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Post by nsgnomad on Apr 25, 2020 20:08:21 GMT 10
Neither outlet was being used. No Idea where the power came from. They were just attached to the back wall.
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Post by Mick Themungrel on Apr 25, 2020 20:53:16 GMT 10
When they can guarantee a minimum 1000k between charges I might look at an EV. Currently, I can do between 1500 and 1800k working between fuel refills.
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Post by Old Techo on Apr 30, 2020 8:12:06 GMT 10
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Post by ken on Apr 30, 2020 9:19:03 GMT 10
Neither outlet was being used. No Idea where the power came from. They were just attached to the back wall. So they were just taking up 2 parking places?
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Post by nsgnomad on Apr 30, 2020 9:29:20 GMT 10
Yes, Ken. I did think of using one of the spaces sering they were no EV's there.
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Post by Old Techo on May 23, 2020 10:54:48 GMT 10
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Post by nsgnomad on May 23, 2020 14:51:43 GMT 10
Will that be just another example of the throw away society? Once your million miles are up, just throw the car away? 🤣
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Post by Old Techo on Jun 29, 2020 8:52:03 GMT 10
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Post by collyn on Jun 29, 2020 16:56:34 GMT 10
Will that be just another example of the throw away society? Once your million miles are up, just throw the car away? 🤣 That's way over 1.6 million km. Many trucks exceed that, but surely not than many cars? Even if one does it is technically obsolete anyway. And safety-wise?? Collyn
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Post by Old Techo on Aug 20, 2020 14:32:13 GMT 10
Some of this will take longer than forecast, particularly in poorer developing countries. Also some of it is blue sky thinking and does not consider all facts and practical realities. But the world and life is certainly changing more remarkably and more rapidly than it has ever done. COVID-19 is already accelerating some of the changes.
WELCOME TO TOMORROW This is extremely interesting. If you think the virus is going to make changes read this! Guess we'll have to come back in-person to see if this forecast comes true!!! All of the following will become reality in the next 10-20 years. Many of us won’t see the changes, but our kids and grandkids probably will. 1- Basic auto repair shops will disappear. Read on to know why. 2- A gas/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has only 20 parts. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are repaired only by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor. 3- Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots. 4- Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a car wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor! 5- Gas pumps will go away. 6- Street corners will have meters that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started in the developed world. 7- Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants that build only electric cars. 8-Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop. Say goodbye to OPEC! The middle east is in trouble. 9- Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and than they use, and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispense it to industries that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof? 10- A baby of today will see personal cars only in museums. The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle. 11- In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that ever happening? 12- What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years ... and most of us don't see it coming. 13- Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you'd NEVER take pictures on film again? With today’s smartphones, who even has a camera these days? 14- Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law – that technological capacity will DOUBLE every year. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became 'way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years. 15- It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence (AI), health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. 16- Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. 17- Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years. 18- UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world! Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming. 19- Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties. Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming. 20- Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected. 21- In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of computers, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy – compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain. 22- Computer programs already help nurses diagnosing cancer, and the programs are 4 times more accurate than human nurses. 23- Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans... COMPUTERS CAN BE UNPLUGGED...OR SHOT!!!!! 24- Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted. You won’t WANT to own a car anymore as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. 25- You will not need to park it. You will pay only for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car. 26- This will change our cities because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can transform former parking lots into green parks. 27- About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles. With autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles. That will save more than a million lives worldwide each year. 28- Some traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. They will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels. 29- Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in their vehicles starting this year – with the 2019 models using all-electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out the hybrid models. 30- Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla – and they should be. Look at all the companies offering all-electric vehicles. That was unheard of only a few years ago. 31- Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become cheaper. Their auto insurance business model will disappear. 32- Real estate will change. If you can work from home (or from literally anywhere), people will abandon their towers to move far away to more beautiful affordable locations. 33- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity. 34- Cities will have much cleaner air as well. 35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean. 36- Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact. And it’s just getting ramped up. 37- Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy. 38- Health: "Tricorder X" will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the Tricorder from Star Trek) that works with your phone – taking your retina scan, your blood sample, and you breathe into it. It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any disease. There are dozens of phone apps out right now for health. WELCOME TO TOMORROW! – some of it actually arrived a few years ago.
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Post by Old Techo on Sept 8, 2020 7:59:25 GMT 10
This should be in the video area but it is strongly eVehicle related...
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Post by Old Techo on Sept 10, 2020 7:25:49 GMT 10
Today's Age newspaper...
Charging stations bid to drive electric vehicle take-up
Miki Perkins and Nick Toscano A new network of electric vehicle chargers will make it easier to travel long distances throughout Victoria, driving a push for greater take-up of environmentally friendly vehicles in the state. Sustainability advocates say the 20 chargers at 17 sites in central and western Victoria would be a boost for tourism. ‘‘The network will ensure that regional Victoria does not get left behind as more and more electric cars hit the road,’’ said Rob Law, head of the Central Victorian Greenhouse Alliance. Most new ‘‘pure’’ electric vehicles (that do not have a petrol back-up) can drive between 350 and 650 kilometres before they have to be recharged. The network comes as AGL Australia, one of Australia’s largest energy companies, launched the country’s first subscription service for electric cars, saying it hoped this would boost the low uptake rate. The subscription service aims to remove some of the reasons that stopped people buying electric cars, such as the significant upfront cost and lack of charging infrastructure at home. Sales of electric vehicles tripled in Australia between 2018 and 2019, but still represent only 0.6 per cent of new car sales. The Morrison government promised a national electric vehicle strategy would be finalised by the middle of this year, but it has been delayed. Sustainability advocates have urged the federal government to join the rest of the OECD countries and introduce national fuelefficiency standards, which would prevent heavily polluting vehicles from being sold in Australia. ‘‘We have some of the worst standards in the world and we’re becoming a dumping ground for polluting cars,’’ said Mr Law. Road transport is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions and represented 16 per cent of Australia’s total carbon dioxide emissions in 2000, growing to 21 per cent in 2016. Behyad Jafari, head of the Electric Vehicle Council, which represents the industry, said a recent report found 70 per cent of Australians want governments to provide more public charging stations.
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Post by Mick Themungrel on Sept 25, 2020 21:34:07 GMT 10
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Post by Old Techo on Oct 2, 2020 19:10:04 GMT 10
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Post by Old Techo on Nov 12, 2020 12:17:32 GMT 10
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