beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Dayyyyyyyyyum!Those extruded aluminium bikes we all ride can be problematic to make. Just saw this and wondered where to post, seems like a good place, with a bit of sarcasm Pretty scary though.
Dayyyyyyyyyum!Those extruded aluminium bikes we all ride can be problematic to make. Just saw this and wondered where to post, seems like a good place, with a bit of sarcasm Pretty scary though.
Holy shit that's a bad day at work!Those extruded aluminium bikes we all ride can be problematic to make. Just saw this and wondered where to post, seems like a good place, with a bit of sarcasm Pretty scary though.
Dont sweat it. Lots of retrofit kits for the stereo that use the unused speaker and sub locations in the base model that sound better than the upgrade factory system.Bit annoying people who ordered some versions of the model 3 last year are still waiting yet they're now offering the y in the same timeframe. The base Y includes the better sound system that only comes with the LR and P 3 models. I did consider swapping the order this morning but was still thinking about it when the window blew out.
I can't speak for some of the many inadequacies of Melbourne but most of that smells like bullshit. There is no doubt that most apartment buildings can't manage to retrofit vehicle charging stations but that's mostly about how much it'd cost apartment owners to physically modify their buildings to get power to cars. As for the rest...garbage.Seen this, don't know the origin or the facts to back it up as it Vic.
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Charging Electric Cars MELBOURNE
We recently did some work for the body corporate at the Dock 5 Apartment Building in Docklands in Melbourne to see if we could install a small number of electric charging points for owners to charge their electric vehicles. We had our first three applications. We discovered:
These advocates of electric vehicles only by 2040 are completely bonkers. It takes 5-8 years to design and build a large coal fired power station like Loy Yang and even longer for a Nuclear one (That’s after you get the political will, permits and legislative changes needed ). Wind and solar just can’t produce enough. Tidal power might but that’s further away than nuclear.
- Our building has no non- allocated parking spaces ie public ones. This is typical of most apartment buildings so we cannot provide shared outlets.
- The power supply in the building was designed for the loads in the building with virtually no spare capacity. Only 5 or 6 chargers could be installed in total in a building with 188 apartments!!
- How do you allocate them as they would add value to any apartment owning one. The shit fight started on day one with about 20 applications received 1st day and many more following.
- The car park sub-boards cannot carry the extra loads of even one charger and would have to be upgraded on any floors with a charger as would the supply mains to each sub board.
- The main switch board would then have to be upgraded to add the heavier circuit breakers for the sub mains upgrade and furthermore:
- When Docklands was designed a limit was put on the number of apartments in each precinct and the mains and transformers in the streets designed accordingly. This means there is no capacity in the Docklands street grid for any significant quantity of car chargers in any building in the area.
- It gets better. The whole CBD (Hoddle Grid, Docklands)and Southbank is fed by two sub stations. One in Port Melbourne and one in West Melbourne. This was done to have two alternate feeds in case one failed or was down for maintenance. Because of the growth in the city /Docklands and Southbank now neither one is now capable of supplying the full requirement of Melbourne zone at peak usage in mid- summer if the other is out of action. The Port Melbourne 66,000 volt feeder runs on 50 or 60 year old wooden power poles above ground along Dorcas Street South Melbourne. One is pole is located 40 cm from the corner Kerb at the incredibly busy Ferrars /St Dorcas St Intersection and is very vulnerable to being wiped out by a wayward vehicle.
- The infrastructure expenditure required would dwarf the NBN cost excluding the new power stations required
It's just a greenies dream in the foreseeable future other than in small wealthy countries. It will no doubt ultimately come but not in the next 20 years...
The grid cannot support it in most places in Australia!
Seen this, don't know the origin or the facts to back it up as it Vic.
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Charging Electric Cars MELBOURNE
We recently did some work for the body corporate at the Dock 5 Apartment Building in Docklands in Melbourne to see if we could install a small number of electric charging points for owners to charge their electric vehicles. We had our first three applications. We discovered:
These advocates of electric vehicles only by 2040 are completely bonkers. It takes 5-8 years to design and build a large coal fired power station like Loy Yang and even longer for a Nuclear one (That’s after you get the political will, permits and legislative changes needed ). Wind and solar just can’t produce enough. Tidal power might but that’s further away than nuclear.
- Our building has no non- allocated parking spaces ie public ones. This is typical of most apartment buildings so we cannot provide shared outlets.
- The power supply in the building was designed for the loads in the building with virtually no spare capacity. Only 5 or 6 chargers could be installed in total in a building with 188 apartments!!
- How do you allocate them as they would add value to any apartment owning one. The shit fight started on day one with about 20 applications received 1st day and many more following.
- The car park sub-boards cannot carry the extra loads of even one charger and would have to be upgraded on any floors with a charger as would the supply mains to each sub board.
- The main switch board would then have to be upgraded to add the heavier circuit breakers for the sub mains upgrade and furthermore:
- When Docklands was designed a limit was put on the number of apartments in each precinct and the mains and transformers in the streets designed accordingly. This means there is no capacity in the Docklands street grid for any significant quantity of car chargers in any building in the area.
- It gets better. The whole CBD (Hoddle Grid, Docklands)and Southbank is fed by two sub stations. One in Port Melbourne and one in West Melbourne. This was done to have two alternate feeds in case one failed or was down for maintenance. Because of the growth in the city /Docklands and Southbank now neither one is now capable of supplying the full requirement of Melbourne zone at peak usage in mid- summer if the other is out of action. The Port Melbourne 66,000 volt feeder runs on 50 or 60 year old wooden power poles above ground along Dorcas Street South Melbourne. One is pole is located 40 cm from the corner Kerb at the incredibly busy Ferrars /St Dorcas St Intersection and is very vulnerable to being wiped out by a wayward vehicle.
- The infrastructure expenditure required would dwarf the NBN cost excluding the new power stations required
It's just a greenies dream in the foreseeable future other than in small wealthy countries. It will no doubt ultimately come but not in the next 20 years...
The grid cannot support it in most places in Australia!
I think most cars slowest charge is about 8A on a std 10A 240V outlet. Some loss along the wayPardon my ignorance, but I know eff all about electric cars. A few questions.
Going into the car, what is the voltage and current of a slow charging station?
Going into the car, what is the voltage and current of a fast charging station?
Are the chargers smart enough to know what’s plugged into them, and tweak the VI accordingly?
240V into the car but then goes through an inverter to batteriesThanks… for the slow charge is it 240v or bumped up? As in, going into the car.