Funnily enough @Dovefromabove, the second homers who've made it here are the Parisians. 3 generations of them here since last Friday. The nearer ones who come from the Charente or Nantes have stayed at home.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I thought a Tesla could charge from 20% to 80% in 20 minutes on a high speed charger and in about an hour on a more standard public charger.
Yes that's correct Ben. It would only take 10 hours to charge an EV car if you were plugging into a socket at home with a 3 pin plug lol.. Anyone buying an EV has a 7kw or 22kw home installer charger installed which will charge in 3 - 7 hours depending on which charger you have but thats from an almost flat battery which almost no one has when charging. One would plug in to charge an EV at home when the battery is at approx 20% charge then just plug it in at night so in the morning you have a full charge. If your EV has a 200 mile range and you only do 20 miles a day you would only need to charge overnight once every 10 days.
As for servicing an EV. What servicing! There's nothing to service other than check the brake fluid and the brake pads but, as the evidence shows brakes pads are lasting a hundred thousand miles on EV's because the brakes are not used when regenerative braking is enabled on an EV.
The issue for ICE mechanics is handling 240 -300 volt systems when working on an EV and this made safe by pulling the master plug.
Not much to service on an EV.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Just seen a video clip on Facebook where developers removed part of a berm, installed to prevent flooding, to develop more housing. Nothing new had been put in place of that berm to prevent flooding so large parts of the existing housing estate is now under water!
The garages will find plenty of things to tinker with. As well as brakes, there's tyres, wheel alignment, air con, heating,lights etc etc. I could go on.
We ordered a load of cheese online for Xmas. I've been really looking forward to trying it but phrases such as "Did you just open the fridge or does someone need a nappy change?" can really put a dampener on your appetite
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/weather/major-incident-due-to-flooding-6869018
and now we have hail and sleet ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As for servicing an EV. What servicing! There's nothing to service other than check the brake fluid and the brake pads but, as the evidence shows brakes pads are lasting a hundred thousand miles on EV's because the brakes are not used when regenerative braking is enabled on an EV.
The issue for ICE mechanics is handling 240 -300 volt systems when working on an EV and this made safe by pulling the master plug.
Not much to service on an EV.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just seen a video clip on Facebook where developers removed part of a berm, installed to prevent flooding, to develop more housing. Nothing new had been put in place of that berm to prevent flooding so large parts of the existing housing estate is now under water!