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Supposedly accurate to 1% or about 1 mph which considering the Earth is not a sphere but satsuma shaped, polar radius 13 miles less than the equatorial radius. 3900 miles compared to 3913 miles i recall from Albedo 0.39 by Vangelis. Some facts have been refined shall we say.... https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html Maximum distance from the sun: 94 million 537 thousand miles Minimum distance from the sun: 91 million 377 thousand miles Mean distance from the sun: 92 million 957 thousand and 200 miles Mean Orbital velocity: 66000 miles per hour Orbital eccentricity: 0.017 Obliquity of the ecliptic: 23 degrees 27 minutes 8.26 seconds Length of the tropical year: equinox to equinox 365.24 days Length of the sidereal year: fixed star to fixed star 365.26 days Length of the mean solar day: 24 hours and 3 minutes and 56.5555 seconds at mean solar time Length of the mean sidereal day: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 4.091 seconds at mean sidereal time Mass: 6600 milion milion milion tons Equatorial diameter: 7927 miles Polar diameter: 7900 miles Oblateness: one 298th Density: 5.41 Mean surface gravitational acceleration of the rotating earth: 32.174 feet per second per second Escape velocity: 7 miles per second Albedo: 0.39

The @outofspec channel use Sat nav for speed setting, in general the Tesla over reports it's speed by at least 10% which is why they set fsd to 85mph where possible Wow that is a lot and more than the 10% max error that I thought manufacturers were suppose to adhere to. Great for doing ones mileage claims if one relying on car odometer, lots of extra monies being claimed. First Japanese bikes were renown for over stating speed compared the more accurate Smiths speedo. Probably helped them sell much more bikes ie my 250cc bike does well over 90 mph, no is does not as it is the speedo well oer reporting. Italian bikes the same with their Veglia instruments or "vague-lio" as we used to call them. Interesting it is reported the TESLA are allegedly massive overreading distance and speed to get to the ned of warranty sooner, not cricket. Renault, seem to over read the speed by a few percent, I would say 3 or 4% but under read the distance by 1 or two percent. The speed, despite being a digital speedometer, I can understand to help people not lose their licences but the odometer under reading seems odd ie get people in sooner for their 10/18k servicing or whatever. Quite common to set the car cruise control at 11% over the nominal speed limit for these reason and police general setting their speed detection at 12% above nominal though that is cutting it a bit fine IMO and certainly not optimal car range speed in many EVS where 65 to 70, genuine speed, is optimal it has been shown but if one has a fast charging car and deep pockets cruising at this grey zone of speeds is oft done.

UK has quite a low speed limit compared to many countries ie France Italy and especially Germant but some US states have quite relatively high speed limits to the UK. Not sure if one can use the 10 %, plus 2% rile in all place ie speedo and tyres possible error percentages. Many EVs ate not great efficiency at high speed Polestars and Tesla seem to be but I would only consider one of those options. My Scenic not great with a Drag Coefficient not much under 0.3. Waiting for more over the air updates to introduce more regen levels including one pedal driving which gives a few miles more range. Better lower rolling resistance tyres would be a good addition. I need my breaks. My bladder is not longer range than even my 65 kwh car !!!! Charging at C times 2 ie 130 kws is good enough but over 200 kws for replacement car is expected with the rapid advancement of EV batteries and UK charging infrastructure.

Dumb as Homer Simpson. After 30 years still not sure US citizens get the joke of the Simpsons. Springfield is the town that appears in most of the 50 US states. The Homers are average Americans. That said I know some smart US people and they are very rare. Most of the smart people in the US are immigrants, Elon Musk being an exception but as with the current US admin they are great at exploiting situations ie low IQ US voters.

I remembering having a bottle of cyanide antidote by the case hardening area which the instructor said drink with 3 seconds else you would be Brown Bread. Reassuring.

I recall there was some Chroming process that involved cyanide if I recall correctly which the EU banned, maybe some residuals cyanide leftover, so one very large importers asked us to removed hundreds or may have been thousands of their cars from the coastal customs warehouse to import them before the July 1st deadline. If the public even knew a fraction of what is done they would freak. We rely on the EU to continue to improve public safety for Europe but standards elsewhere are not so good but to be fair China and India are doing a lot to improve the exposure of dangerous chemicals to their citizens but it is a long road to Nirvana.

Indeed. Nickel is being used less and less with EV batteries as car companies are phasing out NMC lithium batteries in favour of LFP lithium batteries, BYD over completely to this chemistry. Sodium and LFP may be the normal chemistry for EVs but I have not heard of alternate materials for usages like gas turbine blades and many other uses for Nickel. Old story and a quickly diminishing issue for EVs. Lots of lithium and rare earth metals in US, UK ie Cornwall etc just we would rather buy cheap from less ethical countries and perhaps time to do this in our own countries, mine and refine. Dig baby dig !

BYD cars are available from UK dealers such as Bristol Street Motors of which there is a dealer about a mile from my house. Of course RHD BYDs only follow along after BYD, or most other car manufacturers, have made a substantial batch of LHD models first. Gridserve is already setting up 1 MW charging for trucks and when they see that some cars want this level of charging too then they will be all too happy to make money from it. The oft have BESS and lots of solar at the sites.

If it was co2 the flame would go out rather than the flame ignite the gas !!

Some cars that were over £40K are now under £40k to avoid the expensive car supplement of £400 extra per year !! Good range Scenic, 370 miles WLTP, going to be about £37k down from £41k RRP and the mid spec Alpine spec down to just under £38k, think that one was up around £43k. Tope spec Iconic stil over £40k though so will get clouted with expensive car VED unless government moves that £40k up with inflation or to capture more sales, VAT etc. One pedal driving and other features being added and all for less money. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/renault/366505/refreshed-renault-megane-and-scenic-get-one-pedal-driving-and-price-cut

Chinese battery giant have battery which produces charging times to "fill up" similar to filling a Hydrocarbon fuel tank..

Spend an summer afternoon in a greenhouse, or pip over to Venus, 90 atmospheres of pressure, 400 C. What happen with gree house gas co2.

Californians have steamed ahead with the Green agenda and they are chalk and cheese to the hicks in the mid West and south but Texas is seeing the light too and their install of solar and wind is outstripping california. If the two states were countries they would be fifth and fifth and about eighth in the world league. Perhaps both should leave the United States and go their own way as US Treasuries tank and do it before much longer and the US put itself in a full tailspin. EV are a natural extension of having more and more electricity available at lower and lower real prices plus their year on year significant improvement in range etc and the substantially dropping prices YoY.

Limited to 300 kph is it not ? Quick on tight small tracks but not the quickest on big open tracks ie the Nordschleife. SU7 did 6 min 47 sec. Simulation reckon Sperirling would take about 7 minutes but would like to see it tested. SU7 has 4 doors.

Competitive pricing at around the 30k mark. Didn't realise Ford had gone big in to Romania as Renault had which is why they can knock these cars out at attractive prices. Think it will sell well if the cabin at features are up to Fords quite high standards. Battery size quoted seems on the small size and will be interested to see how well it performs in summer and winter for range. Driving a quite small ie 60 kwh battery car, it will be interesting to see drivers reaction to range, state of charge and getting good range. It's an art plus sciencing the sh1te out of it to quote The Martian.

As my firm is the largest mover of finished vehicles in the world it will be interesting to see how many cars delivered to the US, but not customs cleared, might simply reloaded and delivered to another country. Somebody to get some very good car deals. Sadly Left Hand driver cars of course. Many need a tweak to change to new country's spec of course which should be able to be done at port reception centre. To much to do and might have to go back to country of origin. At Portbury docks, where I was one of the Customs Officers, we had space for 35k cars but there is only so much space available. Electric Viking video below on this....

Definitely seemed to be 15C with my Renaults to get max out of the batteries. If I go for the LFP battery Renault 5 will be interesting to see how that performs in lower temperatures. Batteries pack may well include cheap Sodium ion batteries at some point mixed with cheap LFP which will have much better cold temperature performance but even Lithium NMC and Lithium Fe PH4 are getting better cold performance with better internal manufacturing process I gather.

Lithium batteries love the temp over 15C. Took 55% of my battery getting up to Liverpool from Worcester in my small battery 60 kWh Scenic, starting temp 0C. To get home only used 41% when the temp was 17C. 4% battery when got home. 5 hours charge last night so back up to 60% and showing 170 miles. Will not charge it again unless I know I have a journey to do next day. Clearly EVs getting so cheap, and I think the 87 kWh, 370 mile Scenic has outsold my 60 kWh model so well that I see Renault have dropped my 60 kWh model from their Scenic range so it is just in the Megane etech now. Paired with that Renault have dropped the price of the Scenic and Megane by thousands. Probably in large part due to the price of the LG Chem batteries become far cheaper month on month. Think I was getting about 3.5 miles per kWh in the cold morning and around 4.7 miles per kWh on the return from Liverpool back to Worcester. Much hotter and I might have needed the aircon but the heat pump works in hot as well as cool conditions. It is just the battery chemistry that does not work lowish temperatures. When charging up I just wish the software also heated the battery a bit. If I had 3 phase then probably charging AC at 22 kWs would do much more warming than 7.2 kW or so. Will look at a 22 kW 3 phase inventor power by home DC batteries at some point.

Renault have made their two larger EVs more affordable, less tax liable and more useful to save drivers money. Renault have addressed the silly situation where you can get thousands of pounds discount but then get whacked for the Expensive car supplement VED charge and more tax as the BIK goes up each year on EVs. Also these, like their smaller sibling have V2L and can save owners money on paying for expensive day time electricity as they now also have V2L...... The IndependentRenault discounts its EV range to avoid tax hikesRenault Scenic and Renault Megane ranges revamped with price drops and more techRenault has reacted to recent changes to Vehicle Excise Duty (road tax) with price drops and more kit across its Scenic and Megane range. With the government’s Expensive Car Supplement hitting cars priced above £40,000, the Renault Scenic Techno Long Range model that was priced at £40,995 now costs £37,195, while the new Techno Esprit Alpine Long Range model with sportier styling also comes in under £40,000 at £39,930,........ In addition to the new line-up, there are a host of other upgrades across both models that include full one-pedal driving that enables the cars to come to a complete stop smoothly when the driver lifts off the accelerator. Renault says that it delivers a smoother overall driving experience and maximises energy being recuperated through braking, while also reducing brake pad wear. Both the Megane and the Scenic will also come with a vehicle-to-load (V2L) adaptor that lets you plug anything with a three-pin plug into the car, while Renault’s Plug & Charge tech has also become standard on all new Scenic and Megane models. Plug & Charge enables a seamless digital handshake between car and selected public chargers to automatically authorise payment and start charging without the need to use an app or payment cards.

Australian is an will be increasingly assertively key outlet for Chinese EVs and other Chinese goods. Cannot see how European car companies can maintain a share there. Only perhaps top end cars etc where those with dosh want to buy exclusivity.

With traction batteries and their actual capacity it is semi truths along side other semi truths. When working on a rolling road the measured horsepower was so dire in many case we use to switch the rolling road to display twice the actual reading and then given the owner some bullsh1t on taking account for transmissions losses which an ICE car could be 20% or so ie primary reduction, gearbox, diff etc. Couple that with the 10 or 20% loss in the engine, due to worn piston rings etc and if we showed them that there 140 hp cars, which was actually only putting out around 75 hp, that after our tuning on the Rolling road was producing 150hp, estimated flywheel, they would go away happy and the car would probably feel quicker after our tune so all happy days. The EV is probably not going to lose anywhere near the HP. Also does not suffer anything like the power train loses. The traction battery however, mostly being lithium rather than Lithium Iron Phosphate although that percentage ever increasing, will probably suffer deg in the batter performance. A thousand chargers will take its tool. More so on passive air cooled LEAFs, a little bit on the Active air cooled Zoes and less so on liquid cooled more modern Traction batteries. Maybe Chinese BMSs are a little more using more of the voltage range of Korean/European systems, BYD maybe being one of the better Chinese brands but Bjorn Nyland, after his roast of Toyota just highlighted BYD as having a rather poor ie high range of individual cell temperature difference during high powered recharge resulting in rapid-gating. All Traction batteries on EV have significant margins. Zoe is at least 55 kWh but 52 nominal, Scenic 65 kWh actual but 60 kwh displayed. Drove my scenic 11 miles past zero before it even gave a restricted performance notification and drove on another couple of miles no problem. Manufacturers oft do over the air updates which redefines the battery bottom and top buffers. The Zoe Ze40 is thought to have had over 20% hidden buffer which it could release to maintain vehicle range and avoid warranty calls saying battery had fallen below 75%. The Spring's actually battery SOC is reckoned to be 106% to -9% when it actually stops going ie 15% which equated to 25 miles over it 140 mile range. So what figures do we rely on ? Manufacturers health check ? EBD2 Car Scanner or measuring energy input and output and actual range achieve in ambient/reproducible standard conditions ? EVs, ie lithium batteries do have foibles, they don't like regen when temp is low but then getting 20% extra range due to regen is cool. Hard to run out of range on an EV and fuelling up at home for about 2 pence per mile is great !

Also the very similar Audi etron of course. Talking to one etron owner but I think they were on salary sacrifice where a would be 1,000 a month rental turns into 530 or 570 pound a month depending on if you are on higher or highest England or Wales team rates, don't know what they are in Scotland but same or more avoidance possible I presume. Surely some sort of ceiling would be appropriate ie one can only claim £5k a year of salary sacrifice on cars or the like ?

Massive tax avoidance scheme for new ones which means big value drops from new value to 3 years where these cars are well under half price and of close to a third the value.

I tried an Audi A2. I think it had some TFSI engine, not very torquey. Aluminium body just as aluminium went expensive and the A2 was not getting much better mpg than the base model Skoda at the time with a little engine. Germans like cars with lots of stability and a good top speed oft and the A2 wad just not on the money IMO.

Same happened with my Zoe. RRP, £34k before subsidies ended and I was getting about 6k off from Renault central and local dealer which pretty sure the car dropped by a couple of K when grants of 2.5k stopped. But then there are always several variables, mainly the rate of exchange Euro to pound and interest rates bot in Euroland and UK. Interest rates dropping and their should be some good deals in q2 and q3 this year, already seeing loans rates at 3.9% down from 5% a few days ago.