Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
If it's only for commuting I'd go an e-pushbike.
You've got the backup of pedals for next Auckland blackout.
Prob still covered by household insurance.
Run red lights with immunity lol
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
My work is shifting back to the city next year (Feb) and I am going to go back to commuting on two wheels. I dont need to take a car. Currently mulling options for a scooter, an e-pushbike or one of my ordinary pushbikes. Front running candidate is e-pushbike at this stage. Thanks to Covid they're a little difficult to get and impossible to get a deal on.
I have an e-mountainbike which I love but its not really suitable for commuting day in dayout. Great for mad hucks though.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
This 'lack of maintenance' aspect about electric vehicles is often trotted out...however aside from upgrades which are purely by choice the only maintenance I do on my bike is tyres, brake pads, chain/sprockets. Electric bikes still have these consumables. The only thing I'll concede is oil and filter every 5000km.
Oh man some greenies are going to get totally owned on that one.
Just like wind turbines which depending on size have anywhere from 60-400 Litres of dinosaur oil as well. The massive shear loads involved means nothing short of dinosaur blood is suitable, non of this synthetic soya bean shit will ever be close enough as even what’s available now from decades of fossil fuel research and application isn’t as good as what the engineers would like.
This means maintainance must be top notch and filters changed regularly.
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
Correct.
Cars out there already run high voltage DC, Scotty Kilmore did a good vid telling home mechanics not to touch them.
As for trucks since it’s not connected to network shouldn’t be an issue. There’s not much in the way of repairing these days, most new stuff sells with a service plan and it’s quicker to just replace a component than repair it.
With high mileage and vibration from crappy roads trucks have habit of chaffing through looms and cables/air lines in random place, often a stone from roadworks finds a new home and quietly chisels away st something. Will sure be some random public fireworks displays not happening during November
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
I heard that same guy on the radio a while back. one of the most fascinating interviews I have heard. From memory he was on the ground floor when Tesla started up. his logic for cars not being the best way to go is if you currently drive a corolla etc then switch to a electric car you may save the planet x litres of fuel per year but a truck or bus may save that in a week also he made the point of rubbish trucks and buses produce a shit load of brake dust pollution where as an electric truck produces much less. his company was in wellington to convert a bus or 2 for a trial . they are hybrid with a small turbine as the charger engine as they are the most efficient. I would like to get my sticky little fingers on one of those !!
If he needs to mention brake dust he must be scraping the barrel for why electric is better....
Cabbage driving by car drivers is prob emitting orders of magnitude more brake dust than the very SMALL fleet of rubbish trucks and buses in any nz city.
I think electric is great for city buses and metro truck work where gear is not double shifted and doing lots stop start work. We still have tyre rubber dust which is a known carcinogen and just as bad as any other small particle emmiosion for your lungs.
A side note on a recent walk, our council is building more concrete (don't get me started on that) pathways as part of the provincial growth fund stuff. You think with their climate change emergency bullshit they would think twice about erecting no less than four plastic flute board signs staked with wooden poles cut from Timber hauled by diesel burning log trucks lol
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
Tyre pollution... Solution?
https://www.autoblog.com/2020/09/17/...ure-invention/
Manopausal.
Brilliant. A cunning solution to a problem most people don't know exists. It all helps, but I recall the days of mechanics blowing asbestos out of brake drums with air as if their plan was to make sure everybody in the workshop got some.
We're getting better but...
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
I remember doing that (ignorance was bliss) but for a real cloud of toxic dust, nothing matched the steering clutch compartments of a Cat 933 loader (multiplate clutches about 24" in diameter with band brakes about 6" wide around them. Sort of job that got farmed out to the apprentice.
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
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