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Post by Old Techo on Jul 18, 2019 17:38:15 GMT 10
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Post by nsgnomad on Jul 18, 2019 17:57:06 GMT 10
Interesting OT, but the format of your post doesnt make it clear that it is a link (url) to the article.
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Post by Old Techo on Jul 18, 2019 20:22:55 GMT 10
the format of your post doesnt make it clear that it is a link (url) to the article. Yes.... you are correct and I missed that 
Rather than crudely paste the link as usual I tried the link icon thingy that Mick mentioned... but I must have done it wrong 
Fixed now 
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Post by dieseltojo on Jul 21, 2019 11:05:19 GMT 10
It is going to be fantastic. If you only travel say 5 kays to work you won't have to pay parking. Just press home on the gps and it will go to its cosy little garage.
And oh yes, they are working on a noise for these little gems as well. Seems peds don't look at whats coming up the road and step out in front of motor cars. So maybe a bell will do the job.
I heard a funny thing the other day; They reckon pedsstep out in front of noisey engined cars already....Can't be true.
They are looking at a quieted down v8 as a trial.
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Post by nsgnomad on Jul 21, 2019 13:52:30 GMT 10
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And oh yes, they are working on a noise for these little gems as well. Seems peds don't look at whats coming up the road and step out in front of motor cars. So maybe a bell will do the job....
A few years ago when I was visiting Austria , I was in a bit of a hurry, walking across a street, but at a diagonal rather than straight across, when I was almost run over by an electric trolley bus coming up behind me. I hadn't heard it coming as it was almost silent, except at the last moment when the compressor switched on. No, I wasn't distracted, looking at my phone as seems common now. This occurred about 15 years ago. |
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Post by Old Techo on Sept 26, 2019 7:54:06 GMT 10
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Post by Old Techo on Oct 17, 2019 7:03:34 GMT 10
Electric vehicles (EVs) will play a large role in the future of the logistics industry, with companies like Australia Post, IKEA and Amazon already working on the beginnings of their EV fleets.MEGATRANS2020 will focus on EVs and the part they will play in the coming years, with both a dedicated conference session and EV Hub on the show floor. “We anticipate that Australia’s future freight and logistics industry will see a large number of electric vehicles being used by operators,” say Show Director Simon Coburn. “MEGATRANS2020 will showcase the latest technology and discuss uptake and implementation of EVs as part of the conference.”
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Post by Old Techo on Nov 9, 2019 18:42:20 GMT 10
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Post by Old Techo on Nov 16, 2019 16:50:20 GMT 10
A new electric Ford...
Priced from US$60,500 ($89,000) the range-topping GT will hit 100km/h in around the 'mid 3-second' range and do 380km on a charge, according to the Ford USA website. Using a fast charger, Ford says the Mach-E will gain 75.5km of range in 10 mins. Based on some quick maths, that's around 125kW DC fast charging. www.caradvice.com.au/808278/2020-ford-mach-e-pricing-performance-figures-leaked/ |
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Post by jclures on Nov 16, 2019 20:51:31 GMT 10
Being a Ford it will have a dodgy cam shaft fitted regardless. |
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Post by notathome on Nov 17, 2019 9:16:42 GMT 10
Great idea, pay nearly $90k for a car that I can’t even drive from Adelaide to Port Lincoln, in a day, without stopping for hours (overnight) to recharge it.
At the moment evehicles are an expensive option for commuters, that travel short distances around town .... going any distance (over approx 300km) in a timely manner is not possible, even with fast charging, in my opinion.
In my working life I was required to travel up to, and in excess of 1,000kms in a 12 hour day, and no it wasn’t driving a truck, it was driving a passenger vehicle in SA and the NT.
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Post by Mick Themungrel on Nov 17, 2019 9:37:43 GMT 10
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Post by Old Techo on Nov 17, 2019 9:45:31 GMT 10
The point of these engineering developments is to show the world that transport manufacturers are not flat-earthers and willing to make expensive investments in what they consider as the future.
Range continues to improve and charge times lessen.
Most vehicle users live in suburbia and travel less than 100 km per day.
Yes, they remain expensive but only because of a lack of mass production.
Technology will overcome.
In our early state-of-the-art transportation Cobb and Co had to change engines multiple times in one trip. Travel was very expensive then...
IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, that it’s 1898 in Brisbane, Queensland. You’re a young schoolteacher fresh off the boat from London and you’re headed for Adavale, a township 1000km inland. A 12hr train ride carries you 800km to the end of the line at Charleville. From here, your only option is a horsedrawn Cobb & Co. mail coach.
You’ve paid the equivalent of nearly two weeks wages for your ticket and limited your worldly belongings to the stipulated 14 pounds (6.35 kg). The 200 km coach journey is scheduled to take three days, with food and lodging provided at bush inns along the way.
Given the recent rain, which turns the fertile black soil into ‘glue-pot’, you find that you have to get out and walk when it gets too boggy, and sometimes help dig the coach and horses out, too. You also face rivers so swollen with floodwater that the only way to get the coach across is to haul it from the other side with a rope. The men and horses swim; female passengers, luggage and the all-important mail are ferried over in wash tubs. The resultant delays mean you don’t reach your accommodation by nightfall, and you have to go without dinner and sleep sitting upright in the coach. And that’s just the first day.
Despite its discomforts, Cobb & Co. provided the best of the best of coach travel in Australia – if not the world. At its peak in the 1870s, Cobb & Co. coaches were travelling nearly 45,000km a week over 11,200km of routes from the Gulf of Carpentaria and Cooktown in Queensland to southern Victoria. This made it one of the most extensive networks of coaching routes in the world. Its influence reached far beyond coaching into interests in pastoral properties, gold and copper mines, horse breeding, and coach and buggy building. It was, as author Sam Everingham describes in his book Wild Ride, “the Qantas of nineteenth century Australia: powerful, complex and highly respected”.
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Post by notathome on Nov 17, 2019 10:27:45 GMT 10
Thanks Mick, that article just confirms everything that I believe about the current evehicle situation. OT, I take your points, but, I also live in the real world where there is current technology that provides us humans with the ability to undertake a multitude of activities, including covering reasonable distances enjoying the country side, without waiting up to 50 hours to reuse that mode of transport again. In the future, there maybe a time when evehicles will be able to match/better the current modes of transport, but, if the greenies have their collective way, we humans will not be able to mine the materials (currently Lithium) required, due to the act of mining contributing to climate change, or whatever the new in fad craze is.  To each their own opinion, hey. |
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Post by Nev and Trish. on Nov 17, 2019 10:46:09 GMT 10
Being a Ford it will have a dodgy cam shaft fitted regardless. Be nice............. |
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