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threegee last won the day on August 11 2023

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  1. 8 years later... ..and this cool-laid-back is even built in to the software! I did come across a reply to a "how to" technical question on a forum last night posted five years after the question was asked; but it's nice to know that Bedlington.uk is right up there with the best!
  2. It's not simply braking, your engine/transmission is contributing lots of drag too. There's a charging station in practically every garage or on every drive - it's called a wall outlet. We quite happily used the little box that came with the car for over a year, and could still get by without the 3-phase wall charger. But it's nice to know that we can head off on a long trip at max capacity at very little notice, and that we can offer destination charging to visiting friends. I got an extra long Type 2 cable so that it will reach under the door onto our back lane: one day someone will thank me for this! People have been fed the idea that you must have dedicated fast chargers everywhere, but the reality is that all you need is to adjust your mindset away from your expensive dinosaur juice addiction. My only wish is that our wall charger and the car could agree to a slower charging rate, as even the minimum setting (5A of 3-phase) generally tops up the car in little more than an hour of cheap rate power when actually I want to extend this over much more of the cheap rate period. So IMHO too much is made of charging times. Very rarely have we ever been ready to go from a stop before the car was, and not having to queue to pay at service stations is an extra bonus. You can be taking on power within a few seconds of arriving, and it's simply pull the connector and go. In fact, there have been occasions when a short charging time has been a bit of a pain: getting to the top floor of a hotel and flopping down on the bed to almost immediately get a message that the charge is complete, and you're expected to remove the vehicle from the charger within ten minutes! Always best to find a hotel with a reserved destination charger that tops you up overnight for free. We arrived at one posh Italian hotel in the early hours to find the manager - no less - standing ready to remove the reserved sign right outside the main entrance to enable us to plug in for a free overnight charge. No lugging our bags from the car park, and very satisfied customers who will definitely revisit. PHEVs are a bit of a joke when they park up at public chargers in an attempt to bolster their tiny electric range, and actually annoy other EV owners. There's a usage case for people who do short commutes and can filch power from an employer, but generally they are the worst of both worlds: none of the maintenance savings and very little fuel saving to compensate for all the extra complexity. I convinced one of our neighbours here to wait for an affordable proper EV, and I'm sure that's coming fairly soon now. I agree that you've a special case there, but in a different way we were "way out in the styx" in the first year or two. We didn't even have any service available this end of Italy, let alone fast public charging. Any concerns we had were very easily overcome, and we'll never buy another ICE vehicle. I will bet you are going to see some Cybertrucks locally in the next year - 18 months max!
  3. OK, we are both right. Power directly from the engine is at around 30%, but power into the wheels is at around 17% efficiency. Also, ICE engines can't recover the kinetic energy of the vehicle, so it's wasted in the braking system. This can be a huge factor as Pepsi are reporting with their new semis.. Of course, the waste heat from the engine can be very useful in cold climates, so there can be some offset. This doesn't seem to have influence our Norwegian friends too much, though, as more than 80% of their new vehicle purchases are now EVs.
  4. Carbon emissions aren't the problem. The major problems with ICE are: The UK has depleted its own oil reserves. It can only get more expensive. There's a huge, hidden health problem from NOX emissions. It's extremely inefficient as a method of propulsion (circa 17% efficiency). It's all in the wrong places on earth, so costs more energy to transport. It costs lives in other ways: practically every war in modern times has oil as root cause. Lots of more minor problems too. Think gas street lamps in the age of the electric light bulb - that's where we are currently at! People resisting EVs are of exactly the same mentality as those silly people in the 1910s claiming that the horseless carriage would never catch on.
  5. Coal is too valuable to burn. It's an excellent source of hydrocarbons to make organic compounds with. ...even those "evil plastics"! This will become very apparent to future generations.
  6. I think the focus there is on the females are able to multitask and males aren't - myth. But... if it gets food put on the table at all the right times (etc. etc.), then we really shouldn't knock it.
  7. "There will be a shuttle bus to get people from one side of the crossing to the other..." Well, I can dream! This one was supposed to be flying by 2018, and it seems there are quite a number of such designs. Maybe it's going to take Elon to bring one to reality!
  8. I understand, but no need for the sad face: it's not written by Microslop. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/devices-not-working-after-a-major-windows-update-a15667e6-baa1-4437-80aa-a77f08b3aaff
  9. They didn't leave a name. The message originated from Guildford if that's any help.
  10. Whoops yet another BBC wokey whoopsie.. You can't get the staff these days! Or rather, you can't get the staff if you only advertise your vacancies in The Guardian. They need to be more inclusive and advertise in Socialist Worker too!
  11. Only missing the fact that I was cleaning out the reports to moderators and found it there. Thought the additional info might be useful to someone, someday - even if it is an AI bot in 2060. The board software has just been upgraded to the current version, too.
  12. If it was on the BBC it must be true.. unless it was about Nigel Farage's bank account, of course!
  13. https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/wilko-collapse-fears-live-high-27450620 Wilko collapse fears live as high street giant falls into administration Alnwick, Ashington, Blyth, Cramlington.. Think I was in the Cramlington one a couple of years back. 12,000 jobs is a pretty big hit these days.
  14. Even bigger lack of info: what kind of tree? The cedars here cause me real problems, but these are obviously deciduous.
  15. Above was sent to the moderators in error.
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