bmwhitetx
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My son and I attended the Dallas event yesterday at AT&T Stadium. The highlight was definitely the ride-along. They had two trucks going - an Antimatter Blue Pro and a Rapid Red XLT. I got the XLT and had fully intended to check out the interior up close but the ride was fast and over with in less than a minute. It was like riding a roller coaster. Lots of squealing tires! The drivers clearly had the course down and were giving us a thrill. The course was about a 1/3 mile based on Google maps. I did note the range was 181 when we started and 179 when we finished.
In another tent there was a cutaway that was cool. Things I noticed were that coming out of the motor was a shaft that went down at an angle to each wheel. There were rubber boots at each end so some type of coupler to get the motor axle to each wheel. In other words the motor axle is higher than the wheel axle. The battery compartment is tiered. The back half of the compartment is higher. This is where the knowledge of the reps came into question. I asked one rep if this was a SR or ER battery. He said he didn't know but that the SR and ER batteries were different shapes and that each one was balanced for the frame. He than asked his associate if that was right. He referred to his associate as "the Dr." and that he was really the expert. The Dr. said something completely different! He said the shape of the pack was the same and that for the SR the upper half was empty of cells and that for the ER that's where the cells were. The first guy said "Wow, I just learned something". This guy was very friendly and had worked at all the tours so it wasn't his first time.
In the same tent as the cutaway they had a Lariat in Atlas Blue. The frunk was cool but it was smaller than I imagined. Still very roomy but I guess it looked bigger in photos and videos. It wasn't just me. My son and a couple of other attendees said the same thing before I agreed. Visually it did not look like you could fit a set of golf clubs there if you had a long driver. No big deal, I have been used to taking the driver out of the bag when stroring clubs in a trunk before. In the back was a panel that lifted off to expose a 12V battery.
It was overcast so the Antimatter Blue was definitely coming off as black from a distance. I heard folks repeatably call it the black one. Since it was on the track you couldn't get up close to see the blue.
In another tent they had an E-Transit. In the same tent were two Sync 4A 15-inch screens you could play with. I wish I had taken a video of all the settings and controls, there were quite a few options. There was also a display of the B&O system (no speakers, just a graphic as far I could tell, we didn't stop there), and several things set up for the fleet dealers earlier in the day that were abandoned.
In another tent there was a cutaway that was cool. Things I noticed were that coming out of the motor was a shaft that went down at an angle to each wheel. There were rubber boots at each end so some type of coupler to get the motor axle to each wheel. In other words the motor axle is higher than the wheel axle. The battery compartment is tiered. The back half of the compartment is higher. This is where the knowledge of the reps came into question. I asked one rep if this was a SR or ER battery. He said he didn't know but that the SR and ER batteries were different shapes and that each one was balanced for the frame. He than asked his associate if that was right. He referred to his associate as "the Dr." and that he was really the expert. The Dr. said something completely different! He said the shape of the pack was the same and that for the SR the upper half was empty of cells and that for the ER that's where the cells were. The first guy said "Wow, I just learned something". This guy was very friendly and had worked at all the tours so it wasn't his first time.
In the same tent as the cutaway they had a Lariat in Atlas Blue. The frunk was cool but it was smaller than I imagined. Still very roomy but I guess it looked bigger in photos and videos. It wasn't just me. My son and a couple of other attendees said the same thing before I agreed. Visually it did not look like you could fit a set of golf clubs there if you had a long driver. No big deal, I have been used to taking the driver out of the bag when stroring clubs in a trunk before. In the back was a panel that lifted off to expose a 12V battery.
It was overcast so the Antimatter Blue was definitely coming off as black from a distance. I heard folks repeatably call it the black one. Since it was on the track you couldn't get up close to see the blue.
In another tent they had an E-Transit. In the same tent were two Sync 4A 15-inch screens you could play with. I wish I had taken a video of all the settings and controls, there were quite a few options. There was also a display of the B&O system (no speakers, just a graphic as far I could tell, we didn't stop there), and several things set up for the fleet dealers earlier in the day that were abandoned.
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