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It is the same engine as in some Toyota cars? Never heard about bad diesels from them other places than here on the forum. If there is a returning problem every 5k miles, is it something taken care of when car is serviced? Expensive to do that? Here there are many of the diesels driving round without black clouds after them, unlike many other old diesel cars.

Some have bad luck with the Lexus diesels, but here many of them are driving around and none used for sale, so owners might be happy with them. I believe that as with many cars, a well-maintained car will be a good car to drive in and a mistreated one a disaster. Hope you got a good one.

Do you know any with an EV car that only charge once a week?

Denmark is not the coldest country, but having no friends with EV car in Norway (or Siberia) that is closest I come to get info. On a very cold day after leaving car (6 months old) out at night, battery was having only about 60% of range, though it was charged evening before.

Any alarm system in house sending signals? Radio amateur nearby?

Some people seem to believe that when a battery is to be used in a car it will be made to far higher standards than Apple and Samsung are able to. These 2 brands are not at all interested in having customers that are happy with the quality of the products they are selling. On the other side car factories are interested in selling the very best. Some people that think like that are perfectly permitted to do that. Computers and phones are usually kept in decent temperature while cars in colder countries are not kept in pockets. Some people think their best interest is always taken care of by the politicians. Some do not.

You have high esteem of brain power of politicians. They are the reason all is going so good all over the world?

Yes. Not same kind. not from rare earth materials.

World’s largest hydrogen power plant and electrolyzer to open in Australia By JOHN MAX https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/john-2-2-2/ The facility will be substantially larger than anything running today. South Australia plans to bring an ambitious green energy project to fruition by building the largest hydrogen power plant in the world, which will be home to an electrolysis facility that is ten times bigger than any other H2 power station currently in operation. The plant will absorb extra renewable energy from the state’s grid. Additionally, the hydrogen power plant will run the excess green energy through a massive 250-megawatt (MW) electrolysis facility, allowing for the production of large amounts of hydrogen. The hydrogen that is created will be stored on site. The plan is to run the hydrogen through a 200-MW generator facility and put energy back into the grid during times when renewable energy production is at its lowest, during the evenings and through winter months. The hydrogen will either be burned to drive steam turbines or it will be converted back to electricity via a massive fuel cell stack. The hydrogen power plant will help to prevent strain on the grid. The goal of the green hydrogen plant is to help balance supply and demand in the South Australian grid. Presently, more than 69% of all South Australia’s electricity is generated from solar and wind energy, and it’s expected to generate 100% from renewables before 2030. Currently, the Australian’ state generates more solar power than it can consume, to the point that the government has previously requested consumers to turn on as many appliance as possible to avoid an electricity overload. The plan is to operate the electrolyzer during the day, when solar energy production is at its peak, and then shut it off at night. According to Sam Crafter, the CEO of the Office of Hydrogen Power South Australia, by building a world leading project, the hope is that it will lead to larger projects, at the neighbouring Port Bonython green hydrogen hub and at the steel city of Whyalla. “It will be…the launching pad to get to those larger scale projects that the industry is rushing towards,” Crafter told Renew Economy. The hydrogen power plant will be developed by the Office of Hydrogen Power South Australia. The project will receive funds of AU$600 million (US$414 million) from the South Australian State Government and be constructed near the city of Whyalla, about 100 km northwest of Adelaide. The plant is expected to be operational by 2025.

If the car has Xenon lamps replace both lamps and ballasts. Lamps first. Then ballasts and connect to lamps before adding 12V to the ballasts. If car has Halogen lamps no ballasts. Remember not to touch glass on lamps.

This is a good place to ask questions about Lexus. Welcome!

You think so?

The one that stupid politicians construct in order to get stupid voters to vote on them. They are all over the world. Look Northern Ireland, Scotland etc. Do not always look outside. It is easy to see little errors others make and very difficult to see big errors we make ourselves.

When digging for raw materials to make EV batteries in poor countries the disasters are very many. Extracting nickel from mines in Indonesia has major environmental consequences, where rainforests are often cleared to make room for mining. Here, a tugboat with nickel capsized, resulting in pollution of the waters off the island of Sulawesi.

China leads big in important race causing great concern among Europe's leaders China is the world's largest market for electric cars, and Chinese brands such as Nio from Shanghai are in full swing with their international expansion Security of supply is at the top of the agenda in Europe, but more than 90 percent of the new production capacity is in China When EU leaders meet in Brussels these days, security of supply is at the top of the agenda. It is because the war in Ukraine has shown how risky it is to depend on oil and gas from Russia. According to the EU Commission, the answer is a new green industrial plan that will promote the green transition and ensure that sustainable companies can grow quickly. But despite the ambitious plans in both the EU and the US, China, which already produces 84% of the world's solar cells, will continue to have a heavy influence on the majority of the supply chains for the green transition in the coming years. This is shown by a new report from the research company Bloomberg NEF, which maps all the world's investments in green transition. Record in 2022 The good news is that the total number of investments in, among other things, solar, wind, biofuel, batteries and electric cars broke a new record in 2022. But half of the investments took place in China, and if you look at new production capacity, Chinese companies accounted for 91%. The dependence on China arouses great concern among European decision-makers, because it is feared that in the event of a conflict China will be able to use its market position as a strategic weapon. Last week it emerged that the Chinese government plans to introduce restrictions on the export of advanced Chinese technology used to manufacture solar cells. The official explanation is that China wants to protect its position of strength in the area, but it is also seen as a response to US restrictions, which prevent Chinese companies from buying computer chips in the US. Depending on China China accounts for 97% of the world's total production of silicon wafers, which form the core of solar cells, and this means that American and European companies are deeply dependent on buying them in China if they want to build up their own production. According to Kaare Sandholt, who is an international advisor for the Chinese Energy Research Institute in Beijing, China's massive investments are not only due to the fact that China will maintain its position as the "world's factory" in the field. It is also about the fact that China is the world's largest market for, among other things, wind turbines, solar cells and electric cars.

A quieter tyre may be easier to get than a different suspension. Continental UltraContact has low noise and lower fuel consume than most sports tyres and still have good braking class A in wet. They are summer tyres, so no good in really cold, frosty or snow, but with the global warming everybody keeps speaking about, that should not be a problem. Most of the year summer tyres and if going to Norway in Winter you need different.

BMW to launch small test fleet of H2 cars to use truck hydrogen fuel stations By JULIE CAMPBELL https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/julie-2-2-2-2-2/ The automaker plans to roll out a small number of H2 passenger cars to ride the future of H2 trucks. BMW is aiming to take a ride on the network of hydrogen fuel stations for trucks in order to help overcome the challenge associated with building an expensive network specifically for passenger cars. A lack of refuelling locations is among the largest challenges in the way of H2 for passenger vehicles. The automaker is taking steps ahead on this opportunity even as battery electric vehicles continue to be the most popular zero-emission vehicle option. That said, with networks planned for hydrogen fuel stations to serve trucks, the company sees an opportunity to test a small fleet of fuel cell cars. According to the German carmaker’s CEO Oliver Zipse, fuel cell cars is an option that is climate friendly and that will appeal to as many as 30 percent of its customers. “The key is to build combined hydrogen gas stations for passenger cars and trucks,” explained the head of BMW’s H2 tech program, Jürgen Guldner. “It’s much easier to set up hydrogen stations for larger truck fleets as logistics operators already show interest in this.” BMW is looking at the truck hydrogen fuel stations network as an opportunity for passenger vehicles. The automaker sees considerable potential in the availability of a growing hydrogen fuel stations network to boost the appeal of H2 passenger cars, even as the cost of electric vehicle batteries continues to fall and those vehicles hold onto their lead in the zero-emission passenger vehicle category. Considerable challenges stand in the way of the widespread popularity of H2 cars. This has already caused several automakers, including luxury car rivals Mercedes-Benz and Audi, to phase out their pursuit of vehicles running on this green energy.

Not impossible, but maybe which version of navigation system, audio system etc. is in the car.

If you find a charger that actually does function. When you have time to wait while it charges. When price of electricity continues to climb mountains and electricity grid is not sufficient. When your battery is no longer holding enough power to get you from A to B. Just look at laptops and smartphones, a few years old and no longer holding power like they did in the beginning, are batteries for cars better? Absolutely not promising. EV cars are promoted by brain dead politicians. And when no longer in the politician's agenda, they will be flushed out like dirty water.

Do not remember. Went into setting - general and it was obvious what to do. Am not in car now and will look next time. If starting navigation having map on full screen (do not use navigation it is useless) and stop car and start again and the 3 split screen come as standard.

Is this split screen? The screen is definitely not 10".

Before we got the CT, I considered Toyota a brand more or less OK. Almost as good as Nissan, but well below Honda and Subaru in quality. That Honda is now entering the hydrogen field with a partner as big as GM make it likely that they will be able to reach the target to be a serious competitor to the EV cars, that will have its usefulness for people having more than one car or people that only need the car for local shopping. If these people have a charger for the cars home. Meaning that the market for EV cars will be very limited, as all of us living in flats where home charging will not be possible have no use for a fully electric car powered with a battery. Honda and GM to Produce Systems for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars and Trucks By BRET WILLIAMS https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/author/bret-2-2-2/ The systems will start being produced this year with gradual production increases over this decade. A hydrogen fuel cell system co-developed by Honda Motor and General Motors (GM) will begin production this year and will gradually increase its numbers throughout this decade. Honda is taking steps to expand their H2 business by making this move. The hydrogen fuel cell system will be produced by Honda Motor in Japan. It aims to hit annual sales of about 2,000 units of the system by around 2025. After that, it will aim to increase those sales to 60,000 units per year by the close of 2030. Honda is aiming to widen the use of this new H2 system not only for its own passenger vehicles, but also for heavy trucks and other commercial vehicles, as well as construction machinery and stationary power stations. The announcement that production of the system will begin this year was made by Shinji Aoyama, Honda’s senior managing executive director. It was made at a company event in Tokyo, Shinji Aoyama was addressing reporters. The company’s new hydrogen fuel cell system is meant to double durability and slash costs. The new system will be over twice as durable than the previous model of the system, while reducing its cost by two thirds. “While commercial vehicles are in use all over the world, they’ll likely see electrification just as with passenger cars,” said Honda general manager of the hydrogen business development division Tetsuya Hasebe. He added that it is likely that this will likely lead to a divergence in the trucking category as some use batteries and others will be powered by H2. Many experts in green energy and in the automotive industry agree. Automakers are divided as to whether the future of passenger vehicles will be in battery electrics or hydrogen cars. That said, experts are increasingly stating that it is unlikely that there will be a single answer for everyone. Instead, it is more likely that there will be two or more options on tomorrow’s roads, allowing consumers and businesses to choose the technologies that best suit their needs and preferences.

Yes, clever people can be found everywhere. And that they think they will be able to make money on producing hydrogen making more of it than they need themselves is very good for others to see as making money is what can gather investors and more money can attract more brains. Not that sending with tankers is without pollution unless of course if the tankers are powered with hydrogen themselves. So far Maersk have not been very informative about their testing it on their own ships. https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/03/maersk-and-the-spanish-government-to-explore-large-scale-green-fuels-production https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/03/28/maersk-explores-new-ways-to-accelerate-green-fuel-production

More news about hydrogen for whoever is interested. As cars are a very little consumer of fuel and thus not producing immense amount of pollution, most hydrogen is not going to be used in cars. Maybe not interesting for only car enthusiasts, but those few who care about leaving the world in a manageable condition for the coming generations could find that it is good that some are interested in finding power sources that can be stored in other places than batteries that in my eyes are only the good solution in applications needing little power such as among many other things in laptops and phones. I am not against electric motors in cars and do not need the growl of a huge combustion engine, but dislike the stupidity of having heavy batteries that last much shorter time than the motors and pollutes far too much when being made and depend on materials not existing in sufficient quantity. Researchers use sea water to produce green hydrogen at almost 100% efficiency Sea water hasn’t been a viable option because the salt in the water is highly corrosive. “We have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100 percent efficiency, to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser,” explained Professor Shi-Zhang Qiao, project leader at the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide. Clean Hydrogen Partnership to fund nine hydrogen valleys projects The projects will now begin negotiations for grant agreements. The Clean Hydrogen Partnership, under the Horizon Europe Programme, has announced it is investing €105.4 million for funding nine hydrogen valleys across Europe, and negotiations for the grant agreements for these projects have begun and are expected to conclude before summer 2023. The projects focus on the production of green hydrogen. The hydrogen valleys projects will focus on the production of clean hydrogen, address various applications in energy, transport and industry sectors, and are expected to mobilize investments of a minimum of five times the funding provided by the European Union or above €500 million. Additionally, the European Commission allocated an extra €200 million ($216.47 million) to the Clean Hydrogen Partnership via REPowerEU to further benefit the hydrogen valleys. A public-private partnership supporting research and innovation activities in H2 technologies in Europe under the Horizon Europe Programme, The Clean Hydrogen Partnership has multiple members, including the European Commission, Hydrogen Europe (representing hydrogen industries), and Hydrogen Europe Research (representing the research community). Hydrogen valleys are regional ecosystem that link hydrogen production, hydrogen transportation, and a variety of end uses like industrial feedstock or mobility. According to the Clean Hydrogen Partnership, the H2 valleys concept is one of the main priorities of industry and the European Commission for scaling-up H2 deployments and establishing interconnected hydrogen ecosystems throughout Europe. “These nine valleys will be planting the seeds of the envisioned hydrogen economy, incubating hydrogen valley hubs simultaneously at several EU MS, interconnecting and transitioning them into a growth value chain at scale,” Said, Melyssa Verykios, Chair of the Governing Board of the Clean Hydrogen Partnership. Demonstration hydrogen carrier project set to launch in Australia Large quantities of green hydrogen will be shipped to Japan using conventional tankers. An eight-month demonstration project set to launch in Australia will produce a hydrogen carrier that is capable of being shipped on conventional tankers that will bring the product to Japan for the purpose of fueling hydrogen fuel cell applications, such as hydrogen cars. Hydrogen will be manufactured in an inert carrier that is stable and easy to ship. The Japan-based Eneos Corporation – the country’s largest fuel provider – is undertaking the hydrogen project. Working to become a regional leader in Asia for energy, Eneos’ project is the second step in a commercialization project that will result in substantial quantities of green hydrogen generated from solar power and shipped to Japan to supply fuel to hydrogen vehicles. Methylcyclohexane (MCH), the new hydrogen carrier, is produced using a proprietary low-cost “electrochemical synthesis of organic hydride.” MCH, a method developed by Eneos, uses the electrochemical synthesis method with toluene. Unlike hydrogen, which needs complex handling and extreme cold temperatures, MCH can be shipped at ambient temperatures on traditional tankers. Eneos’ method simplifies the shipment of hydrogen by suspending it in a carrier. Once it has shipped to its destination, the next step is the MCH dehydrogenation process, where water is removed and hydrogen fuel is extracted. The hydrogen carrier demonstration plant is located in Australia. Brisbane, Australia is the home of the new production facility. The demonstration plant will generate green MCH containing hydrogen by combing a 150-kilowatt-scale medium-sized electrolyzer with a 250-kilowatt solar power system in Queensland. The goal is to maximize production efficiency and prove the durability of the electrolzyer under subtropic conditions.

Have not had a speeding ticket in the CT. Had a few in the Golf 2.0tdi DSG we had before the CT.