Tesla’s Battery Trailer, a Strained Power Grid, Smarter Flight Delays, and the ADU Housing Fix

Tesla aims to address EV range anxiety with what sounds like a punchline: a tow-behind battery trailer. I explore the patent details, the promise of “automatic” energy management, and the complicated real-world questions nobody can ignore, like safety in a rear-end crash, charging at a Supercharger, battery maintenance, and even whether insurance companies would cover it. If a range extender makes your car less practical and more complex, is it really progress for electric vehicles?

From there, I step back and consider the broader energy landscape. US electricity demand is rising rapidly due to EV adoption, large data centers, and AI workloads that run nonstop. Coal-fired power plants now produce a smaller share of electricity than before, but some aging plants are being kept online beyond their end-of-life. That’s where the difficult conversation begins: reliability declines, costs increase, and ratepayers may end up paying more compared to cheaper options like natural gas, wind, and solar.

I also share a genuinely useful piece of travel tech: Flighty’s Airport Intelligence. It converts complex aviation and airport operations data into simple language, helping travelers understand delays and cancellations before the crowds do and sometimes even before airlines acknowledge what’s happening.

Finally, we highlight accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and why they are becoming a key tool for affordable housing. With pre-approved ADU plans in places like Boise and a guided platform in New York City, more homeowners can add small homes without getting overwhelmed by permits and redesign costs.

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Tesla’s Towable Battery Patent

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Visit pincommunity.org to get started. I'm Ken Chester. On the Docket. Coal plants, electricity, and you. How flight tracking app, even the score. And our ancillary dwelling units, the answer to affordable housing. To add your voice to the conversation, be it to ask a question, share an opinion, or even suggest a topic for future discussion, call or text the Tech Mobility Hotline, that number, 872-222-9793. Or you can email the show directly at talk at techmobility.show. From the Tech Mobility News Desk. I have talked a lot about EVs. And we're going to talk about EVs today, but not the way you think. I'm going to talk about probably one of the most stupid ideas I've ever seen. In case you were wondering if I have an opinion about it. I mean, right now I'm looking at an article here that talks about Tesla. Okay, we'll give Tesla some room. But Tesla is talking about approaching range anxiety in a different way. They recently filed a patent. Let me read you the headline. The edge of range anxiety. Tesla's new patent hints at long-demanded feature. Tesla may be circling back to longer-range EVs with a redesigned, get this now, towable battery system. Stop. Wait, stop. Let me get this straight. In order to extend the range, Tesla is actually advocating a small towable behind your car or behind your crossover behind your Model 3, behind your Model Y, really? This is it? No. No. It's a stupid idea. Now I don't know who is, you know, wanting this. They say it's a long-requested idea. I think it's a step backwards. To me, this would reduce, not enhance, the versatility, optimization, and usefulness of the vehicle I'm driving. Because now, on top of worrying about the vehicle, now I gotta worry about a small toil. What if it blows the tire? What if it gets hit? What if it pushes, somebody rear-ends it and pushes it up into my vehicle? You talk about a mess. And they're actually, actually filed a patent for this. And they call it integrating an auxiliary range extender with the vehicle's primary high voltage pack. Giving you a second battery to tow behind you adding length, time, and drive to a Tesla car. Um, I got an answer. No. How about no? How about a whole bunch of no, Tesla? And it ain't gonna be cheap. If they ever bring this to pass, the number, yeah, the number I saw was$16,000. You know what? I could buy a seven-year-old EV as backup and park it in my driveway for 16 grand. I could buy a fuel efficient vehicle, older, decent shape for 16 grand. Why would I possibly do this? And honestly, Tesla, how about some good engineering? How about taking the engineering that you put in to the Model S plaid, bragging 500 miles plus against the lucid and putting some of that engineering into the Model 3 and the Model Y? How about that? How about making the batteries more efficient and the engines more uh efficient and how they use power and actually boost the efficiency of the engines? Or maybe increase or further decrease the time it takes to recharge. Really? This no, no, no. And this is to y'all that think that everything that I talk about when I talk about EVs is rosy. If you've been listening to me, you know that I am quick to call them out on it. And Tesla, I'm calling you out on this. I think honestly, this is probably one of the worst ideas I've ever seen in the whole EV space. 16,000? How would I insure that? It's all battery. Would the would that be another vehicle? Would that be a rider on my existing one? Would an insurance company even touch insuring that? And what do you do if it does get damaged? We got a hard enough time right now in the growing EV industry to find repair people who know how to deal with electric cars. Now you've got something that's just a standalone, for lack of a better word, it's a little power wagon. It's it's a battery on wheels designed to kick in when your primary battery no longer has enough juice. Tesla would have an indicator that would know which battery is at what charge, and should the primary battery drop below a certain percentage, the auxiliary battery kicks in. And in my mind, I'm thinking a million different things of what could go wrong with that. Not to mention what happens if the thing gets older. Yeah, no, I no, no, and is it always permanently attached? And if it is, then you've just rendered any ability to carry cargo moot. Because I either got to disconnect the thing, move it out the way, or connect it later. No. And then what do you do when you pull into a supercharger to charge it? How does that work? Yeah, I I've seen a lot of crazy things. But this one really, really, really, really takes the cake for me. And they announced this plan originally back in 2023. And according to the article, please hear me, according to the article, it said sparking strong interest and early reservation from customers. There is no way. Because the company even accepted deposits, signaling the extender could reach the market relatively quickly. But they actually canceled the project last May and refunded the money. Now, to be fair, full disclosure, this extender was originally designed for the Cybertruck. And the original range boosting pack was meant to sit inside the truck pad and only occupy one third of its available space. Yeah. Um, yo, Tesla? Still no. Still no. For all the reasons that you can think of. I am not a fan of the Cybertruck, never was. And now you're gonna take a third of its of its very sacred um cargo space for this? Yeah, no. No. According to the patent they recently filed, it will no longer be implanted within the vehicle's bed, but, like I said, attached behind it and a dedicated trailer. Tesla's updated system would take a hands-off approach to energy management between the vehicle and its trailer. When software sensors the trailer's battery holds more charge than the vehicle's onboard pack, it automatically draws from the trailer to power the car, equalizing the load. During charging, the process reverses. Extra energy is routed to whichever battery is running lower to keep both packs balanced. And behind the scenes, the system continuously tracks current critical health metrics like flow and temperature, adjusting power distribution in real time for its seamless operation. Now to be clear, range extenders aren't new. The original Chevy Volt with a V that came out back in 2011 was an extended range EV. Only those used a small gasoline engine that only kicked in to recharge the batteries, which meant you still got the benefit of electric power because the gasoline engine wasn't running all the time, and it was a smaller engine, so it didn't sip gas. It only existed to recharge the batteries. That's it. And I have friends of mine that owned a Chevy Volt, and they said, We rarely ever visit a gas station. And this is a fellow who drove it every day, fellow broadcaster friend of mine, and he said, if I buy gas once a month or less, it's a lot. And he was driving it every day. So no, range extenders aren't new, but this idea, no. As far as practicality, I see too much wrong with it. Just way too much wrong with it in terms of insurability, maintenance, control, safety. Uh just no, no. It was barely a good idea as part of the cargo bed in a cyber truck. As a standalone small uh trailer, it makes no sense whatsoever. Improve the original battery, improve the battery management system, improve uh the density of the batteries you're providing, improve the motors. You can do that, Lucid did.

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Coal Plants And Rising Grid Demand

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It's from 1977 for it talking about all the things they're doing. 1977. I sold cars in the 1970s. I'm here to tell you everything you just heard was a lie. Um, I reference a book for you that will give you a really a bird's eye view of automobile manufacturing in the United States of America in the 1970s. It's called The Savage Factory. The Savage Factory. You want to get an iPhone? It is a former executive's um testimony or account of his time in the Sharonsville, Ohio transmission plant back in the 70s. It's worth a read. It will open your eyes. And like I said, I sold cars in the 1970s, not for Ford, but for another automaker. And yes, I'm calling you out, Chrysler. The quality was horrific. It was bad. Pretty much across the board. It didn't matter. It didn't matter. The automakers would get religion later, but they didn't have it in the 70s, that's for sure. And I'm here to tell you. Sounds nice. I love the jingle. It's just too bad the reality didn't back up what they were saying. I like the jingle. Wanted to share it. In 2001, 25 years ago, coal-fired electric power plants accounted for just over 50%, 50% of all the electric power produced in the United States. By 2023, three years ago, that number had fallen to just 16.2%. And that still represents, hold on, that still represents 675 billion kilowatt hours of power. Let that settle for a minute. 16.2% is generated through a coal-fired electric plant. And that generates 675 billion kilowatts of power. With the rise of large data centers across the country, and the rise of power-hungry AI applications, and the installed base of EVs, government officials and industry veterans have been scrambling to add more power to the grid, or at the very least, delay the requirement of old power plants, namely coal. What does that mean to you? This is topic A. My first full-time job out of college was working for a telephone utility. What I learned about working for a utility is they plan life cycles in decades. Whether they're building a central office for telephone service, or creating a route to lay cable, or developing a new residential area for phone service. We're talking years and decades. The electrical industry is the same way. 30, 40 years ago, when they were looking at demand and they were looking at their spreadsheets, their futures, and they said, okay, 45 years ago, maybe the early 1980s, we're going to build a brand new coal plant. It has a life expectancy of 35 years. We're going to build it. We're going to spend millions of dollars, get it online. Maybe it takes them five years to get it online. So if they were planning in 1980, it's online by 85, and they're expecting to take that thing offline in 2025. Why does that matter? Number one, because when it gets to the end of life, this isn't like your car crossing 100,000 miles and needing a tune-up. These factories are designed with all the components and supporting materials that go into them. They're designed for a fixed length of time. When it is past that time, it gets prohibitively expensive because this stuff starts wearing out. And we're not talking tens of thousands, we're talking millions of dollars. Hence the coal plants. Now I mentioned at the top of this episode that only 16.2% of all the power generated in the United States now are coal plants. But there is a move afoot in the administration to extend the life of these coal plants that are at the end of life. And in fact, the administration singled out five where they used federal authority, emergency powers, to force these plants to stay open. Why does that matter? If you're up against end of life, because you didn't expect to do it because you were doing maintenance in accordance to retiring this plant in 2025 that you opened in 1985. And you know taking it, you're going to take it offline in 2025. That's it. It's over. We're done. So your last five or six years of maintenance is just to keep the thing going, knowing that these components are getting towards the end of life. And when they get that old, they are no longer reliable. So you got a little catch-22 here. Again, in the open, we talked about the rising need for electrical power in the United States and where it's coming from. But keeping a dirty, old, now fairly unreliable plant online, somebody's got to pay for that. It ain't free. And these are costs that were not engineered for the utility nor approved originally by the rate-making body in that state. But if they now have to spend$35 million to keep this plant running, when they need to spend$135 million to really make it run right. And you're looking at a minimum of we spend all that money 10 to 15 years. Who's going to pay that? The ratepayers are going to pay it. That means you and me. And here's the thing. Bottom line. If you coal fired plant costs$122 per megawatt hour, natural gas,$78 per megawatt hour, 61 from wind, and$58 a megawatt hour for solar. So it costs two times, maybe three times more to run a coal plant per megawatt hour than the other stuff available. And the worst part of it is these five plants, two weren't running and may never run again. And the other ones aren't needed, according to the local officials. But the ratepayer is going to end up paying to keep these plants online. The iPhone's best flight tracking app helps airline passengers to level up with critical information. This is the Tech Mobility Show.

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Flighty Brings Airport Intelligence To Travelers

SPEAKER_02 21:38

Did you know that Tech Mobility has a YouTube channel? Hi, I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. Each week, I upload a few short videos of some of the hot topics that I cover during my weekly radio program. I've designed these videos to be informative and entertaining. It's another way to keep up on current mobility and technology news and information. Be sure to watch, like, and subscribe. To my channel. That's the Tech Mobility Show on YouTube. Check it out. Imagine this. The best flight tracking app on the iPhone. Sorry, Android. Just gave airline passengers access to the same airport intelligence that pilots and airlines have always had. Finally, a way to keep abreast of what's going on during your trip. Especially if and when things go sideways. I discuss. This is topic B. If you've been listening to the program any length of time, I'm sure I've talked about my father, who is a master aircraft technician for what used to be Allegheny Airlines, U.S. Air, now American. He retired years ago. So I spent a lot of time around airplanes, airlines, at Logan Airport in particular, where he worked. A lot going on behind the scenes. And as a child of an airline employee, I knew some of it, but didn't know all of it. So imagine. I've been traveling, I've been flying since I was 15 years old. My first flight was back in 73. Imagine now. You're in an airport with everything going on, and suddenly your flight gets delayed. Or worse, it gets canceled. Now what? You and everybody else in that flight start scrambling. But do you know why? And with knowing why things are going on, help you to plan, particularly if you're either trying to get home or trying to get to a destination. Yep. Because more information is always good. The app is called Flighty. And it's the favorite app of many frequent travelers, and it just rolled out something called Airport Intelligence. Now, this new feature monitors condition at more than 14,000 airports worldwide and translates the complex data of airport operations into plain English. The app now takes weather events, staffing shortages, ground stops, and runaway changes and presents them in an easy-to-understand format in real time before you're standing at a gate wondering why nobody knows what's happening. Yeah, I've I've got nightmare stories. I'm thinking of one particularly in Minneapolis years ago. On a Friday night, Northwest Orient Airlines. We get to the gate, no ticket agent, no plane, no crew, and no reason why. That was interesting. Would have been nice to know. Would have been nice to have Flighty back then. The only thing worse than realizing that your flight wasn't going anywhere is knowing that someone knew why. It just wasn't you. Flighty's latest update solves the problem in one of the simplest and thoughtfully designed ways ever. Here's its superpower. Its killer feature tells you your flight is delayed even before the airline tells everybody else. It tracks your inbound aircraft 25 hours before departure, wherever the heck it was, on its way to you. It even predicts disruptions using machine learning and sends you a push notification while the gate agent is still pretending everything is fine. Have you ever been in a situation like that? Plane gets delayed, we don't have an update. Plane gets delayed again, we don't have an update, plane gets delayed again, and you don't have an update. They don't know or they're not saying. Yeah, Flighty will tell you. But up until they introduced airport intelligence, Flighty couldn't always tell you the why the entire airport was falling apart. But now the feature airport intelligence pulls from the same data sources pilots and airline operations centers rely on meteorological air drome reports, terminal, air drome forecasts, and notices to airmen. That information. These are dense technical documents full of acronyms and codes that mean a lot to someone in a cockpit and essentially nothing to the rest of us. Flighty feeds all of that through an AI layer and gives you a summary that makes sense. Here's some other cool things that it does. It has a delay feature, a delay trend feature, what Flighty is calling meltdown forecasting, that shows you when delays are expected to start. Not that you're in the middle of it, when they're expected to start, and more importantly, when they're expected to clear. You now have, for the first time as a traveler, intelligence ahead of everybody else not using this app that will let you know what's going to happen before it happens. It gives you an opportunity before the crowd to maybe change your plans. Get the heck out of there. Or go and enjoy a long dinner. But at least now you know. If you're stuck in an airport because your flight is delayed, it's nice to know whether you have enough time to grab dinner or if you should stick around your gate, or worse, and they love to do this, uh, what gate you're gonna they're gonna change to. Which in my case, when I travel, is usually halfway across a very big airport. I couldn't get like the gate next to it. No, no, they're gonna be way over, two terminals over, and oh yeah, you got 10 minutes to get there. Have fun. No, I would need this Flight E for sure. The fact that Flight E can ingest all of it and hand you a plain language explanation of why your airport is a disaster before you even leave home is exactly what the founder was trying to work towards since he first decided that all this dedicated and complicated data didn't have to stay that way. Now you're ready for the coolest part? Flighty, airport intelligence. The real story is that any of this is available for free. Flighty opened airport intelligence as a public web dashboard at Flighty.com backslash airports. Let me do this again if you're traveling. Flighty, that's f-l-g-h-ty.com backslash airports. You don't even need the app and you don't have to subscribe to anything. That means the next time the travel system sees this up, anyone over the browser, let me fix that, anyone with an iPhone browser. Can see what's happening and why. And not just Flighty Pro subscribers. And of course, by opening the web dashboard to anybody for free, Flighty puts its best capability in front of the exact people who don't know yet why they need it. Talk about marketing genius. You use this thing once you'll be sold, particularly if you travel a lot. And as an automotive writer back in the day, I used to travel a lot. It would be nice to have something like this, like Flighty. Particularly today when there's so many variables. When I was a kid traveling as an airplane airline uh employees kid, the instructions were leave on the first thing smoking in the morning. Why? Because number one, uh because we were what you call non-revenue, we flew if there was space available, and if there was a paying butt for that seat, uh the ticket agent could pull us off the plane. And you needed to have a backup plan. So we got real good at leaving early, and that's still a habit I do to this day, uh, to give you the greatest amount of choice. But imagine if I had this information to go with it. Talk about strategic planning. It would be so incredibly cool.com backslash airports. You're welcome. Whatever I can do to help it, help you travel go a little easier, and this certainly is something worth you checking out. Absolutely. Absolutely. I love it. In the midst of the home affordability crisis in America, can ancillary dwelling units be the answer? We are the Tech Mobility Show.

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Are Ancillary Dwelling Units the Answer?

SPEAKER_02 32:39

Did you know that Tech Mobility has a YouTube channel? Hi, I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. Each week, I upload a few short videos of some of the hot topics that I cover during my weekly radio program. I've designed these videos to be informative and entertaining. It's another way to keep up on current mobility and technology news and information. Be sure to watch, like, and subscribe to my channel. That's the Tech Mobility Show on YouTube. Check it out. Housing shortages are taking a toll everywhere. From large coastal cities to smaller landlocked ones, there's a dearth of affordable housing. Ancillary dwelling units, better known as ADUs, may be a big part of the answer. And I take a look at a couple of different approaches to implementation of ADUs across the country. This is topic C. Before I start, let me first explain what I'm talking about. And I've mentioned it kind of in passing before, but in case you didn't get that, let me give you the primer now. An ancillary dwelling unit, otherwise known as an ATU, is often called a granny flat, casita, or in-law suite, and its smaller, self-contained residential unit could be located on the same lot as a primary single-family home. It includes its own kitchen, bathroom, and live-in area, providing independent living space for residents. Advantages? ADUs are legally part of the same property as the main house, usually with one owner but operate as independent housing. Sizes and types. And they usually range from so many square feet, and it can be detached as a backyard cottage and attached like a garage conversion or an interior basement apartments. And cities that allow ADUs usually do have, and we'll talk about these in a minute, a range. Used for housing family members, renting out for extra income, or downsizing to increase affordability. Here's some benefits and uses. Community impact increases housing density and offers affordable options in residential neighborhoods without large-scale development and added value. Across the board, most of the time, it adds actually property value, though it may also increase local taxes. Well, you know, this 601 half dozen of the other. Even here in Des Moines, Iowa, if you go to the city's website, there is a whole section on ancillary dwelling units. And here in Iowa, or at least in Des Moines, they're not as hardcore about what you can use. They give you some general guidelines, but they're not even down to the models. In larger cities like Boise, Idaho, and New York City, they have approved plans. And you know, you can choose from a variety of different plans, but they already have pre-approved plans. And for big cities with a lot of red tape, that's actually an advantage. That if they've got the plans drawn up and all you got to do is take the plans, pick one, and this is what I'm gonna build on my property. You don't have to go through all the site permitting and all of that because the plan is already city approved. You just got to build it according to the plans. And that can save you really thousands of dollars. So let's take a look at one. Boise, Idaho. The city population is 235,000. Uh, the metro, Boise Metro is about 488,000. They estimate that between now and 2033, they would need to add 20,000 units of new housing to meet projected affordable demand. Now, what Boise did is with the influx because of the pandemic, has everybody decided Idaho was the place to go. I'm getting out of California, I'm getting out of Washington, they moved to Idaho. Unfortunately, in all that moving drove up prices. And now states like Montana, Colorado, as they are still building, are looking at different ways of getting affordable housing built quickly. A recent study of Boise, Idaho showed that only five percent of the city's housing stock is within reach of middle income residents or households making$75,000 a year. Let me say that again. Not 50, not 10, 5. And Boise. Something you'd think be like New York City. No, in Boise, Idaho, 5%. And in order to meet the demand for affordable housing, they would have to build 20,000 units between now and 2033. Towards that end, Boise's Planning and Development Services Department provides free pre-approved blueprints for accessory dwelling units. Boise residents can choose from a batch of eight plans that respond to varying site conditions and preferences. And they were designed by a local Boise firm, and it got all cute bird names, like the Kenstrel and the Osprey. Each of the eight options were named after the state birds of Idaho. That's pretty cool. The ADUs in the Boise case range from 280 to 695 square feet and come in studio one and two bedroom configurations. And they could be either be built as freestanding single-story homes or over garages. And these plans are designed to balance efficiency, livability, and neighborhood compatibility while giving homeowners a practical path to add housing while positively contributing to the cup to the community's fabric. Imagine that. That's in Boise. Let me give an example of what's going on in New York. They just launched a platform providing pre-approved ADU plans from eight different local architects. Pre-approved. And that's a big deal in New York City. Pre-approved. Now, in the case of New York City, the pre-approved plans on a website they call ADU for you, come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and costs. The most affordable is$85,000. The most expensive, if you can imagine, is$650,000. That is one heck of a wonderful house out here with land at$650,000. But it's New York. By making it easier for New Yorkers to turn their homes into an extra place for a loved one or a little more income, we're allowing our city to grow while keeping the character of the neighborhoods we love. That came from the mayor. In the case of New York, users start by plopping their address into the website database to determine whether or not their property is eligible for ADU construction. Next, financial modeling tools will help them stake out how much monetary value an ADU would deliver. So you know going in, if I spend X, what your payback would be. And that's pretty cool. Users can plan their ADU using the platform's pre-approved library and begin construction. The platform can also help users get approval for occupancy before moving in or renting out. In the case of New York City, you're looking at construction of one or two family ADUs with a maximum, in their case, of 800 square feet. And that's a snug little apartment, by the way. Not terrible, but snug. These are just a couple of examples of how cities are looking at trying to increase affordable housing stock without all the permitting and the big projects and all the issues. Now, to be fair, the cost of construction is being borne by the residents. And I think in the case of New York, there may be some financial assistance available. But the residents whose property that's getting built on is put in the bill. So it's not a city project, it's not foisted on the taxpayers, it's literally 1 ADU at a time. That's good or bad, depending on how you look at it. Whether you feel the city should be taking the lead or whether or not there should be more help.

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SPEAKER_02 42:06

To learn more about the Tech Mobility Show, start by visiting our website. I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. The website is a treasure trove of information about me and the show, as well as where to find it on the radio across the country. Keep up with the happenings at the Tech Mobility Show by visiting Techmobility.show. You can also drop us a line and talk at Techmobility.show.

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