I’m sure Tesla is designed in millimetres, I’ve been very interested in this car, it is too expensive for me as well, hard to justify. I’ve had a look at the literature for Tesla in Europe and find that it’s mostly written from a US centric point of view, many of the examples use miles and other non metric units. Not the brightest marketing people.
I just ordered a Renault Zoe which I believe is the Nissan leaf in the USA. I’m very impressed with the car, the range is rather short at 150 km but there are a number of places to recharge at the dealer’s 23,5 kWh charge station while you have a coffee for 30 minutes. The normal in home charger puts out 7,5 kWh on 220 Volts. Mike Payne On 05 Jun 2014, at 08:52, Mark Henschel <[email protected]> wrote: > I see there might be some of you out there that have an open mind concerning > solar energy. If so, you might be interested in the raffle of the Tesla > coming up in Illinois by the Illinois Solar Energy Association in a few > months. > I found it interesting that my accountant was interested in a Tesla. She is > heavily invested in coal, natural gas and oil, so for her to come out in > support of electric cars that can be powered by the Sun is something > significant. > > I'm not sure if the Tesla is metric or has metric speedometers or > temperature measurements, but this might be a way to find out. I am not a > $60,000 car guy, I am more of a $20,000.00 car guy (if I can get a loan) or > maybe even $3,500.00 if I have to pay cash. > > Anyway, tickets for the raffle are $100.00 and you can get four tickets for > $300.00. Just check out the Illinois Solar Energy Site at > www.illinoissolar.org for details on buying raffle tickets. Years ago there > was a strong metric proponent (besides me) in the Illinois Solar Energy > Association, but I think Ken Woods might have died or retired by this time. > > Mark > > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Mark Henschel <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking of the planet Earth, there are some very quick solar energy > calculations that can be made using the fact that 10,000 km is the distance > from the North Pole to the Equator. > > Let's suppose the Solar Constant is 1 kilowatt per square meter. Thus for > every square meter of the planet Earth, we get 1,000 watts of energy. I know > it is actually a bigger number than that, but I want to make the math simple. > > So let's look at a square kilometer. That is 1,000 meters by 1,000 meters or > 1,000,000 square meters. Thus, for every square kilometer of Earth, we get > 1,000,000,000 watts of energy from the Sun. All the time. For free. Except > at night, but that problem can be solved using pumped water storage > facilities such as are in place in Ludington, Michigan. But I digress. > > Now, if every square kilometer of the USA gets 1 billion watts of energy from > the sun whenever the Sun shines, (about five city blocks squared or in > Chicago, 25 square city blocks of area), how much does the USA get, and can > we be energy self-sufficient from solar energy alone? > > Well, suppose the USA is 4,000 kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean to the > Pacific Ocean. Then 2,000 kilometers from Canada to Mexico. This gives us > 2,000 times 4,000 or 8,000,000 square kilometers,. Multiply 8,000,000 square > kilometers times 1 billion watts per square kilometer and we get, wow, 8 > followed by 15 zeros, or 8,000,000,000,000,000 watts, certainly more energy > than the USA uses in an entire year. > > Mark > > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:09 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I reached 2 Mm upon arriving to work this morning (see photo of odometer). > Two megameters is 5% of the circumfrence of Earth (see other photo). Just for > fun, have a look at this survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/G9YG2VX and > see if you can correctly answer quetsions 8 and 9 about riding a bike at 20 > km/h (you can find other surveys at Metric Pioneer). > > ----- Message from [email protected] --------- > Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 21:28:31 -0800 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Odometer > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Cc: Metric Pioneer <[email protected]> > >> Greetings all. I installed a CatEye Velo 5 Bicycle Computer at end of July >> 2013 CE and Friday the odometer turned a thousand kilometers. I was inspired >> to take a photo, which is kind of blurry, but it reads 1000.0 on odometer. I >> peddle a little over five kilometers each way to work and back, so my daily >> commute is about the same distance (almost 11 km) from surface of ocean to >> bottom of Mariana Trench, which is currently deepest part of any Earth >> ocean. My weight was over 100 kg but since I switched from bus to bike and >> started eating less, I have brought my weight down to around 90 kg and hope >> to lose even more. I attach photo of blurry odometer reading and bike (that >> my son bought for me on Fathers Day) with Metric Pioneer bumper sticker >> proudly displayed. I would be happy to send any recipient of this email a >> free Metric Pioneer bumper sticker; just reply and let me know where to send >> it. Thanks. >> David Pearl MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 >> > > > > ----- End message from [email protected] ----- > > > David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917 > >
