You mean like radio and stuff? Yeah, that's getting pretty fancy. I feel pretty techno-geeky plugging an IPod into the factory cassette using one of those tape with a wire dangling setups... On Mar 17, 2014 10:49 AM, "Bill Woodcock" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I picked up a Ford C-Max Energi last year and, while I just take regen for > granted in my full EVs, I actually appreciate the regen in the plug-in > hybrid more... When you're taking a longer trip, and switch over to gas, the > regen is still working. So it's regenerating electricity from kinetic > energy that was generated with gasoline. Sounds obvious, once you think of > it, but I'd never really considered what a benefit that is, nor how much > better it would make me feel about the gasoline portion of longer trips. > Particularly in stop-and-go traffic. It's one of the things that makes me > happiest about the car. > > Another general observation about car satisfaction... There's a real > watershed around 2011, where special "features" like proximity keys, > automatic headlights, bluetooth integration, MP3 indexing of USB storage > devices, etc., became standard relatively far down the product lines of > Ford-family and Volkswagen-family vehicles. They're huge companies, and > put a lot of work into making those things work in their high-end vehicles. > They're all features that could be had, previously, in really expensive > vehicles. But now that the performance of the vehicle computer isn't a > contributor to the cost of the vehicle, and the marginal cost of > replicating the features in software is essentially zero, there's no reason > for those companies not to roll many of those features into their low-end > vehicles, to make them more competitive than similarly low-end vehicles > from other manufacturers who haven't done that work. And it better > amortizes the software development costs, over a much larger number of > vehicles sold. So they just do it. And it makes for a significantly > better car-ownership experience. If you haven't owned a post-2011 vehicle, > and can afford to switch to one, you may find yourself happy with a cheaper > car than you'd expect. Those little things really add up, and make a > difference. > > -Bill > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 841 bytes > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140317/1a2f3699/attachment.pgp > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140317/c1aa1b78/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
