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Just get a jeep snorkle
by ge96 5mo ago
Just get a jeep snorkle
- radiorental 5mo ago[flagged]
- ge96 5mo agoYeah was a joke as I think most cars if you drive through that your car is f'd
- b40d-48b2-979e 5mo agoTheir account is about as old as yours.
- radiorental 5mo agoMore a comment on how HN has devolved in the past 2 years, if I want snark, this isn't the place I go to find it.
- b40d-48b2-979e 5mo agoReally? I find more bad faith and snark on HN than anywhere else and always have.
- _heimdall 5mo agoIronically, a properly sealed EV system would better deal with a flood. Combustion engines have issues due mostly to the air intake and exhaust.
- masklinn 5mo agoYou'd need to ensure every electrical connection is in a waterproof location which I'm pretty sure is not a thing for any standard car manufacturing. Cabins are also rarely watertight. AFAIK your best bet is a diesel with a snorkel, and hope things have dried off before you need to restart the engine.
- bushbaba 5mo agoIf cabins are water tight you risk carbon monoxide poisoning
- entropicdrifter 5mo agoCarbon monoxide... in an EV?
- whicks 5mo agoRivan's R1T and R1S have a water fording height of ~43", standard: - https://rivian.com/support/article/what-is-the-water-fording-height https://rivian.com/support/article/what-is-the-water-fording...
- gruez 5mo agoAre EVs typically "sealed" by default? If not, how is going through the effort to "seal" an EV different than installing snorkels for ICE cars?
- whicks 5mo agoSome are more sealed than others, such as Rivian's R1T and R1S which have a water fording height of ~43": https://rivian.com/support/article/what-is-the-water-fording-height https://rivian.com/support/article/what-is-the-water-fording...
- alex1138 5mo agoPeople are allowed to joke. We don't always need 'substantive comments'
- radiorental 5mo agoIt's not a joke if it doesn't make any sense, what good is a snorkle on an electric car?
- Rooster61 5mo agoThat's...the joke. The humor is in the absurdity of recommending an addon to the car that utterly would not work and would look ridiculous. It's layered on the fact that Jeep snorkels look sort of ridiculous even on the vehicles they were designed for.
- jader201 5mo ago> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nutjob2 5mo agoWhat happens when you you start floating? I guess water propulsion... and a rudder?
- nielsole 5mo agoYou need to get an armored jeep then
- bell-cot 5mo agoA decent welder should be able to turn out a trailer hitch <=> outboard motor bracket in under 15 minutes. It's not like you'll need much more than a modest fishing outboard to get through flooded spots.
- throwaway2037 5mo agoSee also: Duck boat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW
- abfan1127 5mo agojeep snorkels are for air intakes for engines. electric cars don't have air intakes. they have air cooling for batteries... I suppose you could snorkel those.
- fragmede 5mo agoDepends on the EV. Some of them have liquid cooling for their battery pack.
- KennyBlanken 5mo agoAll major production EVs do. About the only exception I'm aware of is the first generation Nissan Leaf. I don't know if they've since changed. Toyota uses air cooling (from the cabin) for their hybrid batteries, as do others.