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Uthor posted:I forget, is this more winter or less? Depends.. did they have one of these sitting in the shop?  argh lovely page snipe... have some beautiful roads to stare at    
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You're not selling electric cars to me by putting it up against something that looks and sounds this good. https://twitter.com/RaceOfChampions/status/1490301015463059460?s=20&t=LvjBOMEmOiISPoUCkx8klw Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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Feb 7, 2022 16:41
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Olympic Mathlete posted:You're not selling electric cars to me by putting it up against something that looks and sounds this good. I don’t know why motorsport insists on considering fuel cell cars to be the future, every racing prototype is either sluggish or has worse range than battery electric
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Feb 7, 2022 17:57
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SlowBloke posted:I don’t know why motorsport insists on considering fuel cell cars to be the future, every racing prototype is either sluggish or has worse range than battery electric Probably because they can be quickly refueled.
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Feb 7, 2022 18:49
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Powershift posted:Probably because they can be quickly refueled. I'm sure you've met an automotive battery delivery person before. Big motherfuckers, yeah? You'd need to be. That's the pit crew. Yanking 800lbs of batteries out with a beat to poo poo handtruck, slamming them back in the same way. Lithuanian strong-men suddenly become the most valuable race team members.
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Feb 7, 2022 18:56
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madeintaipei posted:I'm sure you've met an automotive battery delivery person before. Big motherfuckers, yeah? You'd need to be. Just flip it over and replace them cell by cell like an RC car.
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Feb 7, 2022 19:09
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What if they had to run over a bunch of recharge pads like in F-Zero?
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What about an electrified mesh ceiling over the track and whip antennas / lightning rods like bumper cars?
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madeintaipei posted:I'm sure you've met an automotive battery delivery person before. Big motherfuckers, yeah? You'd need to be. A small team ran an electric conversion sports racer at the 25hr of Thunderhill this year. They made 14 laps per charge (3mi track) and had a battery rack that was pinned and bolted so a battery cart could be keyed into it, couple of bolts undone, rack pulled, and another rack of batteries bolted in.   There are some more pics over here https://evsr.net/calendar/
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They posted their battery swap pit stop in my group. Lots of fat to be trimmed but they have certainly achieved endurance racing in an EV. They attracted the attention of Dennis Palotov and took it to DMs. They have a promising future.
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Powershift posted:Probably because they can be quickly refueled. Toyota hydrogen endurance race last year had their pit stops be double the duration(and half the range) of a standard petrol racer. I think that the nio ep9 with the side removable batteries could be pitted faster than their hydrogen car with a decent pit crew.
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Install a longitudal battery at the center line, with openings at the front and back. Drive straight at a fresh battery, let it push the old battery out the back.
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You motherffff..... I did NOT need another hobby! boxen posted:I was thinking one that would look like an old John Deere 520 or something, I wonder how much it has to look like an inspiration car. As much as possible, I'm gathering, since that's the primary idea, building the caricature. quote:I found a picture of one that looked like the Fiat S76, the "Beast of Turin": Wonderful! tuo posted:He also invented/create the Satteliterschüssel (impossible to translate into English), a similar over-the-top bike thing…IIRC it is built around a tractor single-piston engine with - well - 1 litre displacement. Oh, hey, I have pictures of that thing in my "bikes" folder. There's a Revell model of it! And the Red Killer! Sweet! Saukkis posted:Install a longitudal battery at the center line, with openings at the front and back. Drive straight at a fresh battery, let it push the old battery out the back.  I like the cut of your jib.
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tuo posted:
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Olympic Mathlete posted:You're not selling electric cars to me by putting it up against something that looks and sounds this good. Stig also looked like he was sandbagging, that looked like a very deliberate slow entry and exit under the bridge and corner afterwards. SlowBloke posted:I don’t know why motorsport insists on considering fuel cell cars to be the future, every racing prototype is either sluggish or has worse range than battery electric I dont think motorsport actually does insist on fuel cell future, it's more EV race cars in some situations have problems that cant as yet be overcome plus more importantly some high profile car manufactuers / suppliers have taken huge bets on hydrogen that they are wanting to see return on and trying to make fuel cell / hydrogen be an actual thing. TBH I think most motorsports are more less expecting either alcohols / synth fuel with or without hybrids to take over for longer events and EV's to keep proving they are becoming next to unbeatable in stuff like hillclimbs and lap sprints
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Saukkis posted:Install a longitudal battery at the center line, with openings at the front and back. Drive straight at a fresh battery, let it push the old battery out the back. The Vigilante method.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Oh nice, a new contender for my favorite motorcycle, a spot usually held by the NSU Bison I think my favourite thing about the Satteliterschüssel is the seat. It‘s just a welded on shovel.
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Saukkis posted:Install a longitudal battery at the center line, with openings at the front and back. Drive straight at a fresh battery, let it push the old battery out the back. This is the way.
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I've said it before but I miss when cars were adorable. https://twitter.com/five_m_fd3s/status/1490691164797767682?s=20&t=rTR7rL7lKOW_qmvsWRAxnQ https://twitter.com/1110_Ss1989/status/1491030198338613248?s=20&t=9pTNxq3OEb0Vv6LIL5uXeA Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 13:49 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Humphreys posted:This is the way. I could swear there was a time in cellphone history where it was possible with the „expensive business models with lovely keyboard“ to swap out a battery midcall/use without the thing turning off, but I can‘t remember the exact manufacturer or model…. E: lol, I just imagined the look of my nieces if I told them there was a time where you could swap out cellphone batteries….
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Older MacBook pros with removable batteries let you swap from one to another. You had like a minute before the laptop turned off.
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Chemmy posted:Older MacBook pros with removable batteries let you swap from one to another. You had like a minute before the laptop turned off. As far as I recall you has zero time to do that if it was unplugged and infinite time if it was plugged in.
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You had to close the lid and swap pretty fast on the PB G4, then when you opened the lid it was like nothing happened. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/811624
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So not a MacBook Pro then.....unless it's in a 0 power sleep which.....of course you can do that on anything that's dumped it's RAM to disk and there is no time limit.
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My previous ThinkPad has an internal and a removable battery. It uses the latter first so you have a few hours to swap it out while it runs on the internal one. Would be pretty nifty if I could actually travel and use it outside of WFH setting.
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Yeah old thinkpads can hot-swap packs while on mains. I *think* the pre-magsafe macs could do this too. With an electric car it could be wicked easy. keep a 12-48V battery onboard to keep the controllers alive while the main pack gets hot swapped.
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My ancient dell Laptop had a complete hot-swappable battery when on AC, but ~2016 MSI Desktop replacement (GT72 w/GTX 970M) has one that literally requires the entire computer to be taken apart to access, and even then held in with copious amounts of double sided tape, which I did on the weekend. I was able to take it apart without removing the heatsinks, but barely. Random nerds that take time to document weird little projects like this on youtube are going to be the basis for the future library of Alexandria If the battery ever dies on my Surface Pro, pretty sure its just going to end up as e-waste. Zero clue how to even open it.
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slidebite posted:If the battery ever dies on my Surface Pro, pretty sure its just going to end up as e-waste. Zero clue how to even open it. Like a lot of tablets, it's glued together. They are barely worth trying to repair, because it's really likely you're gonna break the screen unless you have a full on pro heat table. I've spent hours heating and then jamming guitar picks between screens and bezels opening crap like that in the past and I'm so over it.
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I replaced a screen in a iPod like 15 years ago and that was the end of me trying to fix consumer electronics.
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Saukkis posted:Install a longitudal battery at the center line, with openings at the front and back. Drive straight at a fresh battery, let it push the old battery out the back. An 18650 battery is 18mmx65mm so this would be, what, a couple 36013000 batteries? I really like the idea of the pit stop being a car rotisserie where they flip the car over, pop open the hatch, and pull out and 3-4 giant cylindrical batteries, replace cover, and put it back on on its wheels. Preferably with the driver inside the whole time. E: I checked the ifixit guide for replacing the battery in my surface pro 3 and, well, it's just going to spend the rest of its life tethered to the wall. I'm kind of surprised it can still go 1-2 hours unplugged after nearly 8 years (holy poo poo... If someone had walked up and asked me how long I had had that thing I would have been like idk 4 years?) Galler fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I've said it before but I miss when cars were adorable. I was browsing old JDM poo poo and came across the Suzuki Suzulight van.  Itty bitty baby bronco! They also made pickups and other stuff on the same platform. 
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mobby_6kl posted:My previous ThinkPad has an internal and a removable battery. It uses the latter first so you have a few hours to swap it out while it runs on the internal one. Thinkpad T450s? Maybe T460s? I forget which has the removable, but the T460 was the last with the bottom dock connector, as I recall. Also, that asset tag looks very familiar, though, to be honest, it seems like that's a common size for them. cursedshitbox posted:Yeah old thinkpads can hot-swap packs while on mains. I *think* the pre-magsafe macs could do this too. Meanwhile, current MacBook Pros, if the battery is dead, can't even start up while plugged in, just like iPhones. Powershift posted:I was browsing old JDM poo poo and came across the Suzuki Suzulight van. Such a cute little guy!
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Powershift posted:I was browsing old JDM poo poo and came across the Suzuki Suzulight van. Cool as gently caress.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I dont think motorsport actually does insist on fuel cell future, it's more EV race cars in some situations have problems that cant as yet be overcome plus more importantly some high profile car manufactuers / suppliers have taken huge bets on hydrogen that they are wanting to see return on and trying to make fuel cell / hydrogen be an actual thing. ACO(lemans) has gone thru the effort of setting up a whole class with standardized parts for fuel cells and so on to be raced in 2024. They expect their flagship lmp vehicles to be gone while these become the norm. Total is pulling every string they can to have hydrogen classes or special vehicles in french-aligned motorsports(like this years hydrogen truck which had a lot of press on it)
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Powershift posted:I was browsing old JDM poo poo and came across the Suzuki Suzulight van. Awww  These really would make even the Carry look huge! Darchangel posted:Thinkpad T450s? Maybe T460s? I forget which has the removable, but the T460 was the last with the bottom dock connector, as I recall. The new X1 isn't removable any more but there are only a handful of screws holding it in place.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Redline is such a love letter to traditional animation that imo it deserves a watch for that reason alone. wow, I'm waaaay behind on this thread, but if you're still in Cape Town, lets get a beer
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I'm imagining a car running on 18650s just blasting them out the side like a machine gun and you reload in the pits with massive stripper clips. Very Kerbal space program asparagus staging vibes.
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Here's a cool car I haven't seen before (because only 1 exists): Skoda 1100 OHC Coupe   It's a race car from 1959 of which only 2 were built and 1 survived to be restored recently. More stuff here: https://jalopnik.com/skoda-restored-the-only-1100-ohc-coupe-in-the-world-1848503682
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snugglz posted:wow, I'm waaaay behind on this thread, but if you're still in Cape Town, lets get a beer Unfortunately not, bud. I didn't know there was much of a Cape Town representation here! Lovely part of the world. I'll be back at some point though for sure.
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slidebite posted:If the battery ever dies on my Surface Pro, pretty sure its just going to end up as e-waste. Zero clue how to even open it. This guy did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DSqHBC4UsQ
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