Good morning daily

[Greynomad]

Jon,
Have you ever worked for an ad agency?

[Dot]

That's it I now give up WTF is a Jerry can for an EV? I do not understand aps etc. One thing I did do was ask a friend that lives in Coober Pedy about those charging stations as he has an EV. He said there is 1 station there but if someone gets there just before you and he is taking 45 mins to charge, you then have to wait another 45 mins for your charge time = a long time 1 and a half hrs. All together too confusing for this little white duck.

[T1 Terry]

T1,
That service station near the Hume Highway with all the solar-powered charging stations is a 45km drive away.
That’s 90km of driving just to make sure you can still drive around town.
Our local servo is 500 METRES away from our house.
At least our one and only public charging station is only 600m away. (The motel with the Tesla charger is 400m.)

Which brings me a random thort:
What if, in the early years of motor car development, petrol pumps had only been available to drivers who booked into a hotel, or bought something from a retailer.
Would ICE-powered cars have become the norm, or would people have jacked up and continued riding horses?

How far is it from a 230vac power point to where you park your car? Is the service station open 24/7, the power point is available 24/7, so why would you drive a 90km round trip to charge? Can you get fuel from your power point or solar? I can make silly statements too Ray

In the early days of ICE powered cars, you had to find a chemist who had distilled grain alcohol to buy fuel for your ICE, no service stns with a petrol pump. They ran on grain alcohol in the days of the horse, not a hope of getting one to run on pump gas, they had to modify the combustion chambers and timing to get them to run on the garbage the fossil fuel industry sells.

If solar and better batteries were available at the time of the horseless carriage, would ICE motors have ever been developed ..... I'd put money on no they wouldn't ..... too expensive to service, the ICE in those days didn't last very long and were expensive to repair, hard to start, smelled bad and extremely noisy ....

The fossil fuel industry is dying, the first servo I worked in pumping petrol, in a 14km stretch there were 35 petrol stns, from the light house on South beach to Unanderra rail stn.
The same strip now, the lighthouse in Wollongong, and the Unanderra rail station, there is only one route out of multiple possible routes, that you can find a service stn without going through the back streets ....and they aren't open at night. There is a route where you would have to double back 2 kms at a round about, to be on the correct side of the traffic island to get into the 24 hr service stn, then a trip through the back streets to get back on the original route you were travelling.

When I first started in the mechanic trade, I worked at the only 24hr service stn between the outskirts of Sydney, or far western Sydney, and the Victorian border if you were on the Princes Hwy travelling down south.

Can you guess how many 24 hr service stations there are on the Princes highway between Sydney and Nowra ....... none

Can you guess how many places you could charge an electric car? I wouldn't attempt to guess how many power points there would be along that stretch of road, you don't need an EV fast charging station to charge an electric car, just a power point ....

If you have enough solar panels, you don't even need the power point ......

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

That's it I now give up WTF is a Jerry can for an EV? I do not understand aps etc. One thing I did do was ask a friend that lives in Coober Pedy about those charging stations as he has an EV. He said there is 1 station there but if someone gets there just before you and he is taking 45 mins to charge, you then have to wait another 45 mins for your charge time = a long time 1 and a half hrs. All together too confusing for this little white duck.

A Jeery Can for an ICE vehicle is a container you can carry extra fuel. The equivalent is a battery pack and inverter in one unit, that weighs less than a 20 ltr Jerry can full of fuel, and you can plug it into the charging port on your EV and add up to 100kms of EV fuel (if you drive conservatively) so, about the same as the 20 ltr Jerry can, but it doesn't stink up the boot. You can get add on batteries to plug into the battery and inverter that will add another 100kms and so on, so range anxiety is just a B/S thing spun up by the fossil fuel industry.

Coober Pedy has plenty of solar and power points, why would you que up at the one EV charging stn?

Imagine if you were at Rabbit flat after 4pm on a Friday, you'd have to wait till 9 am on the following Monday to buy fuel .... how about from Burke to Charleville, 450 something kms, there is diesel out there, but no petrol any more .....

T1 Terry

[jon_d]

Imagine if you were at Rabbit flat after 4pm on a Friday, you'd have to wait till 9 am on the following Monday to buy fuel .... how about from Burke to Charleville, 450 something kms, there is diesel out there, but no petrol any more .....

Geez Terry, better not drive the Winnie out there.

[T1 Terry]

Imagine if you were at Rabbit flat after 4pm on a Friday, you'd have to wait till 9 am on the following Monday to buy fuel .... how about from Burke to Charleville, 450 something kms, there is diesel out there, but no petrol any more .....

Geez Terry, better not drive the Winnie out there.

At least not until it's hybrid powered and I have lots of solar, the Great Central Road is on the bucket list, I can buy OPAL fuel along that stretch and the V10 will run on that, no idea if I could afford to fill it up though

T1 Terry

[BernieQ2]

Good morning everyone.
All they have done with our Son is changed the tablet he's on... they are still trying to dissolve the blood clot rather than open heart surgery... hope they know their they are doing..
Another slow day... just attending to her need's
She's walking better each day... with a weely walker..
I've had to strengthen the towel rail "grab handle" next to the dunny
How's the head going Jon or is the nose causing grief?
Terry have you put those spark plug thingys in yet..
Keep safe.
Bernie.

[jon_d]

Morning all.

Head is home. Nose out to lunch. Getting better. Looking forward to Tuesday to get the packing out.

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On the block, ready to be assembled.

Bernie, hoping a change in medicines does the trick.

[BernieQ2]

Looks good Jon.
Yes we all hope it works...

[T1 Terry]

You put the head on without painting it Jon Hope the medication works for your son Bernie, and you nose recovers Jon.
No Bernie, been attempting to install this water heater and now trying to avoid another unscheduled carpet washing, a few new power points to install, then the coil install is the next one on the list.

Off to find replacement fittings for these John Guest disaster waiting to happen fittings .... all the tabs that hold the locking mechanism in the fitting broke off, so there was nothing to hold it together. I can't imagine this hot water system lasted 25 yrs, so unknown if the same fitting have been recycled each time ..... do I reinvent the dodgy plastic wheel, or just move the problem further up the road ..... if it lasts 10 yrs I'll be 80 by then, if I haven't left to become smoke at the local crematorium ..... or crab bait
..... but if I'm still on the road and the Winnie makes it to 35yrs old ..... will I be in any condition to do another parts replacement at 80?

Lots of "ifs" in there eh

T1 Terry