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Janso you are so close to what will happen.When working for Audi I went over to Munich for a new car launch and we were shown presentations on future systems one was product on demand so you could get a subscription for say 6 months for say heated seats and steering wheel.Other things will be car to x in where your car talks to other cars or street lights and traffic lights, so as you get closer to the lights they have changed so you don’t need to slow down.Other things like knowing where free car parking spaces are so as a car passes a spot it reports it to cars behind so if one of them is looking for a space it can direct the nav to that spot
I remember in the 1960s when all of the motoring magazines used to advertise the extras to improve your car. Rear window demisters, wing mirrors, reversing lamps, spot and fog lamps, radios, Rev counters, ammeters, oil pressure and water gauges. If you were really tarting it up there were multiple musical air horns. Top that lot off with a rally jacket and leather driving gloves. Them were the days.
Quote from: idler on November 27, 2020, 10:18:08 amI remember in the 1960s when all of the motoring magazines used to advertise the extras to improve your car. Rear window demisters, wing mirrors, reversing lamps, spot and fog lamps, radios, Rev counters, ammeters, oil pressure and water gauges. If you were really tarting it up there were multiple musical air horns. Top that lot off with a rally jacket and leather driving gloves. Them were the days.I remember those sort of polythene/plastic rectangular things to put in the rear window to allegedly stop it misting up. They didn't. The first accessory I got on my Chrysler Sunbeam was a passenger side door mirror and some go faster stripes. I know the cars were a bit rubbish really but it feels like motoring was far more enjoyable then.Did your air horns play Dixie or Colonel Bogie?
Quote from: Axholme Lion on November 27, 2020, 11:14:15 amQuote from: idler on November 27, 2020, 10:18:08 amI remember in the 1960s when all of the motoring magazines used to advertise the extras to improve your car. Rear window demisters, wing mirrors, reversing lamps, spot and fog lamps, radios, Rev counters, ammeters, oil pressure and water gauges. If you were really tarting it up there were multiple musical air horns. Top that lot off with a rally jacket and leather driving gloves. Them were the days.I remember those sort of polythene/plastic rectangular things to put in the rear window to allegedly stop it misting up. They didn't. The first accessory I got on my Chrysler Sunbeam was a passenger side door mirror and some go faster stripes. I know the cars were a bit rubbish really but it feels like motoring was far more enjoyable then.Did your air horns play Dixie or Colonel Bogie?I didn’t get the musical ones, there was La Cucaracha as well. I got twin air horns for my TR4. I also used to get the Gnomist demisters which were supposedly used on cockpit windows. They were just a film that you pressed on. They were better than the thicker ones.
A good diesel hasn't been a bad option for an economic car. The only problem is the release of pollution particles, even then a modern engine that meets EU regs isn't bad so long as you keep the ad blue topped up. I've been running a VW Golf trubo diesel, it's efficiency is rated so highly I don't need to pay tax with it. And I don't often drive in town with it anyway and I don't do a big mileage. Going all electric now, still feels like being an early adopter. I'd rather keep running the diesel for the time being.
Anyone interested in a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 going cheap?
Rob,V2G has great potential as a reversible energy store.As well as the domestic market set out in the BBC Click programme, commercial operators are looking at the opportunities the tech provides;https://insideevs.com/news/439188/london-bus-depot-world-largest-v2g-site/The Click programme is now on YT;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOdMczkkjTULast 10 minutes for the V2G domestic application.
Quote from: Colin C No.3 on November 28, 2020, 10:13:30 amAnyone interested in a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 going cheap?The real James Bond car from Goldfinger. Now that would be worth who knows what. A lot, a heck of a lot.If it’s cheap what is wrong with it. Would cost a fortune to fix. Or is it a rust bucket and if it is it’s no good to anyone.
My neighbour restored an original mk1 Ford Capri. To say it was a rust bucket is an understatement. It was barely recognisable as a car. Now after a great deal of effort and long nights with a welding torch it's like new with gleaming royal blue and white paintwork. He's had offers of silly money for it, there is a lot of nostalgia for Capris but he doesn't want to sell. Instead he's started doing up another one, at the moment though it's still little more than a rusty frame in a farmers shed. I suppose a restoration job on a Ford is much easier than an Aston though, the parts are cheaper and easier to come by. Still it's a worthwhile project for someone.
Hound.The Cameron Government slashed the subsidies for roof PV panels before the industry was well enough established to stand on its own. Because...Austerity innit.It's an industry that relies on a mass market to drive down prices. They've continued to fall in other countries.USA.https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/e5C1Iq3DUS_tTPPh9TM9gIfpifPeazV_T8r4YIffwV5WZbkbQN_ZF0D6rqOUZmv4_z7A6_V-EFHzShtNb3DJF3oCrEgXaTeTsoV_BOp36JBvKDI9_xcJ2_Lklu-tUEbhgpQI-WO4rOgc_R9rWccb9K76ZSQGz1NoTsEoJapan.https://www.renewable-ei.org/en/statistics/re/img/graph_sun02.pngBut here, there's been no reduction in cost since the subsidies were slashed.https://www.solarguide.co.uk/data/imagecache/content_images/wpimages-solarguide.co.uk/2018/08/27125009/Cost-of-a-4kW-Solar-PV-System-UK-1.png
Will it be cheaper to upgrade the grid to accept renewables in the long term where renewables are becoming almost cheaper on a daily basis rather than to develop mini nuclear plants that will still have to deal with the waste and safety problems Rob?https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200309-are-small-nuclear-power-plants-safe-and-efficient
This looks like a significant change;https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/battery-electric-car-range-charge-time-b1790601.htmlAL,Don't read it, Lad....not good for your blood pressure!