Recent content by PC__LoadLetter

It has to be said...

Don't forget that with DC rapid charging (including supercharging), the car that decides how much power it can take, and the charger will supply whatever it can (up to that limit). When the car and the DCFC/Supercharger work out that they trust each other, the car opens circuit breakers from the...

Does anyone remember "Beyond Petroleum"?

It'll be fine. One of the beautiful features Starlink could potentially provide here is multicasting. The available bandwidth could send software updates and roadside wildlife GPS reports to all cars in a specific footprint. Just keep multicasting it until every car has a full copy. Or close...

Wardenclyffe Tower?

The with abuzz air energy?

I had a dry swipe this morning around 7.30am. I don't think it was condensation. I just hit the washers and it didn't happen again. But yeah, wipers in rain seem slightly better now. I drove to Sydney on Saturday, and there was awful rain from Canberra til the southern highlands. The settings...

Only if your audio is set to Bluetooth. If it's set to Spotify, you get nothing. Having said that, on my Samsung S22+ I can customise certain applications to always play alerts on the phone's speaker, regardless of what I'm playing in Tesla Audio. It's in Settings -> Sounds and Vibration ->...

Being able to supercharge makes their pies worth their, umm, premium price!

Try charging. If it lets you, buy a pie in store. If it doesn't, buy a pie drive-thru, and spend 3-5 minutes charging somewhere else. It's not like you have to add that much charge at Exeter to reach CBR. You've already passed the peak of the Southern Highlands at Berrima. It's mostly downhill...

You can make any trip take forever if you use a trip planner that says to spend 4 hours sitting at Menangle Park Platform 2.

Not Goulburn. Bathurst (228.7km) is slightly further from Central by rail than Goulburn (224.9km via the main line or 215km via East Hills). The Bathurst Bullet wins this race. Perhaps the only race it ever wins!

Japan relies on cold hard cash. It's a very safe country. You can drop a wallet with thousands of dollars equivalent and someone will pick it up and run to return it to you. Having a charging network that relies entirely on the banking system is dangerous in a country that allows people to be...

Actually, no. EV charging station operators get gouged mercilessly by the power companies. They're treated as industrial users (think of a small factory). They're charged as if they need huge amounts of power on standby 24x7, on the off chance that the grid might need to supply those huge...