Your fleet running reports

[Simon]

I acknowledge there are scenarios where you drop the electric car out of a plane where's it been charging and drive it downhill, where there is energy gained from gravity that could not be accommodated. However, that is entirely predictable and easy to plan for.

My dad went to see a friend last week who has a Honda-e and a Ioniq 5. They took the Honda into town for lunch. He left his house at the top of a steep hill and arrived in town 5 minutes later with more charge than he started with.

If he had fully charged at home then left his driveway and straight down the hill, what would've happened with the regenerative breaking?

[V8Granite]

This problem already exists in current electric cars. A friend moans about it on his ID3.

So it will never be a problem aslong as your destination is always higher than your starting point.

Relying on the excitation circuit to be switching in and out perfectly every time I touched the brake would be crazy.
I can’t ever see this being available, too many variables to rely on.

Dave!

[Swervin_Mervin]

If the battery is full the energy has to go somewhere through a load bank or similar.

The battery can never be so full that you can't completely stop using just the regen. Simple physics - it takes more energy to accelerate to a speed than to bring the car back to rest. Since the car can't be charging while accelerating, even if you start your journey 100% full there will always be more than enough capacity created from your acceleration to accommodate the energy generated bringing the car back to rest.

So you start at 100% and then drive down the end of your sloped drive and crash.

Presuming your efficiency of charge and efficiency of drain stayed roughly the same, there will be hundreds of scenarios when you can be out of braking capacity.

Dave!

That's when my induction brakes come into their own (apparently induction braking is the correct terminology - not electr-magnetic as I referred to them). If the battery is full and you can't harvest some energy back off that then it just dissipates as heat.

[V8Granite]

But that’s another lot of weight to the car, maybe it can be done with air only or the current water systems are over specced but something has to be added to absorb and get rid of that heat.

Dave!

[Rich B]

And thanks, I’ll take it as a compliment

Definitely do! You're mental, but clearly talented at it!

[Sundayjumper]

Today I built a little sub enclosure to go between the front seats in the van.

Spray glue & carpet makes even the dodgiest woodwork look presentable

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[IanF]

Today I built a little sub enclosure to go between the front seats in the van.

Spray glue & carpet makes even the dodgiest woodwork look presentable


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Rubbish cup holder

[V8Granite]

Puts sandwich down

Ginuwine Pony comes on radio

Sandwich flies out window

Dave!

[Sundayjumper]

Sandwich flies out window

Heh !

Firstly it's covered by the bench seat normally.

Secondly I know I'll end up dropping coins & stuff down there though.

Thirdly I had to Google Ginuwine Pony.

Fourthly it came out over 25 years ago. You're showing your age

[V8Granite]

It’s how you get the Laydees when cruising in your whip at College.

Dave!

It’s what you play from your JLW0 and Phoenix gold amped Systom while trying to find a parking space at college. No laydees we’re impressed.

[Beany]

Fourthly it came out over 25 years ago. You're showing your age

*Checks list of favourite albums*

No, you shut up

[integrale_evo]

Parts are mounting up to keep me busy for the long weekend

New ( correct facelift ) nose for the compact to paint and fit. Headlining material for the compact to replace the sagging one.

Material to do the sud doorcard inserts as the foam behind has crumbled and keeps shedding dust ( just plain grey, as close to Oe as I can get )

Stainless steel boxes pipes and bends to make complete new exhausts for both compact and ‘sud.

Plus probably loads more

[Sundayjumper]

Stainless steel boxes pipes and bends to make complete new exhausts for both compact and ‘sud.

You know you can modify the rear crossmember on the compact to run the exhaust *through* it for more ground clearance ? While you’re there, you know.

[integrale_evo]

I might have to save that for another time. I do have a spare subframe to play with

Tbh, the clearance issues I have are all at the front. Unless I literally stop on top of it I clatter the downpipe on the speed bump leaving work just as the front wheels drop over it. Annoying as I’d like to drop the front a little lower

[Sundayjumper]

It’s what you play from your JLW0 and Phoenix gold amped Systom while trying to find a parking space at college. No laydees we’re impressed.

Ah, but I have a W3 in there ! That’s three better. Or as a percentage, infinity ?

Got that too. And a cheesy nineties bass CD

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[nuttinnew]

Firstly it's covered by the bench seat normally.

Ah, I thought it looked a bit exposed.
Are you using the Infinity in place of the flakyfoam JL?
Is the cruise control retro pretty much plug and play?
Fitting the towbar is only making Mrs SJ's comments look more correct.

[nuttinnew]

The old Alhambra has delivered us safely in Holland at 58mpg

How'd you manage that? That's good going for an unladen Ibiza or Leon.

[Jimexpl]

It’s how you get the Laydees when cruising in your whip at College.

Dave!

It’s what you play from your JLW0 and Phoenix gold amped Systom while trying to find a parking space at college. No laydees we’re impressed.

I used to have a 12" JLW3 and Phoenix Gold amp in the boot of my 1275GT!

[tim]

The Saga of the Jaguar contd...

So the culprit was a worn hub causing the new bearing to fail. Exhibit A the circled line is where it ground itself away.



Some forthright discussion about how this was not correctly picked up before the bearing was replaced followed, and to be fair they held up their hands and said if I could source the part they'd fit it FOC.

Here's what the new one looks like



I say new, it's new but not original as Jaguar no longer manufacture these parts. But SNG Baratt assure me it's fine, so it's all I have to work with. They're expecting to get it done by tomorrow mid-morning, when I can swap the Jag for the Rover as it's about to expire it's MOT.

Old car life eh.

[V8Granite]

I’ve fitted bearings to worse, that could have been cleaned up properly first though.

Dave!