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Hi Brian, You live in a place where hydrogen fuel could soon be available. Is the Mirai the gave you to use a test car? Do not believe that Toyota is stopping hydrogen making progress with hydrogen cars. They are one of the companies having invested and now have cars ready for production only waiting for the fuel stations net to be ready to refuel the cars. No much fun having a car that cannot get fuel when needed. When you are offered a hydrogen courtesy car, they must have somewhere to refuel it and that is all needed. Honda, Hyundai and Toyota have cars ready. GM and Mercedes believe that hydrogen will take big part in fuel in 2028, and some hope sooner. GR Corolla equipped with a 1.6l 3-cylinder turbo hydrogen combustion engine. Toyota converted an AE86 from gasoline to hydrogen and claim this hydrogen car only involved changing the “fuel injectors, fuel pipes, and spark plugs.” The appeal of converting older vehicles into hydrogen cars to slash their carbon footprint. Honda reveals a new CR-V for 2024. The car will have 2 H2 tanks installed so not just an update of the CR-V.

Not sure if I remember right, but think we paid around 130 - 150€ a year for the Golf, the 0€ for the CT is much better.

Here we can go to markets a bit up in the mountains and buy very fresh vegetables (dug op same night) and fruit. Not much cheaper than in market in town but so fresh, that when the vegetables have been in our refrigerator a week, they would still be at least as fresh as those we can buy in supermarkets.

Do not know how much the different groups of fuel economy mean as most tyres have a C, some a B mentioned when it comes to fuel efficiency. Do not remember having ever seen A as that. Cannot find anywhere useful informing how much difference between these groups and if there are no in A group why it is there. Some claim that all season tyres are less economic and some places difference between A and G is less than 10%. If that is so then the rating is worth very little. Braking efficiency in wet is well explained, noise a bit less and fuel economy not at all.

You can all blame it on temperature as cold in winter is normal where you are. What do I blame it on? Temperature at night here is very seldom below 15°C. But here we have mountains. Pancake flat countries seems to be better for hybrid than a tiny island where up and down is normal. Around 6.8 – 7L/100km is what we have here in consume, 98 octanes Super SHELL or BP. Car serviced always with Lexus and they tell me that consume is normal. The 3.8L/100km Lexus claimed the CT would consume can be taken with whichever kind of honesty you consider OK. All factories claim something a bit better than real life show. We do like the tiny car and it brings us around and all is great. We live with the extra fuel in the CT compared to the Golf 2.0tdi DSG 2005 we had before. 5L/100km diesel. The CT has no black clouds out of the exhaust pipe. Next car will definitely not be a hybrid if fuel consume is considered.

Service with Lexus at 80K Km they did what they had to do I suppose, and on the bill was auto-transmission oil mentioned, so that must be on the to-do list here. Did not ask for anything other than service; mostly for hybrid battery check.

The fun element: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE

nuclear fusion - nuclear fission Source of energy with potential to solve all energy needs. Possibly a way to make stupid people they need so much more energy to do so many things and get so much not at all needed. Just think of why we need so much energy to transport stupid thing of ridiculously poor quality around the world. Fusion has been tested and found possible. Producing more energy than put into producing the energy. Nuclear power like in nuclear plants around the world is in itself not more dangerous than many other things we play around with. In hands of wrong people it is as dangerous as much other. Your thinking is almost as unsympathetic as mine. That you think politicians from many different places can agree on as much as you seem to think is where our thoughts about politicians' brains differ. Lucky circumstances can sometimes make fools react almost intelligently.

Very much correct. When materials are no longer available reusing the old will be needed. That points to the fact that batteries like they are made now is in no way the solution to store power. When something needed is no longer there something else will be needed. water Ò hydrogen Ò water Ò hydrogen Ò water Ò hydrogen Ò water Ò hydrogen Ò water Ò hydrogen Ò does not seem to me to suffer from that problem. Battery cars are for those having own charging station home and when politicians find out they need tax money some will be taken from owners of whatever is available and if most of what is available in cars will be EV cars, that will be that, then.

Not all VW claim is nonsense. Not all any factory say about their products are 100% correct. I have been in Sahara in a very old Beetle. LiIon have been around a long time and not really a major disaster. Then they were not bonded like the gigantic car batteries in almost impossible to dissolve glue as they were before only used in tiny size and were not made to be shaken around like batteries in a car should be able to. That glue and many other items in the battery packs are not going to be reused.

This is very beautiful, if it was not from somebody that are very much pro EV cars. The mentioning of VW part-recycling is as trustworthy as when VW said that diesel cars pollute very little. Or as when they tried to hide it when revealed. That the black powder is containing the valuable minerals all together mean that somebody competent will have to separate them into useful products. A competent chemist will hardly do it free of charge and who will know how much energy that will use. All the not really needed materials will be dumped as nobody want to pay for something used if new can be bought cheaper.

Can you find any place informing how much energy needs to be used and pollution will come from recycling the batteries. I cannot. Can you find anywhere telling you if it will be considered economically worth to recycle the batteries as no matter how much something is needed it will only be done if profiting.

I’m sorry. I cannot see any meaning in any of this you write. Sounds as if you are angry and have completely lost ability to communicate.

Digital currencies are badly needed. Which other ways are there for people buying what is illegal on the dark web? Does Bank of England support that? What are you saying? You are a naughty one.

EV batteries, solar panels, wind mills, when they are dead, they will be landfill - somewhere. Maybe a new mountain? The materials in them that is precious will be taken out and the rest disposed of. 5% of batteries or maybe a little more will be reused with a lot of power to get the rare metal out of the glue and other garbage that is bonding the batteries. Solar panels maybe not quite so bad and wind mills have much larger percentage of reusable material, but still a lot of resin (glue) and other stuff that is not economic to reuse. We screw ourselves by the way we live. Left-overs from nuclear power may be more dangerous than the left-overs from our preferred so-called green energy producers, but much smaller in volume and for the time being might be what can help us most. Water running down from mountains have provided countries like Norway and Sweden with enough electricity for many years, till suddenly much more electricity was needed. Why? Much of the power, we think we need, is used transporting things we do not really need around the world. Oh yes, we do need it to keep economy growing so the rich can get richer and the poor can go drown themselves. The moon has been walked on, and not many recognise that it provides the largest power source in the world: The tide. Nobody cares to use that. Confusion and stupidity are destroying the planet we are leaving to our children. Or do we think that they will be so much smarter that they can clean up the mess we leave?

Cut it down to cost and nothing else is not that difficult. Walking instead of driving a car is better for environment, but maybe not for economy. Destroying the planet to get something that there suddenly will be no more of might not seem so smart. And prioritising clean air in the city you live in and screw the people that live in the places where materials for the batteries are dug out and where the batteries are made is not very nice in my eyes. What I mean about people that can accept that is not polite enough to write here.

Innocent till proven guilty. The politicians cannot claim not knowing anything of what they are doing. They are not bribed. Oh no! That is not permitted. They are being influenced, by lobbyists that are paid. Unfortunately for some politicians they are being caught in knowing they are lying, some even receiving a little gift or two for helping the lobbyists, but that is OK, because now they know better. And continue to do what is in their best interest. Yes, stupid people know nothing. They are not bad, and it is not their fault they have little brains, or care little about other people, or are racists. It is a shame there are so many of them.

This does not change the mind of the ones that have done the right thing. They do not care about anything else than they can be able to walk on the streets and know that the pollution from making their cars that drive around without noise are made somewhere else where poor people live. It will be a little different when they start digging for rare earth in their own backyards.

The speaker you have is a standard size 6x9" which most companies make. Get one from a major brand. They cost little and trying to fix suspension on a loudspeaker is not something to do. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&_nkw=loudspeaker+6x9+woofer&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=loudspeaker+6x9&_osacat=0 If you want to fix the one you have: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122775712280?hash=item1c9600b218:g:uD8AAOSws6ZZ8poA&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAsDsC81rliaz8p3Le%2FRSI98SvH2y6iNBDS5Wj7ze9Ot%2F4E0G%2BGcppTHSQYMYpVXMZDG%2BFppj2jrQZ0HEbSk9%2Bbt%2BlcQ2jmdCk0zASeZwpXT81q5KuRJwWAnp10%2BLodnGuOl%2FR%2BKNBRDAMvQbd8KqzvGYu7mWyXmNldYTC2DE6p4LPVsGEw4NG3Sw3XRo99zfSRqJ2AUPXGonOqNiIw6cFFW8lEHIRukA4FUbWxcimMKWF|tkp%3ABk9SR_7rj_7LYQ

https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/37405994.html Toyota has made a way to transport hydrogen power that can make electricity. In Germany there is a company making far larger capsules to transport to wherever power is needed, but so far, I have not seen useful information about it, but it is from a place that promise only to make hydrogen from surplus power from electric grid and from solar cells and windmills. Give it 3 - 5 years to become something that can be used. What you mention about storing electricity in batteries and giving it back to the power grid, sounds so wasteful that nobody with just a little brain will consider that a good thing.

Yes Rowley, Bob Dylan was right in much of what he did write and sing. Before Covid we used to drive from A to B and back again more than once a year and A being the islands here just a few hundred km from Morocco with B being either Denmark or Sweden (only in summer) to visit family our old diesel Golf got 200.000km on tacho before we got the CT. Getting older and losing even older family members, travelling that far is not happening often anymore, so the CT may never get that many km on tacho. So, yes, the times they are a-changing. While we are getting - not younger.

Sensitivity of ears is very different. Some think that 10db is twice as much, some only needs 6db to feel it as twice as much. The younger and less damaged the ears are the more sensitive they are. You want to know how much your ears notice the difference between noise in various decibels just download a tuning app for an instrument, flute, guitar, saxophone and in most of these there is a db reading.

If I turn my home audio 3db up it is much louder. Will not say how much more, but definitely enough to say it is louder. The more insulated the car is the less you will hear the noise from outside. In the CT different road surface can very different in sound inside the car. The big cars are more comfortable and less noisy inside than the small ones.

3db more is twice as much more noise.

Bernard, do you think that the gigantic companies investing heavily in hydrogen are making no progress? Taxi airplanes are now authorized 2 places in the world powered with hydrogen, trains are running on hydrogen since more than half a year, places where electric cables hanging are too expensive to maintain, 3 major car manufacturers are working on cars with fuel cells and one even with combustion engine. Truck companies are delivering with hydrogen powered cars in some cities where diesel trucks are not allowed. Heavy industry will be first and when enough of charging places are available where the hydrogen trucks and boats and cement factories place their hydrogen factories there will be people trying out hydrogen cars. It is easier to plug in your computer to the 220 - 240 V net than to find a hydrogen fuelling station. They will come. So, you just say: lalalalala