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In addition to my street-legal Overland rigs, I've had a slew of RZRs (out here on the West Coast we call them SxSs or UTVs, to me ATVs is a "four wheeler" you ride, not sit in and drive). Anyway, I sold my last RZR a year or so ago, because I've had a Speed (Robby Gordon's new company) on...

I drove the truck from Vegas to Palo Alto on Monday (with the FWC still on the back). Honestly I'm super impressed with how smooth and stable the ride is now with the whole new rear suspension. I'm sure it's some combination of flaws in the previous setup (factory leaf/Deaver pack starting to...

...nah, you made it through the weekend without an injury, you passed the test. -TJ

Nice. Big wide platform for hobbits-like humans to climb into it! ;) -TJ

You're correct that it was a replacement to the XJ (OG Cherokee) but it does not share "frames" with the XJ (XJ is a true unibody. The Liberty was built on Jeep's new concept "uniframe" that's sort of full length frame rails encapsulated in a unibody. Anyway, still a great, underappreciated...

It seems like a score for the money!!! Do you know of any current issues with it? What are your plans for it? I don't think most people realize the Liberty is a pseudo body-on-frame, solid rear axle rig with a real transfer case (and 4LO) and a great, underappreciated platform. -TJ

Got the camper back on and took it and my RV to the Mint 400 for a shakedown (@orange01z28 for scale): The top of the FWC popped up is nearly as high as the RV. I’m going to bring the front back down an inch or two, then set the rear air to match which will get the four link bars...

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Progress continues. Ride height-ish: Dumped: Bed trimming is done now, but wasn't done as-of those pics. -TJ

Yet another way to think about it... torque is the vector cross-product of the radius and force vectors. Horsepower is simply a mathematical derivation based on torque and RPM (Horsepower = Torque x RPM / 5,252). A transmission transmits HP/TQ to the rest of the drivetrain (whether that means...

Is that a scientific definition, or an idiom? If we take "inverter" to mean the thing that both provides, and meters current to the electric motor, is it not far more similar to a throttle body than a transmission? The actual force that drives an EV is never transmitted through the inverter...

No, the inverter in and of itself does not change wheel speed in an EV. As you correctly stated, the inverter inverts DC to AC in order to provide power to the electric motor(s). That said, the speed controller does control motor speed/output in an EV speed, and is often packaged with or...

Meh, I'm mostly a jerk. ;) The point I was trying to make; for the sake of the community at large, is that an inverter isn't a transmission. It seems pretty clear that my mistake was a typo, nothing more. My intent in responding repeatedly to the OP is that it's not all that cool to...

You are 1000% right. I don't know everything, and I also make mistakes. If you read my whole post, you'll see I pointed out that EV motors are AC, and their battery packs are DC. I made a mistake in typing up my response when I said the inverter is there to convert AC into DC. Again, if you...

Also not actually true. All modern EVs run AC motors. All modern EVs have DC battery packs. The inverter is there to... invert AC to DC. Generally the "speed control" is also handled by the "inverter" so it's more than just an inverter. But it I completely agree: it's not a transmission at...

Dude, it's not "as I call it." EVs have transmissions as the manufacturers themselves call it.. It's a transmission, period. It (are you ready for this) transmits the power from the motor to the axles, period. Also, you clearly don't understand how transmissions work in an ICE either. Can...

How in the world is an inverter a transmission? Do you know what an inverter is, or does? I don't think you understand EVs very well. Almost all EVs have a transmission (by the definition of what a transmissions is) and yes some are multi-speed (Taycans for example have a 2-speed). A very...