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    SUBSEQUENTLY...

    I also bet that if the battery in the Gstring goes flat you cant just get out, push it along for a few meters jump in and dump the clutch on first to get it going again.
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    Cyber truck on the CSR

    I can't wait to drive the Cybertruck on the Canning Stock Route. Oh severe lack of range. OK let's cross the Simpson desert. Oh severe lack of range. Long weekend around the Little Desert in Victoria? maybe enough range. With the TD5 etc. You can always drive to nearest town and fill with diesel. You'd need to stay overnight or more to charge up the Cybertruck. I cannot see the charging infrastructure going through out this country. The population is small and the distances vast. One day we may be able to drive an EV to Perth or Darwin in less than a week.
    I will buy a Tesla, one day. Not for off roading. I'll keep the D2 for that.
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    In China they are ready have battery exchange stations. Battery technology for distance is not there yet, so that's probably the way rest of world will go. But to be sure times are a changin.
    If it makes us happy we might consider converting our D2's too electric, at least we can carry a shed load of batteries.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Blknight.aus View Post
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    I also bet that if the battery in the Gstring goes flat you cant just get out, push it along for a few meters jump in and dump the clutch on first to get it going again.
    Lol. Have to say, I can't do that with my D1 either. Damn thing is too heavy and I'm too old. But you are correct, Dave. A few blokes, or a minor slope, and you're away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shwza View Post
    Actually I think the 2001 accent has better power to weight than the rover. It's about 1100 kgs and the rover is about 2500 isn't it. That means the accent has 79kw to 1100 which is about 0.071 and the rover is 130 to 2500 which is 0.051. Sorry but the 2001 Hyundai is still better powered 😂
    And yet you got a barn find SIII and seem to be loving doing it up. Will you seek out a barn find Accent in 20 years?
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    Quote Originally Posted by maxperformance View Post
    I almost dropped my phone and cried when I saw this article this morning where it shows 173kw/605Nm torque out from a small hatchback Hyundai.

    Crying. Im still struggling to power my D2a to 130kw/420Nm.
    So, buy one. We can have a race. My D2 and your whatever it is. Same day set out. First one to Lake Disappointment wins. No outside help allowed. Wagers, anyone?

    The Tesla Model S outperforms pretty much anything the exotics can throw at it. Trouble is, it can only do so once, or maybe twice, before it's off to the naughty corner to be recharged. That power and torque isn't free, no matter what the luvvies want you to think.

    Doc Brown's Mr Fusion thing might help you win. But we can't say the N word.
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    Electric Land Rovers
    Classic electric vehicles for adventure — Jaunt
    BTW to convert costs about $40K
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    Electric Conversion ?

    Quote Originally Posted by cripesamighty View Post
    Don’t cry. If you want to keep the D2 and get equivalent power, you could always drop in a D4’s 3.0L unit and get 180kW and 600Nm. After all, if you can fit a D3’s 2.7L TDV6 into a D1, you should get that to fit into a D2. I always did want to buy that kit from the UK! 😁 👍

    Then again, that’s a lot of get up and go in that little thing. I’ll take the AWD thanks!
    It’s now possible to convert classic cars to Electric
    Quiet a few overseas companies doing this, and now there is a company Classic electric vehicles for adventure — Jaunt Melbourne that is doing conversion for classic Landrovers - should not be too hard to for a D2.
    Not sure about range - but the great thing about a 4WD is that it can carry a lot of batteries

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bohica View Post
    I can't wait to drive the Cybertruck on the Canning Stock Route. Oh severe lack of range. OK let's cross the Simpson desert. Oh severe lack of range. Long weekend around the Little Desert in Victoria? maybe enough range. With the TD5 etc. You can always drive to nearest town and fill with diesel. You'd need to stay overnight or more to charge up the Cybertruck. I cannot see the charging infrastructure going through out this country. The population is small and the distances vast. One day we may be able to drive an EV to Perth or Darwin in less than a week.
    I will buy a Tesla, one day. Not for off roading. I'll keep the D2 for that.
    Haters are going to be haters, cant change that

    This is early days, did you hear about Mark French , the bloke that founded Marks 4WD Adaptors converted a Suzuki 4x4 to EV and drove it across the Simpson , driving into the night till battery went flat , camped and charged during the day by solar only , repeat , Took 4 days . Took me longer the first time I crossed in a Petrol Landy in the 1980's .


    Unsealed 4X4 | SMASHING THE SIMPSON DESERT WITH SOLAR POWER

    Nothing high tech about it either.

    Take a while doing that in an ICE waiting for trees to grow (thanks to solar power by the way) , and then a couple of billion years for them to turn into oil .

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    At about 2035 we start seeing all LR EV without diesel (so too many governments around the world commit to new EV cars production at the same time).

    And some researches said we would still have about 150 - 300 years of fossil fuel until they are all gone on the Earth.

    So it seems that all of us still can enjoy whatever it was designed for, although I think diesel/petrol prices in 2035 upwards might be a bit too shocked at some degrees

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