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New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:08:26 +0000

In Norway, damn autocorrect on the phone!

I’m in the U.K. and couldn’t afford to not have an EV, could cost over £2500 a year more to drive a petrol car.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:38:42 +0000

Personally I haven’t. I know my office is gone. I know the hotel I used to stay in (always fun to wake up seeing a gunboat a couple of miles off shore pointing at you out the window) has gone.

My colleagues have seen these tunnels. At least ore 2023. Israel has denied them entry since then.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:35:10 +0000

U.K. figures of amount drunk at aged 25 has fallen

Born 1940s, about 14u/week. 1960s about 12u, By 1980s dropped to 10u, and by 2000 down to about 7-8.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:29:16 +0000

People have been drinking wine for 8000 years. Grapes ferment in the 10% abv range.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1714728114

Some Roman wines were drunk undiluted in the 14% range

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/vint...

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:17:54 +0000

You’d think they could have a connector which lined up fairly easily when storing them and building a new one. Have a standard 30kW supply which automatically plugs in, then powers an on ramp charger. Not every ramp/spec would need the electic, only cars that need charging.

Indeed this seems to be an available product:

https://www.ip2.co.jp/parking/kikaishiki/products/ev-chargin...

https://www.tokyo-gas.co.jp/news/topics/20220930-04.html

With this being a retrofit

https://www.mhi.com/jp/news/1101285025.html

So it just seems to be a commercial question of demand rather than a technical question of feasibility.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:10:07 +0000

Manual 2005 micra which I drove until last January was reliably 6.3l/100km. No aircon but did have electric windows. And a cd player.

Manual skoda kamiq which I drove until May was about 6l/100km

Those are real “how many miles did I drive, how many litres did I put in to fill the tank” figuresc although tend not to do a lot of inner city driving - because that’s what public transports for.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:18:29 +0000

I’m moray the government subsidies rural petrol stations because demand is falling (about half of stations have closed in the last 15 years). About 40% of cars on the road are electric now, and that’s increasing rapidly as 95% of new cars are electric.

It will be interesting to see how much more subsidy ICE cars require as they disappear over the next 10 years.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:11:55 +0000

50-60 miles per U.K. gallon. Or 11-13 miles per litre.

20 miles per us gallon is terrible, but it’s more like 25 miles per U.K. gallon, which isn’t much below what by 1984 Nissan mid sized car used to get 27 years ago.

I tend to use 45mpg/10mpl now, as both my old micra and my newer Skoda got about that. That’s about 37mpg (us).

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:07:50 +0000

Far more in the U.K, well maybe with the recent petrol increases.

In April it cost about 14p mile off the motorway for petrol, 17 on the motorway (higher prices). Today it’s another 3p due to Iran, so 17/20p a mile.

Home electric costs 2.5p a mile at night, 8p during the day. public charging is around 15p on a slow overnight charger and 24p on a fast charger.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:00:59 +0000

Mines IP55 and the wall and 65 at the car, perfectly fine for heavy rain.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:55:41 +0000

ChaDeMonis basically dead now other than for existing cars. A typical U.K. service station will have 20 ccs chargers for every chademo, and nobody is deploying the latter for new places.

Means existing chademo cars will have less value as time goes on.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:50:51 +0000

My car draws 7kW from the charger at home. You can get a standard plug in 2kW charger but they are a lot less efficient.

US power supplies tend to be 1kW though for constant load (1.5kW rather than 2kW) so even worse.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:48:12 +0000

Tokyo has a similar car ownership as Amsterdam - 0.4 per household.

About 75% of houses in Amsterdam own zero cars, and thus most of the rest have two.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:45:37 +0000

But charging at the service station will take 20 minutes after a 3 hour drive which seems reasonable

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:43:57 +0000

So the public pays for your car storage?

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

hdgvhicv — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:39:31 +0000

Robotic parking but not charging as part of it seems odd.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

hdgvhicv — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:14:09 +0000

That’s sounds perfect. No “commentators” no “own angles”, no “buy our merch”, no whining about “my crappy blackmagic camera may have been damaged”

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

hdgvhicv — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:05:30 +0000

This ain’t David va Goliath. It’s two billionaires fighting it out.

Unless of course the op sold the 15k shares he did get years ago.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

hdgvhicv — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:59:36 +0000

Presumably he kept those 16k shares and is sitting on $2b, so why bother with the hassle. Normal people don’t care about the second billion.

Or he sold them years ago for far less than they are worth now, in which case he could have a claim for the original shares which were worth a few k after interest.

New comment by hdgvhicv in "Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock"

hdgvhicv — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:52:00 +0000

Not taking about $5k or even $5m. A billion dollars is a hell if a lot of money.