Also a big boy's toy. And I am a trendsetter.
You can sneak up on pedestrians too.
Also a big boy's toy. And I am a trendsetter.
You can sneak up on pedestrians too.
Time for a mis-quote from Mandy Rice Davies I think.
Colin Bignell
Ok Innocent question here - if it can do 93 miles at 81MPH that is a flat battery in a whisker over an hour - why does it take 7 hours to re-charge?
I suspect you will find it is 93 miles or 81mph, not both at the same time.
Colin Bignell
No, no, no.
It can do 93 miles _or_ 81mph. Not both.
That attitude to driving goes a long way to explaining why you might be satisfied with a car with no performance, no range, no speed and no style.
Colin Bignell
Meanwhile, in other non-news...
the actual rated charge times for almost any LIPO are 20-40 minutes, depending on how good and smart the charger is, as getting the last 10% can take a long time.
If his is taking 7 hours, its a cheap crap charger.
If it was satisfacory, they would have left it on and further, all steam locomotives would have been fitted with condensers. They could only be made to work properly in very cold climates. The Russians had some.
There are almost unsurmountable problems associated with pumpimg very hot water into steam boilers. Especially steam locomotive boilers (or cars for that matter). Clearly you don't know this.
Clue. Why do you suppose so much heat has to be dumped at thermal power stations?
I have had very fast cars. After a while they become boring. Maybe juveliles or the thick might get permanent pleasure from such things. I am told it is the effect of the G forces on parts of the brain. Similar to fairground rides.
The acceraration of electric cars is excellent BTW. Why do you persist in spouting uneducated drivel? Go and drive one first. I bet you haven't even seen one.
You are correct. The main loss is drag which varies as the square of speed. So twice as fast = four times the power needed.
It only takes seven hours from a domestic (13a in the UK) socket. Battery capacity is 16Kwh
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Once again TurNiP you are full of shit. Why do you spout on about thing you have no knowledge about and are easily found out? It can only be an ego problem.
There is an onboard rectifier/voltage doubler which charges the battery both from the mains (up to 36 amps) and from the traction motor/generator. (ie when you are going downhill). So the charge current is limited by the size of this which is itself linked to the size of the traction motor. The time limitation also depends on the size of your available power. So
7-8 hrs from a 13a socket. You are provided with a bit of wire with a conrol box for domestic charging.There is a four hour option from a 32a AC socket.
Fast (DC) chargers have a roadside rectifier and are about 60Kw in size. Charges my car to 80% in 20min. I think the Leaf needs 30 mins. There is a different charge socket for this. There are about six pins for various control link as well as the two big ones.
Condensers on steam engines are only really needed where either fresh water supplies are restricted, such as on board ship or in situations where exhaust emmissions need to be reduced, such as where a train goes through long tunnels.
Solved by the 1820s. Either by the use of a manual pump or a small steam powered one. Even Stephenson's Rocket had hot water capable feed pumps for the boiler. It's only the much later methods which involve no moving parts other than a valve or two that require cold feed water.
A red herring. Heat has to be dumped at thermal power stations due to the intrinsically inefficient nature of the processes used. Boiler water at power stations is re-used to save treatment costs, and also, the process of condensing the output steam from the turbines effectively increases the input pressure of the low pressure turbines by almost one bar by causing a vacuum at the steam output of the turbine, thus increasing the efficiency of the system.
Wrong way around. They add complications and increase maintenance cost, so are only fitted when they are required. In all the cases you claim they were removed because they were unsatisfactory, the locomotives had ceased the duties that needed condensers fitted and they were removed to make the locomotives simpler to maintain.
Simpler and cheaper in most cases just to keep topping up where there are plentiful water supplies.
The South African locomotives worked very efficiently in a desert.
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No there aren't. You just use hot water pumps instead of injectors. Of course, that adds to the complexity of the system.
Colin Bignell
Define very fast. It is a relative concept and we may have quite different ideas what it means. For example, the Mercedes S300 gull-wing was, in its day, a very fast car, but my diesel estate car has better acceleration and a higher top speed.
You obviously don't understand the purpose of driving a high performance car. I quite frequently cruise the autobahn at 160kph (100mph) and I am far from the fastest car on the road. A car that is capable of 250 kph is working well within is design capacity at that speed, so is safer and more comfortable to drive.
Define excellent. Again, it is a relative concept. I had to think hard and hire a car with similar performance before accepting a change from a
0-62mph of 6.3 seconds to one of 7.8 seconds when I bought my current car. Acceleration is essential to minimise the time spent in dangerous situations, such as crossing traffic when turning right or entering a fast road from a side road and I would not want anything less than I have now.That is your speciality Harry
Why? There is nothing that an electric car can offer me that I want in a car. My needs are for something that can convey me in considerable comfort for long distances at foreign motorway speeds, has huge carrying capacity (2000 litres in my estate car) and can, if required, tow a
1400kg goods trailer.
Not knowingly. Certainly nobody uses the parking spaces reserved for them anywhere that I have seen.
Colin Bignell
becuase it s a subject i know considerably more about than you actually.
ad hominem straw man.
exactly. crap charger, like I said.
exactly. crap charger.
excatly., crap charger.
exactly. less crap charger.
which is what I said.
i am not interested in how many pins there are.
In the end the applicabilty of fitting condensers to steam locomotives boils down not to whether they work or not, but to wether the extra cost and weight of fitting them reduces the amount of fuel and water needed by a similar weigthand cost, or more.
Like renewable energy, the answer was that they dd'int overall save fuel or money. So they were scrapped, like renewable energy will be.,
So you are a fast car?
The step off from rest can be impressive. Due to the torque characteristics of an electric motor. After that brief moment it depends on the power to weight ratio - same as any vehicle. Which means the acceleration on the open road for overtaking etc is generally poor - especially given the high price.
Have you ever driven a decent petrol or diesel car?
You have one of these at home? If not, do you use one elsewhere?
True, but many stars don't get that far, so TNP is probably right (just of no direct relevance since stars that don't explode don't get scattered across the galaxy to contribute to new planetary disks elsewhere):
Iron only gets produced in the last day or so before a supernova:
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