Only one EV charger at home?!

The best don't need anything like that and can always work it out for themselves.

Yes.

Nothing to do with learning speed.

Nothing to do with VW, the beetle and golf never had anything like that.

In the early 70s Audi was in fact a completely separate operation to VW cars wise although it was VW owned.

Forces on the engine parts will likely be less than under normal acceleration, becuase there is no or little fuel being burned.

Certainly using a gear to decend will be no worse than climbing the hill in that gear at the same speed.

Just don't exceed reccomended engine RPM

What about cables?

Diesel pumps here have a "high flow rate" button, but not regular petrol pumps. It's probably handy if you're filling a bus with thousand litre tank capacity.

FFS I first used USENET in 1985...on a DEC VAX, connected by UUCP over a modem

The problem also occurs with petrol. When I had a Rover 400, there was a sharp bend in the filler, that caused many pumps to keep shutting off. Sometimes it would be okay with the nozzle upside down and at other times, I had no option but to slow the flow rate by not fully squeezing the lever. It was annoying to me ... and to whoever was trapped behind me and had already finished filling and paid.

Some people can learn from experience. You don't seem to be one of them.

Some diesels have a much smaller engine than a traditional diesel. I had one like that, an Opel Corsa. The motor had only 1248 cubic centimetres of displacement (yet rated at 70KW power). And a turbo. Thus at low rpm the engine had little torque, something that I noticed in the mountains. In some steep places, even in 1st gear it had no acceleration.

In the highway, that car had much better acceleration than my current gasoline Opel Corsa (66KW, no turbo, 1398 cc)

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I was really styling, connecting to a BBS with 300 baud over an acoustic coupler...

The '51 Chev would have been better off with cables. It was obvious the master cylinder had been bolted to the frame before the body was put on. There was a small access port with a cover under the rug on the drivers side but getting the assembly out to replace the seal was a miserable job.

Thats a mid range car!

Small is 600 cc!

And a turbo. Thus at low rpm

But early turbodiesels had a very narrow power band. I drove a two lire Ford Mondeo turbodiesl as a hire once. Nothing under 2000rpm Nothing over 4000 rpm. Horrid car. Because my car has twin turbos, the main turbo comes in around 1200rpm and the second at around 3000. Very smooth if a little laggy.,

That came a little later for me.

Then we moved into selling UUCP connections to the internet (such as it was) for mail and news .

The rule of thumb for semis is to use the same gear going up or down. If you had to shift down enough to climb the grade at 28 mph there is probably a good reason you only want to go down the other side at 28 mph if you don't have a jake brake.

That simplistically assumes the same slope on each side.

My smallest bikes are 650 cc.... One is a thumper and not designed for speed but the V-Strom goes as fast as I need to go.

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I'd been on Delphi with a dialup connection that sort of had an internet connection.

They sold the business and it became a little more professional. They even had a NNTP server of sorts but individual.net at the Freie Universitat Berlin worked a lot better. It was free then but when it went to 10 Euros a year I kept it. The local ISP dropped usenet eventually because of the resources required to support it.