Thread: EV general discussion

Originally Posted by Homestar

I’ll say no - I don’t believe any company about ‘groundbreaking new tech’ until there’s something in production being used and independently tested. Doubly so for battery and solid state tech as most are just trying to hype things up to get extra investment dollars.

I don’t believe 1000 charge cycles either - that’s either theoretical or done under lab conditions in a very short time so won’t replicate years of really world discharging and recharging. Happy to be proven wrong when these are in cars and doing great after 10 years - get back to me then.

And being VW I call double BS so that’s quadruple BS as far as I see it.

Yep. And VW are desperate atm. They are in very deep trouble financially for a number of self inflicted reasons.

Originally Posted by Tins

Speaking of rabbit holes....



I think you will find that nearly all newer cars are built this way. I was once told that it was in fact a mandate, but I have no evidence of this. However, it is one of the reasons people scream "SPEEDING" when a heavy vehicle is involved. Speedos in modern prime movers are usually accurate, because they can be calibrated for different axle ratios and tyre sizes, so when they say 100 they mean 100. Nearly 10% faster than the car that says 100 when it means 92.

It is often worse than that,many long haul trucks seem to sit on at least an actual of 105 Km/hr,so they are doing close to 13Km/hr more than someone sitting on 100 Km / hr,not realising they are actually doing something like 92Km/hr.
My brothers Mitsy Sport,stock OEM tyres,is doing an actual of 92Km/hr at 100Km/hr on the Speedo.

All stupidity and dangerous,in this day and age,surely we can get a speedo to read accurately,just like my other brother’s stock Disco 1,it reads spot on.

Originally Posted by Tins

Yep. And VW are desperate atm. They are in very deep trouble financially for a number of self inflicted reasons.

Not a VW cheer squad Others tested the Solid-state battery and found the same. DYOR of course. LAST POST PLAYING

sorry

It is often worse than that, many long haul trucks seem to sit on at least an actual of 105 Km/hr,so they are doing close to 13Km/hr more than someone sitting on 100 Km / hr,not realising they are actually doing something like 92Km/hr.

I understand from long ago that some truckies put smaller diameter tyres on when the tachymeter is programmed. simple then to change to larger tyres.
I have been around MANY trucks doing 105 or sometimes a little more as determined by my GPS not car speedo.
Strangely some of the worse offenders seem to be Australia Post trucks. I don't know if they are subbies or company owned but it seems strange.
Regards PhilipA

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I understand from long ago that some truckies put smaller diameter tyres on when the tachymeter is programmed. simple then to change to larger tyres.
I have been around MANY trucks doing 105 or sometimes a little more as determined by my GPS not car speedo.
Strangely some of the worse offenders seem to be Australia Post trucks. I don't know if they are subbies or company owned but it seems strange.
Regards PhilipA

Yep - way back when the truck tyre fitters would come into our yard, fit tiny tyres to the drives then we’d run the truck on the chassis dyno and program the ECU to 100KPH the. They’d stick the normal tyres back on - it would give then about a dollar 15 on the GPS while the speedo still read 100. Fun Police put the kibosh on that one - well the real Police actually…

Where I worked before there were three Freightliners and two Scanias. None of them did the same road speed, but all of them did the same indicated speed, dollar one on the limiter. But there wasn't much in it. My R730 was the slowest, but it was by far the quickest . The other Scania, R620, was the fastest. Sneaky bloke got some Scania mech with a laptop to alter the ratios. Still, mine did 99c and his did a dollar four. He used to chuckle as he drew away slowly, but smiled on the other side of his face come a hill. Funny thing though... none of us ever actually killed anyone.

Not sure about the translation... but his English is better than my Mandarin

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