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VW rebrands as 'Voltswagen' in the US
BBC ^ | March 30, 2021 | BBC

Posted on 03/30/2021 12:24:22 PM PDT by Kriggerel

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To: cyclotic

Reality:

I just thought of a pretty good comeback for the silly “I live in the city and don’t drive much” argument.

So, where do you park? Many city dwellers park on the street where they can, sometimes a block or two away. Good luck with your nightly plug in.

Does your apartment building have plug ins where you can leave your car overnight to charge?


41 posted on 03/30/2021 1:40:20 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: frank ballenger

It’s not real German, it’s dog German, so a translator won’t help you.

The “f*kengruven” comes from an old comic play on the VW “fahrfegnugen” motto that people used to put on t-shirts. “mit spitzensparken” is “with spitting sparks”, because the VWs are electric now.


42 posted on 03/30/2021 1:44:18 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: SunkenCiv

That was a great if not a damning review of the ID.4. I really appreciated his candor, especially about how incredibly hard it was to use the VW-deployed network of charging stations they installed in the aftermath of Dieselgate.

You could pull right up in a Mach-E Mustang and plug right in, but with your VW, you had to open the app on your phone, select your location, select which charging pod you were at, select which side of the pod you were at, enter your unique ID and then start charging.

Their onboard app to help you navigate from town to town wouldn’t even show their own charging locations by default - and was all too happy to show low-powered ones inside parking garages and the like - ones that would take many, many hours to get enough charge just to get you to the next location.

An absolute German disaster.


43 posted on 03/30/2021 1:45:24 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: Kriggerel

Twenty gallons of gasoline will allow a vehicle at 20 miles per gallon to go 400 miles?

How many gallons of fuel does it take to generate enough charges for an electric car to travel that same number of miles?

Wind, solar, and hydroelectric will never be able to keep up with the demand.


44 posted on 03/30/2021 2:01:56 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: Kriggerel

Twenty gallons of gasoline will allow a vehicle at 20 miles per gallon to go 400 miles?

How many gallons of fuel does it take to generate enough charges for an electric car to travel that same number of miles?

Wind, solar, and hydroelectric will never be able to keep up with the demand.


45 posted on 03/30/2021 2:01:56 PM PDT by Yulee
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To: bankwalker

Homosexual-Wagon. Just like Heineken homo beer.


46 posted on 03/30/2021 2:02:34 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Kriggerel

No matter, will never buy another VW/Audi product.

My 1970 Bug was great, that was it.


47 posted on 03/30/2021 2:17:32 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: Kriggerel

How utterly foolish, this move.


48 posted on 03/30/2021 2:49:09 PM PDT by ex91B10 (I'm a 20th century man but I don't want to be here not)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

“Homosexual-Wagon. Just like Heineken homo beer.”

I did hear that apple was looking to build a car, so the homo car market may get crowded.


49 posted on 03/30/2021 3:24:33 PM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: cdcdawg

I am a big VW fan. My dad had several bugs from 1958 to 1979. My first car was a ‘74 hard top. Drove the hell out of it. I still have the ‘79 convertible that my dad bought new off the showroom. I love the air cooled engines. Federnand Porsche was a genius.


50 posted on 03/30/2021 6:14:49 PM PDT by Texas resident (Dimrats=CPUSA)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

No heat was a chronic with the Beetle. You’d keep a rag in your car to defog the windshield.


51 posted on 03/30/2021 6:25:36 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Yulee

Here in Texas we are predominantly natural gas power plants 47+% of our total, with coal , wind, and nuclear the bulk of the rest in that order.

https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/2020/august/ercot.php

Texas gas plants are CCGT plants for nase load and simple cycle for peaker plants. The heat rate for a typical CCGT plant is 7000btu/kwh a typical EV such as a Tesla S uses 1 kwh to go 4 miles. So thats 7000/4= 1750 btu per mile at the bus bar of the power plant. The transmission losses for a 500km HVAC system is 8% in Texas power plants are not more than 100km away but we’ll use 8% so net to the plug is 1750*1.08=1890btu per mile.

Coal? Which still is 20% of our grid...

“For existing coal-fired power plants, heat rates are typically in the range of 9,000 Btu/kWh to 11,000 Btu/kWh. A plant with the U.S. industry average heat rate of 10,300 Btu/kWh”

10,300/4*1.08= 2781btu mile net.

Your 20mpg vehicle as you state would be 111,836 btu per gallon of E10 the only legal petrol here pure petrol without ethanol is 114,000 btu/gal.

So 111,836/20= 5591 btu per mile.

The EV is much more efficient in raw enegy uses and it ALWAYS will be why? The internal combustion engine is a first law of thermodynamics machine and an electric motor and battery are second law machines it’s physics that will never be changed. Round trip efficiency from plug to pack to wheels is as the numbers show 80+% with a gross usage of 250 watt hours per mile I leased a Tesla for 3 months and at times it was under 200 wh per mile in bumper to bumper traffic and hardcore city driving as in NYC where I was using it for a month. Manhattan has like 3 gas stations that have a buck a gallon premiums on the petrol nearly every parking garage has EV spaces it was SO much easier to charge than wait in line at the pumps. I was on contract in the NE for 3 months having spent months in NYC I knew about the lack of petrol stations I was billing the parking rates so what did I care about $50_75 per day in garage rates. What was more important was Philly,DC NYC and Boston were all within one full charge range from each other. I never needed a Tesla super charger end to end charging was available at every hotel, garage or ArBnB I stayed at.

I have 15kw of panels on my rural Texas home Jan 21th this year the shortest day in the whole year my.panels made 105 kWh of electricity my home used 23 that day 80+ was sold to the grid I could have used that to charge an EV adding 320 miles of range. Last August u say 186 kwh on a sunny day my home used 80 kwh that day to stay at 68F I could have put over 400 miles in range that day. My location in Texas gets 220 days of full sun per NOAA 30 years climate data history. Over the last 4 years I can confirm at least that many days per year on the panel monitors. So to say panels won’t cover an EV is just a lie. When the shortest day a year gives 300+ miles and even in January we got 17 days of full sun and 10 more of partial sun. 17 days with at least 80kWh surplus is 5440 miles of range in the worst sun conditions every part of the year in my location is more than this. Thats 181 miles per day for the month of January EVERY day for 30 days no one drives that much with the exception of a taxi can driver or uber driver maybe. Having panels on the roof is like having a petrol pump in the garage that never runs out as long as the sun comes up which it does 220 days a year with enough lack of clouds to run the panels. As a note a 15kw system under overcast still makes 1200 watts or so light is light modern polysilicon panels have shade diodes and will make power as long as any light even diffuse light hits them.


52 posted on 03/31/2021 1:11:56 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

One of my craziest trips ever was in a VW bus.

70 something miles to UMass on the Mass Pike in a dead of the winter night.
ZERO heat....heating system on those things was ridiculous.
A Coleman propane heater to keep us warm,
Engine burning TONS of oil, HUGE black cloud of smoke left behind us.
Moisture from the heater created fog and thick ice inside the glass.
Cops pulled us over..

then let us go.

the ride home equally sucked..


53 posted on 03/31/2021 5:19:48 AM PDT by mowowie (Press 2 for deportation)
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To: mowowie

I moved from WI to CA in 1980; my then-husband was in the Navy. We drove that VW Beetle with all of our ‘worldly possessions’ inside. ;)

It conked out on us when we stopped to see Hoover Dam, but we were able to pop the clutch to get her fired up again.

When we were in the middle of the dessert at night (don’t remember which state) we saw this TINY light coming toward us for miles and miles. When we finally passed the vehicle, it was a guy holding a FLASHLIGHT out the window, as they had NO headlights!

Was that you? LOL! ;)


54 posted on 03/31/2021 6:28:01 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: ConservativeInPA
New corporate symbol for the Voltswagon --


55 posted on 03/31/2021 6:33:01 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Boogieman

Thanks for the explanations. So much depth to every post here I can’t keep up.

Honestly, thanks.


56 posted on 03/31/2021 8:07:48 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That’s funny.
I’ve seen pictures of cars with flashlights taped to them as headlights.
lol

The smoke from the VW was so black and dense that the headlights of the vehicles behind us couldn’t even penetrate it.
Seemed every 10 minutes he was pulling over pouring another quart it..
people behind us must of thought that we were nuts..


57 posted on 04/03/2021 7:30:11 AM PDT by mowowie (Press 2 for deportation)
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