"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Fri, 31 May 2019 08:52:19 +0100, Xeno wrote:

On 30/5/19 2:53 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2019 17:27:23 +0100,
wrote:

On Wed, 29 May 2019 17:11:59 +0100
"Commander Kinsey" wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2019 16:56:00 +0100, wrote:

On Wed, 29 May 2019 16:39:18 +0100
"Commander Kinsey" wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2019 12:02:33 +0100,
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wrote:
Autos have always had torque converters. Its only since dual clutch
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systems
became common in the last 15 years that they've moved away from
them=
..

No, the old ones used to just jump from one gear to the next. My
Gol=
f (1998)

Umm yes, "jumping from one gear to the next" is generally how old
styl=
e auto
boxes worked. They generally don't go straight from 1st to 5th.

With a torque convertor, there is no jumping. It's like a manual
gearbo=
x with a lot of clutch slippage.

Rubbish. It depends how its built. You can have very slippy fluid
couplings
and you can have ones that feel like there's a solid connection.

I guess Rover made theirs ****. My VW, Honda, and Range Rover could
often change gear with the only way I could tell being the rev counter
and the engine pitch. I was physically not jerked at all.

The heaps of crap you drive might only manage 250, probably because
yo=
u nail
the throttle until you hit its top speed of 85mph, but most modern
car=
s will
get 400 out of the tank at motorway speeds.

Define "motorway speed". I do 100.

Nuff said.

So you're one of those retards with the slow brains that grind the
country to a halt. Just get out of my way.

Have a look around you, how many cars are electric (and don't include
hy=
brids). Here I'd say it was 1 in 300 at the most. They cost more to
bu=
y, you have a huge =A35000 cost when the battery needs replacing
every 5=
years, there are **** all places to charge them, and it takes forever
t=
o fill them up. They just aren't yet a viable means of transport.

Not yet, but go back to 1819 and try to fill up a petrol or diesel
car. Coal
from the local railway wouldn't do you much good.

I'll get an electric car when it will travel as far as a petrol car,
costs me no more to run, and will fill up as fast.

In the future I daresay you will not be given the choice.

In the future I expect technology to have improved to make them at least
as good as petrol cars.

Not even possible. In spades with planes.

They just need to make the batteries cheaper and last longer

Soorree, fresh out of magic wands to wave.

and battery technology is one of the things that's advancing very quickly
at the moment.

But doesn't get even close to the price of a tank of
petrol and can't be recharged anything like as quickly.

While battery swapping might conceivably get close
time wise, there is no way to stop someone swapping
a good battery for a ****ed one and no way to test
how ****ed a battery is quickly and charge those who
show up with a ****ed battery for the cost of a new one
or just tell them to **** off with their ****ed battery.

However what people fail to realise is they're not cheaper to run at all.
The reason electricity costs far less than petrol is the government taxes
petrol like crazy.

That mangles the real story too.

Even without the taxes on petrol, its still much more
expensive than the cheapest overnight electricity.
In spades with those who can charge their car with
the electricity from their own solar panels at home.

When everyone has an electric car, they'll find a way to steal the money
from us again.

Not possible when you generate it yourself.