05-18-2024, 03:00 AM | #2073 | |
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The truck thing is difficult to understand from a European viewpoint, for a start why someone chooses a commercial platform as a daily driver - Ive just checked and only 0.9% of vehicles sales in the EU are pickups. Could GM and Ford be focusing there as its a captive market that the EU/JP are never going to target? |
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05-18-2024, 05:50 AM | #2074 | |
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Plus you can haul and tow and you ride higher so you can see over all the other vehicles. In Canada and the USA there is a saying "A man with a truck is never broke"
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05-18-2024, 05:53 AM | #2075 |
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BTW they are marketing that new Ford EVPU as being able to charge another electric vehicle.
If you you really want to impress me get it to charge itself without plugging it in
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05-18-2024, 07:59 AM | #2076 | |
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You should also know that driving a US pickup is a lot different than driving an EU pickup. The interior appointments and ride quality of US pickups are closer to large sedan than to EU pickups.
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05-18-2024, 08:01 AM | #2077 |
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You’ve just described regenerative braking.
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05-18-2024, 09:23 AM | #2078 |
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The fun/performance implications of this are also huge. I'm sure you understand this, but I'll describe it for others.
It's like having an ICE revved to the perfect point to produce maximum braking horsepower from 0% to 100% whenever you need it; all you have to do is lift your foot off the throttle. The higher you lift, the more braking effect, except it isn't using the service brakes at all. In regenerative braking, the EV motors into generators and the resistance is variable with how much energy you allow to be recovered. Coming down a mountain pass you can recover several percent of your SOC in a large EV battery. Can't do that with ICE...at the very most you can cut fuel to the engine, but you can't recover any meaningful energy. But nobody cares about eco stuff. Regen braking for performance is stupid grin-inducing fun. You can come into curves faster and "brake" later (using only regen) and lose no time getting back on the throttle. And when you do, it's with maximum torque depending on your foot position. Until you really push an EV hard you don't realize how much time and effort goes into making an ICE produce power in the range you really want it. There is skill and art in that, sure, but when that piece is eliminated, I think EV actually becomes a more connected driving experience. All your power and braking is at the wheels. The bulk of the car's weight is under you, very low, and evenly distributed. Guys...this is serious fun, and as an automotive enthusiast, I can say you're missing out if you're not giving EV's a fair shake. The engine sound is absent, ok, but the car is still making plenty of noise. You start to tune into the sounds your tires make under different acceleration and braking conditions - they're giving you so much information that you don't hear when an ICE is running. And to hear the suspension, and what's going on outside around you is actually pretty cool in its own way. |
05-20-2024, 07:47 AM | #2079 |
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05-20-2024, 09:29 AM | #2080 | |
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I have an employee who lives in Houston. Her family just moved to another part of town a couple months ago. She says her old house was damaged and the house across the street from it destroyed by the tornado. Talk about good timing.
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Me thinks all the pumps are not being run off a few 110/120v AC extension cords. Not that the Cybertruck can't put out serious power, it just doesn't look like it's configured to do so at that point in time. |
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05-20-2024, 02:45 PM | #2083 | |
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Definitely enjoy the generator we now have |
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05-25-2024, 03:40 PM | #2084 |
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Already discussed? So another "I cannot just jump in my car and go" and that is a shitty reason to dump AA auto. Do they offer free music streaming and NAV?
“The primary reason is that we’re looking to create a comfort level around the [EV] charging experience. With Android Auto or Apple CarPlay environments, the vehicle energy model or road segment data is sending energy usage and everything else associated with it to the phone, and it’s pretty difficult to off-board it from the phone,” Buffa explained. “So what we have built in[to the Blazer EV’s infotainment system] is really accurate data around battery health and battery monitoring and everything else that comes with it. And as you get into the mapping, it does route planning extremely well. For example, if we were to drive from here [San Diego] to Las Vegas, almost instantaneously the car is going to plot a route that looks at not just the state of the vehicle, but the state of the chargers along the route. It’s also going to start the battery preconditioning as necessary, so when you reach a DC fast charger, you’re actually at the optimal temperature to start using the full charging capacity.”
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Google Built-in is actually pretty awesome.
You can still stream from your phone but Google has all the apps too, in the car. |
05-30-2024, 10:17 AM | #2086 |
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I Know This Post Is Worthless Without Pics, But...
Saw a Lucid in the wild yesterday, which almost never happens. Based on the wheels it was either a Touring or Grand Touring and the funny thing was my wife, who is generally oblivious to cars and has no idea Lucid even exists, saw it first and pointed it out because of how cool she thought it was.
Here's my analogy which I hope comes true... When they outlawed incandescent light bulbs many, me included, were pissed. The replacement, that spiral fluorescent disaster, sucked out loud. Subsequent iterations still sucked, but progressively less. And now we have LED bulbs which are like ten million times better than incandescent bulbs and only a dyed-in-the-wool Luddite would still choose a bulb with a filament. Based on the Lucid, which I would gladly drive except on long trips, we are clearly well past the spiral fluorescent phase of EVs. |
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