Electric Ford!

[BruceS]

Even with a stop to reset the computer he still takes the record!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTR6vlPjXpY

[BernieQ2]

One thing I noticed while in Sydney a few weeks back...was the amount of Tesla's on the road.
Bernie.

[T1 Terry]

What is impressive with these Super Truck EV's yr on yr from Ford, is the battery technology. That would take a lot of battery power to push the truck so has up that hill, but it never eased up all the way through the finish line.
I wonder if this one will be the race circuit tour as well, it would be interesting seeing how quick it was around Bathurst compared to the van last time

T1 Terry

[jon_d]

One thing I noticed while in Sydney a few weeks back...was the amount of Tesla's on the road.
Bernie.

I think that is due to all the safety software.

[T1 Terry]

One thing I noticed while in Sydney a few weeks back...was the amount of Tesla's on the road.
Bernie.

I think that is due to all the safety software.

I think it's just that Tesla is the most noticeable when passing them on the road. There are a lot of EVs on the road now, but unless you know what to look for, you wouldn't realise it is an EV. No front grille is the stand out feature, but the modern hybrids these days run a tiny petrol motor powered genset as a back up for the battery and electric motor drive. BMW do this with a motorcycle engine in the boot area, nice and flat so it doesn't take up much room.

They are no longer assists for the petrol engine but rather regen capacity for the electric motor. Toyota started this idea with the Prius in the early 2000's, as the generations improve, the battery gets bigger, the engine capacity seems to get bigger but they use variable cam timing to reduce the actual capacity by holding the inlet valve open for part of the compression stroke. This not only reduces the cyl air volume so the amount of fuel needed to achieve the 15:1 air/fuel ratio, but also controls the max compression and pumping air into the inlet manifold to feed the next cyl on it's intake cycle, thus conserving some of the pumping energy and ensuring a full flush of the combustion chamber to get rid of all the exhaust gas ..... plus it feeds air into the exhaust to finish off burning and hydrocarbons that remain and completing burn of any partly burnt gases to reduce the carbon monoxide and Nox in the exhaust gas, before it enters the catalytic converter .....

But, back to the pure BEV concentration on the roads now, the ACT just clocked up 10,000EVs registered there .... still only 3% of the total registered vehicles, but how many EVs would that be in each state if those % of the total state rego was pure EV? That's a lot of fuel burners off the road .......

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

Found this on the AEVA forum

BEV registrations NSW.png

Interesting that the early days were probably enthusiast EV conversions with the older lead acid battery technology, so very poor range and when the batteries died for probably the second time, so did the enthusiasm for that build and a new one was started, the old one sold to another enthusiast ....
The uptake started back in 2009 and even through the Covid lock downs, EV's still sold well. Even though the curve shows a slowing in 2024, keep in mind, each step up in the graph is now much bigger numbers than at the beginning ....

T1 Terry

[jon_d]

One thing I noticed while in Sydney a few weeks back...was the amount of Tesla's on the road.
Bernie.

I think that is due to all the safety software.

I think it's just that Tesla is the most noticeable when passing them on the road. There are a lot of EVs on the road now, but unless you know what to look for, you wouldn't realise it is an EV. No front grille is the stand out feature, but the modern hybrids these days run a tiny petrol motor powered genset as a back up for the battery and electric motor drive. BMW do this with a motorcycle engine in the boot area, nice and flat so it doesn't take up much room.

They are no longer assists for the petrol engine but rather regen capacity for the electric motor. Toyota started this idea with the Prius in the early 2000's, as the generations improve, the battery gets bigger, the engine capacity seems to get bigger but they use variable cam timing to reduce the actual capacity by holding the inlet valve open for part of the compression stroke. This not only reduces the cyl air volume so the amount of fuel needed to achieve the 15:1 air/fuel ratio, but also controls the max compression and pumping air into the inlet manifold to feed the next cyl on it's intake cycle, thus conserving some of the pumping energy and ensuring a full flush of the combustion chamber to get rid of all the exhaust gas ..... plus it feeds air into the exhaust to finish off burning and hydrocarbons that remain and completing burn of any partly burnt gases to reduce the carbon monoxide and Nox in the exhaust gas, before it enters the catalytic converter .....

But, back to the pure BEV concentration on the roads now, the ACT just clocked up 10,000EVs registered there .... still only 3% of the total registered vehicles, but how many EVs would that be in each state if those % of the total state rego was pure EV? That's a lot of fuel burners off the road .......

T1 Terry

Oh, thank you for the explanation. I thought it was just the safety software keeping them off the foot path.

[T1 Terry]

They all have that now, the lane keep assist (LKA) and emergency lane keep assist (EKA) can be a problem in some EVs like the MG4 range, but the latest upgrades have appeared to reduce the steering correction to a warning assist rather than having to fight it for control ..... some people need to lose a door once in while to get them to look before they swing the door open into an approaching vehicle.
The mess the line markers make when changing lane markers and just putting a spray of tar over the old lines can cause chaos if the vehicle tries to do the driving and the operators isn't paying attention.

I recommend good crash protection front and rear if Elon gets his way and driverless vehicles make it onto Aussie roads .......

T1 Terry

[BernieQ2]

I've seen a lot of driverless cars in Australia... with drivers in them .
I read the other day that the ACT now has 10,000 EVs..
Bernie

[supersparky]

They all have that now, the lane keep assist (LKA) and emergency lane keep assist (EKA) can be a problem in some EVs like the MG4 range, but the latest upgrades have appeared to reduce the steering correction to a warning assist rather than having to fight it for control ..... some people need to lose a door once in while to get them to look before they swing the door open into an approaching vehicle.
The mess the line markers make when changing lane markers and just putting a spray of tar over the old lines can cause chaos if the vehicle tries to do the driving and the operators isn't paying attention.

I recommend good crash protection front and rear if Elon gets his way and driverless vehicles make it onto Aussie roads .......

T1 Terry

It's not just the late model steering correction vehicles that have trouble. When its wet and dark its bloody hard to tell where on the road you need to be. I think the 'blow over with a lick of tar' is less than satisfactory.