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| George K | Jul 30 2010, 10:34 AM Post #51 |
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Finally
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Everybody Dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvwTMZNWGuk "'V' for vehicularity!" "Easy as your ABC's just plug it in and see!" w00t! |
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| KlavierBauer | Jul 30 2010, 10:42 AM Post #52 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I hope this is supposed to be funny - because it is absolutely golden. |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 30 2010, 07:37 PM Post #53 |
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Cheers
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I don't agree with that, the whole point is to communicate to the buyer something about relative fuel consumption, ignoring the EV component makes no sense. Having said that, it's pretty clear mpg is not a very useful metric for EVs. |
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| KlavierBauer | Jul 30 2010, 07:57 PM Post #54 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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No, seems like Volts per Mile or Watts/Hour or some measurement of the capacity of the battery would be more useful. For now, miles/charge (i.e. range) might be the best we get. It's still not fair to use the measurement of miles per "gallon" if we're including in that figure a component not using any gasoline - it makes the gas component look awesome when it isn't. |
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 30 2010, 08:02 PM Post #55 |
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Cheers
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Volts per mile is absurd, indeed meaningless. kWH per mile (or per hundred miles) is probably the best way to relate the electric consumption to the average consumer. |
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| Axtremus | Jul 30 2010, 08:12 PM Post #56 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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A "gallon" is something the average consumer can "see" and "feel" -- just give him a gallon milk jug. A "kWH" is a lot more abstract to most consumers. Lots of folks cannot grasp how much power a 60W light bulb consumes (and the energy saving light bulbs' labelings will just add more confusion), let alone the "kWH" concept. The food industry has been trying to communicate with consumers using "calories," and still not many understand what that means. There's got to be a better way to convey this to the masses. May be in terms of "the energy equivalent to how many times you lift a gallon of water off the ground by 1 ft."
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| jon-nyc | Jul 30 2010, 08:19 PM Post #57 |
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Cheers
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That's true, but kWh is the unit on their electric bill. |
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| Axtremus | Jul 30 2010, 08:25 PM Post #58 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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True, just doubting whether most folks understand their electricity bills any better than they understand their food labels. |
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| Klaus | Jul 30 2010, 11:35 PM Post #59 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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At least a small victory for the metric system in the US
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| Jeff | Jul 31 2010, 12:09 AM Post #60 |
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Senior Carp
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How does this work? 2500 plus (4200 times 3) = $15,100 41 minus 15 = 26 How is a used electric car after 3 years more rapid technological development ever gonna be worth 26k on the aftermarket? Who is eating the predictable massive loss on these "move'em out the door" leases? Edited by Jeff, Jul 31 2010, 12:09 AM.
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| JBryan | Jul 31 2010, 06:09 AM Post #61 |
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I am the grey one
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The Watt has always been used in this country as the unit of electrical power. I guess Horse Power just didn't make a whole lot of sense in that application. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 31 2010, 06:23 AM Post #62 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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We are doomed as a species. |
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| Klaus | Jul 31 2010, 07:28 AM Post #63 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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But a Watt is defined as the rate at which work is done when an object's velocity is held constant at one meter ( )per second against constant opposing force of one newton. Americans should measure energy in Flux instead, whereby 1 Flux = 1.21 Jiggawatts. That would be a unit of energy worthy of a world superpower! |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Luke's Dad | Jul 31 2010, 12:52 PM Post #64 |
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Emperor Pengin
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1.21 Jigawatts? Holy cow, the Swedes would have to burn 17,697,940,000 rabbits to produce 1 Flux! |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 31 2010, 03:00 PM Post #65 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Or Hugh Heffner spanking one jiggling American Playboy Bunny. |
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