Different studios take different approaches, I know when Polyphony digital was making Gran Turismo 7 they dramatically changed how they were doing audio by actually bringing the real cars into a dedicated recording studio. This isn’t the video I saw a few years ago, but it’s similar.

To my knowledge they may have been (still?) the only studio doing it this way.

Replying to my own comment because I just stumbled upon uncle Rich doing exactly this on a cheap chinese EV truck.

It’s kind of a fun take on the crappy truck too. youtube link

While most of the points are covered here, and it’s likely true that the cost to add the panel and micro inverters is high, (I built a small two panel one battery off-grid system for about $4000 to power a chest freezer)… I have a counter point that I feel should be considered.

While it’s true that it isn’t going to extend driving range by much, my thought is that it is still worth it. Take these examples:

Drove to great wolf lodge in the summer, left car in parking lot for 3 days without charge. It lost several %.

Left car in an airport lot for a week lost even more power.

Drove to NorCal, left car at Airbnb driveway, had to find charging despite the car sitting in very bright sunshine for 4 days.

Car camping

Apartment complex parking (literally one of the main negatives about EVs)

All of these would benefit from trickle charging, even if it was just to prevent the drain of sitting.

Yeah I did, but I could maybe use one more, I’ll reach out in DM’s

Never tbh, only when I run into a crazy issue on a site. My go to us first diable ublock origin second is clear stuff. I haven’t had to do that in quite some time.

I do that…

I guess I can change the user agent. I kind of want to use firefox agent to force sites to keep it around. But yeah for this purpose you’re probably right.

Perfect, no notes.

Oh shoot, I have the same issue, thanks for bringing it up.

Cool I’ll message you with the stuff I’ve got at the moment. Thank you!

I give away some of my designs, but not all of them. Also the 3d printing community, which I do belong to, is fine and all, but they have a different approach to things like this than what I’m trying to do.

If you give a 3d printed shelf or planter to someone not in the 3d printing community, they have a more critical/functional eye I’ve found. They aren’t burdened by some of the limitations and give different feedback. There is overlap for sure, but the best feedback I got was when I partnered with a local plant shop. The creativity and eye for what worked best was awesome. Unfortunately that shop didn’t survive the covid years so I’m trying to recapture that feedback loop. I hope that helps explain my thought process.

Most main stream, dare I say appliance cars, have what is called a rattly ass 4cyl. Not to be confused with nice sounding 4cyl engines.

I’ve also noticed new cars sound bad.