You do realize we’re talking about something like a Suburban/Silverado, not a fire truck, right? No air brakes to worry about pumping up, they’re not belching out diesel exhaust, they reliably start in the cold and warm up quickly.
In any case, the question’s been answered. It’s not an exhaust port, it’s a power inlet.
ok.
I think the flange talked about earlier is an exhaust port. The power port in the video looks different. I think this link should go to the right timestamp, but at about 10:20 you can see the exhaust hose leading to the opposite side of the truck from the power receptacle.
And as long as we’re talking about emergency vehicles, the most interesting one I saw today was a purple (some might say blue, but it looked purple to me) Mustang Mach-E police car. Here is a picture from twitter, and if that doesn’t work, a link to the post. Looks like the fleet is from 2023, but this is the first time I saw one.
I know the chief’s car doesn’t have air brakes; I stated that in what you quoted
It is neither the right size nor right location for a power port. Power ports are somewhere close to the driver’s door. You don’t want a power port on the farthest place in the vehicle from where the driver gets in as that would waste time of the driver needing to run to that side to unplug & then back around again to get in. While I haven’t seen every vehicle out there I’ve also never seen a power port that low on a vehicle; however, it is at the typical height of the vehicle exhaust.
My cite is I use them; I plug shore lines in & unplug them myself in the station What is your cite for believing that it’s a power inlet?
And if you go to the 12:00 time stamp, there’s an even better shot of it. In that particular video, it’s neither an exhaust port nor a power inlet. It’s a magnet for holding the exhaust hose on the exhaust pipe (like a strain relief).
I’ve never seen that system before. Not that I keep up with the technology, but IIRC, the system my local FD uses is an exhaust hose with an inflatable cuff around the end. Slide it over the exhaust pipe, inflate the cuff and when you drive away, it automatically deflates the cuff and pushes the hose off the pipe.
A beautiful Citroen 2CV, in rural Morocco last week.
Ooh that’s the nicest 2CV that I’ve ever seen!
Meet the TELO MT1, the all-electric mini truck; spotted this morning in downtown San Carlos CA!
More pics here; I took a total of 10 pics:
If you’re going to make a wildly different looking truck, having it be functional makes a big difference.
It’s crazy that you can get the Telo with 500HP!!! Talk about a nuclear rollerskate!
Have you all checked out the Cadillac Celestiq? Not really my cup of tea or my budget, but we love our Lyriq and it’s nice to see a US automaker doing something really unique. The last such that comes to mind was the GT40.
They should sue the plastic surgeon for that nose job! A traditional engine compartment out front looks normal, a flat front looks fine but that bump out looks ridiculous. If it’s for driver/passenger footwell on the inside then I’d be scared for my legs if I was ever in a front end collision.
I saw one of those the other evening. I could only tell it was a Cadillac, I had no idea what model, so I didn’t snap a picture. I was also holding my take out, and I was hungry.
I first thought was, “Where’s the crumple zone?”
You know what? It didn’t really bother me. I spent a couple of minutes walking around it yesterday and its front end did not make a screaming “HEY I’M UGLY!!!” statement* to me. I kind of like it.
Beauty is in the eye, I guess.
* — now the Cybertruck, that makes a screaming statement to me.
Maybe we should discuss it’s looks over a drink
…of the beer holder
I’ll drink to that.
That is quite interesting, since AFIK those aren’t officially on the market yet. I just watched Doug DeMuro review one yesterday, and the one he had was a pre-production version. Which actually looked identical to that one. So I bet that’s, if not the same one he reviewed, one of a handful of pre-production trucks that they sent to journalists.
Anyway, in other news, I spotted a Plymouth Sundance on the road this morning. Perhaps they weren’t that interesting when they were new, but spotting one 30+ years later is interesting to me. And it was in pretty good shape for its age, too.
Looking at that Telo, it occurs to me that they could put a frunk (front trunk) on the front for hauling groceries and whatnot and it would look a lot more normal, (for certain values of ‘normal’). Could also be an extra ‘crumple zone’ and might make it more attractive to some people.
Probably make it more expensive, though.
I’m sure the reason for the Telo’s design is that pushing the passenger compartment all the way forward allows space for both a back seat and a reasonably large bed is a smaller overall package (much like the Japanese kei trucks).
So this is making sense now. Bear with me…
I just looked up Telo Trucks’ wiki page where it says the company is HQ’d in San Carlos. I was surprised to learn that because I used to work in San Carlos, and that’s where I spotted this MT1. This MT1 was parked outside of the Starbucks at 1187 San Carlos Ave, and the House of Bagels near it.
A quick search on Telo Trucks’ address in San Carlos yielded two results:
• Telo Trucks, 1010 Commercial Street — primary location, and manufacturing facility
• Telo Trucks, 969 East San Carlos Ave — corporate office
That Starbucks is less than a mile from the manufacturing facility. There are other shops near there, and a bank. I’m somewhat familiar with that area and IMO it’s highly likely that the driver of the MT1, and any occupants, were at that Starbucks.
I don’t get to San Carlos much these days, since I retired about 3 years ago. It’s 30 minutes from where I live. But now I might go out of my way to go by both of those addresses.
Not sure if I will, but if I do I’ll report what I find.
I didn’t see it other than the photos on the website but I just wanted to let you know that next week you could own a used car of one of my lesser superhero brethren - Na-na-na-NA-na
We had a secondhand Dodge Shadow until it died. Fun little car while it lasted but prone to paint peeling, like many Mopar products of the period.
Ours had a large bare spot on a C-pillar, which we repeatedly covered with clear spray paint as more and more paint peeled away.
