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Payson probably has more horses and trails.

I knew people who owned half a dozen horses in Scottsdale (a Phoenix suburb), but that's like $10M+ for a property like that within riding distance of trails or the mountain preserve

Buckeye if you're talking about agricultural rural. Payson if you're taking forest rural

And the xg mobile port now has an open source pcie dock for the xg mobile connector. You can upgrade the GPU and have 4.0x8 pcie lanes

https://github.com/osy/XG_Mobile_Station

Those aren't equivalent. It's more like asking for mustard and someone says: no, but we have ketchup.

Oh man, after reading that I'm so glad I held off on getting an escape phev. Couldn't afford the Rav4, so I started looking at the Ford but didn't pull the trigger due to the shorter electric range.

I level 1 charge and get 20 miles in 7 hours. So the average 40mi commute should be possible overnight.

I'm with you on most of that, but I get much better winter range using heated seats instead of heating the whole cabin. And if they're not doing an entertainment system it would be nice to have an aux input.

But the gen 2 leafs also have 4g, and that's a deal breaker.

There are different plans with options to own batteries or rent them or both. Last I checked they were in the 3rd Gen of interchangeable batteries that work with 1st Gen units but expand power capacity.

(Originally 1.35kwh now 1.75kwh; I just googled)

So, 6 would get about 30 miles range in a car and be at the modern 300v minimum if run in series. 8 would be enough for the average American commute of 40 miles (round trip).

While that math does work out to 60 battery packs to get a 300 mile range, I don't think that much range would be necessary since the battery swap time is so much faster than recharging. That would mean building out a fairly massive battery swap network, but it's already been done successfully in some countries.

Yeah, leafs are cheap AF, if you can make due with the small range. They have passive cooling for the batteries like the egolf, but I'd be wary of an egolf since I don't know how well they're supported by 3rd parties like the leaf is.

I-miev didn't sell well, and I've seen lots of problems with them, so I'd stay away from them. bmw i3 would be the most expensive of the older, 3g options both to buy and maintain.

The other option to consider if you don't mind an even shorter electric range would be a phev like Chevy volt or Ford fusion. But your commute would need to be less than 10 miles for that to work.

What do colorblind people see? Any color blind people out there?

The thing most people miss is that the lifespan rating on most batteries isn't the time until it's completely dead and useless. At 10yrs/100,000mi the battery is usually rated to retain at least 80% of the original capacity. Most testing I've seen shows ~85%+ remaining after that. (So long as it's not an air cooled battery like early Nissan leaf)