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aussievintage

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  1. Try 5000km to 8000km each year - and that's just the group I know. From my reading (and I know a lot of info is sketchy at this point) - It is expected to cost 10 to $15k more, and it's a small petrol ecoboost engine. It apparently cannot tow 3500 tonne in EV mode and that motor in other markets has less torque (reports of more torque seem to be with reference to EV mode). There's a good reason people buy diesel motors for towing. It's GVM is unknown but will be less usable than current due to battery weight. I will await judgement until it is released, but this all does not sound good. and dammit, I want a real EV when I make the change, not 45km of range in a PHEV.
  2. But you couldn't tell Bowen. Well, we can tell him next election I suppose. Quite sad, as I think, in the end he is having a negative effect on progress towards less pollution. The backlash from this, will only slow true progress.
  3. Those prices NEVER reflected costs. They were always set quite artificially.
  4. Rangers contribute to the economy in many ways. It's Easter, and all the Rangers are taking off on 1000+ km journeys to spread their wealth all across this great brown land.
  5. Meanwhile, Chris Bowen waters down his fuel efficiency standards. I think (my interpretation) it means Rangers and Hilux become light commercial and must comply with less strict standards. I expect this will annoy some people and cheer others https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/fuel-efficiency-standards-watered-down/103637736
  6. No, there is a market need driving it. I believe it happened because manufacturers stopped making ute versions of cars like the holden and falcon - especially the tray back 1 tonne ute. People were left with no alternative but the Hilux and Ranger style of vehicle.
  7. I never thought I'd run into someone else with one of those turntables. Here's a pic of mine. I am now running a VM95ML in that SME3009 arm. A fantastic turntable, simple and works.
  8. Well the US is watering down everything anyway and when asked if he would do the same, Bowen left the door wide open to doing so. The blowback is certainly hurting him politically, so I expect him to significantly water down his plans as well.
  9. I had been trying to tell you that. It's the only thing that makes sense of a velocity based specification.
  10. Good point. I expended both mine. You can also increase the "width" of the channel and the power.
  11. I may be misunderstanding you here, but shouldn't you divide the peak value by 1.414 to get RMS.
  12. The bandwidth required is less than what you have on 50 mbps, so I would not expect it. Yes, I added a "wifi extender" in my new place as all the kitchen metalwork, fridge stove, microwave (worse when it was running) made my living room measure as being about 10x further away from the wifi source than it actually is.
  13. A clip on youtube I watched (from skynews probably) seemed to be hinting that the new car emissions standards might split utes and large SUVs off into a "light commercial" category, hence not-so-strict standards? It will make the stats interesting too, as that will make EV market share of the regular car market jump considerably.
  14. Just an aside, but Ford Rangers get automatic updates, and have for a few years now at least. They connect to your Wifi when parked in the garage and in the morning, your car has been updated.
  15. LOL, there's maybe only one on that list that I see as a pity, the rest, who cares? The only problem is how it relates to the promised increase in choice for us.
  16. I wouldn't expect that it would degrade either, just putting a reality check out there. People claim many things about networks and audio, so it's even conceivable that they might hear the fttp system as better, or alternatively, worse,, depending on the hardware it has to go through- but I doubt it will actually be any different. All I can say is everything here sounds the same (and looks the same for the streaming video).
  17. which leads one to wonder who is represented by the FCAI then
  18. My goodness, the problems the new vehicle emissions standard is causing within the FCAI (and the industry in general). First Tesla, then Polestar, now Volkswagen finding reason to disagree with the FCAI. What turbulence Bowen has caused. Hard to predict where this will end up.
  19. Yes, not enough ports, another problem. In my street, they were running out of usable pairs of copper. I once lost the internet because the stupid techs took my working pair to fix another customer.
  20. So how do you interpret a velocity (5cm/s) as a sinewave and so calculate an RMS value? As I see it, the velocity of the stylus, as it tracks a sinewave, reaches a peak at the crossover, and that's the only way I see to relate a velocity to an output voltage, as movement of a coil, or magnet relative to each other a la Faraday - and that would be a peak in the signal output. Some are only true RMS for mains frequency signals. i.e. 50/60Hz 700/1.4 = 500mV and then a not accurate RMS reading of the meter and other spurious experimental errors
  21. I can only imagine you are suffering from the crap copper that Telstra sold the government. I had a friend in an outer suburb of Brisbane who could not get ADSL back in the day due to the poor copper. People in the next streets had it, but not him. There seems to be no incentive to fix these little black spots when they occur.
  22. Thanks for posting that link. I am worried about this "One segment of the EV models that is – perhaps surprisingly – is yet to see a strong uptick this year are the lower cost EVs. While buyers of more expensive cars have decided that electric is the way to go, that is yet to be demonstrated at scale for the sub $40,000 end of the market." I posted a link to a story about a very small Mitsubishi recently. This is what we really need to concentrate on, not luxury EVs. and this is very telling too "As Costello notes, that compares to the large SUV sub-section of the market, where just 3.5 per cent of the 12,301 units sold was an EV. Or in the massive ute market, where Costello notes there was just one EV sold out of 23,765 monthly units." This and larger transport in general is where the big gains in reduction of pollution would be, but there seems little hope at this point.
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