In fact it's a case of business model. The business model of dealers becomes obsolete once cars need much less service, once they become electric. Dealership is good at selling cars with options, and performing warranty maintenance. That is not needed for electric cars, Tesla or others.
>> Mazda powertrain chief Mitsuo Hitomi said that the main goal with Skyactiv-3 is to increase the engine's thermal efficiency to roughly 56 percent. Yeah. Not really. A typical gasoline engine may have an efficiency of 20-30% at best. The maximum efficency of an otto cycle gasoline engine is 40-47%, which is limited by physics. More would mean a different cycle needs to be used. You can't beat entropy. https://physics.stackexchange....
Moreover all these efficiencies are totally misleading and completely wrong for an automobile. The real efficiency of a gasoline engine may be 30%. But the real average efficiency of a gas engine in a car is no more than 12% !!!! Why ? because this top efficiency is only achieved at a single point in the motor torque/rpm graph. At all other regimes, the efficiency drops like a rock into the Marianna trench. The real world gas powered engine efficiency is 12% at best. Diesel achieves 15-17% at best.
>> Nuclear energy is the cheapest form above all the others
Nope. That was 30years ago, when nuke was subventionned because of the need to make nasty bombs. Nowadays solar is the cheapest source of electricity. Unsubventionned.
>>This makes used electric vehicles much less attractive because they have a very expensive, unavoidable cost lurking in the future Nah, that's not the case any more. On today's vehicles with big range, the battery outlasts the car on a factor 3x. The question is not any more, "what will I do with the car once the Batttery is dead?", but rather "what will I do with the battery once the car around it is worn out ?"
>> Their ban is terrible for the environment. Not as much as you think. It'll make packaging more expensive, thus less attractive, so manufacturers will reduce packaging on the long run.
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In fact it's a case of business model.
The business model of dealers becomes obsolete once cars need much less service, once they become electric.
Dealership is good at selling cars with options, and performing warranty maintenance.
That is not needed for electric cars, Tesla or others.
>> Mazda powertrain chief Mitsuo Hitomi said that the main goal with Skyactiv-3 is to increase the engine's thermal efficiency to roughly 56 percent.
Yeah. Not really.
A typical gasoline engine may have an efficiency of 20-30% at best.
The maximum efficency of an otto cycle gasoline engine is 40-47%, which is limited by physics.
More would mean a different cycle needs to be used. You can't beat entropy.
https://physics.stackexchange....
Moreover all these efficiencies are totally misleading and completely wrong for an automobile.
The real efficiency of a gasoline engine may be 30%. But the real average efficiency of a gas engine in a car is no more than 12% !!!!
Why ? because this top efficiency is only achieved at a single point in the motor torque/rpm graph.
At all other regimes, the efficiency drops like a rock into the Marianna trench.
The real world gas powered engine efficiency is 12% at best. Diesel achieves 15-17% at best.
Mazda doesn't have a clue...
Mazda doesn't have a clue.
Just repeat it. That's much more readable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
Right !
Adopt a fiber optic cable
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic...
Yeah, even tesla partnered with NVidia, so this could be interesting :)
Not sure we want to see all this crappy source code.
Many eyeballs would bleed.
>> If it means fewer advertisements before minor videos, great.
There are no ads before videos.
Yeah. China is annihilating efficiently the desert dust by removing the desert and replacing it with Industry.
>> So, CA outsourced its base-load
CA outsources base load as far as 50 million km.
>> Reprocessing spend fuel just produces more waste, roughly a factor of ten.
Yes. technically, it can be called "dilution"
They basically extract the bomb making part, and dilute the rest of it.
>> Nuclear energy is the cheapest form above all the others
Nope.
That was 30years ago, when nuke was subventionned because of the need to make nasty bombs.
Nowadays solar is the cheapest source of electricity. Unsubventionned.
Next country to be "unnuked" : Germany :)
(male) Ninja turtles have a mega orgy
The ones before are very very relevant also
http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-...
http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-...
http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-...
That's good, because 99.99% of the EV owners are not stuck with a dead battery.
>>This makes used electric vehicles much less attractive because they have a very expensive, unavoidable cost lurking in the future
Nah, that's not the case any more.
On today's vehicles with big range, the battery outlasts the car on a factor 3x.
The question is not any more, "what will I do with the car once the Batttery is dead?", but rather "what will I do with the battery once the car around it is worn out ?"
>> Their ban is terrible for the environment.
Not as much as you think.
It'll make packaging more expensive, thus less attractive, so manufacturers will reduce packaging on the long run.
Bingo !
demand and supply
Seriously guys, this is already done, what's the point ?
http://www.ulyces.co/wp-conten...
>> NSA approved vendors.
Like HP ?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Backdoors included.
>> Then, please, by all means do explain the sheer number of stories we've seen about Chinese products
Bad Press.
Also called propaganda.