DonTom
Well-known member
I just now came across this article today.
"Why your new electric car won't have a spare tire. And why you probably don't need one."
IMAO, the words "probably don't" mean the exact same as "probably does".
I carry a spare in every cage I own, EV or not. Can't be done on motorcycles, but I do carry plugs and a decent air compressor. I use these for an air compressor. I can even add a few LBS to an RV tire with them. They work a lot better than I expected and I now own eighteen of them, as I keep one in every vehicle I own (16 motor vehicles at this time, 11 motorcycles, two EV cars, two RVs and my Dodge Ram truck) and one spare at each house, these are the ones I use the most. I rotate the batteries around every month or so with the ones in the house to keep them all fully charged at all times.
IMO, the real reason they don't supply tires these days is because they are trying to keep the price down by a few bucks. But that is not that part I dislike. The real problems is there is no decent place to put a spare tire in newer vehicles, so it must take up prime space if there is place to put a spare at all. It was one of the reasons I would not consider the Thor Axis I first looked at when I was RV shopping. Not even a place to put a tire with no rim. But I can and do carry a spare in the outside luggage of my 2022 Entegra Vision 27A. Tire only, no rim. Would be too heavy with the rim anyway.
My Y2K RV is old enough to have a place for a spare. I don't mind them not coming with the spare tire, but how about a decent space for them where it does not use the prime luggage space?
-Don- Auburn, CA
"Why your new electric car won't have a spare tire. And why you probably don't need one."
IMAO, the words "probably don't" mean the exact same as "probably does".
I carry a spare in every cage I own, EV or not. Can't be done on motorcycles, but I do carry plugs and a decent air compressor. I use these for an air compressor. I can even add a few LBS to an RV tire with them. They work a lot better than I expected and I now own eighteen of them, as I keep one in every vehicle I own (16 motor vehicles at this time, 11 motorcycles, two EV cars, two RVs and my Dodge Ram truck) and one spare at each house, these are the ones I use the most. I rotate the batteries around every month or so with the ones in the house to keep them all fully charged at all times.
IMO, the real reason they don't supply tires these days is because they are trying to keep the price down by a few bucks. But that is not that part I dislike. The real problems is there is no decent place to put a spare tire in newer vehicles, so it must take up prime space if there is place to put a spare at all. It was one of the reasons I would not consider the Thor Axis I first looked at when I was RV shopping. Not even a place to put a tire with no rim. But I can and do carry a spare in the outside luggage of my 2022 Entegra Vision 27A. Tire only, no rim. Would be too heavy with the rim anyway.
My Y2K RV is old enough to have a place for a spare. I don't mind them not coming with the spare tire, but how about a decent space for them where it does not use the prime luggage space?
-Don- Auburn, CA