steve jobs' pancreas
Eats Squid
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Electric Vehicles etc
- Thread starter Cardy George
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Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
The call that ICEed don't they?
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Yet to find an ICE fuel guage that is that accurate in ANY conditions.
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
Hey, I know that when my car says empty, I have exactly somewhere near 50 odd km worth left in the tank.
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dancaseyimages
Mountain bike pornographer
I've used these in a lot of my older car builds and seem to do okay, when they say empty you are pretty close to pushing, otherwise my VS & VL commodore a firm smack on the dash and the gauge came good when it stuck in the hot or cold.
steve jobs' pancreas
Eats Squid
Ice to meet you ?
The Prado has about 100km left when the trip meter reads zero. The Mazda2 and my car give you another 6m.
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Yeah, the Renault and Alfa will do that too - just gives up on the last 50kms or so.
“you were warned ages ago, you’re on your own now”
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Such weird behaviour. Imagine being that insecure you need to hassle other people for being different…
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
So if you pull up at a servo in your Tesla and park at a bowser, is it called deicing?
rockmoose
his flabber is totally gastered
Licking the donut?
indica
Serial flasher
Okay.
400km round trip (that was not the plan when I bought the car, it's 60km further due to a road slip.
On the day, got there with 55% left. That's okay.
Torrential rain when I left, road was over so doubled back and went the other way. Pissing down, road is very slow due to the amount of water on it.
Instead of 17kW to 22kW @ 100km/h it was doing 35kW to 45kW at 85 ish km/h - for near 200km.
There is a charger on the way home but it was pissing down there too, didn't really want to run 50kW into the car in the rain.
Got near home hit 12%, the car would not accelerate past 85km/h. Turn the corner for the road home 12% to 0%.
Fuck me.
Called roadside, got a towie coming, turned the park brake off. 10 minutes later all power gone.
Towie comes eventually, Zero power, park brake has come back on.
CRC on the ramp, gets the car on.
Tow home, get it off with some issues.
Plug in - nothing, no handshake, the car does not pick up the charger, the charger does not run anything.
Press the button on the key fob - random hope - the car blinks, picks up the charger and starts "refilling".
I ran it slow just to be nice, checked the next day, the onboard diagnostics say there is no issue.
The weather is still shite (but nothing like that day) so I am scared to drive it far - short drive was fine.
I'll have a go on my day off, do a 120km round trip and see how the consumption is.
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
Another video showing how not to charge an electric car, in a situation that favours the ICE car (long highway trips) and would only be the 1% of the type of driving that the majority of us do.
They need to compare the ICE vs EV with a week of around town driving and commuting, with the EV being charged from home, which is the majority of our annual drive time.
Scotty T
Walks the walk
They are the kooks I alluded to in my previous post.
4 weeks of your proposed test would mean the ICE would have to fill up, where the few minutes time spent filling (standing next to a bowser spewing fumes at you) would greatly outweigh the handful of times the owner had to spend 5 seconds plugging in at home.
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
Plus having to most likely go out of your way to get to the petrol station.
Don’t forget the baguette that pops out of dash and hits you on the head ‘put some petrol in tightarse’ or is that just my Reno?
Scotty T
Walks the walk
It's a bratwusrt in VW's
