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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Absolutely no traffic + taking toll roads: about 30 minutes.

    Normal traffic + avoiding a toll road 50 minutes

    Traffic: 1 hr to 1.5 or if it’s really bad you just won’t get home… seriously.

    I like the time I have to listen to music or kinda rant to myself, I see a lot of interesting stuff.

    I hate my commute, give me work from home I am a fucking IT dude who does everything remotely anyways.

    I drive 20-25k miles a year in an ev that can “only” go 80 miles. My daily round trip is 66 miles. (I level 1 charge at work if you’re curious)

    It’s wild how many of my coworkers will tell me “just buy a closer house lol” yeah sorry I can barely afford to rent where I live 3 counties away.

    Leaving before 6:55-7 will save you as much as 20 minutes. Leaving after 7 people are generally going 5-10mph under the highway limit as I suspect many just woke up lol.


  • Absolutely min things to swap Gonna need a battery of some kind 3 phase induction motor (probably) Motor speed controller Some sort of battery charger Big inverter for big motor An ecu-like thing to control everything Specifics about how to make this all work in a vehicle will depend wildly on which vehicle. Some basically can have these things bolted on, others require special assemblies to get the power to the wheels somehow.

    An ev swap can be (relatively) cheap and simple or wildly expensive and difficult just depends on your goals.

    Most of the parts I mentioned are available as off the shelf components and sometimes even as a swap kit.