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This week’s news…
State legislatures hell bent on being oil industry supported whores
Tesla on track for 5,000 Model 3’s PER WEEK by end of the year
Maybe the telegraph was having a bad day
Dealers are very influential, which should scare the shit out of us
Phillip Barclay shared this one with us, Audi busted for cheating in Hong Kong
Car ban fails to curb air pollution in Mexico City
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With thanks to 0101Zero for this week’s title. Here’s the links to this week’s stories…
Russell’s rant
Breathing gets more difficult
Repeat after me, there is no such thing as clean diesel
Car companies insist on being evil, all of them
Mark
Tony
Toyota recalls all 1100 US Mirais for software defect
Paul
Tesla market cap rises to 2/3 of Ford’s value, but does it mean anything?
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This week’s news and links…
Russell
Paul
It’s hard to believe anything Mitsubishi says
Tony
Because your EV is only as green as the grid that charges it.
Russell
Elon loves trump’s secretary of state
Mark
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This week’s news and links…
Mark
NAIAS wrap up and slideshow (You can watch or listen to the entire 2017 Detroit Auto Show review here)
Tony
Indiana wants to charge EV owners
russell
AND
russell
Evan
VW’s Oliver Schmidt gets nabbed by the FBI
russell
The looming battle, owners say; I have a right to fuck up my car; one manufacturer says, not so much
Evan
New high power charging stations
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A great hour on this year’s Detroit Auto Show with Mark Coughlan, our man on the scene.
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Mark
Bolt to lose $8-9k per car before ZEV Credits, to make $8-9k per car after credits
Audi, BMW, Daimler and Ford team up to deploy fast chargers in Europe, 400 to start
Tony
Paul
Russell
Hydrogen. It’s really, really dead for passenger cars and that’s a good thing
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Alternate Title, “Oregon Schools Are Not Being Attacked By Clowns” Thanks Patrick.
Thank you to Tony Schaefer for the timeline we did at the beginning of the show.
Thank you for watching or listening.
Thank you for 200 episodes.
Thank you to all the people who have participated on the panel or been a guest.
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This week’s news…
Tony
Looks like Tesla is not actually going to be manufacturing 500,000 cars as previously promised
Paul
Magical new VW EV promises to be magical, sometime between 2020 and 2025
Mark
Russell
Shills and idiots, lowering CAFE standards and perceptions
Tony
Toyota Prius Prime specs published on Priuschat.
Russell
Mirai sales “spike”…when Toyota sells Mirai’s…to itself
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WE’RE BACK!
After a brief hiatus we return to talk about EVs for almost the entire show.
Tony
VW might not sell diesels in US anymore.
http://fortune.com/2016/09/14/volkswagen-diesel-vehicles-sales/
VW says 300-mile range EV will charge in 15 minutes and cost less than gas version
Mark
Big Chevy BOLT News-238 mile (383km) Range
My Chevy Bolt Preview and Drive
https://www.facebook.com/WRVoltec/videos/924565281006167/
https://www.facebook.com/WRVoltec/videos/924429237686438/
https://www.facebook.com/WRVoltec/videos/924173741045321/
Evan
Tesla Radar update and firmware v8
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I’m in the process of recording these articles in a series of videos. Click the image to the left to watch them. While there, be sure to subscribe to the channel.
-Tony Schaefer
Many times, when discussing hypermiling techniques, someone will ask about how to approach a hill, or what to do in rush-hour traffic, or when driving in bad weather can’t be avoided. The only sane answer is, “get over it.” Let’s face it: if you are going to scrutinize every single mile or every single minute, you will go insane. That is why hypermilers talk in terms of tank averages and lifetime averages.
Tank Average
This should be your smallest unit of measurement except for the rare exception. It is only over the course of an entire tank that you can take multiple factors into consideration: morning versus evening commutes, good weather versus storms, etc.
If you wish to maintain daily logs – and for various reasons, I have suggested just that – bundle them into the tank average and then throw them away. Daily logs are for analysis and review only. For example, another article suggests keeping daily logs for the sake of identifying the best daily commute. Once these logs have served their purpose, dispose of them.
The easiest way to calculate the tank average is to divide the miles driven by the amount of gasoline used to refill the tank. However, here are some factors to consider:
Lifetime Average
Of course, the granddaddy of all averages is the overall Lifetime Average. This reflects your entire driving experience with the car. Lifetime averages do not need to start when the car is brand new; it is the one-number record of you and the car working together as a team, regardless of how old the car was when you two first met.
As you can imagine, calculating the lifetime average requires that you know exactly how many miles you have driven and exactly how much gasoline you have consumed. Not just for one tank or one month or even just one year. In order to calculate an accurate lifetime average, you must have been recording accurate fuel data for the entire time you have been driving the car. Trust me: this can get tedious but it is what must be done to achieve the goal.
12-Month Rolling Average
As you drive your car year-over-year, you might become curious whether you are becoming a better hypermiler. Actually, it’s great to constantly want that feedback to spur improvement. The problem is that the Tank Averages can’t be compared one-to-one and after a while the Lifetime Average barely budges.
This is where the 12-Month Rolling Average comes in. Whereas the Lifetime Average will forever be influenced by those first few crappy tanks, the Rolling Average will eventually let them go to reflect how you’re doing now. Though you can’t throw them out completely because they are part of your historical record, they are no longer an accurate representation of your current driving ability.
Calculating the 12-Month Rolling Average requires that you go back one year (sounds pretty obvious, doesn’t it?). Where it can get complicated is that the number of tanks will vary. For example, if you average a refill every other week, you cannot simply take the last 26 tanks and assume that’s a year. There will be those long-distance road trips in which you consumed a full tank in only two days. So just be careful and make sure to do the math based on the dates: sometimes 28 tanks, sometimes 32.
Conclusion
If you only keep two averages, they should be the Tank Average and the Lifetime Average. These give you a real-time feel for your hypermiling abilities and an overall view of your entire driving experience. Adding the 12-Month Rolling Average provides an updated perspective, showing how you’ve done over the past year.
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