* Posts by Ged Perryman

7 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Nov 2008

Mondeo Man turns into mutant electrical beauty: Ford Mondeo Hybrid

Ged Perryman

Re: White Elephant

Bad choice of words from someone who doesn't know the science and I also got the model name wrong... Should have been ECOnetic rather than EcoTech.

All I know is that these small alloys/big tyres (They look a little like the ones off Noddy's car) are on this model and the ECOnetic model... Something to do with the green credentials - see Dave 126 for an explanation why :-)

Ged Perryman

White Elephant

I spoke to a salesman in a Ford dealership about this car a few weeks ago. I've bought a couple of cars from him before and he knew I was genuinely interested in this model - perhaps that is why he was so candid.

He told me the car was a white elephant and Ford weren't expecting to sell many at all...

The gist of it was that the Mondeo is not built for urban driving as the article mentions and once you are on the Motorway you are effectively driving a 2.0L petrol engine, only with a great big heavy battery pack killing the fuel economy.

The wheels/tires look terrible on this model because the alloys are smaller than standard to improve the rolling resistance. The same as on the EcoTech model (but not to be confused with the the EcoBoost engine).

I was told that the only reason Ford have this model in the UK is because they get a tax break for having a Hybrid model in the range - regardless of the quantity they sell...

I still think the car looks stunning and am planning on ordering one in the next couple of weeks, but it won't be a Hybrid!!

In case of LOHAN flight emergency, gobble THIS Iridium-Arduino sandwich

Ged Perryman
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Re: Might require a paint job...

I've read all the other responses and I think that LOHAN finding a way out of a sticky situation by employing her LADYGARDEN is a feasible solution - even if I did say it myself :-)

Ged Perryman

Might require a paint job...

"Lohans AESA dictated yellow geographically aware remotely detonatable emergency nullification" system

Paxo in second c-word shocker

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Blackberry Torch

Anyone else frustrated at not being able to read articles because the Blackberry Torch

ad is constantly overlapping the text? I think I'll stick to my iPhone thanks.

Wireless comms and the end of civilisation

Ged Perryman
Jobs Horns

Is anybody out there...

I'm not sure where the 90% fatality rate figure came from, but I think the TV series is significantly higher than that - 90% would suggest out of a hundred people in your street, 10 would survive (approx) but in fact we saw people walking around street after street without seeing anybody. I would suggest the figure to be 99%+.

The other thing about wireless communication is it tends to be a two way thing... so who you gonna call?

(Because I have to work with them!!)

RISC daddy conjures Moore's Lawless parallel universe

Ged Perryman
Jobs Horns

Perhaps Moore was wrong?

Moore’s law has always puzzled me, in that the natural conclusion would imply that at some point in the future the bottle neck of processing would be the speed of light (I am sure some mathematician out there could predict when this should occur according to Moore’s law?).

A more reasonable explanation would be that the increase in processing power is an exponential curve and although Moore’s law can be observed over a number of years, this is only a small part of the picture.

(Because I have to work with them!!)