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Repair Industry Failing to Attract New Talent
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Anti-viral cars
EVs are the perfect anti-viral cars.
You exit your house and get in the car, drive around anywhere you need to go--such as grocery store or take out food and return. You plug it in for 10 or 20 minutes and you are already back to full charge and ready for the next day. No contaminated gas pumps to mess with and no maintenance needed for the next 12-18 months while waiting for a vaccine to come out.
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Anybody Bought a Car Lately?
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Toyota BEVs
Source: Toyota/Lexus Introduce Three New BEVs In China
New all-electric models will be equipped with a 54.3 kWh battery.
According to the latest news, this month Toyota and Lexus will introduce three all-electric cars in China:
Lexus UX 300e
Toyota C-HR BEV
Toyota IZOA BEV
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Both models are simply electric versions of the C-HR/IZOA compact crossover/SUV, built on the TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) platform. Equipped with a 54.3 kWh battery, each should be good for about 400 km (250 miles) of NEDC range, but in the real world, we do not expect more than 300 km (186 miles).
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The Tesla, 2020 Standard Range Plus Model 3 has an EPA range of 250 miles (286 mi NEDC) on a 50 kWh (55 kWh total) battery. I've driven 206 miles from Huntsville to Memphis regularly with a 30 mile reserve in our 2019 Std Rng Plus Model 3, 240 mile EPA range.
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A seller has a tanker full of crude
and if you sign a contract to accept delivery next month, the seller will have to pay you $10 a barrel. Yes, that is what it has come to, the seller pays the buyer!
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What Drives Us Podcast - #362 You Bought It But It’s Not Really Yours.mp4
On this week’s the panel discuss, electric RVs, what does it mean when you own something but the company that made the product controls it, Ford PHEV truck rumors and more.
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In COVID-19 crisis, electric auto startups race to stay on track
COVID-19 has hit the U.S. auto industry hard, but the most precarious companies might be the handful of electric auto startups on the cusp of key vehicle launches.
Rivian, Lordstown Motors, Lucid, Bollinger Motors, Faraday Future, and Fisker are leading a historic wave of startups that, inspired by the success of Silicon Valley’s Tesla, see a new future of battery-powered sedans and trucks. But with their first products in the pipeline, the coronavirus threatens the capital flows and customer base they need to survive.
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Mileage calculator chart
I found an interesting mileage calculator the other day on the Ecomodder.com website.
Aerodynamic & rolling resistance, power & MPG calculator - EcoModder.com
You enter a number of parameters that apply to your car and it calculates a table of mileages and other parameters based on different vehicle speeds.
I have obtained the parameters for my Prius V and they are:
Total Weight 3340 for the car + me 205 = 3545
Cd = .29
Rolling resistance = (this varies with tires and driveline losses from .008 to .15) I used .011
Engine efficiency = 41%
Temperature = 68 deg
Frontal area = 23 ft cu
I calculated the frontal area from sketchandcalc.com website app.
You take a picture of your vehicle, import it into this app. You use a pen tool to draw the outline to form a closed irregular shape. I included in the picture a pizza box that was 10.5" square which was also in the frame with the car to calibrate the scaling... -
What Drives Us Podcast - #361 Tesla Octo What?
This week the group discuss how a distributed power grid in South Australia could be leading the way of the future, electric Jeeps, the place for public transit in the of a pandemic and Munro’s Model Y teardown, not in that order.
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Current news about Tesla Model Y teardown
While waiting for the 'all clear', I've been watching the Munro Associates teardown of the Tesla Model Y. He bought one and is taking it apart with commentary about the quality of build down to the frame and eventually battery pack and motors.
Source: Tesla Model Y Teardown - Munrolive
CAUTION: A lot of 'traditional' car reviewers only cover what they can see and touch. They don't take a wrench to their 'new' (or any other) car. Some have actually been citing Sandy's disassembly videos and offered their own twist when there is Sandy with the parts in hand, tools, and decades of professional experience. These 3d party reports, even those by new owners, can often be classified as "eye candy" and should be treated with some skepticism.
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What Drives Us Podcast - #356 – Three Fifty Something
1) The Union of Concerned Scientists have completed their study and concluded that ride sharing (such as Uber and Lyft) introduce almost 70% more pollutants than the rides they are replacing. Not only the rides they are replacing but taking people off mass transit. 2) A study of vehicles interacting with pedestrians at a crosswalk […]
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Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV in Europe
Link to a story about Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV in Europe.
Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV Surpasses 50,000 Units Sold in UK
My daughter, who lives in Florida, had an Outlander and although it was kind of dated mechanically, it was a decent car. The biggest problem was that she bought a red one and the sun really does a number on red vehicles in Florida.
I guess the market for this type vehicle is better in Europe because of regulations.
They sell them here and a dealer near me has 3. They are asking $36k for them. FuelEconomy.gov lists them at 75 mpge for the first 22 miles and then 25 mpg after so not so great after the battery is depleted but it might not be bad for a grocery getter. They might be the least advertised PHEV in the country. -
What Drives Us Podcast - #357 Inches And Balls With Special Guest, John Voelcker
Special guest, eminent mobility journalist. John Voelcker, joins the panel for a discussion on the GM’s EV announcement. They spend the hour digging into the details and what they think will happen.
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What Drives Us Podcast - #358 Self Quarantine
1) EV sales reach 8% market share in Switzerland 2) A look back at the Tesla Power Pack system in South Australia 3) A new electric motorcycle in the UK 4) The affects throughout the EV world from the coronavirus
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