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Summer tyres for summer, winter tyres for winter, in countries where summer is summer and winter is winter. If UK is that I do not know, but Denmark, Norway and Sweden used to be that and while still living there 2 set of wheels for whichever car we had there. Here summer is summer all year and summer tyres it is. All year tyres are a compromise and when security is more counting than convenience and laziness compromise is compromise.

After 30K km or more on my Ibis Mojo, 10 or more on a Focus and I do not remember how many on the bikes I do no longer have (no bike computers telling me), I have learned, among many other things, that keeping fit is easier than to get fit. Also, that a bike can take you to beautiful places where no car (except maybe a Unimog, which would not be allowed there) can come. People that know nothing about riding a bike make the rules and we follow, or maybe not. Here are a few pictures from this beautiful island that even though it is a place visited by very many tourists few have seen:

Hi Paul, .flac files are music files but lossless files are not recognized as music files in the CT. I have all files in root in a DVD, no problem at all. Also, all files in root on a micro-SD-card 32Gb same as DVD = no problem. That the car is not able to read lossless files (have had all different lossless file types I know of) is stupid when the excellent ML audio is far above the quality of even the highest quality recordings in MP3. Not one of the files I have are having track names on them as very many are from high quality lossless which has tune-name, artist, album and nothing more. I have around 300Gb music on my phone and play randomly, which is not possible with DVD or micro-SD-card. When sitting waiting for family shopping (can take time) I use line-in so I can have full use of the ML audio quality as line-in accept 24-bit 192kHz bitrate and that is just or almost as good as sitting home listening to music. Far better than even latest Bluetooth in the phone can transfer (the car has probably a very old Bluetooth version).

Family in Denmark (right now here on vacation) have told me their gas bill for heating a medium/large size house has tripled since last year. Are rising home heating prices opening the door to hydrogen fuel? As fossil fuel costs climb, experts are wondering if the time is ripe for greener options. Though hydrogen fuel is being tested as a home heating option in many places around the world, concerns regarding the cost of this carbon emission-free energy have been considered a barrier until quite recently. Fossil fuels had been comparatively cheap and affordable, while H2 had been notably costlier. Rapidly shifting trends are starting to change the way people are looking at hydrogen fuel as a home heating option. It is, after all, becoming far more competitive. The time may be approaching – or might have already arrived – for ensuring the infrastructure and sourcing is in place both for affordable home heating and to ensure that regional emissions and climate targets are reached. SoCalGas customers recently received a notice from the California utility’s Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer Gillian Wright. In it, she wrote that “There’s no easy way to put this: January bills are likely to be higher than usual.” To explain the higher bills, Wright pointed both to a cold snap that struck the United States, in addition to rising market prices for natural gas, which more than doubled from last month to this month – by 128 percent. “As a result, SoCalGas residential customers can expect the typical January bill likely to be more than double the typical bill last January, assuming the same amount of natural gas is used,” said Wright’s message. With natural gas prices rising so quickly, proponents of hydrogen fuel are pointing to their greener option. SoCalGas was far from the only utility to have issued such a message to their customers. Across the country – and indeed throughout the Western world, where natural gas prices for home heating are being affected in this way – companies are paying more for energy products and this is passed down to consumers. As a result, it is rapidly eroding the cost argument against the use of H2 as a home heating option.

I know no better tyres than Continental. Next on our car will be UltraContact, low noise, braking in wet category A, fuel consumption B. I think that in summer 1 set of wheels and in winter another. Except here were we live summer all year is the right thing.

That extra electricity from nuclear production can be stored a very long time without losing anything in hydrogen form. Batteries are fine for phones and laptops and few other things but for transport value of them is negative. Like you mention there is not enough raw material to make batteries enough for the cars and they are as also mentione just a tiny part of energy consumers. Think cargo ships (no do mention cruise ships), size of batteries needed for those will fill a big part of the cargo area for longer distances. We here in the forum are so annoyed about cars being mentioned as polluters, and rightly so, but stupidly defend batteries as power source, though only a very little part of our cars will actually need less power if they were electric powered with batteries than with conventional fuel. Some places people need to warm their living places and other places air-condition will make life more pleasant and now when Toyota has shown how little a cannister to transport hydrogen weighs, that could be a maybe better solution to transport hydrogen made from the electricity not needed right now, instead of having more and more electric cables in the air or buried in the ground. Hydrogen is far more energy dense than gasoline and that is something many are forgetting. Latest Mirai has a range of 1000km on 5.6kg hydrogen. If used to heat a well-insulated house it could last rather a long time.

Just found this: This is what can happen when a cell in a battery is short circuited. Could even happen when recycling the battery by accident of personnel not educated enough or something else. How easy it will be to get the valuable ingredients out of such a battery is not for me to comment on. Look at the size of battery. How much energy is needed just to carry that extra weight, compared to a gasoline tank full.

Steering is the part of the CT that is the most sporty with suspension. Engine power is more ordinary for a little car.

Recycling worn out batteries: The battery cells are often held together with tough glues that make them difficult to take apart. That has contributed to an economic obstacle: It's often cheaper for battery-makers to buy freshly mined metals than to use recycled materials. Scientists are working to find out if the electric vehicle (EV) batteries being sold today can be recycled in 2030 and beyond, when thousands of batteries will reach the end of their lives every day. EV batteries come in many designs so to realize direct recycling, battery-producers, recyclers, and researchers need to sort out a host of issues. One is making sure manufacturers label their batteries, so recyclers know what kind of cell they are dealing with—and whether the cathode metals have any value. Given the rapidly changing battery market, Gaines notes, cathodes manufactured today might not be able to find a future buyer. Recyclers would be "recovering a dinosaur. No one will want the product." Another challenge is efficiently cracking open EV batteries. Nissan's rectangular Leaf battery module can take 2 hours to dismantle. Tesla's cells are unique not only for their cylindrical shape, but also for the almost indestructible polyurethane cement that holds them together. Engineers might be able to build robots that could speed battery disassembly, but sticky issues remain even after you get inside the cell, researchers note. That's because more glues are used to hold the anodes, cathodes, and other components in place. One solvent that recyclers use to dissolve cathode binders is so toxic that the European Union has introduced restrictions on its use, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency determined last year that it poses an "unreasonable risk" to workers. "In terms of economics, you've got to disassemble … [and] if you want to disassemble, then you've got to get rid of glues," says Andrew Abbott, a chemist at the University of Leicester and Thompson's adviser.

Guess I am old fashioned in my thinking, that a driver should be awake in order to handle a heavy and potentially deadly weapon (the car) and that all the improvements I would like to see is better visibility, better brakes, better steering and most: competent drivers. If some of the pseudo improvements and refineries to make driving automatic, are making drivers less alert and partly make them feel that driving is done by the car, these are not improvements at all.

On top of that, when a new battery is needed in order to have a car that has reasonable range, price for a used EV will not be attractive. What happen to old no longer powerful batteries: Recycle???? No! - Too expensive - Landfill??????? No! - Must find some place to hide them. The battery pack of a Tesla Model S is a feat of intricate engineering. Thousands of cylindrical cells with components sourced from around the world transform lithium and electrons into enough energy to propel the car hundreds of kilometers, again and again, without tailpipe emissions. But when the battery comes to the end of its life, its green benefits fade. If it ends up in a landfill, its cells can release problematic toxins, including heavy metals. And recycling the battery can be a hazardous business, warns materials scientist Dana Thompson of the University of Leicester. Cut too deep into a Tesla cell, or in the wrong place, and it can short-circuit, combust, and release toxic fumes. That's just one of the many problems confronting researchers, including Thompson, who are trying to tackle an emerging problem: how to recycle the millions of electric vehicle (EV) batteries that manufacturers expect to produce over the next few decades. Current EV batteries "are really not designed to be recycled," says Thompson, a research fellow at the Faraday Institution, a research center focused on battery issues in the United Kingdom.

You have a very good point there. They hate to be proved wrong. But will again and again. Fortunately, the intelligent voters have a chance to elect some that want to change things just to be elected and rule instead of those that are ruling.

First Malcolm, do not listen to those telling things are impossible. Some are negative and will not believe, some even after thay have been proven wrong. You will have to be a bit patient, as so far only Porsche has made a promising model in computer (that is the way new engines are made these days) of a V8 combustion engine more efficient than the ones they have running on gasoline. Or chose the Toyota engine refined and converted in company with Yamaha. When they will be available I know as much about as you do. But now the Mirai has a little tank that give a range of 1000km a bit more than 620 miles. No engine noise though. But do not listen to those saying it is impossible or other silly things. Hydrogen has not been worked on for very long and the progress made in the short time the big money companies have shown interest mean that the 2030 with only EV engined cars will never happen. Toyota has made prototypes of functioning canisters that can be used to transport hydrogen to where is shall be used, without problems. If we are willing to live in California there are now hydrogen tanks where cars can be filled. 5 minutes to fill a Mirai and the latest model has quite a range now. 1000km and even if not using the range in a month or more you will not lose one single kilometer like you would in a battery car with the way batteries lose power when not being used. Solar panel that splits water boosts hydrogen fuel production efficiency New technology developed by University of Michigan researchers is 10x more efficient than previous tech. University of Michigan researchers have developed a new solar panel they say is 10 times more efficient at splitting water into its hydrogen and oxygen components than previous artificial photosynthesis strategies. The process uses a catalyst made from nanowires of indium gallium nitride formed on a silicon surface. The indium gallium nitride nanowires are grown onto a silicon surface to make the catalyst. In this way, it provides the considerable advantage of being able to tolerate notably higher temperatures than previously developed systems. By being able to use higher temperatures, the solar panel’s process of splitting the hydrogen and oxygen from the water molecules occurs much faster, substantially boosting efficiency. Equally, it also inhibits the recombination of the H and O. According to the researchers, the new design has achieved a 9 percent efficiency level for the conversion of water into its hydrogen and oxygen components. This type of artificial photosynthesis is considered to be one of the strategies for sustainable hydrogen that is most promising as a viable clean energy supply. The design uses a large lens to focus light directly at the solar panel with an underwater semiconductor chip. The research team used a lens about the size of a typical residential window. With it, they direct focused light onto a small panel that contains a semiconductor chip which is underwater. “We reduced the size of the semiconductor by more than 100 times compared to some semiconductors only working at low light intensity,” explained University of Michigan electrical and computer engineering research fellow Peng Zhou, the study’s lead author. By using a layer of insulation, the panel maintains a steady 75 Celsius degrees, which is a good temperature for efficient water splitting and for long-term use of the design’s semiconductor. When the researchers tested the solar panel outside, where sunlight is less reliable and temperatures are variable, the hydrogen fuel production efficiency dropped to 6.1 percent. That said, within an indoor controlled indoor environment, it was a steady 9 percent efficient. The team is working on further efficiency improvements to produce high purity H2 that can be fed directly into fuel cells.

The new Mirai is supposedly able to go 1000km (621 miles) on a tank. Toyota claim that. Price for hydrogen will go down when more filling stations are available.

Sometimes think to deactivate it as BING when speed camera ahead, BING when changing lane, BING when a car come into your lane in front of you and now and then BING without me knowing why. The car we have suppose driver is sleeping and need to wake up.

What he said was spot on. He was kind not to mention the leftover from dead batteries and also did not say that most of these are made in China, but that is not a problem. Many of the things that are positive with hydrogen can be found here: Still, so many think that it is completely stupid just to think about hydrogen. I do not know how our idiotic politicians will get their problems with chosing one horse only out of the fire, maybe they will succeed convincing most of the voter that what they did was right. I would not be surprised. Somebody said that if you take a serious talk with the average voter, you will understand the problems with democracy.

I did not see anything not correct in what he said.

There is no wonderful solution to the mess we and our forefathers have made. We want our children to live in a decent world have a decent life and the way of just continue as always is not leading that direction. Electric cars were chosen as that was the easy solution because there is an almost acceptable grid. That it is not at all sufficient to charge all cars we think we need and never will be for people living in cities does not help. Real bad is also all the batteries that will lose their capacity in a far too short time and are useless when temperature go low enough. It is very expensive and polluting to get just a little part of the material the batteries are made of back from. Automakers are not in the world to make it a better place to live in. They are here to make money and that is what they plan to do. Unfortunately, that will leave us with so many used worthless batteries that it will be more difficult to get rid of than the atomic waste we are also very concerned about.

16bit flac is what CDs are recorded in and that is good. Latest version of Bluetooth (which is not what is in our cars) can transfer 24 bit, but we can have all if use line-in instead of Bluetooth.

You will maybe believe this then: Oil sheik Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber appointed as chairman of the UN's next climate summit

Some think everything is impossible. Some try to do what other think cannot be done. Current price for a kilo green hydrogen is less than 5$. 33.6KWH. Unfortunately, only in India for now. 0.55 kg in a Mirai can take it 100 km or a bit less than 200km on 1 kilo (180). How long can your car drive for about 5$?

Indian green hydrogen industry gets $2.11 billion government incentive plan The country has approved a plan to invest 174.9 billion rupees for the promotion of clean H2. India’s government has given its approval for a new green hydrogen incentive plan that will receive 174.9 billion rupees (US$2.11 billion) in funding. The strategy is intended to assist India’s efforts to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2070, even as it currently continues to be one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world. The incentive program is meant to help make clean H2 affordable and to keep the cost low over the next half decade, said Thakur while addressing the media. The country had already been hinting at the launch of such an incentive program in December. The government expects the Indian green hydrogen sector investments to reach about $96.65 billion. The Indian government believes that investments into the clean H2 sector as a whole will reach a total of about 8 trillion rupees ($96.65 billion). India’s target is for the production of 5 million tonnes of clean H2 per year over the next five years. This will be achieved for the purpose of slashing approximately 50 million tons of carbon emissions. Simultaneously, this will also save one trillion rupees on imported fossil fuels, explained Thakur. Both the United States and the European Union have also already approved green hydrogen incentive plans worth billions. These plans are components of larger carbon emission reduction strategies also meant to support economic growth and boost energy stability. According to a recent report in the Globe and Mail, the current price tag associated with clean H2 production in India is between 300 and 400 rupees per kilogram (about $3.60 to $4.85). A number of energy companies in the country have expressed ambitious intentions for renewable H2, including Adani Enterprises, Indian Oil, Reliance Industries, ReNew Power, JSW Energy and Acme Solar.

be thankful I don't take it all

There is a manual how to open and replace batteries on the forum, but search function does not show me where it is. Somebody will know and show you how to do that.