Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Technology Connextras" channel.

  1. When your doors lock and your car drives you to the liquidation camp then it'll be a big deal.
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  2.  @MusouInken  I am worried about all technology I do not have control over. I don't trust people. Or tech for that matter. The tech in an EV is too embedded for me to remove it. Now an ICE engine I can get rid of anything not mechanical on it and get it to run. Perhaps there's people more talented than I am that can modify EVs but that doesn't do me any good. I wouldn't trust them either.
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  3.  @Monkeh616  it is your notions that are half baked. I know enough about power electronics to know there's nothing you can do with EVs. It's all magic as far as you're concerned. As far as anyone's concerned for that matter. EVs are a configuration of inscrutable black boxes that all depend on proprietary software to function. Where can you even buy parts for an EV? I'm looking at Tesla's website right now and their idea of parts is a joke. Apparently they won't sell parts to anyone. If your Tesla breaks down you have to take it to a Tesla service center or a Tesla-approved shop. That's not my idea of ownership.
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  4.  @Monkeh616  oh do you? Where'd you learn about power electronics? What have you designed and built?
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  5.  @Monkeh616  The small fraction of a percentage point of people that know more about power electronics than I do still couldn't make much headway into the proprietary systems in EVs. Show me a schematic for an EV. Go ahead, I dare you.
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  6.  @Monkeh616  I have the full source code for what I'm using and that's good enough for me. Well, mostly full source. I do like my binary video driver.
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  7.  @Monkeh616  the difference I'll never rob a bank with my PC. I might want to use my car as a getaway vehicle though.
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  8.  @MusouInken  you just ditch everything that relies on the computer. Which is mainly the fuel injection and possibly the ignition too. Or failing that you simply repower the car. Put an engine in that works. Chevy 350 One of those will run anything. They only made a couple hundred million of them.
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  9.  @j_taylor  of course they can. You think modern cars don't have relays still? You'd better think again. What's the big deal rewiring a car anyways? I've done it. It's maybe 40 or so wires. It's about half a 500 foot roll. I use 14 gauge MTW. There's no relays in any steering columns either. There's only a switch that gets grounded. That goes to the horn exciter. Which is kind of a relay. Just a weird one.
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  10.  @NattiNekoMaid  nope. I don't sit with strangers. They're never going where I want to go when I want to go there either.
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  11. It is good to see the it's not aliens guy is still working.
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  12. I just drove over 450 miles last week. In one day. I've driven over a thousand miles in a day multiple times. I live in a big country.
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  13. I drove for 150 miles once completely sound asleep. Not a scratch on me. Of course I missed my exit I wanted to take. I'm a lousy navigator sleeping. But I drive just fine apparently. What's better is I was driving a manual transmission car and I downshifted to a stop before I woke up.
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  14.  @vampdan  I hope they do too. I'm a very safe driver. Even asleep I drive perfectly. When I woke up I was stopped in traffic 32 miles outside of New York City. It took me two exits to even figure out where I was. It's not easy reading a map behind the wheel. GPS hadn't been invented yet. I bet you couldn't get around your own block without GPS.
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  15.  @ProXcaliber  so what you're trying to say is that private car ownership really isn't a thing in Norway. Gotcha. EVs absolutely suck in the cold and Norway does happen to be in the arctic circle. Although I imagine most of the population lives below the line? Still not the ideal latitude for such a temperature sensitive application like rechargeable batteries. They all must be cheering for global warming there.
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  16. 200 miles isn't enough range for a car. FIFY
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  17.  @Leo99929  I am not interested in what anyone else does. I only care about what I do. Internal combustion engines are just the better choice for me.
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  18.  @Leo99929  because I felt like it.
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  19. Stops are what kill ETAs. Slow and steady wins the race. Every minute you're stopped you're at least a mile behind where you could have been.
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  20.  @Overonator  I rest once I get to where I'm going. Which is home. When I'm traveling I push hard. The only way to eliminate the stress is to complete the task. Once you're done it is in the past then. While you're fast charging your batteries remember you're killing them faster then. Just trying to add to the financial strain. You know what an EV with a spent pack is? Junk.
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  21.  @Overonator  well I always fast charge all of my batteries all of the time. Because ain't nobody got time for slow charging.
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  22.  @patricia9001  an EV would do half of what I need to do. Sitting a vehicle around is a good way to kill it though. Been there, done that. I had a vehicle here I didn't use often and all of the brake lines rotted out on it. That junked it. Because repairing that exceeded the value of the vehicle. Had I known I'd have fixed it myself but I didn't find out until I'd brought it somewhere. So I just signed over the bill of sale and walked away. They kept it and fixed it for a lot cheaper not charging themselves their exorbitant labor rate. I wanted them to do the brakes because that vehicle had ABS and I don't have the tools to work on that. More tech BS.
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  23.  @patricia9001  EVs don't fit me or my lifestyle at all. They never will either.
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  24.  @cheekychappy1234  there's a lot of EVs companies because there's a lot of fools to separate from their money. Simple as that. The electronic control in EVs is absolutely needed too. If you understood the tech you'd know that. You think they're simple DC motors and a rheostat? Those motors are electronically commutated. That means to make them go at all they need to be electronically switched. That switching is controlled digitally too. Because it's just the easier way to do it. For all they expect the motors to do. The regenerative braking, etc. Go buy a clue.
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  25.  @mikeydude750  correct. You get a gold star for the day. Now we have to wonder why the hipster didn't mention calling an Uber. I thought that's what they all did today.
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  26. Get back to me when the battery pack craps out and well me how good a decision it was then.
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