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[Fabri91]

Yesterday I've test driven a Volkswagen ID.3 - the instant kick from the electric drivetrain really can be addictive.

Anyone here already having an electric car as daily driver?

 

[Notebook]

Had a BMW i3 for nearly four years and nearly paid off. No problems and the usual behaviour of electric vehicles, lots of torque quickly.
Not that I drive to need it, nice car easy to drive. Haven't told it my new email address, so its stopped whinging about stuff.

 

[n72.75]

What's up my old friends? Hope you guys are all well! I'm installing Orbiter again. This should be fun!

Hey Tex!

 

[Notebook]

I thought Tex was always there. Like a benevolent presence!?

 

[Sbb1413]

When I opened Google Earth to see the attractions of London, I saw the Big Ben tower looks weird and more like a modern building.

We all know that the Elizabeth Tower looks like the image below (credits: Wikimedia).

What's up my old friends? Hope you guys are all well! I'm installing Orbiter again. This should be fun!

back to Orbiter Forum. The forum has been migrated to XenForo when you was inactive.

 

[jedidia]

When I opened Google Earth to see the attractions of London, I saw the Big Ben tower looks weird and more like a modern building.

It's being renovated, so is encased in scaffolding. Not quite obvious in google earth due to the low resolution, but not inaccurate either:

 

[Notebook]

 

[Notebook]

Some good news for virus fighters:

'Miraculous' mosquito hack cuts dengue by 77%

Infecting the mosquitoes with a different bug slams the brakes on dengue fever, trial finds.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Notebook]

'Unseaworthy' Noah's Ark replica detained at Ipswich Waterfront

The 70m-long (230ft) floating museum features sculptures depicting stories from the Bible.

www.bbc.co.uk

Bit harsh, God couldn't have anticipated the Maritime and Coastguard Agency regulations.

 

[jedidia]

Oh man, that would've made one hell of a Monty Python sketch...

 

[Fabri91]

Yesterday I've test driven a Volkswagen ID.3 - the instant kick from the electric drivetrain really can be addictive.

Anyone here already having an electric car as daily driver?

Saturday I test drove the new all-electric Fiat 500, with the larger 44-ish kWh battery pack.

It's worth noting that despite similarities in size and appearance, it's built on a completely new architecture compared to the "normal" 500.

Was very positively impressed by the interior especially.

@Urwumpe please ask your colleagues what the reasoning was to fitting capacitive touch buttons on the steering wheel in the ID.3 (and also the Golf 8, if I remember correctly, but I'm not sure on that one).

 

[Urwumpe]

@Urwumpe please ask your colleagues what the reasoning was to fitting capacitive touch buttons on the steering wheel in the ID.3 (and also the Golf 8, if I remember correctly, but I'm not sure on that one).

Well, they aren't my colleagues, since I never wanted to be VW employee (after experiencing the VW management style during my internship in school), but the generally accepted theory about this user interface is, that somebody was terribly drunk. Nobody really likes it.

 

[Evil_Onyx]

I passed my HGV Class 2 test an hour ago (Euro Licence C). I only started this 10 months ago, Covid stopped the first round of training in November, and the second in January was cancelled the day before due to lockdown. I finally got my training in March and failed the first test, Then a retest today.

 

[N_Molson]

Really, with the CoVid, economy and everything, these are difficult times :

 

[Fabri91]

I passed my HGV Class 2 test an hour ago (Euro Licence C). I only started this 10 months ago, Covid stopped the first round of training in November, and the second in January was cancelled the day before due to lockdown. I finally got my training in March and failed the first test, Then a retest today.

Hello, fellow C-licensed individual!

 

[n72.75]

Really, with the CoVid, economy and everything, these are difficult times :

Oh it get's way better than that, haha : http://einartorfieinarsson.com/pdf/irrationality_thesis.pdf

 

[jedidia]

Fun fact: 7/8 is ridiculously prevalent in ethnic music of some eastern european cultures. I have no idea how it happened, but they dance to that stuff, and it totally works. After a while, you stop noticing and it just becomes normal...

 

[Artlav]

Saturday I test drove the new all-electric Fiat 500, with the larger 44-ish kWh battery pack.

How practical are the electric cars to use over there?
Where can they be charged?
Is it at all possible to go any non-trivial distance in one, like to next country over?

 

[N_Molson]

Fun fact: 7/8 is ridiculously prevalent in ethnic music of some eastern european cultures. I have no idea how it happened, but they dance to that stuff, and it totally works. After a while, you stop noticing and it just becomes normal...

That's all the good fun with music theory. Most known example is blues and jazz. Music theory uses the "triplet feel" trick to code it, but that's a trick. It can't be coded in a linear, mathematic way. You are groovy or you're not, pretty much like you describe above. It's a feeling, certainly can be learned but not with pen-and-paper theory only (that's what makes jazz difficult, you must have the feeling AND know music theory well). Even worse, being "fast" (or more usually) "late" on the time is something that is sort of dictated by the situation : the personality of the player, the song, even the audience...

 

[N_Molson]

Is it at all possible to go any non-trivial distance in one

You are russian so in short : NO ? Same applies to our canadian friends. I'm convinced electric cars are not tailored for such huge countries with low density of population. Things are different in Europe, Japan, or other densely populated places.

Also, all kinds of batteries hate the cold (more or less given the tech but still). Another thing most people also tend to forget : hot air for passengers comfort is not something given, thermic engines are called "thermic" for a reason. In an electric car you'd have to drain more battery power to heat air. And let's be honest : in russian or canadian winter it's not an option. You'll die of hypothermia if you stay in you car too long, you're sitting in the cold not moving and only protected from the wind. Not a good idea. Also, de-icing on windows : more battery power. Thermic engines also can generate battery power through an alternator.

So EVs are not made for "cold" countries.

The "Renault Zoe", quite a benchmark model here, has an official range of 395 km. Even in France, that's limited. In Russia, yes, that's ridiculous, and again, you won't get anywhere near that by -30°C.