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19 days agoNow that’s more like it!
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I could write a book on the disastrous experience with our fleet of Vitos. Suffice to say we will never consider any Mercedes product again.
Like the Volkswagen ID.Buzz, Kia’s PV5 looks more like a minibus. At 4,695 mm long, 1,895 mm wide, and 1,899 mm tall, Kia’s passenger electric van is slightly smaller than the European ID.Buzz model (4,712 mm long, 1,985 mm wide, 1,937 mm tall).
Its a pity the only EVs that are getting announced are small, and aimed purely at the people mover market. I guess because service vans are usually bought based on price, and BEV is just not enough available power to cart a tonne of gear around over long distances.
I’m looking to replace our diesel service vans (mix of Toyota HiAces and Hyundai iLoads) and I want to go up a little in size, not down to the tune of 500mm or more.
Come on BYD, take that Shark 6 idea and make a van out of it. The Whale 6. I’ll take half a dozen.
Toyota Hiace LWB 5265 (L) x 1990 (H) x 1950 (W) Hyundai iLoad 5125 (L) x 1935 (H) x 1920 (W) vs Volkswagen ID.Buzz 4712 (L) x 1936 (H) x 1985 (W) Kia PV5 4695 (L) x 1899 (H) x 1895 (W)
That’s my argument. People with Tesla cars are all carrying on about separating the product from the CEO and I’m like… your money is the difference between him being a relatively harmless crazy person ranting in a public park somewhere, and being the president of the US whose actions are causing real world hardship to a heap of people.
I did a work trip that was twice that distance and I never even left the state 😢
Comparing this specific heating per volume, the Tesla 4680 cell creates around 2x of the heat to be dissipated at a 1 C load (Figure 8). Thus, when designing a system with the same power requirements, the cooling needed for the Tesla 4680 cells must dissipate approximately 2x more heat per volume than that needed for the BYD cell at the same load. Therefore, the LFP electrode design is more favorable for designing a cooling strat-egy for fast charging.
Interesting that Tesla is the king of fast charging, despite the technology being objectively worse in a fast charging application.
9·1 month agoTrump
If you ever needed further proof that crypto is a grift…
I hope it crashes straight to zero, along with every other crypto currency, NFT, chia, and whatever other “idle your car engine to solve sudoku puzzles you can trade for drugs” bollocks is floating around.
Between this and AI we’re wasting so, so many resources and killing the planet for nothing.
341·1 month agoI prefer the separation.
Its interesting to read 3 or 4 topics on the same thing (sometimes it’s even the same person posting to multiple instances) but getting wildly different “public opinion” depending on where it was posted and who ended up as the top comment (which tends to influence the rest of the comments).
1·1 month agoWho cares? If your upvote or downvote or any other activity you deliberately perform on a public platform is something you’re embarrassed about and wouldn’t be willing to do in a face to face engagement you probably shouldn’t be doing it.
> “Here’s how”
> goes on to not explain how
Our EV doesn’t have a spare, which I wasn’t concerned about as I’ve had maybe two flats in my driving history and one of those I just pumped up and drove to the tyre shop for a repair.
What did catch me out recently was not having a jack. It makes sense though - car has no spare, so why include a jack?
We got a screw in the tyre a few weeks back and it was leaking too bad to pump up for even a short drive. I figured I’d jack up the car, take off the rim, and take it in the wife’s car to the tyre joint.
Things to note:
- No jack, as mentioned. Went to the local auto store and bought a pretty mid range scissor jack that looked like every other car jack I’ve ever used.
- EVs are really bloody heavy. A standard 1600KG scissor jack could barely move the thing. Went back and bought a much heavier duty trolley jack.
- A 3200KG trolley jack makes lifting the car easy, but the jack itself is huge and leaves no space on the lifting points to put jack stands.
- An EV is really stiff - lifting the rear passenger side resulted in every wheel except the front drivers side coming off the ground.
Didn’t want to leave it perched on a jack and a single wheel, so took the tyre off and ended up replacing the screw in the hole that was leaking with a bigger screw… Then pumping it up and driving it to the tyre joint.
Moral of the story - might be easier to just carry a small selection of different sized screws and a screw driver.
It’s too small for a rim and tyre.
1Password is the only one I found that I can share with the family, syncs changes practically instantly, and actually detects login fields on every platform I use it on (Android, Windows, Linux).
9·2 months agoNo wonder they don’t sell it anywhere else - wouldn’t meet local safety requirements.
I liked a recent BYD Shark teardown video by some American mob… Their biggest complaint was that it was “overbuilt” lol
Fire up them tariffs lads, protectionism is the only thing ensuring sales.
I mean it’s not really… Once bitten, twice shy. After 20 years of being bitten I’m pretty much amaxophobic towards the brand.
They’ve sucked for the last 20 years, why would the next 20 be any different?
American cars are so bad. We did ~3000k of driving last year in the US and noticed that most of the cars on the road were new. Didn’t take long to realise why - between terrible driving standards causing them to crash regularly, terrible build quality causing the interior to fall apart, and needing to drive EVERYWHERE so you flog the thing out in about 12 months vehicles are practically disposable.
There were late model cars still rocking the flashing brake light as an indicator wtf lol
26·2 months agoI’m so glad I work in an industry where I can get away with using Libre Office.
There’s always someone who posts like they’re a homeless person in a park telling you that god is a sock.
Wherever I see this rambling I just move on to another topic. You know you’ve reached the bottom of the barrel when it appears. This, or those images macros of Ralph picking his nose saying “other team stupid” or whatever.