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Plug-in electric cars are probably going to take off more in Canada once everyone realizes that you can scam free gas from wherever you park by hooking up into the block heater outlet. Most places don't switch them off in the summer, and I've seen people run extension cords from the outlet, pinch it in their window and then put a small space heater or fan on the floor of the car so it's toasty/cool when you get back to the car. Thanks, block-shattering temperatures. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Jan 18, 2012 |
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The gasoline version of the Fortwo also recommends 91 octane (or at least it did in '08), which I can guarantee you isn't helping the perception of performance because I suspect most people just jam 87 in there.
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Jan 22, 2012 16:43
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I'll wait until they add the sound from the Jetsons' cars. Some of the Lexus hybrids already make a little beedle-beedle sound as you're stopping so they just need to figure that out and play it over the exterior speaker all the time.
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Jan 23, 2012 20:26
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BonzoESC posted:I'm trying to find this on youtube and all I'm coming up with is LF-A sounds. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Jan 23, 2012 |
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Jan 23, 2012 22:17
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Jared592 posted:That's pretty cool, sounds like an electric guitar at the end of a song with the strings un-muted just before it starts feeding back. 
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Jan 24, 2012 16:08
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Plug-in electric cars are probably going to take off more in Canada once everyone realizes that you can scam free gas from wherever you park by hooking up into the block heater outlet. http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/01/canadian-condo-wont-let-chevrolet-volt-owner-charge-his-car/ That didn't take long!
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Jan 27, 2012 18:41
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movax posted:Poor battery packs I'm not really surprised, though the Karma does have kind of a habit of catching on fire when it's dry, too: http://www.insideline.com/fisker/karma/uncertainty-surrounds-fisker-karma-fire-automaker-contends.html http://www.insideline.com/fisker/karma/2012/second-2012-fisker-karma-fire-under-investigation.html Congrats on the mod position.
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I hope the cars were submerged considerably under water, or otherwise subject to some huge deluge of water. If they weren't, then, well, it's a bit scary, anywhere where water can cause a short should be sealed/protected/etc.
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duz posted:My Leaf had a popup on the dash that it was cold outside yesterday. I'll have to take a picture next time, it had a snowflake and everything.
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ExecuDork posted:Cold really does terrible things to batteries, I'm impressed there are as many hybrid and electric-car owners in Canada as there are. Do any of the currently-available or planned-for-soon EVs have something like a block heater (but for the battery) as an option? Two cords to plug in? Doesn't seem to have extended to my dad's HS250h that just basically goes "you're on your own, here's gas motor, bitch" as soon as it drops below -10. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Dec 15, 2012 |
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Dec 15, 2012 00:37
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It's better than that other guy got where the car just refused to let go of its charger and ended up stranding the writer. http://jalopnik.com/5965858/this-is-what-happens-when-your-tesla-model-s-stops-working It is pretty cool they will send Harry Tuttle to your house to fix it.
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IOwnCalculus posted:If he was someone I only talked to once in a rare while I'd think about that, but I worked for him for a few years and we've got a good enough relationship that he knows me better than that So tell him that's what you told him. Then go buy your car after he's done. You know he wants to. You're just giving him the excuse. Maybe there's even some Fed subsidy dollars he can get in exchange for the work.
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