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Meta Ray-Ban Camera Glasses Privacy: Are We Freaking Out About the Wrong Thing?

Gear & Gadgets, Photography / By Midlife Truth

Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links. If you purchase through one of these links, Midlife Truth may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. The information in this article is for general informational purposes only and is not financial, legal, medical, or other professional advice. Before I reach the grocery store door, […]

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Psycho Bunny: Is It Worth It?

Clothing / By Midlife Truth

Psycho Bunny charges $58 for a tee and $98 for a polo. I bought one tee first and wore it for months before ordering more.

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Family loading a packed SUV trunk for a road trip

Essential Road Trip Kit for Electric and Gas Cars

Cars, Gear & Gadgets, Travel / By Midlife Truth

The gear that earns a permanent spot in the car after enough road trips with kids — plus the few things that actually change when the vehicle is an EV.

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EV Road Trips: When They’re Worth It (and When They’re Not)

Leave a Comment / Cars, Travel / By Midlife Truth

EVs make excellent road-trip vehicles when time doesn’t matter. When it does — with kids, school breaks, and a destination to hit — the math changes around the 5-hour mark. Here’s the real range data, the real cost-per-mile numbers, and where the trade-off actually lands.

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mall hard-sided cooler filled with ice and bottles

What Small Cooler Is Right for Me? YETI, RTIC, or Something Else

Activities, Gear & Gadgets / By Midlife Truth

The cooler problem nobody warns you about You bought the big cooler for the family beach trip, and it was the right call at the time. Then youth sports happened, and now you are hauling a 45-quart chest across a parking lot at 7:40 in the morning for four water bottles and a bag of

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EV Tow Vehicles: Can They Actually Tow an Electric Trailer

Cars, Travel / By Midlife Truth

I started looking at an electric RV trailer because I own an electric SUV and the idea made sense after watching a real well-done YouTube video. Then I started reading specifications, and the enthusiasm ran into arithmetic. Most electric vehicles cannot tow these trailers. Not most crossovers, not most three-row SUVs, and not even every

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Infographic explaining the 60/40 trailer loading rule and the 10 to 15 percent tongue weight window.

Towing a Travel Trailer for Noobs

Cars, Travel / By Midlife Truth

Towing a travel trailer seems a little worrisome. The largest thing I have ever towed is a small rental trailer. I have spent the past several weeks researching six-figure electric campers, and at some point a specific fear took hold. The fear is not scratching a fender. It is loading a trailer wrong, feeling it

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Which Electric Trailer is King?

Cars, Gear & Gadgets, Travel / By Midlife Truth

The Trailer I Want Is Not the Trailer I Would Buy I have now spent a considerable amount of time with the specifications for all three of these trailers. If you asked me which trailer I find most appealing on paper, the answer is the Evotrex PG5, and it is not close. It generates its

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Evotrex PG5: What You Want to Know

Cars, Gear & Gadgets, Travel / By Midlife Truth

What the Evotrex PG5 Actually Is The Evotrex PG5 gets grouped with the electric trailers, and it does not belong there. Evotrex says as much in its own specifications. The PG5 is a plug-in hybrid. Every version carries a 43-kilowatt-hour battery and a 75-kilowatt gasoline generator with its own fuel tank. The fully loaded PG5

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The Lightship AE.1: What You Want to Know

Cars, Holidays, Travel / By Midlife Truth

The most interesting engineering in the category Most travel trailers are boxes. They push a wall of air down the highway and your fuel economy or your battery range pays for it. Lightship built the AE.1 around the opposite premise, which is that if you solve aerodynamics first, everything else gets easier. The trailer travels

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