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I'm guessing with a non-amused email from my hosting provider We'll see. I'll start downloading what's made it up there just to be sure.

Thanks. My hosting claims unlimited space, so have at it

Looks pretty good from here

Yeah, I'll send you the details in PM. Plenty of space available.

Would still very much like, especially Norway and Sweden

Indeed, I welded up an RRC on a 2-poster a while back, working around the arms was a constant pain when doing the sills. Opening the door isn't an issue if you just take it off. Then again, I welded up my old RRC on the 4-poster, and that gave excellent access to everything but the underside. Getting the underside welded up was literally painful, as you needed to basically be on the ground getting covered in weld spatter.

True, and that raises the cost of the infrastructure a bit, but doesn't seem like something we're unable to overcome. On the whole, I'd daresay the average rust electrolysis setup on here probably "leaks" more hydrogen than a fuelling station would. Looks like currently it's pretty similar to an LPG nozzle:

Very, very different volumes to SLS though (537000 US gallons for SLS, 5kg for a Mirai). So put a vacuum on the nozzle and vent it somewhere safe/controlled, and even 1% leakage is no problem. Nuclear is always the answer, and I'm all for it, but good luck getting that built here, sadly. Yes, energy reliance isn't great, but resource reliance (lithium and such) isn't either. At least hydrogen you can produce anywhere, not so much with oil and natural gas.

Seems like a fairly solvable issue. Let the user screw one thing to the other, and then have something robotised in the nozzle that engages the port in the car in a repeatable and correct manner. Put it all behind shutters that only open when the nozzle is attached. Generation of hydrogen I still don't see as a big issue. The biggest issue is that we currently get it from fossil sources. But since it's relatively easy to transport, you can just chuck a bunch of solar somewhere on a coastline near the equator, and convert seawater to hydrogen and oxygen. Which is also useful. And meanwhile maybe sift some uranium and other goodies out of the seawater. I don't see long-haul trucks, boats, trains or planes using anything else any time soon.

Excellent news!

It's a lightweight, there's like 5 wires in it

Yeah, something tells me he's not quite as bad at this electricity thing as he makes out to be.

It's just the lights, really. Replace those with a normal light unit and it'll look like any other pickup.

Absolutely, but I can refill 100 liters in a few minutes, adding barely any time to a trip. Charging an electric car takes much longer, and if you have to do it every 100 miles while towing, the time starts passing by really really quickly.

Not sure if it needs a whole lot. A small shield would probably do.

Can you just tuck it under the wing?

Somewhere around has-its-own-gravitational-field. The good thing is you lose the weight of most of the drivetrain. Current batteries are around 270 Wh/kg, so for 200kWh it's around 750kg in batteries. Plus all the associated electronics and cooling. I have a PHEV Mercedes GLE now, that I use in full electric when I can. Similar in size, weight and aerodynamics to a new Defender. I haven't tried towing my box trailer in EV mode yet, but just cruising around yesterday, about 30km mixed motorway and smaller roads it did 42.5 kWh/100km. That'd give around 400km range with a 200kWh battery. Having a trailer will easily halve that, if not worse. TLF did some tests with the Ford Lightning that were, err, sad to see. Not to mention that charging with a trailer attached is a disaster in 99% of charging stations.

Indeed, would be nice to see!

Not sure about that rear end, it looks terrified of something behind it

D2 yes, P38 no.

And even on petrol, the temperature sensor affects the fuelling, so if there's a mismatch beween the actual temperature and what the sensor is seeing, that can cause rough running as well. I had that happen a few years ago in Sweden, the way I had the block heater plumbed it was causing the coolant in the top of the block (where the sensor is) to cool down while driving, to the point it went into warm up enrichment. But the block itself was at normal temperature, so it was massively overfuelling and stuttering.

Coating it in some sort of resin would probably fix that?

I replaced the front prop on my P38 because I kept having a vibration and it kept eating U-joints. I read a theory somewhere that you can only do so many U-joint replacements until the ears on the prop deform, and it sounds fairly plausible. Much better now with a new prop.

That tyre inflator might do one of your Mog tyres in a month or so

Oh, that's sad to hear Guess June it is then...