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"Charge state and charger recommendations are now in Apple Maps and Google Maps (when using AA)" Interesting - the car is exchanging information with the navigation app; in my ICE vehicle it's a one-way push from phone to car. For which EVs? The only EV I've driven is our Tesla.

I'm a big Carplay fan and use it daily in my Defender to navigate with Waze. But my wife's Tesla doesn't support it - as stated above. I suspect the real driver for navigation is that Tesla's nav software calculates charge state over the planned route to recommend which supercharger to stop at...

Mazda used a Wankel engine for their range-extended MX-30: https://insideevs.com/reviews/712120/mazda-mx-30-range-extender/ I do wonder about the rotary engine used for this purpose - they're famously smooth, but also notoriously thirsty. If the whole point is efficiency, is a rotary engine...

The Defender has a detent that holds it at roughly 90 degrees - maybe a little more. And 99% of the time that works well. But if you're parked while driving across a slope with your passenger side significantly above your driver side, the detent isn't strong enough to hold the door open. That's...

I hear you, but having lived with it for a few years, I can assure you that the number of times I park on the right side of the road vastly exceeds the number of times I park on the left side of the road. It's usually in the way. There's a reason a UK-designed car put the hinge where they did.

I have a tailgate-mounted spare on my Defender. One suggestion for Scout, if they are reading these posts - have the spare carrier swing the other way (hinge on the driver's side, not the passenger's side). Defender swings the same way the prototype Traveler's does - which means when you...

2023 Defender - I’ve loved it both on road and off. But it kills me to burn that much gas for my daily commute. My wife’s Tesla Model Y showed us the value of an EV as a daily driver. A range extended Scout sounds perfect, and if they hit their production targets will be rolling off the...

I'm driving a 4-cyl Defender with 18" wheels; they've worked fine when I air down on rocky Pennsylvania trails. And I find lots of choices for tires at that size (stock is 255/70/18; you can easily fit 265/70/18). The 6-cyl comes with bigger brakes and 19" or 20" wheels - 19" is the orphan size...

Added my reservation for Traveler Harvester to the database.