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EV Owners Thread
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markemark
Veteran
Having just come back from the States and seeing a number of Cybertrucks, they look lethal. The edges are so sharp that even a low speed collision looks like it will rip apart anything squidgy.
figbat
Slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
One difficulty with having a Cybertruck here is that is is steer-by-wire, which is not approvals in the UK. It’ll be a hell of a lot of work to install a physical steering system in its place.
Steer by wire is approved just not widely taken up
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Will never get approved, hit a pedestrian, splat.
I'm not sure why you'd want one over here anyway. You'd be constantly getting stuck due to it being stupidly wide, and you'd never be able to park it anywhere.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Guy at work loves his model 3. Lease is coming up, and he was thinking of buying it, or getting a new one, but Musk's views have tainted his views, especially as he is Jewish ! I did say he could get a sticker - "I bought this car before Musk became an idiot" - widely available.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
People drive massive American trucks over here - there maybe one owner on this very thread (not me).
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Not only that, i'm sure I saw something on the interweb about a lack of crumple zones, and the lighting being not to E.U spec, and would require a complete redesign for the lighting alone, so we won't be seeing them here any time soon
You know those big things that fly across your towns and cities have been using steer by wire for decades.
The system on Tesla has redundancy back up systems
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
The Cybertruck is narrower than my Ford F150 Raptor (not the European Ford Raptor)
Yes me, I've driven through cities and MacDonald drive through.People drive massive American trucks over here - there maybe one owner on this very thread (not me).
It's a big old beastie, most other vehicles just get out of the way, it has 36" tyres so goes over most obstacles.
In the early years I would get folk taking pictures, kids pointing and cheering.
My kids were embarrassed to go to school in it, but then they found the other kids like to see it, so it all changed for getting lifts here and there 🤣
Big pick-ups are far more common -mine is pretty rare in the UK being a US model
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
As do aircraft, usually quadrupled back up, sometimes with a basic hydraulic back up too, but the bottom line is, if the steer generator fails, none of it will work in a car application
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
What's the deal with EV specific tyres?
The manufacturers claim advantages such as
A - electric cars have instant acceleration so need hard wearing tyres (I just call them hard compound tyres)
B - they need to last long (yeah, hard compound again)
Before EV cars, they were fast and slow. The fast cars has soft compound tyres, the slower cars didn't need cornering grip and acceleration and hard braking properties, so went with harder compound tyres.The harder compound tyres were cheaper.
Now, with EVs, aren't these cheaper, hard compound tyres, just being re-sold at a higher price, or are there some real differences between EV and "normal" tyres?
The manufacturers claim advantages such as
A - electric cars have instant acceleration so need hard wearing tyres (I just call them hard compound tyres)
B - they need to last long (yeah, hard compound again)
Before EV cars, they were fast and slow. The fast cars has soft compound tyres, the slower cars didn't need cornering grip and acceleration and hard braking properties, so went with harder compound tyres.The harder compound tyres were cheaper.
Now, with EVs, aren't these cheaper, hard compound tyres, just being re-sold at a higher price, or are there some real differences between EV and "normal" tyres?
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