Posts by Long Haired Git

HISTORIC HOVER-ROCKET takeoff held up by 'SLEDGEHAMMER' winds

Landing boat recalled due to high seas: Water landing only...

Storm in the landing zone has seas up to three meters (about 9ft for you still stuck in stupid-unit land).

Drone boat has been recalled to port.

First stage will just do a soft landing on the water, with 3m seas....

FLASH! Aaa-aaah. 3D NAND will save every one of us

Just wanted to tip my hat to the by-line.

I lol'd.

Tesla: YES – We'll build a network of free Superchargers in Oz

Re: Another great useless

1. Stop, Revive, Survive says you're stopping every two hours anyway (although I admit to doing a driver swap on the long hauls).

2. I know a couple of more-than-tyre-kickers who are keen. Vehicle has been seen dockside in Sydney doing, ahem, some "running in". They're excited.

3. Range from fully charged is ~270 miles, so 420 km. How many times a year is your car more than 420 km from where you are staying overnight? More importantly, how many times will someone who can afford such a car and wants such a car actually drive anywhere further away than that? I drive Syd to Qld cos I'm a SITCOM (http://goo.gl/lNRHk4), but said interested parties are not so encumbered nor willing to drive hours and hours. They fly and rent on arrival.

3. Sort of trips they actually do:

4a. Vaucluse to the holiday house at Bateman's Bay: 285km

4b. Mossman to a BnB at Hunter Valley is 246 km.

4c. Sydney to Canberra is 287 km.

4c. Getting to the Snowy Mountains, which is the main big trip this car is likely to do, does require a stop. The snow trip is 490 km, which is 70 km too far, so a stop is required even from a full battery. However, you're not just rich, you're also a greenie, so there's a solution. Demand the recharge station is built at the lookout on the hillside overlooking Lake George. All the green power turbines are located to the east on the hill, so you can sit there and read your stock portfolio movements whilst feeling green and smug. Add a good latte machine and you'd get a good slice of people in their Prius's etc as well stopping to look at the car they wish they'd bought and bathing the reflected green goodness. Would help if you're a bit short on the Canberra/Sydney route and want to splash and dash (zap and zip?)... Other solutions are a station at Fyshwick (shop for toys?) or in Cooma (400 km is damn close to max range, but you could pick up snow chains, get latest snow fashion etc).