Thread: RUC increases

to give you an idea, average ICE fire is 3000 gallons of water
EV's about 20,000.
the water is not put on to extinguish the fire its to try to cool the remaining battery pack down so far that it doesnt ignite from the ones already burning ( think string of "double happies")
but then the vehicle must be monitored for 3 days afterwards just in case it re-ignites.
i repair allot of stuff with lithium batteries, the main issue i find is that they are trying to fit as much power into the same space and to hell with any safety measures. i had to recharge a dead flat battery about the size of a dolphin torch battery. i put it in a cast pot on my back lawn while charging. it ignited and burnt the grass underneath as it got the pot so hot.

as for the RU increases its more BS tax grabbing and virtue signalling

Originally Posted by gonetropo

to give you an idea, average ICE fire is 3000 gallons of water
EV's about 20,000.
the water is not put on to extinguish the fire its to try to cool the remaining battery pack down so far that it doesnt ignite from the ones already burning ( think string of "double happies")
but then the vehicle must be monitored for 3 days afterwards just in case it re-ignites.
i repair allot of stuff with lithium batteries, the main issue i find is that they are trying to fit as much power into the same space and to hell with any safety measures. i had to recharge a dead flat battery about the size of a dolphin torch battery. i put it in a cast pot on my back lawn while charging. it ignited and burnt the grass underneath as it got the pot so hot.

as for the RU increases its more BS tax grabbing and virtue signalling

The cells out of tool batteries are great to shoot on the range.

considering the present political volatility and impending elections price increases would be like wheeling a full casket into a wedding methinks?a vote killer150%

Originally Posted by kotuku

considering the present political volatility and impending elections price increases would be like wheeling a full casket into a wedding methinks?a vote killer150%

It's happened before. Grandad died 2 days before one of the cousins got married, bit of head scratching then it was decided to park grandad in a side chapel and box on with the wedding.

Reminds me of that hilarious kiwi movie from away back, called "Carry me home"
Grandpa died down south somewhere, and they took him across Cook strait on the ferry, in one of those old oak wardrobes sticking out of the back of a mini.
Trouble was, he started to stink, and they got followed everywhere by flies.
Hilarious movie, bit too un-PC these days.
We've forgotten how to laugh at ourselves.

Originally Posted by Brasso

Reminds me of that hilarious kiwi movie from away back, called "Carry me home"
Grandpa died down south somewhere, and they took him across Cook strait on the ferry, in one of those old oak wardrobes sticking out of the back of a mini.
Trouble was, he started to stink, and they got followed everywhere by flies.
Hilarious movie, bit too un-PC these days.
We've forgotten how to laugh at ourselves.

...or just tired of bullshit.

And just wait until they have a critical mass of EVs out there. Once they get to a certain point they will say yup, got enough to keep the greenness mildly happy and then wack on RUCs for them too.
There is no way they will miss out on taxing them eventually

Originally Posted by csmiffy

And just wait until they have a critical mass of EVs out there. Once they get to a certain point they will say yup, got enough to keep the greenness mildly happy and then wack on RUCs for them too.
There is no way they will miss out on taxing them eventually

Bloody things should have RUC now, people can save the planet all they want but still need to pay for the infrastructure to drive on

With the state off the roads around Gisborne at the moment i was hoping for a %100 discount.
For the last couple weeks i have been in 4wd getting up my road before this l week ends rain event. If you try to drive through the pot holes i bottom out in a 4wd ute. A standard car can not make it up my road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOA7qKMcjcE

well worth a look

That should be vehicle age - within the stats the older the vehicle the more likely the chances of popping there are.

And to add to that @gonetropo, check out the hundreds of thousands of BYD's parked up all over China. Brand new and registered...and left to rot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8

yep, seen that vid.
well worth a view

One of the issues they are just uncovering is the tyre wear factor with EV's is way higher than an equivalent lighter ICE car, and this creates a lot more generation of what is called PM2.5 from the rubber compounds. This is Particulate Matter 2.5micron, meaning tiny little bits of rubber that can be airborne and are small enough to lodge into the fine blood vessels in our brains leading to a higher risk of acute and chronic brain failure illnesses (stroke, TIA, etc etc). So that little EV driving gloating plick actually isn't as good for the environment and your health at all!

On the button No3
The latest statistics are that pollution from tyres is 2000 time that from vehicle exhausts.