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EV - buy or wait?

Dan1: The original batteries were suited for ICE where the discharge is brutal at 400Amps during cranking and then starts getting replenished minutes later as the alternator starts spinning. Exactly, it is just like the difference between the cranking battery and the deep cycle batteries on a boat.

EV - buy or wait?

It’s not that it should be a decent battery ..it is that it should be an appropriate battery .. long duration rather than heavy peak current

EV - buy or wait?

Dan1: How old was the battery .. ?. .and how long was the EV between used when it happened 2 years and I last used it yesterday, so not great. It’s a known issue and the answer seems to be just buy a decent battery.

The whole of BYTE magazine in one image

A total GEM … .I was a subscriber a few years in another lifetime .. .Now if only someone would do the same for Wireless World . I may not be as ancient or even as learned as Mr Rabbit ..but I am equally nerdish

EV - buy or wait?

As did I .. nursing a diesel 3008 from Lorient to Roscoff seeking to get the ferry was not my idea of fun … Somewhere north of Plouy , one of the Fuel .injectors failed and in a DCi engine that was serious lack of compression … The car had a limp home mode … 15 km/HR uphill, 45 km/HR level and maybe 80 downhill … Those familiar with the route might recall a TV transmitter Roc h Tredóun .. exceeding the engine revs for limping caused a stall.

A little mid-week humour to lighten the mood

Ancient_Mariner: That’s almost a Spinal Tap/Nigel Tufnel joke That’s definitely one of the most amateurish AI mash-ups that I’ve seen - the text is unbelievably dire and the bottle cap doesn’t align.

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