EV road tax

[ajlelectronics]

You can express 1/3 fractional but not decimally. 0.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

And 1/3 is easy to visualise too.

 

[prepman]

BTW> I am not anti-electric vehicles...I just think that whole rush into it was a knee-jerk reaction to Global warming, which just wasn't thought through.
As many have pointed out, the pollution created by manufacturing and generating power for EVs, negates the positives.
The only real way forward to reduce CO² emmissions is to wean people out of personal transport on on to public. Logically there is no other way with present technology. Obviously when we all have hover-shoes and have lost the ability to walk unaided, which I'm fast approaching, then we will be saved from imminent destruction.
This little gem was sponsored by 'Wizzo' toothpaste.

 

[ajlelectronics]

wean people out of personal transport on on to public

The problems there are convenience and more importantly, the fact that someone else can stop you travelling at the "flick of a switch".

 

[Colin Barron]

When I was at school in the 70's we had O levels in grammar schools and CSE's in secondary schools, in fact our year trialed one of the upcoming GCSE exams so I ended up getting English language in both O level and GCSE

Apparently 40% of people who took o levels in 60s and 70s would pass.

 

[premmington]

"vehicle-to-grid (V2G) smart energy management"

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G): Everything you need to know

What is V2G? What does it mean that electric cars can balance the grid? Vehicle-to-grid technology has the power to transform the whole energy system. Here’s how.

www.virta.global

I will just leave that with you lads...

 

[addjunkie]

Apparently 40% of people who took o levels in 60s and 70s would pass.

Now your not allowed to fail incase you get offended. I did mine in 78 and did far better than I or the school predicted!

 

[DAPPH]

Reached -7 up here last night. Wife charged the Leaf overnight and has driven to Harewood house. No drama, she used heating, heated seats, heated rear windscreen, radio, indicators and other electrical features without issue. Road didn't break up under the pressure of all those electrons either

Having a few cold weather runs now under my belt in my E Berlingo .
A full 174 mile charge in the can appears to use 47 miles of juice powering lights , radio ,blue tooth , heater to 23 oC and numerous screen wash & wipes leaving 19 miles in the can so to speak .
Hassle free charging at home in minus 4 oC , using the latest generation of smart charger that is controlled by" Ohme " computers that use minor increases in the grid to give many many short bursts of charge during the 24 hrs. of charge which at present is only charged to us at low night rate no matter what time of the day or night it is .

It will be interesting to see how it performs if we get down to minus 15 oC .

 

[DAPPH]

Metric is base 10 just like money….imperial is as you said fractions and not intuitive. And I can do fractions….I guesstimate in feet and inches, but measure in metric. Though in machining thou works too

Try turning a unit of length into decimals using just a pair of dividers. . Then if you are intelligent you'll realise that 1/2 , 1/4 , 1/8 , 1/16 , 1/32 & 1/ 64 ths are a very clever & accurate way of measuring that has been used for centuries .

 

[DAPPH]

Makes a lot more sense that the base used is the same as the number of fingers we all have!

Metric/decimals just fractions with the denominator limited to multiples of 10.

You been measuring Wisbech style ? Most normal people have eight fingers & two thumbs .

 

[addjunkie]

Try turning a unit of length into decimals using just a pair of dividers. . Then if you are intelligent you'll realise that 1/2 , 1/4 , 1/8 , 1/16 , 1/32 & 1/ 64 ths are a very clever & accurate way of measuring that has been used for centuries .

I understand the theory, but a 1/64th of a fathom isnt very clear really

 

[eddie49]

Having a few cold weather runs now under my belt in my E Berlingo

Greetings from a fellow E-Berlingo owner!
Mine is the panel-van version, and the previous model - 2017, with only a 22.5kWh battery.
Also, at the moment it doesn't work, but I am hoping to fix it. I have just pulled the driveshafts out of the transmission, so that I can investigate what has happened to the motor-to-gearbox splined coupling.

Starting the "what did you get for Christmas" thread early

What did I get for Christmas? Covid, that’s what! My wife went down with it first on the Saturday, the me on Christmas Eve. Crimbo was rather subdued there after. I hope you are both over the worst of it soon.

www.mig-welding.co.uk

 

[DAPPH]

1/64 of 72 inches the common factor is 8 it's not that difficult

 

[Robotstar5]

Apparently 40% of people who took o levels in 60s and 70s would pass.

I managed to pass 7 out of the 8 O levels I took in 1976

 

[not done it yet]

GCSEs they weren't around when I was at school, besides anything else, didn't they bring GCSEs in just for people who couldn't pass O'levels ......

No, they brought in CSEs for those that were unable to hack ‘O’ levels. GCSEs were adopted when ‘O’ level GCEs and CSEs were combined. The advent of comprehensives - where those that didn’t want to be at school dragged down those that had had a good learning ethos.

 

[Smallfry]

I can measure in metric to do woodwork and crude metalwork, but have to use imperial for anything precision. I can envisage thou's but .257mm ? means nothing to me, and I cannot even begin to convert.

Distance too. Miles I can guesstimate, but kilometres ? No.

 

[not done it yet]

The utter joy....there's 365.25 days in the average year...giving 52.18 weeks in the average year. Unless we're doing it proper...then we need to know which year is a leap year!

Then there's the days in the month of course!

I'm surprised someone hasn't decided this all needs some updating.

There is not even exactly 365.25 days. We have to make a further adjustment of a day every 400 years, as well.
They have looked into the problem of time but there was no better method than counting in seconds for science.

 

[not done it yet]

Problem is the elliptical orbit of the moon.."just" fix that and we are all good

The Earth’s orbit is not quite circular, either.

 

[Smallfry]

When I was Secondary School in the early Seventies, I understood the CSE was for the less academic, and the GCE WAS an "O" level. GCSE came in later as a combination of the two ?
Maybe I wasn't listening as usual, thinking about more important things, like slow worms, whether I should go for drop, or cowhorn handlebars, would Monster Mash make the number one spot, and how long until going home time.

 

[DAPPH]

It makes you wonder with all this dilution of worthwhile STEM subjects globally how the hell we have managed to discover Higgs Bosun and developed automomous electric vehicles not to mention the little Covid vaccine thing .

 

[dobbslc]

Two of those are a bit dubious though...