OT: Electric car batteries

[clare]

My car doesn't take any more space to sit for a year than it does for so minutes, or 30 seconds. My british cars didn't either - - -

[Ed Pawlowski]

Most British cars sat at the dealership waiting for repairs.

Sir Lucas, you left your lights on. Oh, they just went out. Really dark.

[clare]

Ducellier and Paris Rhone are every bit as bad, and more difficult to fix.

[rbowman]

See how fast the 'octane' meter spins when you select 260... I think it went backwards if you cheaped out with 190.

[rbowman]

You can buy a Martin pump and stick it in your living room. Probably would improve the decor immensely.

[rbowman]

A round trip from here to the next largest city in the state would be about 700 miles. I don't like those big cities though -- that one has over 100,000 people.

[rbowman]

I once had an Austin Healey sprite. That didn't take much space to sit at all...

[James Wilkinson]

You can't be that stupid, you're Canadian not American. Have another think about it, then ask if you need a detailed explanation, but be warned I might giggle.

[James Wilkinson]

So in your case battery swapping is even more ideal.

[clare]

I almost bought one, but there wasn't enough room IN it for me to sit (as a 110 lb 6'2" 16 year old)

[James Wilkinson]

Why is it called ethyl? Hasn't always been propane? Ethyl sounds more like something you'd drink.

[clare]

Mabee it's just your Limey English - but it takes the same space to park "A" car for 30 minutes as it does for 30 seconds - it's when they all start piling up waiting for that same spot because it is occupied for a longer time that the problems start - particularly when one of those cars is an english car that won't start. Can you imagine an electric car with Lucas electrical parts????

All goes back to the old question of why Britts drink their beer warm

- Lucas refrigerstors. Or the correction to that falacy - Britts drink their beer at room temperature - and anyone who's spent any time in the Isles knows THAT is not warm!!. Why? Lucas central heat???

You'd think with their reputation, vacuum cleaners would be a perfect product for Lucas to build - but allas, that would be the only product they built that DIDN'T suck - - -

[clare]

He's have to drive up to a prairie dog hole to swap batteries, and they'd have to bring recharged ones in by pony express because the nearest power line is 150 miles away.

[sms]

It's been tried, but I think that Tesla decided that the SuperCharger approach was a better approach. The cost to install the machinery to swap a 1200 lb battery would be high.

Most people with a Tesla also have a gasoline powered car for long trips, or they can rent a car on those occasions, or they can just wait the 30-45 minutes for a charge at a SuperCharger.

[clare]

Ethyl - for Tetra-ethyl lead - used to make high octane (aka Ethyl) gas.

[James Wilkinson]

3rd world country.

[James Wilkinson]

But it occupies it for a sixtieth of the time. So the gas station needs 60 times more space. [giggle]

We don't make cars anymore.

And the old question of how an American car can use three times the gas in an engine three times the size and have the same power output, and still not go round corners.

Or the correction to that falacy - Britts drink

Beer has a horrid flavour anyway and f*ck all alcohol in it. I prefer vodka mixes.

If the world didn't suck we'd all fall off.

[rbowman]

Yeah. I can buy a shiny new Ford Focus electric model that gets 80 odd miles per charge and strains to make 84 mph. If I wanted to take 6 days to get to Billings I'd ride a bicycle.

[clare]

Get used to it. Btittain just voted itself that future.

[rbowman]

Right. As Britain exits the world stage.