I don’t know about that, used BMW i3s are pretty popular.

Sounds like the same game BMW played with the i3 and i8.

It wasn’t a compliance car, that term is used for the EVs released in the US/California to get fleet mileages up. The Honda e was a “city” car intended to compete it the same market as the original BMW i3 and Renault Zoe.

It probably wasn’t expected to earn a profit but was an effort to learn the technology.

IMO they need to release an updated Element as an EV.

I don’t think the Honda e was a compliance car, since compliance cars were a thing for the US/California market and the Honda e was never sold here.

It was more a “city car” in the vein of the original BMW i3 BEV, the i3 had about an 80km range when introduced. It was never considered a compliance car.

You could say the same about EVs, low volume car unusual for the manufacture. The S2000 was a “halo” car for Honda and at the least he could have passed me to someone that had a clue.

My take was “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” AKA salespeople often have no clue about the goods they are selling.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

In 2002, I walked into the Honda dealer to buy an S2000. The first salesman that greeted me didn’t have a clue that the S2000 was rear wheel drive, only Honda RWD in a long time and that is was only available as a convertible in a single trim, nothing but color to custom order.

No wonder that it was the first S2000 that dealership ever sold.

None to mention they probably have to do a complete redesign to meet us safety standards.

You might want to look into the newer tri-band devices. Usually the third band is for mesh communications but if you are not doing mesh the third band (usually a second 5G band) can be used for devices. Alternatively the 6E tri-band devices use 6G but there are very few end-user devices that use the 6g band.

It works until the vendor does a scan and shuts the SIM off for violation of the terms of service. It’s happened more than once to a buddy the has bought this kind of solution from shady dealers that don’t mention they are using a phone SIM.

You might want to consider the purchase of a second phone that can be permanently tethered to your router or phone. T-Mobile will definitely be able to detect usage directly in a router SIM slot. A buddy of mine purchase a couple of plans that used a SIM intended for phone plans in the router, these plans were quickly shut down by T-Mobile and/or ATT. He had no recourse to go after the shady dealers as they had disappeared.

I’d recommend a 24 non-POE switch with POE injectors for those few devices that you are going to run using POE. That way when the POE on a cheap switch dies, and it will, you don’t have to replace the entire switch. Or buy a cheap 5-port POE switch for the cameras and daisy chain it.