# Anyone have any luck with electric vehicles?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/anyone-have-any-luck-with-electric-vehicles/7749>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [November 3, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/anyone-have-any-luck-with-electric-vehicles/7749 "2014-11-03T19:28:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Arek\_PL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Arek\_PL](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Arek_PL)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/anyone-have-any-luck-with-electric-vehicles/7749/21 "2014-11-06T16:00:11Z")

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foot crank is great but for bunkers on wheels they do not have enought power

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**Author:** ![Valpo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valpo/32/341_2.png) [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/anyone-have-any-luck-with-electric-vehicles/7749/22 "2014-11-06T16:11:57Z")

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i am building a electric car right now.  
I have 6 storage batteries which are at 100% now with 5 solar pannels… and i haven t attached the wheels yet…

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**Author:** ![BigLie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@BigLie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BigLie)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/anyone-have-any-luck-with-electric-vehicles/7749/23 "2014-11-06T20:12:11Z")

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[quote=“Coolthulhu, post:18, topic:7749”]Currently cars don’t exactly need to be in the reality bubble to be processed, but they still need to be loaded somehow.

I tested it when fixing cars smoking outside their z-level: standing a z-level below and ~5 tiles from the car doesn’t stop it from processing. So if you can sleep nearly directly under your solar car (for example, you wrecked a house that has a basement or even better - found one that has both a garage and basement), I think it should charge while you sleep despite being “far” from you.[/quote]  
Currently = experimentals, right?  
Because that occasion with the Solar Car relates to times when I played 0.A stable.  
And what about being on the same z-level but somewhere far away?

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**Author:** ![Coolthulhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/coolthulhu/32/2446_2.png) [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/anyone-have-any-luck-with-electric-vehicles/7749/24 "2014-11-06T22:05:46Z")

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[quote=“BigLie, post:23, topic:7749”]Currently = experimentals, right?  
Because that occasion with the Solar Car relates to times when I played 0.A stable.  
And what about being on the same z-level but somewhere far away?[/quote]

Yes, experimentals. The code explicitly mentions cars that aren’t in bounds (it doesn’t produce smoke and noise in this case). Since it produced smoke and noise while I was underground (before I fixed the bug), it meant it was processed.

I was wrong about it charging solars, though. Code that charges solars uses your z-level, not car’s, meaning that when you’re underground the entire world is completely dark.

Not sure about same z-level. From what I see in the code it should, but from my own experience it doesn’t. Maybe it is somehow related to saving and loading the game.

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**Author:** ![BigLie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@BigLie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BigLie)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/anyone-have-any-luck-with-electric-vehicles/7749/25 "2014-11-09T20:32:53Z")

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Thanks for the tip.

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