Actually, They should quote the time to fill up the ICE by multiplying the number of jerrycans you need to fill the tank by the time it takes to walk to the nearest gas station. That would be an equally crippled number as their deliberate limitation to the lowest power recharging option available....
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cor van de Water Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 4:42 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] ? What type of TopGear shenanigans are going to beplayed this time ? Next time they should quote the time to refuel their ICE test car as 3+ hours or something like that: - drive the test car on the track until the fuel tank is dry and the car stalls - either call roadside assistance (meaning that the price of refueling now includes your roadside assistance charges) or walk to the nearest gas station with a jerrycan, pump gas, then walk back to the test car - after the minimum amount of gas was put into the test car, it still must be driven to the gas station to properly fill it up. The whole process should take at least 3 hours including the walk or the wait for the roadside assistance This should give a good side by side comparison for the way that TG is typically testing vehicles (or at least, presenting them to the public)... I can think of other things they might present, TG's "reality" appears to be only limited by their imagination, not by common sense. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Johnston Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 4:25 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] ? What type of TopGear shenanigans are going to be played this time ? On 2013-07-22 2:07 PM, brucedp5 wrote: > I added the BBC-America schedule to the bottom of that newswire so U.S. > members could plan to watch it, but because UK members will be able to see > the episode before the rest of us, perhaps they can watch it and let us know > how fair the report was. He liked it. Quite a lot. But (obviously) slammed it for range problems when driving it on a track. And for being almost twice the price of the "AMG Black" version of the same car he also had on the test track at the same time. They also quoted a "20 hour" recharge time, which they probably figured (stupidly) using a "13-amp wall socket" as a charging source. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
