Electric vehicles

[bobthebuilder]

Pictures or it didn’t happen!! Neighbour of ours has a Tesla..

here you go dave

Tesla Employees Passed Around Video Recorded In Customers' Cars

Every Tesla has cameras inside and out. Employees have passed around footage of drivers, passengers and bystanders, including a child hit by a Tesla in a crash.

jalopnik.com

 

[Gecko]

Supposedly the camera is monitor the driver, but ..

"When a driver becomes distracted, the Tesla car does not remind the driver to keep eyes on the road. Instead, the video footage is transmitted back to Tesla headquarters, where engineers may use it to study and refine Tesla's self-driving systems."

Your Tesla may be recording everything you do — what you need to know

Some Tesla models have a camera trained on the passenger cabin

www.tomsguide.com

 

[V8Druid]

interesting video

see the price of hydrogen on this pump $ 14 a kilo ... said in the vid that 5 kgs'll do 300 miles so $14 for 60 miles ain't cheap -- roughly 4 miles for a dollar

 

[Smiffy]

interesting video

see the price of hydrogen on this pump $ 14 a kilo ... said in the vid that 5 kgs'll do 300 miles so $14 for 60 miles ain't cheap -- roughly 4 miles for a dollar
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Depends what you driving but that works out at £56 for 300miles.
My truck is currently about £120 for around 450 miles

 

[Grahams]

Currently there is little demand for hydrogen, but if it takes off the price is very likely to rise significantly with the increased demand. So impossible to guess how economical it will be in future.

 

[V8Druid]

Depends what you driving but that works out at £56 for 300miles.
My truck is currently about £120 for around 450 miles

in a lightweight car though Smiffy

 

[Canal Navvy]

Currently there is little demand for hydrogen, but if it takes off the price is very likely to rise significantly with the increased demand. So impossible to guess how economical it will be in future.

As demand rises so will production, Australia has plans for vast solar farms producing hydrogen that will be converted to ammonia for shipping by tanker. The shipping tankers are in the process of being built so they must be pretty confident

 

[kabin man]

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/08/carmageddon-the-electric-car-fiasco/

not too sure of the scource, but interesting..

 

[kabin man]

Also read somewhere that where electric cars are heavier,the manufacturers are getting bespoke tyres with softer sidewalls to give some extra suspension.
This results in un- pothole friendly tyres picking up damage. One long term test reported 3 tyres damaged in pothole bumps in a few weeks...

PS my cupra is arriving Nov 30th charger is an ongoing saga..Company still not sorted it yet as of this months cars arriving so i may be ok by then.
The issue is an extra meter before my distribution panel so the bills go direct to employer.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Also read somewhere that where electric cars are heavier,the manufacturers are getting bespoke tyres with softer sidewalls to give some extra suspension.
This results in un- pothole friendly tyres picking up damage. One long term test reported 3 tyres damaged in pothole bumps in a few weeks...

PS my cupra is arriving Nov 30th charger is an ongoing saga..Company still not sorted it yet as of this months cars arriving so i may be ok by then.
The issue is an extra meter before my distribution panel so the bills go direct to employer.

Have to say Tesla model3 most uncomfortable ride of any car I've been in recently...goodness knows how many must get major suspension danmage ...

 

[Monkeybusiness]

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/08/carmageddon-the-electric-car-fiasco/

not too sure of the scource, but interesting..

It makes a second hand i3 look like a half-decent buy!
What I’d like to know definitively (ideally from someone who has done it) is the possibility/reality of having an electric car on the drive plugged in to the house, charging from solar etc but supplying electricity back to the house at night/periods of high demand (using the car as a power wall essentially). It would potentially be workable for my step-mum who needs a new car and does very limited short journeys (probably be workable for a great number of households, at least for one car on the drive).

 

[V8Druid]

It makes a second hand i3 look like a half-decent buy!
What I’d like to know definitively (ideally from someone who has done it) is the possibility/reality of having an electric car on the drive plugged in to the house, charging from solar etc but supplying electricity back to the house at night/periods of high demand (using the car as a power wall essentially). It would potentially be workable for my step-mum who needs a new car and does very limited short journeys (probably be workable for a great number of households, at least for one car on the drive).

interesting idea - cheap(ish) mobile battery wall

 

[V8Druid]

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/05/08/carmageddon-the-electric-car-fiasco/

not too sure of the scource, but interesting..

interesting -- get 'em hooked and reeled in then .........

"thousands of free electric car chargers have been pulled from Britain’s roads over the past year as soaring energy costs makes them unaffordable.
The number of chargers offering free electricity has fallen from 5,715 a year ago to 3,568, a drop of almost 40%.
They now make up less than one in 10 public chargers on Britain’s roads, compared to one in five a year ago.
The drop in free top-up charging spots is the latest blow to the Government’s ambitions to attract motorists to electric cars by making it cheap and convenient to charge them away from home."

 

[Monkeybusiness]

interesting idea - cheap(ish) mobile battery wall

If it also puts a nearly new car on the drive (which needs buying anyway) then it needs exploring!

 

[Lancs Lad]

It makes a second hand i3 look like a half-decent buy!
What I’d like to know definitively (ideally from someone who has done it) is the possibility/reality of having an electric car on the drive plugged in to the house, charging from solar etc but supplying electricity back to the house at night/periods of high demand (using the car as a power wall essentially). It would potentially be workable for my step-mum who needs a new car and does very limited short journeys (probably be workable for a great number of households, at least for one car on the drive).

talking to a mate who's just put a solar setup and battery in...hes got Skoda enyak? And that couldn't store leccy apparently it's not common yet ? Does make sense though .

Done a lot of motorway driving lately really noticed a lot more leccy chariots about...do still get a kick watching them trying to charge them at the services ...always seems a right palaver ..much head scratching and staring at apps etc . For me 5 minutes at pump and bingo away we go still wins...and price of diesel going down nicely ...leccy still going up

 

[Monkeybusiness]

talking to a mate who's just put a solar setup and battery in...hes got Skoda enyak? And that couldn't store leccy apparently it's not common yet ? Does make sense though .

Done a lot of motorway driving lately really noticed a lot more leccy chariots about...do still get a kick watching them trying to charge them at the services ...always seems a right palaver ..much head scratching and staring at apps etc . For me 5 minutes at pump and bingo away we go still wins...and price of diesel going down nicely ...leccy still going up

I was told (can’t remember who by, and whether they actually knew what they were on about hence wanting to find someone who knows directly the ins and outs of it) that the tech for using a car as a house battery is available in other countries but for some reason isn’t available in the UK. Not sure why though?

 

[V8Druid]

I was told (can’t remember who by, and whether they actually knew what they were on about hence wanting to find someone who knows directly the ins and outs of it) that the tech for using a car as a house battery is available in other countries but for some reason isn’t available in the UK. Not sure why though?

think @fred has done it successfully
bloody UK crap again

 

[Grahams]

I was told (can’t remember who by, and whether they actually knew what they were on about hence wanting to find someone who knows directly the ins and outs of it) that the tech for using a car as a house battery is available in other countries but for some reason isn’t available in the UK. Not sure why though?

I think it is only certain cars that you can use the battery as an external power source. Most won’t let you. Currently I think it is only the Ford F150 lightning that lets you power your house. Seems they way to go though.

 

[Gecko]

What I’d like to know definitively (ideally from someone who has done it) is the possibility/reality of having an electric car on the drive plugged in to the house,

This seems to be done quite a lot in the US, but I understand the car needs a new/hacked firmware to give up it's charge.
I've thought about it as an alternative to buying a wall battery and it seems to make sense.

 

[bobthebuilder]

I was told (can’t remember who by, and whether they actually knew what they were on about hence wanting to find someone who knows directly the ins and outs of it) that the tech for using a car as a house battery is available in other countries but for some reason isn’t available in the UK. Not sure why though?

not to tricky ,tesla have a 12v battery ,connect inverter and away ,but i have read there is equipment to run your house from your car