Electric Vehicles

[Dave20046]

Looks great LP. Love the excitement of a new vehicle! If I'm not imagining being on the road I'm normally thinking up tweaks for it, I was about to say not a lot you can do with a new car - but you mentioned detailers?!

[Luckypants]

If you are on Facebook this link should work...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...07817563914375

[Dave20046]

V shiny! Brings out the goooold

always believe id

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

The brake lights operate when braking force goes above a certain amount. My wife followed me home from picking it up and said I seemed to be using the brakes a lot, but I wasn't.

It doesn't check the rear camera for hazards before braking as far as I'm aware

I am just a bit wary of these cars that decide how you drive. Mind you ,it might have saved me an SP30 in Dorset a few years ago ! ( if it could have spotted the small 30 limit sign that is !)

[admin]

Very nice, I like the colour too. Harry's Garage reviewed the id3 recently, he was impressed too. His car seemed to have a warning buzzer if both hands weren't on the steering wheel. It's that a thing or did I imagine it?

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[Luckypants]

Its part of the lane keep assist system. Detects if you are moving the wheel or not. No movements indicate not holding or fallen asleep/passed out, so shakes the wheel and eventually a buzzer goes off. If no response at the wheel, that car should stop on the assumption of driver emergency. Lots of cars have this now.

[Craig380]

Which model did you go for, powertrain-wise?

Until last July I had a 225xe plug-in hybrid as a company car, which I absolutely loved. In 'sport' mode the petrol engine and electric motor combined to give the full 225bhp and 285 lb-ft of torque with 4WD traction, and (literally) electric throttle response. It gave fantastic overtaking punch, making it a very quick car on A- and B-roads. I never, ever got tired of that instant go.

[Luckypants]

Currently only one power train available on the ID4. That is the 204bhp RWD drive model with the 82kWh battery (77kWh usable). If we are going to discuss the ID.4, may I suggest we move over the electric vehicle thread to avoid hijacking this one?

[BoltonSte]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Developed at Manchester university wasn't it? Thought there were all sorts of possible uses for it ! The cost might be a problem though.
What were you trialling it for ?

No not pencils - Felt tips.

As is often the case it was discovered before any real world applications and they're still trying to find out what it can do.
I know that it is being used in things which need to be conductive which typically required a lot of Carbon to do so. Thinks flammable liquid transfer.

I was looking at a similar application (new to our field), got it to work, but ahead of it's time.

I've seen the battery example at UofM.

UofM are looking at conductive inks for security applications.

There was talk of touch screen type tech, using it to protect as it should be hard wearing. World is your mollusc of choice, although it's not that easy to work with, takes a lot of energy to make and the commercial material isn't the "1 molecule thick flat sheet" that was touted originally.

[admin]

Could be of interest
https://scitechdaily.com/big-breakth...ious-versions/

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