I'm convinced that cheap solar is going to start being seen everywhere. On balconies (it already is in Germany!), on car roofs, on fences, draped from garages, etc. It's too smart and obvious not to be used everywhere.
I just built a site to better inform people what's possible with DIY solar. You no longer have to own your roof. Renters can do this too.
Was trying to compare the Denza Z9 EV (664 mi CLTC) against something like the Lucid Air (516 mi EPA) and realized the numbers are basically apples and oranges.
CLTC ratings can run 30–35% higher than EPA. WLTP splits the difference.
Found this chart that puts 44 vehicles side by side with the rating standard labeled on each bar — actually makes the cross-market comparison a lot more readable.
Filtering by SUV/Sedan/Truck is useful too if you're narrowing down.
Link in comments if anyone wants it. Curious if others have a better source for this kind of comparison.
I decided to finally build the thing I'd always wanted to exist.
Campground research is genuinely terrible. You end up with six tabs open, half of them outdated blogs, half of them recreation.gov pages that don't tell you anything useful. I wanted one place that just told me where to go.
So I built campgrounder.io. Hundreds of curated sites across the US and Canada, with real descriptions (not "great views, highly recommend"), honest amenity info, season notes, price ranges, and direct booking links. Filters for site type, dark sky, tent-only, BLM, price range. Map and list view!
The Canada section is brand new and I'm particularly proud of it. Every province, Yukon included, with booking links routed to the right provincial reservation system because they're all different and figuring that out was genuinely a rabbit hole.
I know the coverage has gaps and I'm sure there are rough edges I haven't found yet. That's exactly why I'm posting here.
If you have five minutes to click around and tell me what's broken, confusing, or missing, I would really appreciate it. And if it's actually useful to you, that would honestly make my week.
If you're doing any US or Canada road tripping this summer, I made something that might actually be useful: Campgrounder.
It's a free, mobile-friendly campground finder with 351 curated spots, its' the kind of curation where I actually threw out anything that didn't deserve to be there.
Filter by state/province, type (National Park, BLM, State Park, Forest Service, etc.), price range, and amenities. There's a map view and a list view, and everything links directly to the booking system for that site.
Just added Canada! 20 spots from Pacific Rim BC to Kathleen Lake in the Yukon, with routing to the right provincial reservation system for each province, since they're all different.
Useful for van builds specifically:
Works great on mobile when you've got a bar of signal and need to make a call fast. No account required, no ads.
campgrounder.io feedback welcome, happy to add gaps.
Quick share: I built Campgrounder as a stripped-down alternative to the usual campground search tools. It's a single static page, no app, no account, no tracking. It loads fast and works offline once cached.
Relevant for this sub:
351 sites total. Just added Canada: Banff, Jasper, Kluane (Yukon) and 17 others, useful if you do cross-border trips.
Not monetized, not trying to be. Built it because I kept having to cross-reference three different sites before deciding where to go.
