I've always been a huge Yamaha fan for whatever reasons. I've owned more Suzuki's than Yamaha's but for some reason the Yamaha's always just seemed to be less, but more in some way. I always wanted an OX-99, but it was never to be and a pair of wellies are for more useful these days and most of the cars I've owned over the years wouldn't even make it up the driveway of where I live now.
On the engine side it's amazing what they've done through their history. All the Engines they've made or tuned for Toyota. Ford. Volvo and many others.
It's a huge corporation though, so you can't expect the same magic to be applied everywhere and in fairness, many of the mistakes they've made have been similar to others and are just part of this early stage evolutionary. They're far from perfect, but nothing yet is, compromises are made with lack of experience from real world experience.
Still, it's fun and none of the motors are so crap that we can't go out and enjoy ourselves 99% of the time. (Except for
@Evolution Stu who apparently never buys his flowers, so he's screwed - I'm still trying to figure out more on that but will comment in the other thread)
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) to measure LORA radio strength vs distance, capture GPS, report it back to iphone via bluetooth low energy, then to Internet of Things backbone, then into a database. On a prior project I designed similar to capture my solar array output every 10 seconds over 5 years and write it out to a database. It is just a re-swishing of the code and hardware for this project. Need to get two wiring harness parts: 1) Battery to motor cable 2) Charger port (since that connects to the Plus pack battery) , and install shunts in those wires. These shunts: 
