Electric Vehicles etc

[Haakon]

You have been reading the last few comments though?

I know quite intimately the roads @ozzybmx drives. The right tyre is noticeable to you, me and probably Ozzy. Mrs BMX? I'm not so sure

When setting up/maintaining a car for someone I care about who isn’t into cars and may not be a super good driver, I tend to go all out on the best handling and gripping tyre I can get. When they need to swerve to avoid the dog/kid/car I don’t want it doing anything unpredictable or being sloppy.

 

[beeb]

When setting up/maintaining a car for someone I care about who isn’t into cars and may not be a super good driver, I tend to go all out on the best handling and gripping tyre I can get. When they need to swerve to avoid the dog/kid/car I don’t want it doing anything unpredictable or being sloppy.

If you're not pulling the tyre-warmers off one of these for her before each drive, do you even really love her?

 

[Haakon]

If you're not pulling the tyre-warmers off one of these for her before each drive, do you even really love her?

Point taken. But at least put good tyres on in the right size for the rim. A heavy lowish centre of gravity EV will push hard on the sidewalls, and you want them supported properly.

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

The BYD has tyre pressure monitoring and will remind your wife to chastise you for not pumping them up.

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Fixed

 

[ozzybmx]

Point taken. But at least put good tyres on in the right size for the rim. A heavy lowish centre of gravity EV will push hard on the sidewalls, and you want them supported properly.

I'll send Continental a message and tell them they know eff all about rims and tyres.

 

[ozzybmx]

a car for someone I care about

Let's not jump to any conclusions here

 

[Haakon]

I'll send Continental a message and tell them they know eff all about rims and tyres.

Would be interested to know what width the rims are. Either the 205 or the 225 are wrong Or at least not optimal.

Oh, scratch that i had memories of you saying 205. I didnt sleep... Ok fine, 225 is fine i thought they were going up two sizes!

 

[ozzybmx]

Would be interested to know what width the rims are. Either the 205 or the 225 are wrong Or at least not optimal.

Oh, scratch that i had memories of you saying 205. I didnt sleep... Ok fine, 225 is fine i thought they were going up two sizes!

I don't know what they are.

 

[Scotty T]

The BYD has tyre pressure monitoring and will remind your wife to pump them up.

One of the best features in the last two cars I've had. Windows that roll up or down when you hold the key button too. But the fancy electrics have pre cooling venting out the windows. It's cool yo, in my best dead pan dad joke voice.

 

[ausdb]

Missus has never llistened or learned from day one

The BYD has tyre pressure monitoring and will remind your wife to pump them up.

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Keeping OT as usual, wifey had a sportage as her last work car. It had tyre pressure monitoring as well. Just reminded her to tell me the tyres needed pumping up

 

[Chriso_29er]

Have only done 520km in the iX3 so far, but got its first longer trip under its belt down to the Mornington Peninsula. 243km round trip at 15.9kwh/100km, was still showing 202km range remaining sitting bang on half charge.
Can get it to around 13kwh/100 around town, climbs to around 16 sitting on 100km/h.

Really enjoying it so far, for a weighty SUV it still gets along ok.

 

[beeb]

Don't you wish you could get the modern tech without all the tech-ick?

Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’

Cameras affixed on cars sent videos of customers and their property to the EV maker’s offices and spread ‘like wildfire’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Haakon]

Don't you wish you could get the modern tech without all the tech-ick?

Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’

Cameras affixed on cars sent videos of customers and their property to the EV maker’s offices and spread ‘like wildfire’

www.theguardian.com

Yeah that’s less than ideal..

 

[Fred Nurk]

Baseload, in almost all social media discussions, is a misused term.
One of the previous reasons off-peak power was cheaper is that the larger types of generator (thermal powered whether coal or nuclear) couldn't easily follow load or change it's load profile quickly (protection events notwithstanding). It was easier to discount the price than it was to shutdown the plant and start it up again. Gas turbines are far better at this but aren't immune to thermal cycling related wear.
As far as what is actually desired, dispatchable non-intermittent power, that's a completely different argument and does not necessarily equate to needing nuclear. Hydro can do that, although it's not without it's challenges; and up to a certain size, so can other renewable sources (albeit with batteries in the mix).

Nuclear power is what we really should be working towards for base load power.

Again, base load is not a useful term. And I'm not sure how the remaining fossil assets in the system translate to needing nukes?

You dreaming ?

NSW, Vic and QLD run like this every day and take a bigger share at night.
Vic is importing currently and Tas is sucking coal juice across Basslink.
We have no wind here in SA today and we are still over producing and exporting to the Eastern grid.
This country relies on black/brown coal for over 50% of its power, 24 hours a day.

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[SummitFever]

Don't you wish you could get the modern tech without all the tech-ick?

Tesla workers shared ‘intimate’ car camera images, ex-employees allege: ‘Massive invasion of privacy’

Cameras affixed on cars sent videos of customers and their property to the EV maker’s offices and spread ‘like wildfire’

www.theguardian.com

This. I want a safe and reliable electric car not some tech filled unrepairable heap of shit that's spying on you in it's free time.

(Note: most modern ICE vehicles fall into this same category of crap).

 

[Oddjob]

Baseload, in almost all social media discussions, is a misused term.
One of the previous reasons off-peak power was cheaper is that the larger types of generator (thermal powered whether coal or nuclear) couldn't easily follow load or change it's load profile quickly (protection events notwithstanding). It was easier to discount the price than it was to shutdown the plant and start it up again. Gas turbines are far better at this but aren't immune to thermal cycling related wear.
As far as what is actually desired, dispatchable non-intermittent power, that's a completely different argument and does not necessarily equate to needing nuclear. Hydro can do that, although it's not without it's challenges; and up to a certain size, so can other renewable sources (albeit with batteries in the mix).

Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task from TheEconomist
https://www.economist.com/technolog...-to-the-electricity-grid-is-not-a-simple-task

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[Fred Nurk]

Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task from TheEconomist
https://www.economist.com/technolog...-to-the-electricity-grid-is-not-a-simple-task

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No, it's not and it never really has been. If anything it's exponentially harder to bring new capacity into the network and no one wants to be investing in an asset that they will end up stuck with due to changing network and market conditions.
The concept of baseload only works in interconnected networks and due to changing generation types is not the panacea the public thinks it is.

 

[rangersac]

Had a good one last night. Get a call from the minister for war and finance at 9:30pm, as she's gone to a mate's place and 'the car won't start, it's doing weird things'. Upon gentle questioning it turns out she jumped into the car, fired it up in accessory mode and proceeded to have a phone conversation with her dad for 15 minutes whilst running the heater, AC, lights etc flat out. Just like in an ICE car in accessory mode the 12V battery doesn't get charged from the traction battery so it understandably gave up the ghost. The next challenge was figuring out how to jump start it from a PHEV (our other car). I reckon the user manual for the Apollo command module would've been easier to understand. Fortunately after 15 minutes of head scratching and general fuckwittery the jump leads were correctly connected and enough juice was obtained.

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[Oddjob]

Had a good one last night. Get a call from the minister for war and finance at 9:30pm, as she's gone to a mate's place and 'the car won't start, it's doing weird things'. Upon gentle questioning it turns out she jumped into the car, fired it up in accessory mode and proceeded to have a phone conversation with her dad for 15 minutes whilst running the heater, AC, lights etc flat out. Just like in an ICE car in accessory mode the 12V battery doesn't get charged from the traction battery so it understandably gave up the ghost. The next challenge was figuring out how to jump start it from a PHEV (our other car). I reckon the user manual for the Apollo command module would've been easier to understand. Fortunately after 15 minutes of head scratching and general fuckwittery the jump leads were correctly connected and enough juice was obtained.

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Do yourself a favour and get one of these. Much safer and easier than traditional jump starting.

https://amzn.asia/d/5qLP3J1

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[Scotty T]

Just like in an ICE car in accessory mode the 12V battery doesn't get charged from the traction battery

It's a Leaf right? That's a very ICE concept, only charge the battery in "run" mode, and for no apparent reason. AFAIK Tesla's don't do that because they are on or off, there is no accessory mode.