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Or maybe just have new batteries in them if they are OEM from Lexus.

What would you expect from a kingdom, where most people think that it is OK that the king and family have loads of castles and poor people can sleep on the streets?

Funny! The CT has no such issue. Bluetooth show tune played with picture of cover and change to next tune immediately. I do not use Spotify, have all the music on Micro SD card in phone. Same if having 32Gb USB stick in. Only thing that annoy me is that the great audio from ML will have to live with only MP3 files of max 320 mbps as lossless files are not identified in the car. Same with a DVD also MP3 files are accepted. On the other hand Bluetooth in the cars as old as the ones we have was only able to transfer low quality audio anyway. To really enjoy the ML in Lexus cars we need line-in where lossless files give super sound.

Yes! 1.48€ L Shell super etc. 98 octanes.

Unfortunately, these idiots are what will be elected to tell us what to do.

There are many positives, but unfortunately more negatives. In big cities where all are supposed to drive without polluting - maybe in the short term a positive. In the long term not so much. Why. Factories for making batteries pollute an awful lot and fortunately for the places where they are built, pollution spread around with wind and the polluted water running into the sea, from where we desperately need fresh fish. Gone with the wind? No, pollution just transported another place. Temperature in the sea is higher than ever since it started to be measured. Places where cattle used to be grazing dug up in search for material to make batteries. A battery for a big Tesla is tiny compared to what is needed to transport the food and goods around, and for ships no such way to power is realistic. We will have to go back to the big 4 master ships and accept that only things that can wait to come from far away in the course of 3 - 4 months, half a year can come from far away. Realistic? Before 2030 politicians needing votes will change a lot. No tax for EV's? If only EV's no tax? If EV's taxed hard as the rest why would anybody want one.

Cannot argue with a person that claim it is impossible to make a gas tank that does not leak, when the world is full of such. That no matter how much material there is to make batteries, which still is not enough to make these batteries in sufficient number for all transportation needs, still claim that it is possible and do not at all care that the planet will be so destroyed digging everywhere that we will have no decent planet to live on, still claim that batteries are good for us no matter how short life batteries have with full power before they need to be replaced if they are to be useful. That is willing to accept that only people with own solar electric plants on top of their own houses can charge their electric cars home and all the rest can wait in line to charge along the road. That does not see that whichever amount of power it is needed to make it possible to transport people and goods and whatever there is not enough batteries to power it and that water from which hydrogen is made return to water after having given power to whatever purpose the power is for will return to Water from which new energy can be made. So, this is my last response to locked up to electricity Steven.

Not much help for you, but used this bike rack on Toyota MR2 Spyder and VW Golf 2.0tdi DSG 2005 https://www.amazon.es/Saris-Porte-vélos-Bones-EX-Bikes/dp/B085WTVV18/ref=asc_df_B085WTVV18/?tag=googshopes-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=529577888078&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16808179878844275580&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1005411&hvtargid=pla-896307142300&psc=1 Think it will fit all cars. Bike on top of car is not funny when going into a garage, especially if it is raining. Bikes on top of car are easier for a smaller car, a SUV if a bit high for most people to put a bike on top of.

32Gb USB formatted with exFat. No folders, all music in root. Play without problems. Will try a 64Gb just to see if car will accept that. Tried with lossless files, car will not read these. Highest quality the CT will read is 320kbps MP3 files. Have .flac 24bit files and they play extremely well when going from line out to line in, ML has made good audio for Lexus. Bluetooth in the 2017 model is no better than MP3 320kbps even though phone can play 24bit lossless 192kHz files. Want full quality from the ML audio you must use cable.

No matter what kind of transportation we use, they all need energy. EV's need electricity. In Germany they are now starting mining coal again to burn in order to make electricity. Not only to cars but also. Making more pollution than the new combustion engines.

The new Mirai can drive 1000km before needing more fuel.

We need power plants to produce the power we need no matter whatever kind of storage we are going to put that power in. Hydrogen can be stored years in containers, or till it is needed, while we all know that batteries self-discharge. The way to get materials back from worn out or dead batteries is inefficient and polluting using among other thing extreme amount of water, which then needs to be cleaned using again more energy. Most batteries for cars we buy from China and how is it to be depending on our best friends like the Russians with their gas and oil? Hydrogen is made from Water and when the energy is used, we get back water. Materials used in batteries we do not get back when batteries are dead. Instead of just being sad we can have a good piece of news that Porsche has developed a hydrogen engine prototype for luxury sports cars that will not only match a V8, 4.4-liter internal combustion engine while also reducing fuel consumption and maintaining emissions equivalent to ambient air.

Enough people drive around half conscious. Do we need to have sleeping people behind steering wheels also?

Thank you John, Many things are happening, several places hydrogen is being used in transport now and as soon as filling stations will be available most places, I think that cars and fuel will come down to reasonable price. VW have a contract with a hydrogen provider and if a car with a range of 2000km will be available it will not be so often most of us will need to refuel. The new Mirai is now close to 1000km in range. Tour through Europe and back home without needing to refuel?

Not at all against electro motors, a well made one will outlast combustion engines. MTBF will for a brushless be at least 10 times the MTBF for the battery powering it. Not at all against batteries, just do not like to destroy the planet in search for the rare earth materials needed to make these, when knowing there is not enough to build batteries enough to serve as power stations for all transport needs. Without even mentioning the human cost for the poor people digging them out. https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/rare-earths-101-digging-facts-jordy-lee/ For hydrogen, on the other hand, there is no real problem as it goes back to the state it was in before when it has been used. So, continue the destruction of our planet in search for precious batteries. https://hir.harvard.edu/not-so-green-technology-the-complicated-legacy-of-rare-earth-mining/ https://www.sciencehistory.org/learn/science-matters/case-of-rare-earth-elements-history-future https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10105-2 if you want more disasters, just search Google. If you want possitive for EV's ask politicians before they find out they again are wrong.

Could something have come into the drive, that is not supposed to be there, since the noise? If the lens reading the disc is dirty wou would get the error code telling you that either disc is faulty or no data on disc. A CD/DVD cleaner disc could then clean the lens. There is only one lens reading , unless the drive also can read blu-ray discs.

Would be nice as the IS looks really nice, but believe Toyota have other models coming before and VW seems to be rather far with their 2.000km range fuel-cell car.

Do you mean that inside, racing cars look beautiful? So, you think that the engineers working for Toyota are complete idiots. You are perfectly permitted to believe that. Batteries lose efficiency in a rather limited time frame. Just look at cell phones and laptops. New batteries will cost so much that EV cars will be converted to fuel-cell cars or be landfill. Just wait. Before 2030 politicians will have found out that they were as wrong going 100% EV as they were when they promoted diesel. Tanks should leak? How many LPG cars drive round without leaking gas?

VW have made many good thing and bad things as well. Just like many other have. Have been deep in Sahara in a very old Beetle long time ago. Porsche boxer engine, the old one similar to the one in the Beetle is a masterpiece. Subaru is still using that technology. BENEFITS OF THE BOXER ENGINE: Flat layout allows engine output to flow directly into the transmission. This linear flow of power reduces engine components and inefficiencies, resulting in better fuel economy. Toyota is trying to get temperature so long down that they can get twice the distance of the same amount of fuel. Could they be trying to get to Le Mans 24 hours race with a hydrogen car in a couple of years? Would be a masterpiece and boost value of the brand. We have a Lexus, It is OK and more than that. It is a good car, but I am in no way a fan of any brand. Several automakers are getting the quality right; now it is not just Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota; Hyundai and Kia are coming. Honda and Yamaha make excellent engines for marine use. Do not believe the fans of Lexus here in the forum, that German cars are garbage. You have an old MB to prove them wrong, and the 3L 5-cylinder 240 diesel was a great car. When engine was running it was possible to have a 5 Deutschmark piece standing on the edge without falling off. Not a shaky engine. Powerful and efficient. Covered many kilometres in that. When I was still working with Mercedes, we were informed that a 190 diesel had covered 1.000.000km with same engine and no major repair. We enjoyed the 300SEL with a 6.3L engine almost a year and except for finding a parking place to the monster it was a fine car, windshield wipers were not good either. BMW, I have only poor memories of. Both I had were disasters.

New research leads to major breakthrough for solar-powered hydrogen production Novel catalyst is nearly ten times more efficient than previous artificial photosynthesis experiments. University of Michigan researchers have achieved a sun-powered water-splitting hydrogen production breakthrough with a new type of solar panel that has achieved 9% efficiency in converting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The new device can drive down the cost of producing sustainable H2. While this new catalyst is highly efficient, one of its major advantages is lowering the cost of sustainable hydrogen production. This is made possible by shrinking the semiconductor, which is usually the part of the device that is the most expensive. The team’s semiconductor is a self-healing device that is capable of withstanding high temperatures and concentrated light that is equivalent to 160 suns. “We reduced the size of the semiconductor by more than 100 times compared to some semiconductors only working at low light intensity. Hydrogen produced by our technology could be very cheap,” said Peng Zhou, first author of the study and U-M research fellow in electrical and computer engineering, in a recent University of Michigan press release. The results of the researchers’ solar hydrogen production method are made possible thanks to two advances. The first advancement is the ability to concentrate sunlight without eradicating the semiconductor that harnesses the light. The second advancement is utilizing the higher energy part of the solar spectrum to conduct water splitting and the lower part of the solar spectrum to deliver heat that promotes the reaction. Unlike other catalysts that degrade each time they are used to harness sunlight to make chemical reactions for hydrogen production, this semiconductor catalyst actually improves itself with use. Beyond its ability to handle high light concentration intensities, the catalyst can flourish in high temperatures that are typically destructive to computer semiconductors. The benefit here is that the higher the temperature, the faster the water splitting process. Moreover, the additional heat also promotes the hydrogen and oxygen to remain separated. As a result, the research team was able to harvest more hydrogen. The catalyst used for the hydrogen production method is composed of indium gallium nitride nanostructures, which is grown onto a surface made of silicon. The light is captured by the semiconductor wafer and is converted into free electrons and holes, which are positively charged gaps that result when electrons are freed by the light. Nanoscale balls of metal (1/2000th of a mm across) pepper the nanostructures and use those electrons and holes to assist in directing the reaction. A basic insulating layer over the panel keeps the temperature at 75°C (167°F). This is warm enough to aid in the reaction but also sufficiently cool for the semiconductor catalyst to be able to perform well. “In the end, we believe that artificial photosynthesis devices will be much more efficient than natural photosynthesis, which will provide a path toward carbon neutrality,” said Zetian Mi, who lead the study and is a U-M professor of electrical and computer engineering. Next, the research team will move on to further improve the efficiency and achieve ultra high purity hydrogen production that can be fed directly into fuel cells. The study is published in the journal Nature.

Toyota liquid hydrogen car to be tested in endurance races this year The automotive company seeks to make H2 vehicles commercially viable. It’s well known that Toyota Motor is invested in developing hydrogen-powered vehicles, and the company intends to test its current liquid hydrogen car in 2023 endurance race events for the purpose of improving upon the technology. The company hopes to address certain challenges the car faces. Toyota hopes that by subjecting the car to endurance races, it will improve the nascent technology’s functionality as well as address some of it challenges. One of these challenges is how to keep liquid hydrogen at -253 degrees Celsius. The reason the company is focusing on a liquid hydrogen car is that when used in its liquid form instead of its gaseous state, hydrogen can double the mileage of a car. This would make it possible for hydrogen refuelling stations to be built smaller. Additionally, while gaseous hydrogen tanks work well for commercial vehicles, Toyota feels that liquid hydrogen tanks are more sensible for passenger cars due to the fact that they allow for greater flexibility when it comes to their shape, and they are lighter than H2 gas tanks The liquid hydrogen car won’t be the first H2 car Toyota has tested in endurance races. Toyota has previously used endurance races to test and accelerate the viability of hydrogen fuel vehicles. Back in May 2021, it debuted a car equipped with a hydrogen-powered combustion engine. During the 24-hour race at the Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, the specially adapted Toyota Corolla fuelled by hydrogen was piloted by Toyota President Akio Toyoda, as well as other drivers. At its maiden appearance, the H2-enhanced Toyota Corolla ran for 11 hours and 54 minutes. After which, the vehicle spent eight hours being repaired and four hours refuelling. Last November (2022), Toyota raced the car again, this time with additional enhancements, including improving the engine’s output by 24% and its driving range by approximately 30%. The cases of abnormal fire-causing combustion in the engine were reduced as well. “We’ve made a small move from testing the technology toward a product that can be mass-produced,” said Toyota’s chief branding officer, Koji Sato. Toyota began test runs of its liquid hydrogen car at the end of October and will enter endurance races later this year.

Denso hybrid are OEM and they are good. No noise, clean windows. What more can we expect from wiper blades? Have tried Bosch once and that will not happen again. Buy from Lexus/Toyota OEM made for your car.

Still have the CT, but could return to Honda, Nissan or go to Hyundai. Toyota??? (have had 2 very good and 1 extremely bad plus the CT which is more or less a Toyota). Will not go back to Alfa, Citroën, Lancia, Peugeot, Rover, VW. Never had problems with Matra (no longer existing brand), Mercedes, Opel or Renault, but the models they have now are little inspiring. Possibly a Prius if Toyota come with a combustion engine hydrogen model. Think they will.

Unlucky I guess. The 2.0tdi DSG 2005 Golf we had did 200K Km without anything but ordinary service.

When you come into Lexus here you have to ask for Lexus, as all that is in the showroom : Toyota Cars. Lots of Toyota cars. Not one Lexus. They are another place in town. So coming in there mean you are supposed to be looking at : Toyota cars.