Re: Electric Cars Not Yet Viable

Hogwash! A well maintained, modern, gas car is trivial to start down to -40ish. They were an issue with carburetors and coils but with fuel injection and electronic ignition, they start quite easily. Even diesels are relatively easy to start as long as the fuel doesn't gel (again, a maintenance thing). Once started, either works just as well as it does in warm weather. E cars don't. Period.

You really are a T-boy.

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I wonder what fraction of coders recognize the term "state machine."

10 %?

What's weird is that most procedural programs are littered with bugs, from first compile to years after shipping, and most FPGAs get done quickly and are bug-free. Both use text-based languages.

The weird thing here is that, superficially, humans are more procedural/sequential thinkers than parallel ones.

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John Larkin

More nonsense from the snowflake. Sub-zero temperatures are very common in the Northern tier of the US, with the exception of the band along the Southern Great Lakes.

The "average temperature" is meaningless in this context. I care about the temperature when I have to actually drive. "Average" means nothing.

Of course none of this uses energy.

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krw

AlwaysWrong, is, surprise, wrong again.

AlwaysWrong.

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krw

That's exactly what T-boy is doing here.

It will never be. The physics isn't there. Carrying both reactants can't be lighter than carrying only one. You can't get much denser chemical energy than H-bonds and much lighter than a pile of H's on a few Cs.

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krw

Sure, I had a 1:32 scale set when I was a kid.

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krw

I can imagine that some social interaction might happen when EVs outnumber charging stations and some people hog the charging slot and linger over a long lunch.

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John Larkin

We need to invent a car that runs on wood, or maple syrup.

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John Larkin

On Saturday, 29 June 2019 16:46:16 UTC-7, snipped-for-privacy@notreal.com wrote: ...

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No.

Tesla has multiple plans; with my Model 3 I don't get any free supercharging, some cars have free for life, some have 1200 miles free per year. Referrals and other special offers get various amounts of free charging.

For all of the plans, the car has to be authenticated first.

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keith wright

anyone who works in the games industry knows what a state machine is, they're used all the time.

Deep thoughts, robot-man.

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bitrex

Lol, did those usual suspects show up? AoC's name has near mystical power to attract old ghouls, apparently.

I don't see their posts much anymore; they never have any technical content and they've stopped being otherwise amusing. I wonder if they think I'll miss their invaluable engineering insights...

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bitrex

Did anyone bring her up? Since you did, there is a resemblance. You're both stupid as stone. She's a lot funnier, though, and keeps Nancy busy.

You're a liar.

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krw

I understand that Teslas burn pretty well.

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krw

Reagan was right. Maple trees put out tons and tons of smug.

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krw

Cities like Washington, DC already have streets lined with parking meters. They have more recently introduced kiosks where you pay for anywhere on th e block and put the receipt visible in the car, so a single larger ugly thi ng rather than a number of smaller ugly things. EV outlets can be used tha t have no post, recessed into the sidewalk or curb and you use a cell phone and credit card to pay.

How this issue is dealt with will be ironed out over the next decade or so. Some places will install good systems, some poor systems and some no syst ems. We will see which ones evolve into systems that are adopted by all, m uch like the electrification of the world itself.

Not sure what you are talking about with the extension cords. No one can u nplug the charging cable from my Tesla unless I unlock it. But I can see v andalism being a problem. Yet another reason why I don't like living in th e city.

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At those temperatures, diesels can be problematic. Diesels are hard to crank and the battery capacity falls rapidly. If you forgot to connect the block heater in the evening, the car might not start in the morning.

During the day, you nay gave to cover the hood with an old rug to maintain some of the morning commute heat in the motor compartment. Still you may have to drive a short trip during the lunch break to keep the temperatures reasonable for the evening commute.

At temperatures down to -20 C, diesels behave quite well, but when going down to -40 C, things get complicated.

In addition to battery issuesm,does e.g. power steering work from the start or is the driver kept warm driving around without power steering:-).

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You must be quite desperate (as in Europe during WWII) if you really want wood gas cars

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Totalitarian regimes casn create hell on Earth, and some have chosen to cal l themselves socialist.

Democratic socialist governmens in Scandinavia and northern Europe get rath er closer to delivering a garden of Eden that the current US system, but kr w is too dim to appreciate the difference between how regimes chose to desc ribe themselves and the way they actualy work.

There is, but krw can't see that it contradicts his blinkered point of view .

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gas and oil and coal put a LOT of PR money between your eyes and the reali ty.

Burning them currently supplies most of the electric power that makes krw's life better than it would have been a few hundred yers ago. If the electri c power came from some other source, krw would live just as well, apart fro m a nagging feeling that things weren't the way they used to be.

ion people. But your eyes will never see.

Krw's eyes are blind to the fact that it's the energy being gnerated that m akes the difference, and that if it were generated some way other than it u sed to be life would be equally good (and anthropogenic global warming migh t slow down).

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whit3rd wrote in news:1ca205ec-9276-49fb-bf30- snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Do you really think the infrastructure of any modern nation's cities could do what you say? Food distribution logistics alone say you are incorrect.

So, you are going to walk to what local market to buy your lettuce?

I do not think you have thought your position through very well.

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keith wright wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Things are likely to move toward cable free inductive charging stations. They could still have ID signatures in the system.

A person should do the main charging overnight at home. The charge one gets on the road only needs be supplemental and not at full rate. Inductive proximity type charging could end up in many locations.

What we need to do is change the entire driving paradigm, and that means an entire new type of city need to be started.

Remember that guy in Arizona back in the '70s?

My ancestors were 'land speculators' and started many towns in many states in this nation.

I want to build a city over the salt in Death Valley.

First: Place 100 foot by 1000 foot tanks in the ground. The salt will be easy digging, so we can literally screw them in. Cover several sqaure miles with these tanks, all filled with fresh water from the pole (or Greenland) and all segregated from each other so no cross contamination can take place.

Second, build the city above the tanks on a stilt array that covers those square miles and shades the tanks. Under that layer, one can have water curtain coolers to cool the air coming under they city. Build another cover OVER the city and have water to the leading edge facing the wind cooling up there as well.

Then, lightweight, 2 passenger electrics and single passenger bikes, etc. for transit, plus some city level stuff like trolley cars.

Rerservoir Cities like this need to be built in the desert band all around the world and get polar ice into them.

Death valley is three miles deep of salt, so the digging is easy. The tank base makes for the most stable 'platform' to built the stilt array onto.

This would be a zero concrete city.

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