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So, I just got done watching this video: Here are some of the highlights from the video that got me super excited!!!(but please go watch the video first) Up to 400 miles of range 10 minutes of charging = 100 miles of range 664 whp 700 lb-feet torque. <4.5 second 0-60 The Mid-Gate???? It comes all the way out The charger allows charging other EV's Here's the biggest one IMO: 6. Ultifi! Linux based OTA upgrades, user upgradeable, personalization, third party apps, and more!? What have I missed? What peeks yalls' interest? How will Ultifi impact the future of EV's? P.S. If Linus Media Group has talked about this please link me the videos!
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Summary Usual chad Li-Po/Li-ion has to face the new upcoming lad with a wrath to tackle the energy needs of the future by simply becoming cheaper and operating on new architecture which uses aluminum and sulfur as its two electrode materials but is it ready yet or just mocking with the heat? Composed of earth-abundant elements that can be ethically sourced and operated at moderately elevated temperatures just above the boiling point of water, this chemistry has all the requisites of a low-cost, rechargeable, fire-resistant, recyclable battery. (no images here as I don't have Nature subscription, go buy and read the metrics yourself) Quotes My thoughts New battery technologies which are scalable, cheap and can use the existing grid with best possible efficiency will be major game changer for the EV and renewable market. Sources 1. MIT https://news.mit.edu/2022/aluminum-sulfur-battery-0824 2. the paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04983-9
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Hi all, I've been doing some research and there's one thing I haven't been able to find anywhere. In EPA range estimates, is regenerative braking used? Like does the range estimate go for the amount of energy held in a fully charged battery, or does it account for energy regained through the regen process?
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According to various websites, Lightning, the company behind the superbike Linus was drooling over in 2018, the LS 218, are set to release a new motorbike : the Lightning Strike (someone in Marketing knows their job). It is said to have pretty interesting specs : Apparently, we already also have details on price : Would Yvonne approve that to satisfy Linus's midlife crisis ? Maybe for the car/bike testing series ? I feel like with that kind of a price tag, and range, this would very much be an option worth looking into for people who drive to work every morning, and a pretty compelling one given it has the advantages of an EV and of a motorbike, in addition to a decent price tag. https://electrek.co/2019/01/17/lightning-electric-motorcycle-strike/amp/ https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/lightning-electric-motorcycle-strike/
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My previous daily driver is still probably my favorite car. A 1994 Infiniti Q45 I affectionately named "Precious". Precious is powered by an all aluminum, dual overhead cam 4.5L V8 engine rated for 278hp and 292ft.lbs of torque. Precious is very picky about the fuel she will burn, so I had to run Chevron 94 octane which has no ethanol. I would have much preferred to buy my fuel from the Co-op, but their fuel has ethanol. My commute is 125km, round trip. So with errands and the other little stops of life, that puts me well into 3000km a month. Precious, on a good day would net around 13.5L/100km, couple that with premium fuel and I was looking at a fuel bill of around $600/month. Being an Infiniti, parts for upkeep are not cheap, I only use premium consumables and OEM parts, so my total monthly operating cost before insurance was around $800/month. One day I went into my local Nissan dealership, Abbotsford Nissan, to get oil filters for Precious and our Maxima as both use the same filter, 15208-55Y0A. I had been following the Nissan Leaf with some curiosity and decided to have a closer look at one while I was there. After sitting in the car, getting a bit of a demo, I went home. I started running the numbers, using rough estimates based off internet experiences with the Leaf and figured the monthly operating cost for the Leaf would be somewhere under $600 a month. The issue was range, especially as the car would age and battery degradation would become a problem. So I asked my employer if they would let me put in a charging station(EVSE- Electric Vehicle Service Equipment), which is really just a massively overpriced extension cord as the charger is in the car itself. When my employer said yes, I went and bought the car. I didn't test drive it, so I was rather nervous the first time I drove my 2015 Leaf SV. The first couple weeks with the car I was watching energy consumption closely, figuring out how far I could push the range if I needed to. In the third week I realized that with having charging on both ends of my commute there was no need to hold up traffic so I started to drive it like a normal car. For the most part, driving the Leaf resembles driving an automatic. There are three mode selections, R, D and B. R is reverse, pretty self explanatory. D is drive, also pretty self explanatory. B is battery mode, which enables full regenerative braking when the throttle is released and without the brake pedal being depressed. This makes it possible to drive with just the throttle for the majority of my commute save for the places where I need to come to a complete stop or traffic conditions dictate I need more braking force. In R, D or B, from a dead stop, releasing the brakes will cause the car to creep in the selected direction behaving very much like an automatic transmission would. Passing is where things get a little bit different, though not by much. The first time I decided to pass someone I followed the same procedure I would with precious. First I verify it's safe to pass, then I commit to the maneuver, depress the throttle completely and shoulder check for safety. With precious, the transmission needs time to downshift, the engine needs time to build RPM and by the time I'm done shoulder checking I'm starting to accelerate. The Leaf responds immediately to throttle input, so when I fully depressed the throttle and started to shoulder check, the Leaf jumped forward. It actually scared me a bit because I had to abandon my passing maneuver and get on the brakes so I wouldn't rear end the person in front of me. The Leaf doesn't need much, if any run-up for passing, which actually agitates traffic a bit because they think I'm tailgating when in reality I'm ready to pass. I've since gone back to using a bit of a run up to try and prevent people from accelerating during the passing maneuver to stop me from getting back in the lane In terms of driver fatigue, the Leaf has the least driver fatigue of any vehicle I've driven. Even though precious is a luxury sedan, the Leaf is quieter, smoother and doesn't need the attention precious does. The seats are quite comfortable, the interior design is decent although it does show that the Leaf is without question a previous generation of interior design. From a technology standpoint, mine is the SV model, so it has navigation, bluetooth hands-free, heated steering wheel, heated seats and a few other of the goodies we've become accustomed to. My iPhone 5s paired to the car without issue other than the hands free text messaging doesn't work. I can use siri through bluetooth for that, so not a big loss. The navigation system is passable but the voice recognition is terrible. During one drive where I knew mostly where I was going, but needed some direction to the exact location, it took 20 minutes of a 25 minute drive to get the navigation to understand the street number. Terrible. Exterior design, well, I bought it as an appliance. My sales person, the sales manager and the finance manager were all trying to convince me that it is a good looking car. It isn't. It's ugly, to a degree that puts it in a class of its own. After owning it for a year the design has grown on me, but it's still ugly. I understand the engineering reasons behind having the headlights protrude out of the body like like two angry zits, but it's still ugly! The operating costs ended up coming in better than I expected even with me driving the car hard and being well below the normal energy average for most EV drivers. Most EV drivers are in the 6.2km/kWh area, I never manage more than 5.2km/kWh. Since owning the Leaf, it has given me the ability to visualize a kWh like I have never been able to before. My employer won't let me pay for the electricity I use at work, so I only have to pay for one half of my commute, which works out to $30-40/month in electricity. It's worth noting though, that here in BC I never pay more than $0.12/kWh. In some areas, high electricity rates and the lower price of fuel now will have a major effect on the economics of owning electric. A quick and interesting comparison: My wifes maxima gets about 9.5L/100, converting the energy of gasoline to kWh, that works out to around 85kWh/100km. The Leaf works out to around 19kWh/100km, with charging losses. Proving that electricity is far more efficient for producing rotational force. I was in a collision, two actually, both not my fault. This is where the Leaf starts to become an issue. The Leaf is one of the worst depreciating vehicles on the market, this means that having a claim on the car has eliminated its miniscule resale value. I have to eat that loss in value, meaning I can't trade it in against the next generation Leaf when it is released. The insurance company(family insurance, my collision coverage) doesn't care about accelerated depreciation and while I could try to sue ICBC for the accelerated depreciation, it would cost me more than I would get back. I also was refused the loss of use coverage I paid for because my dog comes to work with me. Rental companies don't want dogs in their cars, something I understand as I have allergies. I suggested that they pay for permits on one of my other vehicles that my dog is allowed to ride in, I was denied. I was told that bringing my dog to work is a choice, when it's not a choice. They also refused to cover my fuel costs, as my entire budget is based around the EV. So I went a month without work because I couldn't get wheels. When my Leaf was finished, the right side bearing was shot so I was bringing the car back to the body shop to show them it needed to be replaced, someone turned left across a painted island, right in front of me, collision number two. Now with $20,000ish of damage, it has no resale value, Nissan won't even look at it for a trade in. However I must commend my bodyshop, Fix Auto Abbotsford West, who went out of their way to get me into a car. They have one company Leaf that was a managers car at another location. They took the Leaf away from him, waived the no-pet requirement and provided me with a car to get to and from work. I've put 3500km on their Leaf so far. So the end to that last little story is this, if you're going to buy an electric car in BC, avoid family insurance at all cost. They will not write the car off unless the damage exceeds 100% of the retail value of the car, even in the first year. ICBC will write it off at 50% of the retail value in the first year. When I re insured the car, I went all ICBC, with lower deductibles and my payments went down by $10/month. The other issue is that Family Insurance has very poor customer service, they're difficult to get in contact with as a customer. I've had to eat around $3000 in lost wages so that was the first and last time I'll ever use third party insurance. So in 35,000km of Leaf experience, I've come to love the Leaf and I wouldn't entertain the idea of owning anything else for my daily commute. If I need to go anywhere further away than the Leaf can take me, it gives me an excuse to drive precious.
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Cyber Monday Pricing http://www.zboardshop.com/pages/linus-deals Our friends over at ZBoard are offering you guys some pretty awesome Cyber Monday week deals on all three of their models: Save $300 on the San Francisco Special (the model in our review) Save $200 on the Pro Save $100 on the Classic And if you do choose to purchase one of these three boards, make sure yours is kitted out to be as efficient and visible as possible with savings on their urethane wheel and LED upgrades (details in the link above). Get a chance to win all three models of ZBoard Outfit yourself and two friends with a stylish and efficient method of transportation, or keep all three for yourself and choose which one to ride each day! Enter for your chance to win at http://www.zboardshop.com/collections/win. Enter once per day and share on social media to gain more entries! Sales expire and entries for the giveaway close on Friday, December 5. Questions about ZBoard If you have any burning questions about ZBoard, feel free to ask them here! Ben, one of the founders of ZBoard, will be checking this thread periodically, and though I cannot guarantee that he will answer all of your questions, he will definitely answer those that he can!
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Link to article: http://www.dailytech.com/Teslas+Model+S+Gets+Highest+Safety+Rating+from+NHTSA+Breaks+Roof+Testing+Machine/article33209.htm This further proves that Tesla and Elon Musk are doing amazing things and the future is bright for electric cars.
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NCIX: N/A Amazon: http://geni.us/17QA Buy direct with $100 savings code LINUS: http://bit.ly/linuszboard Our review of the ZBoard San Francisco Special Electric Skateboard is here! Is it a toy, or is it a feasible mode of transportation? Watch the video to find out!
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