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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
On 5/27/2021 6:48 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2021 15:12:04 -0700, Bob F wrote: On 5/27/2021 12:28 PM, wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2021 23:11:52 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2021 22:37:33 GMT, (Scott Lurndal) wrote: writes: On Wed, 26 May 2021 18:50:38 GMT, (Scott Lurndal) wrote: Bob F writes: On 5/26/2021 2:41 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 9:52:52 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote: On 5/25/2021 8:24 PM, wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2021 19:26:07 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote: Why? If it gets me where I want to go, it does not matter. If range drops from 300 miles to 200 miles I can still make my 20 mile trip today. Non-issue for most of us. But not my 1200mi trip, or the 500mi trip next month. Never said it is perfect for everyone in every circumstance. I make a 2499 mile trip a few times a year and no, I'd rather not do it in an electric with present range. The average commute to work in the US is 16 miles, or a 32 mile round trip. For most, no problem. But we don't buy a car for each task. One has to do it all. Many do. I now have one car but for years I had two. Would be easy to use one for the long trips and the other for the short stuff. Good friend of mine has two cars. One gets an occasional 100 mile run, the other never goes more than 20 miles. Just because it does not suit your every need does not mean it is not the perfect car for others. I know a guy that does not even have a car. Two or three times a year he rents one. Just as I know people with pickups and the most it ever carries is two bags of groceries. Seems like people have a once or twice a year circumstance and therefor nix the idea for everyone. Makes no sense, you are smarter than that. One thing conspicuously absent from this discussion among old men is demographics. We'll all be dead before gas runs out. Young people are not embracing driving in the numbers they used to. Fewer have driver's licenses; fewer still own cars. Many of them are content to call for a ride or rent a car when they need one. If they want to get to a city 300 miles away, they fly. Short-range electric vehicles might be much more palatable to those who will be driving after we've laid down our car keys. Cindy Hamilton Of course, everyone knows the question is not "gas running out". The question is do we want to badly change the planets climate. Although the "proven reserves" curve has started the downward slide in 2014, after forty years of growth. It is definitely a finite resource, unless you are one of the believers in abiogenic production. "The world has proven reserves equivalent to 46.6 times its annual consumption levels. This means it has about 47 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves)." The difference is in how much of the earth we have not explored looking for oil. The exploration companies and industry have explored pretty much every viable area, including polar waters. Either physically or computationally (using AI algorithms to process seismic and other geological data). I understand drilling may have environmental costs we are not going to be willing to absorb but that doesn't mean the fuel isn't there. ' Not in the quantities needed to support today's daily usage, much less ten years from now. OTOH it might be a way to inject money into economies in places like sub saharan Africa. How so? The oil companies will suck them dry and leave them destitute. Here's some reading about what happens if we _don't_ have a replacement in place by the time petroleum becomes more scarce. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/p...l-perspective/ https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/ I have been hearing about that peak oil boogie man since the Carter administration. We are supposed to be out now. I agree it will happen some day but we will be out of a lot of stuff by then. It will probably never run out, until we do. Right. Humans will be cooked off the planet long before we can get it all out. It'll take a lot longer than that for the sun to go nova. Keep ignoring science like a good insurrectionist trumppublicon. |
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On 5/27/2021 6:49 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2021 15:12:44 -0700, Bob F wrote: On 5/27/2021 12:27 PM, wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2021 10:38:17 -0700, Bob F wrote: On 5/26/2021 2:41 AM, wrote: On Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at 9:52:52 PM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote: On 5/25/2021 8:24 PM, wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2021 19:26:07 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote: Why? If it gets me where I want to go, it does not matter. If range drops from 300 miles to 200 miles I can still make my 20 mile trip today. Non-issue for most of us. But not my 1200mi trip, or the 500mi trip next month. Never said it is perfect for everyone in every circumstance. I make a 2499 mile trip a few times a year and no, I'd rather not do it in an electric with present range. The average commute to work in the US is 16 miles, or a 32 mile round trip. For most, no problem. But we don't buy a car for each task. One has to do it all. Many do. I now have one car but for years I had two. Would be easy to use one for the long trips and the other for the short stuff. Good friend of mine has two cars. One gets an occasional 100 mile run, the other never goes more than 20 miles. Just because it does not suit your every need does not mean it is not the perfect car for others. I know a guy that does not even have a car. Two or three times a year he rents one. Just as I know people with pickups and the most it ever carries is two bags of groceries. Seems like people have a once or twice a year circumstance and therefor nix the idea for everyone. Makes no sense, you are smarter than that. One thing conspicuously absent from this discussion among old men is demographics. We'll all be dead before gas runs out. Young people are not embracing driving in the numbers they used to. Fewer have driver's licenses; fewer still own cars. Many of them are content to call for a ride or rent a car when they need one. If they want to get to a city 300 miles away, they fly. Short-range electric vehicles might be much more palatable to those who will be driving after we've laid down our car keys. Cindy Hamilton Of course, everyone knows the question is not "gas running out". The question is do we want to badly change the planets climate. LOL! Good Repub. Just ignore science. You wouldn't know science if it bit you on the ass. LOL! |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
On 05/27/2021 07:48 PM, wrote:
Hydrazine is really nasty stuff. Just a little on your hands will ruin your whole month. There has been more than one tech maintaining jets who have evidence of it, for life. I good friend is one. I remember when a mix of nitro and hydrazine set some dragstrip records -- if it didn't blow up. Then there was the Titan II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_D...sile_explosion |
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lowbrowwoman, the Endlessly Driveling Senile Gossip
On Thu, 27 May 2021 21:18:58 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again: I remember when Oh, no, yet again! You're living in the past, senile blabbermouth! |
#326
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On Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 3:26:59 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2021 02:41:28 -0700 (PDT), " wrote: Young people are not embracing driving in the numbers they used to. Fewer have driver's licenses; fewer still own cars. Many of them are content to call for a ride or rent a car when they need one. If they happen to live in a metropolitan area. Hell, I live in a large metropolitan area and there is no ride sharing, unless you want to pay both ways. Who said anything about ride sharing? My mother uses Lyft to get to the doctor and has had her groceries delivered for several years. She hasn't driven since the 1960s. If they want to get to a city 300 miles away, they fly. 300mi is a pretty short distance for flying. Much of the country doesn't have commercial airports that close together. Hub and spoke makes flying short distances even harder. Short-range electric vehicles might be much more palatable to those who will be driving after we've laid down our car keys. "We" aren't laying down our car keys. Do you expect to be one of those old men who plows into a crowd because he's too senile to drive? Cindy Hamilton |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
On Thu, 27 May 2021 21:53:50 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2021 16:08:37 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote: On 5/27/2021 3:26 PM, wrote: If they want to get to a city 300 miles away, they fly. 300mi is a pretty short distance for flying. Much of the country doesn't have commercial airports that close together. Hub and spoke makes flying short distances even harder. When I lived in CT I traveled to Philadelphia often. It was faster to drive than fly. At both ends the airport was an hour from my destination, you had to be at the airport 1 to 2 hours before flight time. Then I'd have to rent a car at destination. Not like the old days. I lived 70mi north of NYC. We had to go to DC for a meeting. I told my boss that I'd beat him to the hotel, driving a rental car. I did, by an hour. The only way to get from DC to New York is the Metroliner (Acela now). That is one of the few rail lines in the country that make sense because the airports are jammed and it is pretty much city all the way from DC to Boston. They called it the Megopolis when I lived there and it is only more congested now. |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
On Thu, 27 May 2021 22:03:23 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2021 21:49:23 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2021 15:22:37 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2021 01:04:58 -0400, Clare Snyder wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2021 22:23:51 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote: On 5/25/2021 10:17 PM, wrote: But we don't buy a car for each task. One has to do it all. Many do. I now have one car but for years I had two. Would be easy to use one for the long trips and the other for the short stuff. Good friend of mine has two cars. One gets an occasional 100 mile run, the other never goes more than 20 miles. I had two, also (still do). They were spaced far enough apart that one was a junker. The other was really roadworthy. I now use both for distance driving. Just because it does not suit your every need does not mean it is not the perfect car for others. I know a guy that does not even have a car. Two or three times a year he rents one. Just as I know people with pickups and the most it ever carries is two bags of groceries. Who ****ed in your Wheaties today. There are people who never leave their town. There are couch potatoes who don't haul stuff. Sure, there may be a market. It's *NOT* universal. There are millions of cars sold every year. The market for them is huge and many types available. Seems like people have a once or twice a year circumstance and therefor nix the idea for everyone. Makes no sense, you are smarter than that. Get over yourself. I guess you aren't smarter than that. You mean you ever had a doubt???? Many people rent a vehicle for odd trips out of town because their car is eother unsuitable by design, or old enough they don't want to trust them on a trip. s /Many/Few We rented a car a few times for a vacation but it was because we were going to fly home. (Drive out, fly back) Makes sense, depending on what you can get a rental for. One-way rentals are usually ridiculously expensive. It wasn't horrible to DCA (within Florida it is usually the same price). We did the DC thing a few times, going up 75 and spending a week or so in the mountains before cutting back over and hitting 301/206 around Richmond. (my folks are in Southern Md). After more trips than I want to think about on 95 and 301/17/15 before that I got to hate that ride. |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
On 5/28/2021 5:20 AM, wrote:
Short-range electric vehicles might be much more palatable to those who will be driving after we've laid down our car keys. "We" aren't laying down our car keys. Do you expect to be one of those old men who plows into a crowd because he's too senile to drive? Cindy Hamilton Solution is simple. Paint the brake pedal red, gas pedal green. When you have to stop, just look down and put your foot on the red pedal. Not just old people. Just a couple of days ago A 34 year old from Columbia was learning to drive and his father was outside the car to guide him parking. Ran over the father and killed him. Hit the wrong pedal. https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2021/05...-parking-spot/ |
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Jim Joyce writes:
On Wed, 26 May 2021 23:02:46 -0400, wrote: Maybe they can design a downsized and simplified version of an APU/EPU, like fighter jets have, and power it with a very small tank of hydrazine. When your batteries die, you fire up the APU and go another 50-60 miles. Or just mark part of the battery capacity reserve and use the reserve for another 50-60 miles. Or just plan ahead. |
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On 5/27/2021 3:13 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2021 13:33:56 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2021 12:01:04 -0400, Frank "frank wrote: On 5/26/2021 11:43 AM, wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2021 22:13:15 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2021 19:36:41 -0600, rbowman wrote: On 05/25/2021 06:24 PM, wrote: If anyone believes in free energy, there's always hydrogen. When we were making aircraft strobe lights some were soda glass and some were quartz glass. Oxy-acetylene is fine for soda but you need the higher temperature of an oxy-hydrogen flame to blow the quartz tubes. So we made arrangements to have a tube trailer spotted on site. This required a permit. That's when I learned that in a free association test if you say hydrogen the response is 'bomb'. Arguably the hydrogen was safer than the tanks of LOX and acetylene but it has a bad rap. Hydrogen is safer. It's very difficult to get hydrogen to explode. Since it's much lighter than air, it dissipates quickly and won't "pool". That does highlight a problem with hydrogen. The tubes have to handle around 3000 psi so you're not getting a whole lot of hydrogen in a traditional steel tube rig. Composites help but it's still a problem. Sure, it's a problem but the range should be equivalent to EVs and a whole lot easier to fill. Fix all that and it's still not a good fuel. Energy isn't free. Hydrogen isn't really a fuel in the practical sense. It is just a fairly inefficient storage scheme. If you are deriving your hydrogen from water, you use more energy getting it out than you get when you burn it. OTOH most commercially derived hydrogen comes from natural gas so you end up with the same issues we are talking about with possibly dwindling supply if we really started using any large quantity. Have you priced helium lately? I recalled the suggestion years ago of using methanol for fuel cells in cars. Good article still makes a lot of sense: https://news.usc.edu/5621/George-Ola...energy-crisis/ He still points out methanol is a by product of fossil fuels and when he goes off on the hydrogen from water tangent he ignores the inefficiency of that process and ignores where that "sufficient cheap energy" will come from. Fuel cells all have the problem of a contaminated catalyst. They're very hard/impossible to make into a commercial product. They're another "everyone will have one in 10 years", for the past 50 years. True. I knew someone working on it and after many years project was terminate. |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
Bob F writes:
On 5/27/2021 12:28 PM, wrote: It will probably never run out, until we do. Right. Humans will be cooked off the planet long before we can get it all out. Quite literally as it happens. At the historic 2.3% annual petroleum usage increase rate, in 400 years the waste-heat alone will raise the surface temperature of the earth to 100 C (212 F). Simple arithmetic (exponential growth) and physics. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/g...-scale-energy/ But we have about 40 years of proven reserves at the current rate of use (and given the 2.3% increase in usage, it's more likely to be much less than that). And long before that 40 years arrives, the costs of extraction will balloon, and the costs to the consumer will be huge due to scarcity. If we wait that long to prepare alternatives, we won't have enough energy to both support current needs and to prepare for the future (the energy trap). https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/ |
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On Thu, 27 May 2021 15:12:04 -0700, Bob F wrote: It will probably never run out, until we do. Right. Humans will be cooked off the planet long before we can get it all out. It'll take a lot longer than that for the sun to go nova. Do some reading before you spout off. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m |
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Frank "frank writes:
On 5/27/2021 5:14 PM, wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2021 07:45:45 -0600, rbowman wrote: States will follow states like Ohio who charges $200/year extra for EV registration only $100 extra for hybrids. Sure they will. You do understand _why_ they charge more for electric, right? (hint: electric vehicles don't pay gas taxes). |
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Ed Pawlowski writes:
On 5/28/2021 5:20 AM, wrote: Short-range electric vehicles might be much more palatable to those who will be driving after we've laid down our car keys. "We" aren't laying down our car keys. Do you expect to be one of those old men who plows into a crowd because he's too senile to drive? Cindy Hamilton Solution is simple. Paint the brake pedal red, gas pedal green. When you have to stop, just look down and put your foot on the red pedal. Yeah, take your eyes off the road. Sigh. |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
On 5/28/2021 10:58 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Ed Pawlowski writes: On 5/28/2021 5:20 AM, wrote: Short-range electric vehicles might be much more palatable to those who will be driving after we've laid down our car keys. "We" aren't laying down our car keys. Do you expect to be one of those old men who plows into a crowd because he's too senile to drive? Cindy Hamilton Solution is simple. Paint the brake pedal red, gas pedal green. When you have to stop, just look down and put your foot on the red pedal. Yeah, take your eyes off the road. Sigh. Humor impaired? Too subtle for you? |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
On 5/28/2021 10:55 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Frank "frank writes: On 5/27/2021 5:14 PM, wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2021 07:45:45 -0600, rbowman wrote: States will follow states like Ohio who charges $200/year extra for EV registration only $100 extra for hybrids. Sure they will. You do understand _why_ they charge more for electric, right? (hint: electric vehicles don't pay gas taxes). Oh, gee, thanks. Who would know that? |
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On Fri, 28 May 2021 14:47:01 GMT, (Scott Lurndal)
wrote: Jim Joyce writes: On Wed, 26 May 2021 23:02:46 -0400, wrote: Maybe they can design a downsized and simplified version of an APU/EPU, like fighter jets have, and power it with a very small tank of hydrazine. When your batteries die, you fire up the APU and go another 50-60 miles. Or just mark part of the battery capacity reserve and use the reserve for another 50-60 miles. Or just plan ahead. Exactly. Motorcycles, especially older models, have had the 'Reserve' concept in place since just about forever. My current bike doesn't have a mechanical reserve where I have to flip a valve, but it has a digital fuel gauge that starts flashing and counts the miles. I know I can go 35-40 miles once it goes on Reserve. And yes, planning ahead is the best. |
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On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 12:46:40 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article , says... Exactly. Motorcycles, especially older models, have had the 'Reserve' concept in place since just about forever. My current bike doesn't have a mechanical reserve where I have to flip a valve, but it has a digital fuel gauge that starts flashing and counts the miles. I know I can go 35-40 miles once it goes on Reserve. And yes, planning ahead is the best. Seems to me that the older Volswagen bugs had the same thing. A reserve tank, probably no fuel gauge. 8N Ford tractors had that reserve tank setting. One opened the fuel valve maybe one full turn for the normal setting. Open it maybe two full turns to use the reserve fuel. |
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Scott Lurndal wrote
Bob F wrote wrote It will probably never run out, until we do. Right. Humans will be cooked off the planet long before we can get it all out. Quite literally as it happens. Fantasy. At the historic 2.3% annual petroleum usage increase rate, in 400 years the waste-heat alone will raise the surface temperature of the earth to 100 C (212 F). Simple arithmetic (exponential growth) and physics. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/g...-scale-energy/ But we have about 40 years of proven reserves at the current rate of use (and given the 2.3% increase in usage, it's more likely to be much less than that). And long before that 40 years arrives, the costs of extraction will balloon, and the costs to the consumer will be huge due to scarcity. If we wait that long to prepare alternatives, We did that half a century ago, nukes. we won't have enough energy to both support current needs and to prepare for the future (the energy trap). Mindless bull****. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/ More mindless bull****. |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
Rod Speed wrote
Scott Lurndal wrote Bob F wrote wrote It will probably never run out, until we do. Right. Humans will be cooked off the planet long before we can get it all out. Quite literally as it happens. Fantasy. At the historic 2.3% annual petroleum usage increase rate, in 400 years the waste-heat alone will raise the surface temperature of the earth to 100 C (212 F). Simple arithmetic (exponential growth) and physics. Mindlessly silly fantasy, actually. We didn’t get anything even remotely like that result when we moved to petroleum use from feeding horses instead. Or with electricity generation instead of feeding horses and bullocks either. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/g...-scale-energy/ But we have about 40 years of proven reserves at the current rate of use (and given the 2.3% increase in usage, it's more likely to be much less than that). And long before that 40 years arrives, the costs of extraction will balloon, and the costs to the consumer will be huge due to scarcity. Fools have been claiming that for half a century now. If we wait that long to prepare alternatives, We did that half a century ago, nukes. we won't have enough energy to both support current needs and to prepare for the future (the energy trap). Mindless bull****. https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/ More mindless bull****. |
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"Ralph Mowery" wrote in message ... In article , lid says... Exactly. Motorcycles, especially older models, have had the 'Reserve' concept in place since just about forever. My current bike doesn't have a mechanical reserve where I have to flip a valve, but it has a digital fuel gauge that starts flashing and counts the miles. I know I can go 35-40 miles once it goes on Reserve. And yes, planning ahead is the best. Seems to me that the older Volswagen bugs had the same thing. A reserve tank, probably no fuel gauge. Not a reserve tank, a mechanical thing that turned the fuel intake pipe which was bent at the end so that its end was deeper in the fuel tank. The fuel tank in a beetle is in the front, under the curved front which lifts up when released. |
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UNBELIEVABLE: It's 04:32 am in Australia and the Senile Ozzietard is out of Bed and TROLLING, already!!!! LOL
On Sat, 29 May 2021 04:32:27 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest troll**** unread 04:32??? And it's trolling time for you ALREADY, yet again, you subnormal senile idiot? -- "Who or What is Rod Speed? Rod Speed is an entirely modern phenomenon. Essentially, Rod Speed is an insecure and worthless individual who has discovered he can enhance his own self-esteem in his own eyes by playing "the big, hard man" on the InterNet." https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/r...d-faq.2973853/ |
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More Heavy Trolling by the Nym-Shifting Senile Australian Pest!
On Sat, 29 May 2021 04:24:18 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: FLUSH the trolling senile pest's latest troll**** unread -- Sqwertz to Rodent Speed: "This is just a hunch, but I'm betting you're kinda an argumentative asshole. MID: |
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OT. Ford Lightning. Battery F150
On Thu, 27 May 2021 08:27:00 -0400, Frank posted for all of us to digest... On 5/26/2021 11:02 PM, wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2021 17:34:52 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote: On 5/26/2021 3:38 PM, Tekkie? wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2021 17:20:01 -0400, posted for all of us to digest... On Tue, 25 May 2021 16:01:14 -0400, Tekkie© wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2021 23:55:10 -0500, Jim Joyce posted for all of us to digest... On Mon, 24 May 2021 21:58:32 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote: On 5/24/2021 5:36 PM, Tekkie? wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2021 14:37:16 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to digest... How do I do that with all the employees plugged in? Think I'll be be able to plugin to the nursing home outlet? Do you think they will have charging stations for visitors? Do you think minimum wage nursing home employees will have EVs? No. but the doctors, nurses, therapists and visitors may. Remains to be seen. They may in the future. There are also many charging stations at rest stops now. Some restaurants have them so you can stop for a snack and get a charge. More charging stations are popping up every day. "Stopping for a snack & get a charge" How far will this take you? What's the mileage for say a 20 minute charge? So the customers are subsidizing the EV users (again). What is many? Who pays to install, maintain them? OK. your lack of knowledge is showing. There are a few commercial enterprises putting them in and they charge the customer to use them and they make a profit. Works like gas stations but they sell electric instead of gas. Some have plans for discounts. I wonder if battery swaps, of some sort, will ever be part of the EV solution. My goal would be to reduce the charging time to roughly equal the time it currently takes to fill a gas tank rather than hanging around at the charging station for hours and hours. I don't think current EVs are designed with quick battery swaps in mind, for multiple reasons, but it could be nice at some point. snip Yes, that would be a plus. You are correct in that quick swaps are not designed in. I believe for crash protection and fires. IDK Might be a future business opportunity. It would create a whole different design criteria, basically building the car around a particular battery and some vehicles like the F-150 might actually use 2 but I see it as a niche market. It will be more expensive and fraught with opportunities for fraud. On a second look at it you are correct. Nothing like running out of your recharged crappy battery 125 miles from destination. Will AAA cover this? Also the safety points I made in another post. Yes, I know someone that had his EV towed for that reason. His admitted fault. Just as it is stupid to run out of gas. Happened to someone here recently on a highway bridge and a passenger got out and was killed by a drunk driver. So, check that fuel level and if applicable, battery level. The difference is someone can bring you a gallon or 2 of gas but you are not walking to the charging station and bringing back a can of kilowatts. That is funny. I recall in the Carter gas crunch having a can of gas in the trunk. I guess with an electric car you could carry an extra charged battery. Not that size, sorry. Ya got 600 volts on you? 8) -- Tekkie |
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On Wed, 26 May 2021 19:48:22 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest... On 05/26/2021 02:32 PM, Tekkie? wrote: Freihofers is a name that I haven't heard in a loooong time. That was good stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C4CocX5MGM WRGB itself has history behind it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRGB My uncle had a radio store that morphed into radio and TV so we had a TV with a massive 12" screen. https://cbs6albany.com/community/pos...gb-ss-glendora Glendora was another homegrown live show. Satellites were a big thing in '57 and Satellite Six was too good a name to pass up. Then there was Teenage Barn https://friendsofalbanyhistory.wordp...-teenage-barn/ It was a different world. It was. Philly had Sally Starr & American Bandstand & Dick Clark & Captain Kangaroo! -- Tekkie |
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On Thu, 27 May 2021 14:54:19 -0400, posted for all of us to digest... There are already rebuilt batteries for Prius and other brands that were early adopters. Totally irrelevant but keep guessing. IDK what your statement refers to but here is one link: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=pri...tteries&ia=web What I said, in the context of the thread, had noting to do with replacement batteries, moron. Learn to read, then to think. Thank you for your support! -- Tekkie |
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On Thu, 27 May 2021 19:30:49 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to digest... On 5/27/2021 7:03 PM, Frank wrote: On 5/20/2021 11:45 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22442777/ford-f-150-lightning-electric-truck-specs-price Just saw this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNKg0R-nkuQ At least he was honest and said "nobody knows". I don't know how he has so many followers unless they have investments in caffeine. I can't take a lot of hyper Scotty. I can't either. Hyper is a good word for him. I'm not going to watch the vid because my time is worth something, Scotty will make a few cents off it and I think I have a sense of it already. -- Tekkie |
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On 5/28/2021 4:36 PM, Tekkie� wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2021 14:52:02 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to digest... Government money to subsidize the auto industry. Put whatever spin you want but there it is. Steal a dime, steal a dollar, it is still theft. But yet you want more gov't involvement with mandates. B S |
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On 05/28/2021 11:46 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
In article , lid says... Exactly. Motorcycles, especially older models, have had the 'Reserve' concept in place since just about forever. My current bike doesn't have a mechanical reserve where I have to flip a valve, but it has a digital fuel gauge that starts flashing and counts the miles. I know I can go 35-40 miles once it goes on Reserve. And yes, planning ahead is the best. Seems to me that the older Volswagen bugs had the same thing. A reserve tank, probably no fuel gauge. You know it's going to be a bad day when the bike starts to sputter, you reach down to turn the petcock to reserve, and you find it's already there... |
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On 5/28/2021 2:20 AM, wrote:
On Thursday, May 27, 2021 at 3:26:59 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2021 02:41:28 -0700 (PDT), " wrote: Young people are not embracing driving in the numbers they used to. Fewer have driver's licenses; fewer still own cars. Many of them are content to call for a ride or rent a car when they need one. If they happen to live in a metropolitan area. Hell, I live in a large metropolitan area and there is no ride sharing, unless you want to pay both ways. Who said anything about ride sharing? My mother uses Lyft to get to the doctor and has had her groceries delivered for several years. She hasn't driven since the 1960s. If they want to get to a city 300 miles away, they fly. 300mi is a pretty short distance for flying. Much of the country doesn't have commercial airports that close together. Hub and spoke makes flying short distances even harder. Short-range electric vehicles might be much more palatable to those who will be driving after we've laid down our car keys. "We" aren't laying down our car keys. Do you expect to be one of those old men who plows into a crowd because he's too senile to drive? Cindy Hamilton Or a Repub arrested for driving through a vaccination tent screaming "No vaccines" endangering 7 workers. |
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On Fri, 28 May 2021 18:33:48 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest... On 05/28/2021 11:46 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote: In article , lid says... Exactly. Motorcycles, especially older models, have had the 'Reserve' concept in place since just about forever. My current bike doesn't have a mechanical reserve where I have to flip a valve, but it has a digital fuel gauge that starts flashing and counts the miles. I know I can go 35-40 miles once it goes on Reserve. And yes, planning ahead is the best. Seems to me that the older Volswagen bugs had the same thing. A reserve tank, probably no fuel gauge. You know it's going to be a bad day when the bike starts to sputter, you reach down to turn the petcock to reserve, and you find it's already there... Does the AAA cover bikes? -- Tekkie |
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On Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 2:26:41 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2021 18:33:48 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest... On 05/28/2021 11:46 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote: In article , says... Exactly. Motorcycles, especially older models, have had the 'Reserve' concept in place since just about forever. My current bike doesn't have a mechanical reserve where I have to flip a valve, but it has a digital fuel gauge that starts flashing and counts the miles. I know I can go 35-40 miles once it goes on Reserve. And yes, planning ahead is the best. Seems to me that the older Volswagen bugs had the same thing. A reserve tank, probably no fuel gauge. You know it's going to be a bad day when the bike starts to sputter, you reach down to turn the petcock to reserve, and you find it's already there... Does the AAA cover bikes? -- Tekkie It looks like they do. It never occurred to me to apply for it for anything. All of my bikes have been rice grinders though. |
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On 05/29/2021 02:46 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 2:26:41 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2021 18:33:48 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest... On 05/28/2021 11:46 AM, Ralph Mowery wrote: In article , says... Exactly. Motorcycles, especially older models, have had the 'Reserve' concept in place since just about forever. My current bike doesn't have a mechanical reserve where I have to flip a valve, but it has a digital fuel gauge that starts flashing and counts the miles. I know I can go 35-40 miles once it goes on Reserve. And yes, planning ahead is the best. Seems to me that the older Volswagen bugs had the same thing. A reserve tank, probably no fuel gauge. You know it's going to be a bad day when the bike starts to sputter, you reach down to turn the petcock to reserve, and you find it's already there... Does the AAA cover bikes? -- Tekkie It looks like they do. It never occurred to me to apply for it for anything. All of my bikes have been rice grinders though. It was a Suzuki DR650 that needed to be walked back to the house for a snack. And, yes, I really did walk the thing about a mile. Anyway I don't have AAA. |
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