Adventures in an all electric vehicle.

[daleyd]

I am currently in the middle of my workshop after hours/days of stripping plastic off a just three year old BMW 330E hybrid - which has been refused "warranty goodwill payment" from the dealership. I am testing Flexray new type CAN starline 1/2 signals with a scope - with a view to condemming an £8k EME invertor unit. The car has not done 30.000miles... I yet to get the battery unit down and strip and find out if the contactors have burnt down in the SME (safety box). That gonna be another half a day to get into it....

No I am not gonna have an EV for myself...

Didn’t VAG have similar with their tfsi engines, failed out of warranty leaving customer with bills of thousands to replace? While it sounds bad, it’s not a new phenomenon, or exclusive to electric drives….

 

[premmington]

Didn’t VAG have similar with their tfsi engines, failed out of warranty leaving customer with bills of thousands to replace? While it sounds bad, it’s not a new phenomenon, or exclusive to electric drives….

I seen it with every manufacturer - for many reasons over the years.

But these BMW hybrids and full EV's are awfull.... (it is the chain failure of the connecting modules EME/KLE/SME units all at once).

 

[not done it yet]

Almost 13 inches deep thankfully ....

Regards
Stay dry Dave

Love it. Metric volume and Imperial dimensions.

There are a lots of patients, using ‘Pee-bottles’, in hospitals.

Ha ha .. sorted ...https://www.heavyequipmentguide.ca/article/24316/komatsu-introduces-400-ton-electric-drive-rear-dump-truck

What are you thinking of taking on the train then Ed ?.

A simple case of efficiency. They use energy from the batteries to travel up-hill and replenish quite a lot of going down-hill. Saves fossil fuels. If lucky enough to be taking the load down-hill, they could charge sufficientl to not need any fossil fuel.

Nothing new, of course. They are currently(?) dismantling the last material-carrying rope-way that needed little energy input. As the load was being carried down-hill, it needed no net energy input at all. That was long before these large electric dump trucks were thought about.

 

[DAPPH]

Doesn't advert currently showing on TV show a DHL logistics HGV lorry pulling a trailer ....... run on electric only ?

 

[daleyd]

I seen it with every manufacturer - for many reasons over the years.

But these BMW hybrids and full EV's are awfull.... (it is the chain failure of the connecting modules EME/KLE/SME units all at once).

Quite a few ev come with 8 year warranty on battery/drive system, I think in order to try and allay the fear of the unknown - sounds like bmw have fallen behind a bit in what they offer.

 

[not done it yet]

Love it. Metric volume and Imperial dimensions.

There are a lots of patients, using ‘Pee-bottles’, in hospitals.



A simple case of efficiency. They use energy from the batteries to travel up-hill and replenish quite a lot of going down-hill. Saves fossil fuels. If lucky enough to be taking the load down-hill, they could charge sufficientl to not need any fossil fuel.

Nothing new, of course. They are currently(?) dismantling the last material-carrying rope-way that needed little energy input. As the load was being carried down-hill, it needed no net energy input at all. That was long before these large electric dump trucks were thought about.

 

[premmington]

Quite a few ev come with 8 year warranty on battery/drive system, I think in order to try and allay the fear of the unknown - sounds like bmw have fallen behind a bit in what they offer.

I am not sure the failures I am seeing is all to do with design - allot of them are "salvage cars" which have been ran out of "low temp coolant" - by recovery services and body repair centres.

(Low temp coolant being for the seperate circuit for inverter units not the ICE...)

 

[not done it yet]

Possible though every post is agro. And its such a downer when some idiot points out the obvious.

Not every post. But when the usual conspiracy theorists keep posting waffle (particularly when it is obvious that they are then trying to ‘move goalposts’ (new and existing housing estates), then accuse someone else of being an idiot for pointing them out, is a lot like the kettle calling out the pot.

If people stop posting rubbish and it won’t be refuted. That is what conspiracy theories thrive on - lies and more lies. Incorrect facts with no evidence whatsoever. Trying to get their ridiculous claims out there so that others, who know no better, believe them and perpetuate the myths. Some people just hate facing reality and accepting the truth.

If anyone posts some outrageous claim, it should be to uncovered for what it is.

 

[not done it yet]

I spotted these in a pavement the other day, "what on earth is that thing", I wondered.

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A few yard down the road I found out:

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It's a car charging socket, buried in the pavement, so people without off-road parking can charge their cars without running a trip hazard across the path! And it's not just for new builds.


It's made by Trojan energy if you want to Google it, I don't know anything about it but it looks like a good solution to the no-off-road parking/trip hazard argument.

Few will trip over them - more likely it will be the drunks crashing into them, when staggering home after a skinful.

Certainly blows the “70% of terraced houses” conspiracy.

 

[Shox Dr]

Not every post. But when the usual conspiracy theorists keep posting waffle (particularly when it is obvious that they are then trying to ‘move goalposts’ (new and existing housing estates), then accuse someone else of being an idiot for pointing them out, is a lot like the kettle calling out the pot.

If people stop posting rubbish and it won’t be refuted. That is what conspiracy theories thrive on - lies and more lies. Incorrect facts with no evidence whatsoever. Trying to get their ridiculous claims out there so that others, who know no better, believe them and perpetuate the myths. Some people just hate facing reality and accepting the truth.

If anyone posts some outrageous claim, it should be to uncovered for what it is.

I was referring to myself as the "idiot" But don't let me get in the way.

Labelling anybody you don't agree with as a Conspiracy Theorist. Doesn't validate your argument or any statements you care to quote.

You just come across as blinkered in to believing the latest hype.

Nothing against EV just the BS.

 

[daleyd]

There are issues with no current solution, but which may have be resolved in the future, issues which may never have a solution and issues which don’t actually exist but are perceived to be a problem.

The hard part is working your way through which is which.

 

[bricol]

In a non pointless form, sorry non pickup form?

Only pickup I've seen (and in fact owned) that seems sensible is the Sandringham 6x6 because you can actually fit a builders bag of sand in the back without being overweight. You can also fit 8x4 sheets flat in the bed without having to have them stick out.

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[bricol]

Please don't involve the Sinclair in anything but the Jokes thread. Even Sir Clive refused to drive one at the press launch so I've been told.

From what I remember of the many pages in The Engineer at the time, he was certainly riding one around. He was going to go on to build a whole range of electric cars, etc . . .

Just a bit before his time.

 

[bricol]

Just purchased a 1.5 litre four inch wide necked sports drinking bottle from Tesco for such eventualities @ £ 6.50 .
I now have three such bottles in my car ...managing to fill two in one day .

I've told this tale before - you can buy milk, water, orange juice in plastic gallon containers in the US . . .

Long distance truck drivers get paid by the mile, so they don't want to stop after consuming the contents . . . so refill them on the go.

Now you don't want to be carrying too many gallons of the stuff in-case you make a mistake in selecting which one . . so you chuck 'em out the window into the freeway verges . . .

Along comes maintenance worker, towing many gang mowers in his open to the elements tractor . . .

Apparently, it doesn't mature well in the sunshine

 

[sako243]

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Trying to decide which looks worse, the Disco 5 or that. I think the Disco may just have it...

 

[MysterG]

What ever happened to the EVs having to make a noise at slow speeds? Or was it never a thing?
Just asking as I spent half the day dodging various EVs sneaking up on pedestrians in the narrow streets of Fowey!

 

[Kayos]

What ever happened to the EVs having to make a noise at slow speeds? Or was it never a thing?
Just asking as I spent half the day dodging various EVs sneaking up on pedestrians in the narrow streets of Fowey!

Mine sounds like a UFO from a 1950s sci fi movie

 

[dobbslc]

 

[OJCar]

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"Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!"

Clearly the ladies are looking at Flash's new EV...

 

[dobbslc]

Ming is thinking of stealing the charge cable...