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Post by DuckMaster on Mar 15, 2024 19:36:08 GMT 12
It has a battery but drinks dino juice. You do know that oil actually doesn't come from dinosaur's? Right? |
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Post by GO30 on Mar 16, 2024 20:50:52 GMT 12
It has a battery but drinks dino juice. You do know that oil actually doesn't come from dinosaur's? Right?  Yes.
'Juice from old long dead things' uses too many letters
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Post by fish on Mar 18, 2024 9:17:41 GMT 12
Diesel powered bus catches fire, blocks Waikato Expressway. Shocking images of a diesel powered bus in an inferno on the Waikato Expressway. Insurance implications for diesel powered buses are not clear. No explanation has been given as to how the bus caught fire, noting that it was already under tow at the time. Emergency services struggles to extinguish the fire, believed to be due to the amount of combustible material diesel buses have on them. www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/emergency-services-battle-bus-blaze-on-waikato-expressway.html |
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Post by GO30 on Mar 18, 2024 12:41:15 GMT 12
Emergency services struggles to extinguish the fire, believed to be due to the amount of combustible material diesel buses have on them. I'd think the entire pileof baggage of the school camp kids would burn also very well. |
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Post by DuckMaster on Mar 18, 2024 22:19:32 GMT 12
Wife just got given a Mercedes EQC for her work car.
I thought it was a bit of a clever move and she'd have to charge it at home. Turns out she's not allowed to charge it at home cause of worksafe rules.
Worksafe requires the business to have the house electrical system checked and upgraded. To charge in a garage. To have a proper charger installed (can't charge from a normal 3pin plug). Designate the garage a work place for health and safety and all the risk of electrocution signs and palava. And provide training on how to plug the car in.
So she gets to plug it in at work each day where they have fast chargers.
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Post by GO30 on Mar 27, 2024 15:18:45 GMT 12
The new Toymotor Hylux is out and has a Hybrid option but buggered if I can workout why.
The ICE version, 2.8lt diesal - 235 odd nasties out the pipe
The Hybred version, $2600 more - 231 odd nasties out the pipe
But otherwise both options pull the same, tow the same and so on...bar weight of batteries I suppose
Errr.....I thought lectrickery was suppose to bring large emissions reductions?
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Post by harrytom on Mar 27, 2024 22:50:30 GMT 12
The new Toymotor Hylux is out and has a Hybrid option but buggered if I can workout why. The ICE version, 2.8lt diesal - 235 odd nasties out the pipe The Hybred version, $2600 more - 231 odd nasties out the pipe But otherwise both options pull the same, tow the same and so on...bar weight of batteries I suppose Errr.....I thought lectrickery was suppose to bring large emissions reductions? And at time of Manufacturing which has a higher carbon content?? |
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Post by GO30 on Mar 28, 2024 12:43:33 GMT 12
The new Toymotor Hylux is out and has a Hybrid option but buggered if I can workout why. The ICE version, 2.8lt diesal - 235 odd nasties out the pipe The Hybred version, $2600 more - 231 odd nasties out the pipe But otherwise both options pull the same, tow the same and so on...bar weight of batteries I suppose Errr.....I thought lectrickery was suppose to bring large emissions reductions? And at time of Manufacturing which has a higher carbon content?? Correct.
Chatting with some mechanic mates last evening and they are scratching their heads as to why bother with the hybrid version as well.We all kept coming back to 'the visuals' as in, to the muppets it makes Toymotor look active in the EV space.
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Post by ComfortZone on Apr 5, 2024 7:42:15 GMT 12
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EV farce
Apr 5, 2024 10:23:15 GMT 12
via mobile
Post by sloopjohnb on Apr 5, 2024 10:23:15 GMT 12
Bit of a worry reading the document!
Someone should go back to kindergarten and learn how "unlined" sentences instead of "strikethrough" them.
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Post by fish on Apr 5, 2024 16:28:12 GMT 12
Apparently Tesla is loosing a lot of money, I heard on RNZ I think. They aren't hitting their targets for making or selling cars. One of the reasons being a fire in a big factory they have in Europe. I thought that was interesting. The story had no more detail about the fire, just the financial performance of Tesla. Anyone know about this fire and if it was related to batteries? |
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Post by DuckMaster on Apr 7, 2024 20:27:28 GMT 12
Apparently Tesla is loosing a lot of money, I heard on RNZ I think. They aren't hitting their targets for making or selling cars. One of the reasons being a fire in a big factory they have in Europe. I thought that was interesting. The story had no more detail about the fire, just the financial performance of Tesla. Anyone know about this fire and if it was related to batteries? It was arson. By self proclaimed eco-terrorists. Dumbest eco-terrorists in the world. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Apr 10, 2024 8:09:00 GMT 12
seen on the back of an old HiAce van yesterday  |
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Post by fish on Apr 10, 2024 9:07:41 GMT 12
seen on the back of an old HiAce van yesterday There is a new ute that lives up Whangaparaoa way with the same sticker, I've seen it a couple of times now driving up Whangaparaoa Rd. Better be careful, Simeon Brown will want his RUC taxes paid if you identify as an EV. |
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Post by fish on Apr 16, 2024 18:07:40 GMT 12
Macreas Gold Mine in Otago have commissioned a $10mil eletric shovel with a 180t payload. Plugged into mains power, it drags the extension cord around behind it. Shane Jones was weeing his pants and did a big grand opening of the shovel today, although, curiously, it appears to have been in operation for at least a year and was actually commissioned when Labour were in charge. More curiously, the NZ Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority is "supporting" the project. Financially. I'm not sure who funds the EECA, but I think it is you and me. It would appear that this electric shovel is part of Labour's corporate welfare for climate change, and Shane Jones, ever the self-publiscist, has made this grand opening (a year after it opened) as a good classic bit of PR spin. Fairly sure Shane's govt has stopped all that corporate welfare, but is still taking the credit for the projects funded. Genious. "Supporting the project is the New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA). EECA works with industry to increase the use of clean and clever energy across New Zealand, and they recently partnered with the Macraes Operation to provide partial funding for the new machine as part of its technology demonstration fund." www.stuff.co.nz/business/350247229/thinking-big-minister-and-countrys-largest-evoceanagold.com/2022/08/11/plugged-in-at-macraes/ |
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