for prime time yet. When Autopilot better than the best human driver in all real world conditions, then it will be ready for the general public. 

2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid

$15,000 down & financed $12,800 out the door, from Michael's Toyota of Bellevue. It had 26,026 mi ODO when we purchased it. We test drove a brand new 2023 Corolla Hatchback XSE & loved it, but it only got 33 MPG when we test drove it. We also test drove a 2016 Toyota Prius but it had some issues & we felt better about the Corolla Hybrid. Christian the sales guy was super personable & we spent a few hours chatting with him & making the deal happen. They only gave me $6000 for our used 19 Nissan LEAF SV with 52,000 mi ODO. They told us they were going to have to sell that one at the auction. Oh well. 

I needed a car with more range since my current route involves mountain driving at highway speeds the whole time for 16 mi one way from our home to where I work. I often drive that route 4 times per day for 64 miles per day. While the LEAF had way more range than that, it did not when driven at 70 MPH at highway speeds in the cold morning with the heater & AC running. The sub 40 deg F weather caused rapid voltage sag so the battery percentage meter would drop to single digits & I was getting low battery warning errors from the computer. When I pulled over the battery percentage would restore to its actual state of charge. So the energy capacity was fine, but the increased internal resistance from the aging lithium laminate air cooled pack cells meant power output was more limited, so performance was still great for acceleration but the pack could not sustain peak output for long. 

All all of this to say that the LEAF SV was great, I loved it. When I purchased the LEAF SV used I had a much shorter non-highway 35 MPH route & could drive too & from work for 8X on one charge. My heart was set on the 5th Generation Prius with its 196 HP & e-AWD. Sadly, those were back ordered & I needed an efficient car for the next 10 years right away. I always loved the Corolla, especially the Corolla GTS & GR Corolla & TRD edition Corolla's, but had a very reliable set of other cars & loved our 2005 Prius II & its still in the family & destined to return sometime hopefully. I am very curious to see if we can get that 05 Prius II to go 850,000 mi ODO or perhaps Allan will given that he drives it 30,000 mi per year now. The 1NZ-FXE in the second gen Prius the most exceptional 1.5L automotive engine ever made. Like the 1UZ V8 in the Lexus LS400 non-interference pre-1996 models, or the 2JZ inline 6 from the OG Supra, Toyota continues to make exceptional engines. 

The 2ZR-FXE in the 22 Corolla Hybrid an exceptional 1.8L engine with an efficient Atkinson cycle long stroke design & correspondingly lower redline limit below 6000 RPM. In the Prius III since 2009, 2ZR-FXE in production & use for more than 14 years. When Toyota nails a design, they often keep using it. Through several generations of Corolla up to 2015, the ultra long life super reliable 4-speed automatic continues to be utilized. Possibly one of the most reliable automatic transmissions ever sold in a car, its bulletproof reliability created a legacy & reputation for Toyota for selling the most reliably & well made quality cars in the world. 

The 53kW 163N-M permanent magnet synchronous electric motor in the HSD PSD in Corolla Hybrid combines with the output of the 2ZR-FXE engine, enabling start stop & brake regen energy storage in the 56 cell Lithium Carbonyl battery pack 207.2V 4AH respectively. This enables Corolla Hybrid to average 53 MPG our around 4.4 L/100km fuel economy. This means at $5 per US gallon or $1.32 per liter, Corolla Hybrid can be driven 12,000 miles on around $1000 of fuel, some 3X less fuel, regular unleaded, vs the 01 Audi 2.8 Quattro that I inherited from my late mother. 

We drive the Audi to church & back on Sunday, then the Corolla my daily commuter now. Meg still driving the 10 Prius III with the same engine as the Corolla Hybrid, the 2ZR-FXE. Her Prius III has just over 150,000 mi ODO & she plans to keep it until swapping it for a lightly used Rav4 Hybrid in a few years. We got that Prius III with a little cosmetic damage for $9,900 total, back in 2019. It gets 47-49 MPG the way Meg currently drives it on her commuting & work routes driving Dr. O's children around more now. 

The new Corolla around the same size as the 1980's & early 1990's Camry. Only 13.2 cubic feet of cargo space in the 22 Corolla Hybrid, around 10 cubic feet less than a similar 5th Gen Prius. I really like the design of the Corolla Hybrid sedan in white paint. It looks crispy & fresh & the two tone interior very slick & nice. I feel super blessed & lucky to have such an exceptional vehicle I will continue to only buy Toyota vehicles for the rest of my life. Acceleration of Corolla Hybrid takes 10 seconds to reach 60 MPH, but I am not a fast driver anymore. 

I value reliability & fuel economy more than performance since my commuting route not exactly a rally race, road race, endurance rare or otherwise motorsports event. I have communicated with the executives of Toyota in Japan to tell them that while the GR Yaris & GR Corolla & Rav4 Prime are fantastic, I would greatly appreciated if they focused on making their road cars vastly more fuel efficient like the Prius lineup, focused on greatly improving the thermal efficiency of the engine, better traction batteries, better axial flux electric motors, better power electronics in the motor controller, charger & battery power electronics based on SiC high temp switching transistors that can handle much higher current levels for L4 charging, for better regen brake energy capturing, for more e-boost & motor assist of the engine to further improve fuel economy, reliability, drivetrain operating life, lower emissions & more. 

Fuel Cost Budgeting 10 Year Projection ~ 120,000 mi operating ~ $5/gal / $1.32/L 

15 MPG / 15.7L/100km $40,000 

30 MPG / 7.8L/100km $20,000 

45 MPG / 5.3L/100km $13,334 

60 MPG / 3.9L/ 100km $10,000 

Savings for fuel efficient vehicles improves as fuel prices increase over time!

Toyota
@ToyotaMotorCorp
@Toyota Cool GR Yaris & GR Corolla 

Slick Dynamic Force Camry with 8 speed 

Uber slick 5th Gen Prius 

Dope Rav4 Prime fast & efficient Nifty TRD trims & Gazoo Racing editions 

Ultra practical Corolla Hybrid (Meg & I bought one)  Quality Made in Japan

I am stoked about the Solid State lithium-ion batteries Toyota releasing in 2025 onward in many new HEV & BEV models with exceptional Yamaha pancake axial flux low mass high power electric motors. We will see EV's with 100kWh packs that are intrinsically safer, able to go 600 miles or 1000km per charge. The future of EV's bright, but PHEV & HEV are better for people without access to faster charging options like L2 or L3. I used the LEAF SV using a mix of L1 at home & L3 at the dealer, but I had to plug in & charge multiple times per day to keep the pack up so I could use heat & defrost modes in the HVAC. 

Go further with less fuel, lower emissions & feel less guilt since you are being frugal & not wasting fuel. 

Toyota Hybrids for 20+ years enabled 40+ MPG in the real world in millions of vehicles that are reliable, that have been driven billions of miles. They are so well made that the Hybrid Sienna mini-van has a 3 year waiting list at Michael's Toyota of Bellevue.  

Sure the BZ4X for $50K a battery electric Toyota with new lithium ion batteries. The sales guy said it can go 260 miles with heat & AC running & more than 300 without, from an 80kWh battery pack. What a strange name to pick. I really like the higher trim Lexus hybrids, but they cost too much & have lower fuel economy than the more practical much lower TCO Toyota models like the Prius, Rav4 Hybrid, Corolla Hybrid, Highlander Hybrid, Tacoma Hybrid, Tundra Hybrid etc. Yes I am a Toyota Hybrid & EV fanboy enthusiastic about technology & prone to promoting products that I love since I do a ton of research before buying anything. I also know a lot about technology from decades of reading about it as a scientist. 

End of Oil Way Off Due to Natural Gas & Coal Gasification GTL or gas to liquids production of Synfuels

Synthetic fuels or Syngas & Synthetic Diesel (liquid unleaded gasoline & diesel) made from natural gas & coal gasification gases vs isomer & cracker, polymerization & molecular fracturing respectively means that coal, natural gas, butane, propane, ethane, ethanol, ethanol, DME & biomass gases can all be converted in gasoline, diesel & jet fuels for hundreds of years & probably long after most global crude oil resources a depleted. Also, as oil prices rise, it becomes more feasible to use more complex technologies to extract crude oil or petroleum from remote locations, previously abandoned oil wells & other geological resources for crude oil. 

Biofuels made with Yeast & Fungi digestion of biomass, food waste, yard waste, crop waste, cellulose, & more means that algae, plants, tree's, animals & other ecosystem products can be turned into transportation fuels.

Engines Continue as Range Extenders in Range Extended Electric Vehicles

3D Variable ECU Mapping

HCCI or Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (GDI, gasoline engines that work like diesel engines) 

Turbo-charging with low mass turbo impeller, small turbo directly integrated into the exhaust manifold that spools up to make boost at low RPM with enhanced energy efficiency & more peak power output across the RPM range, more torque for more of the RPM range & with electric turbo generators abilities to recover battery power from VGT or variable geometry turbos, generations in the drivetrain or transmission, brake energy recovery by spinning the traction motor as a generator to slow the vehicle under downhill or braking to a stop or slowing conditions.

Stratific Charge Injection & PreCombustion

Enhanced 3D swirl flow thermal efficiency enhancing combustion making use of variable multi-pulse direct & port injectors at higher fuel pressures, like a turbo diesel but with even more cleaver variable control of fuel injection. Very high pressure, direct fuel injection with very fast switching of injector for multi-pulse stratified fuel air density loading of cylinders.

Continually Variable Valves

Pneumatic intake & exhaust values that can be ECU varied under different loads & operating speeds & thermal regimes, enhancing cold start emissions, top power output, torque band enlargement, enhanced drivability, greatly improved efficiency, better fuel economy, less emissions & more :)

Liquid Piston & Duke Engines

There are many higher energy density, lower mass & fully mechanically optimized engines without pistons, connecting rods or crankshafts, smaller blocks, better thermal efficiency, lower emissions, lower mass, higher energy density, better power output, higher power density, higher rotational speeds, broad torque profile, multi-fuel capable too. 

DME or Dimethyl Either & Propane Conversions of Diesel & Gasoline Fueling Systems

Many existing passenger, private & commercial vehicles can be retrofitted with pressurized gas fueling systems that can make use of much cheaper propane & DME, in gasoline & diesel engines respectively. We are talking about $1 / gallon fuels at retail when Synfuels Synthetic Gasoline & Synthetic Diesel are selling for $5-15/ gal by comparison. 

Biofuels are a renewable way of making transportation energizing fuels from biomass of many kinds. This kind of fuel will be made for many hundreds of years, like biodiesel today! 

Cheap gasoline will go away, so will cheap diesel

At over $5.20/ gal for regular unleaded, and $6.20 for premium ethanol free locally my existing retail fuel costs. I don't care what gasoline costs, I want them to jerk up the prices more to encourage people to chooser fuel efficient vehicles. 

FDA in collusion w/ a pharmaceutical company who wants to make NMN a prescription drug

An anti-aging miracle drug called NMN (Nicotinamide Mononucleotide) that anti-aging research Dr. David A. Sinclair of Harvard talked about in his book Aging, Why We Age & Why we don't have to, NMN that saved his father by boosting the 70+ year old man's overall health. His dad went from relative sedentary to moderately active, with vitality of his young years, just by adding NMN supplementation. 

Meg & I started taking NMN powder almost immediately after reading this amazing book, that Dr. Blake Miller gave me to read, which I re-read twice. 

I got 100g bulk NMN on Amazon, several times, but thats no longer available because the FDA told Amazon to stop selling it. Thats unethical, anti-market, unfair, unreasonable, government abuse of free markets & represents corruption & abusive overuse of the FDA ruling in an authoritarian distortion & power control that satanic manipulation & witchcraft evil sick maniacal government perversion.

I hate the FDA because it also weaponizes bioweapons to be used in WWIII. I know all about the sick evil stuff happening inside the deepest classified levels of the FDA. 

Consider the DEA & FDA take on cannabis or marijuana vs the neuroscience & physiology science of the CB1 & CB2 human receptors & their natural endogenous ligands 2AG & Anandamide respectively. Obviously cannabis has medicinal effects. Anyone who has smoked pot can tell you that they calmed down & relaxed & that getting high on weed can be very enjoyable. Thus many US States legalized marijuana or cannabis & many people now regularly get high, legally. 

You know who tried to block cannabis legalization? The FDA & DEA & other big Alcohol lobbyist who thought legal cannabis would decrease beer, wine & spirits sales, when that did not happen at all. The COVID19 debacle increased alcohol & weed sales, and related tax revenue generated by those sales. Many children were produced as a result of so many people staying at home so much during the covid closures & stay at home recommendations. 

Let's talk about what NMN powder does when you put a scoop under your tongue. Within 10 min your NAD+ levels are elevated via the Slc12a8 transporter. NADH is a cofactor for mitochondria processes, sirtuins & PARP, with neuroprotective anti-again properties. NAD+ reverses aging by inhibiting mitochondrial decay. 

NMN has been show to boost insulin sensitivity, walking endurance and overall subjective general health assessment scores. Many older people taking NMN has said they notice immediate improvements to their overall energy & vitality, regaining feelings of energy they had in their 30's. 

There are other online retailers where you can still buy Bulk NMN, but for legal reason I can't make any specific recommendations. Search "NMN Bulk Powder" on Google & see what you find! Ebay Chinese sources of NMN are of questionable quality, so look elsewhere~ Look for made in the USA NMN or high quality NMN from Europe or Canada. 

Gun Control Insanity Considers Not American History & How Firearms Helped Create & Continue to Protect America

Guns helped to liberate America from the UK or British Control & Taxation

Guns helps American win the southwestern states from Mexico

Guns with revolver technology was the step forward that gave the advantage over slower hand loaded muscle weapons. Old flint lock style front hand loaded weapons take 20-40 seconds to reset. 

The COLT pistol with 5 ready to go rounds could fire 10X faster. Even switching from flint lock to precision cap gave a huge leap forward. 

In the Mexican American war, older heavier & less reliable weapons gave Mexico a bad disadvantage. The black powder heavy single shot front hand loaded rifles were long, heavy & slow to fire, not reliable, prone to problems, & thus Mexico was out-gunned. 

In the 1980's Glock Pistols with extended magazines gave people with them an advantage over revolvers that hold many fewer rounds. 

In the Military repeating handguns, the famous 44 Colt Walker, used by the Texas Rangers, were instrumental in helping to win many of the battles. 

Colt Patent Repeating Pistols were the Glock of their day.

I read the book Glock about the history of the Austrian Pistol inventor & his famous Company, even how they managed to skirt paying taxes on Gaston Glocks long road from curtain rods & knife making to investing a Glock with only 34 parts all made on CNC machining machines to high precision. This makes Glock pistols jam resistant even when clogged with mud, dirt, water or other debris. The precision machined parts also make the Glock pistols highly reliable & easily to clean, clear, oil & maintain. Glocks are so popular that many replacement parts are widely available. Glock 9mm pistols are famous the world over for these virtues, including the strong, long lasting, Nylon 2 custom polymer lower that Glock worked with plastics experts for many years to develop, that makes the lower of the Glock lower mass, electrically insulating, dent resistant, tough & resilient.

Smooth Bore Flintlocks gave rise to percussion cap muskets, the same way that inaccurate smooth bore weapons were replaced with rifled barrels that enable bullets to travel further with greater accuracy by spinning the bullet with the twisting spiral groves. The mini-ball with a conical shape & hollow base allows the gas create by the burning powder in the case to inflate press the skirt into the spiral twisting rifling in the barrel. Walter hunt filled the hollow bullet case with gun powder & a cap with a hole. A volitional repeater rifle with breach loading & improved bullet designs sold to George Aerosmith. The fulminate primer cap was a new technology. Newly improved ammunition in repeating weapons gave huge advantages to those using them in war. Robinson Lawerence Company making guns in America using Hunt's efficient designs thus formed Smith & Wesson. Business fusion created the Henry Repeating Rifle. The Civil war was a huge blood bath of killing fields using these newly created weapons technologies. 

Cannons were instrumental in winning all world wars, then tanks, then rifles, then pistols. Now directed energy weapons like rail guns, masers, plasma guns, bioweapons of viral, bacterial, fungal or protozoan pathogens turned into munitions or into contaminated foods, MRE or similar. Tactical nuclear weapons, then artificial intelligence. Today in the 4IR or fourth Industrial Revolution, those who control information, Alphabet Inc. parent company of famous Google Search Engine or NVIDIA or Amazon or EBAY or Microsoft or ASML or Qualcomm. Its hard to say who will win the information wars of the future as WWIII looms on the horizon, food & fuel supply chain interruptions to price inflation of the $100 2X4 lumber or $50 for 10lbs of flour or $200 for a bag of rice. Toilet paper & gasoline shortages and price gouging could mean $20 per roll & $30 per gallon. It's going to become a luxury to afford even the basics in life as biological weapons unleashed in World War 3 are going to indescriminately kill billions of people.