ShadowsPapa
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- Bill
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- '22 JTO, '23 JLU, '82 SX4, '73 P. Cardin Javelin
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I'm sure the AZ heat is a huge factor. Heat is a battery killer - period. I have a friend who lives in the Phoenix area and has a restoration shop around the NW side (I get turned around out there!) and man, time to close up shop at about 2 pm, too danged hot to do much of anything. Dry heat or not, batteries don't know the difference - it's HOT.If you get over 2 Years here in Arizona , Time to Replace it . They will short and Die with No Warning . The Desert Southwest is Brutal on Batteries . Moved out here from Chicago Land South Suburbs in 86'.
Again, lack of reading comprehension. It's not a Jeep design. Others have used it. The design is fine - it's often the lack of understanding by the owner that's a problem.It is amazing what (some) folks will accept as far as crappy designs and sometime crappy policy and/or quality just because the vehicle has a "Jeep" logo on it.
You ignore the fact that other more high-end auto makers have used this same design, some do today.
You obviously lack the technical understanding of such things, lack of how electrical systems work, of battery tech, etc.
In short, you choose to not get it. No one said "you have to like it" but at least understand it.
I'm not tossing out opinions, like your hatred of some things is - all opinion - I toss out the facts of the beast. Why it's there, how it works, why it may not work, and so on, from a purely technical standpoint while others scream at it out of lack of understanding (usually chosen) or of hate (because they don't understand it)
I neither like or dislike it. I understand it, I know for a fact it saves fuel (I've seen it, proven it, and seen the studies because I CARE TO LEARN about things!) and I also know that if the EPA didn't allow such creative ways to cut emissions and save fuel FCA would cease to produce these things (our reserves are all but down the toilet, gotta save somehow because we can't go get more)
You need to get out and explore the world a bit - maybe you have no clue about what the EU has done - and the EU is a big market for Jeep - EU has said ZERO (0) carbon emissions by 2035 (I think I have the year correct) so if they can't through means like this meet those demands, they will not sell vehicles in the EU. No sales there, Jeep goes bust. Or - they completely stop making ICE powered vehicles. And for diesel lovers, I have an article predicting the total death of diesel powered light trucks in the very near future because of moves like that of the EU, California and Virginia.
Try to look at the bigger picture - not just your dislike or - more correctly, hate of what you don't understand - or your belief of what some spew that's so far off the mark, it's not even on this planet. You believe his comments? LOL - wow.
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