It is likely impossible to rent a truck for pulling your trailer. Most contracts have a no towing clause. Uhaul only allows towing their trailers. When you find the rare exception you are risking they are sold out that week. And the cost when you do find it is high enough to pay for the additional payments for most of the year.

If there is enough money they will. Though I agree with your doubt that enough people will buy this to make it worth it.

I understood this as camping in one location, or parking in one remote location and hiking for a week. This is a fairly common way to camp. Over a week you can get a useful charge if you are not driving. Likely just 1kw would be enough to get a useful charge over a week. If you are driving to a new spot every day this doesn’t work (unless the drive is really short).

I wouldn’t bet on that - the Silverado EV looks nice on the spec sheet (except no android auto/car play - GM needs to be beat up for this every time their cars are mentioned) and you can get it today. 3X the cost of the Slate, but if you need a truck it is more than 3x the Slate for being a real truck (much larger tow capacity, bigger bed)

I can put a fog machine on any vehicle if I want it too do that. Currently the fluid is generally white, but I’m sure for a few $$$ they will make me a colored fluid with any color I want. Also I many offensive scents are an option as well (again, probably not available, but for $$$ you can get it) The people who like to “roll coal” are more than willing to spend the $$$ needed so there is likely a market if you want to go into that business.

Personally I consider my trucks for working hard not show. I won’t be doing this because my truck isn’t supposed to draw attention to itself - and with the antiques I’m towing it can’t complete anyway. (Trucks are also female so those hangers are wrong)

In almost all cases your 120V15A outlet has other outlets on the circuit and so it cannot be rewired that cheap. In almost all cases it is really 120V 20A though, so you can set your level 1 charger to a slightly faster rate since odds are nothing else is running on that circuit (but good luck finding a charger that supports that faster level 1 rate).

The shorter your range the more important fast charge is. My car with a 200 mile range is almost(!) always fine on level 1 since I so rarely use make so many trips in a row that it would empty the battery. My wife’s phev with only 30 miles of range is always at near 0% when she gets home and she (like most people) is likley to be making another trip soon so level 2 is a must. (of course it could switch to gas it isn’t charged, but gas is several times more expensive so we try to use gas for long trips only)

A pickup is supposed to be used such that the weight is properly loaded. If you don’t have the back full of firewood or something else anyway you are doing it wrong.

Then again if you don’t have a full 8 foot bed you are doing it wrong, and those are almost impossible to buy.

If you are camping for a week a few solar panels can give you some useful range, perhaps enough to get a full charge (depending on sun, how many panels, and what else you do for power)

The minivan is important. That sliding door means my kids never slam the door open into the next car… Many people get too attached to perfect paint on their car even though they have a history of trading in “that old thing” every 3 years.

The more space for cars the more spread out everything becomes and so the less walking is a reasonable option. Remember cars include parking someplace even if not on the street.

Like I said, there are a ton of trade offs in stop spacing. In a small town with few places to go 200 works, but I’m going to stand by 400 as a better distance for most people is the better compromise overall.

Taking profits mean you have something else to do with the money. It could be you think something else is a better investment. It could be you want to bu a yacht. There is no telling.

Most financial reporting uses terms like “taking profits” as a way to explain things without digging into the details of what investors are really doing. (which to be fair in most cases an investor is harming themselves by telling the truth)

A human can, but as soon as that is discovered that human is rejected. They have to slowly develop a whole new persona, likely taking years - before they are trusted again.

At least for now when Kids regularly grow up enough to join the internet and so we have to have ways to let new people in. If tokens ever trade to a real verified human it may not be possible to get another. (though I doubt this - governments in some places will issue tokens to bots and real humans and so there is no way to tell without cutting off someone real.)

It isn’t regularly, it is what you do on the margins. that one trip a year. Those really cold days in winter (ICEs have a built in heater). 200 miles is more than enough most days, but once a month it will be really close.

Cul-de-sacs increase distance in many cases. There often is a “as the bird flies” path that would be much faster, but there is a fence (private yard) in the way so you can’t go that way. Cars don’t care much about a 2 mile detour to get out of a neighborhood, but that is a long trip on a bike and not acceptable for walking.

If work is 30 minutes by car that should be about 4 hours by bike in the worst case (that is you live next to the 70mph freeway on ramp, and the office is at the end of the off-ramp, no city streets). In my case work is 15 minutes by car, 25 by ebike - but that is mostly a function of the type of roads between them, and I’m likely near the most extreme in that direction (for people who can do either)

Both old and new suburbs do this. The street car suburbs (which date to the 1880s) had a grid and so you could get through, but often the streets are not easy to drive on. The latest suburbs are built with the idea of “the park will be here and people want to walk their dog and kids there”. However suburbs between the 1970s and 2000s (very approximate) often didn’t realize that would be important and so tended to be disconnected.

In all cases natural barriers like streams will disconnect things though, and knowing those existed they tended to build cul-de-sacs against them.

But it is harder and takes longer than walking 200 meters. Your trip time is the door to door time not the time it takes transit to get there. People generally consider 30 minutes the maximum reasonable commute. 5 minutes of walking, 5 minutes waiting for the bus, then 5 minutes on the other end, and we have already used half of our time before we even got on the bus! This doesn’t allow time for a transfer. While some of my numbers are a little high, they are not unreasonable and they add up why people often say transit is useless even when exists. In turn thinking about what can be done to reduce those numbers is important - but often they increase something else by even more since there are so many compromises.

Maybe. You are on the right track, but every bus stop is time robbed from people who are not getting on/off at that stop. Stopping at the entry to every cul-de-sac is too much. So really your 200 meters is 400 meters - the bus should only stop every 400 meters. (the 400 meter is a simple number of discussion, but any book covering this will have several chapters covering all the different trade offs, exceptions and the like: go read the book before arguing the number)

It doesn’t. What a cul-de-sac gives you is assurance that there is no noisy/dangerous traffic by your house at all hours. A street that a bus can serve is also a street where lots of cars will be going by (or at least want to go by even if not allowed)