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I'd love to see that kind of a setup. I mean, a supercharger station outputs like 72kw, that's only about 96hp. If you used something like a little baby Kubota v3800 strapped to a leaf or lower rating Tesla motor and used it to charge the battery while driving you could probably save hundreds of pounds and a lot of underhood space vs using the powerstroke. Could probably go even smaller on the engine if you figured out the actual average kwh per mile you need to get places.
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kastein posted:I'd love to see that kind of a setup. I mean, a supercharger station outputs like 72kw, that's only about 96hp. If you used something like a little baby Kubota v3800 strapped to a leaf or lower rating Tesla motor and used it to charge the battery while driving you could probably save hundreds of pounds and a lot of underhood space vs using the powerstroke. Could probably go even smaller on the engine if you figured out the actual average kwh per mile you need to get places. basically a diesel-electric locomotive
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STR posted:"Notice of intent to levy" Ask in the tax thread in BFC for advice.
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Levy what? Your refund? They get mine for one more year.
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builds character posted:When are you getting an electric dirt bike? I love my Husky too much to go electric for dirt, I'm due for a road bike upgrade if I get promoted this year, and that might be electric if I can resist the siren song of the Super Duke or SAR. Applebees Appetizer posted:I really thought i wanted a Bolt after I drove one but i just can't bring myself to spend that much money on a car. Especially when i can have a DD (xB) AND a toy (Miata, Jeep) for a good bit less than one Bolt costs. I just put a deposit down on the xB I've been looking for and after getting a Miata or Wrangler (still going back and forth on that one) I'll still be at under 20k for both cars which isn't bad. The very low price for newish leafs is what drove me to them, I only paid 14k, and my State doesn't charge sales tax on EVs. Ferremit posted:The other one we were talking bout at work is some places we cant ever see EV working and thats agriculture- You might be able to get 5-600hp worth of electric motors into a tractor or combine, but the battery bank to support that is going to be enormous, and if you've got a choice between a tractor that you have to charge for 4hrs every couple of hours, or a machine that you spend 15 mins pumping diesel into once every 8hrs, that time difference in getting your field work done or not could be the difference between a successful year and a total failure. If we get big on making everything electric, you could do a long 480v or 4160v tether for your combine, with an outlet in each field, and just enough battery to trundle between fields.
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STR posted:"Notice of intent to levy" Call them asap, they will clean out your bank account if you let that go. They are actually good to work with of you dont stick your head in the sand, trust me
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Elviscat posted:I love my Husky too much to go electric for dirt, I'm due for a road bike upgrade if I get promoted this year, and that might be electric if I can resist the siren song of the Super Duke or SAR. Cos no farmer has ever run over something in their fields that they didn’t intend too 😂
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shy boy from chess club posted:Call them asap, they will clean out your bank account if you let that go. They are actually good to work with of you dont stick your head in the sand, trust me Seconding this, my tax guy sucked and told me I could write off graduate school at $41k/year as a business expense during the same year by wife made a ton of money, so years later I got a huge tax bill from the IRS. Told them there was no way I could pay $25k, ended up paying some lump sum then $500/mo for a few years.
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kastein posted:I'd love to see that kind of a setup. I mean, a supercharger station outputs like 72kw, that's only about 96hp. If you used something like a little baby Kubota v3800 strapped to a leaf or lower rating Tesla motor and used it to charge the battery while driving you could probably save hundreds of pounds and a lot of underhood space vs using the powerstroke. Could probably go even smaller on the engine if you figured out the actual average kwh per mile you need to get places.   quote:The Long Ranger was an AC Propulsion project (commissioned by Toyota) to build a generator trailer that would allow liquid-fueled high-speed travel in the Rav4EV. There were many obstacles to this project seeing the light of day - most of them bureaucratic. For most practical purposes, the project was a great success that never really saw the light of day before the Rav4EV program was terminated. A 500cc motorcycle engine is used, housed in a small, aerodynamic package. ~20kW DC output is sufficient for extended high-speed travel. The micro trailer incorporates intelligent "BackTracker" steering which automatically maintains trailer-to-vehicle alignment during backing to avoid jack-knifing. There is little question that this 350 pound trailer functioned as planned - sustaining freeways speeds for as long as the 9.5 gallon tank had gasoline. Amazingly, even with all the conversion losses added up, the gas mileage of this combo is comparable or BETTER than the pure gasoline version of the same vehicle. Way more tech info here - http://www.tzev.com/2001_rxt-g_library.html Simple but very effective, I've thought about building something similar. General interstate cruising in my i3 gets about 3.5-3.8 mi/kwh which would be easy to overcome with a generator setup. The i3 REx is only a 25kw generator so it can't maintain interstate speeds indefinitely. I was very close to jumping on an older Ford Ranger EV that popped up for sale because of how easy would it be to toss a generator in the back of that and go for a road trip. I'm now trying to figure out if I could cram enough batteries in a formula ford chassis to last a 20 minute sprint race while keeping weight under control. That and how I could charge them at the track in a reasonable amount of time. That or have packs that can be easily swapped. Sold the wife's house! NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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I'm totally on the EV train too, as soon as I can afford one. I saw a youtube vid where a guy does a long trip in a Tesla, he basically said realistically it takes 50% longer than gas, and you have to plan the stops ahead of time. He could drive 200 miles in about 3 hours and then have to stop for 50 minutes to charge. He just had meals or rest breaks. I just went looking for it and there's about 100 of them now. Then there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0nA8CfxBqA If anything this vid says is true then we're looking at EVs with equivalent or even better range AND safety to IC vehicles.
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fuckin' lol my boss expected me to go to work the night of the day I had my surgery and was on percocet like fuckin loooooooool. I've been friends with this dude for over a decade but sometimes he has some really asinine ideas.
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kastein posted:I'd love to see that kind of a setup. I mean, a supercharger station outputs like 72kw, that's only about 96hp. If you used something like a little baby Kubota v3800 strapped to a leaf or lower rating Tesla motor and used it to charge the battery while driving you could probably save hundreds of pounds and a lot of underhood space vs using the powerstroke. Could probably go even smaller on the engine if you figured out the actual average kwh per mile you need to get places. Yeah exactly, only reason to keep the original lump of psd would be for diesel only operation. removing that one requirement from the equation it'd open up a few hundred pounds for more battery capacity ontop of the microgenerator you're talking about. Would make for one motherfucker of a pickup/earthroamer/etc.
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Ferremit posted:Coincidently, we have one of the Mitsi Outlander PHEVS at work- The ones that are a plug in hybrid. I have similar experiences on both sides of this! I would have leased an OG Leaf back in ~2012-3 when they couldn't loving move them at all, because $200/mo on a lease with basically zero consumable costs for three years is about as cheap as having your own car can get. But, with the short range to start and the massive battery degradation the early Leaf has in hot climates, I couldn't guarantee that a full charge would be enough to get me from home to work and back, so I'd need a charger at the office. Even a regular 1.8kW wall outlet would be enough when plugged in the entire time I'm at the office. There literally isn't a single receptacle anywhere on the outside of the building, and the budget that got approved wouldn't have even covered the wire. Yet we're a "tech company". Vaguely related to that and moreso related to your second point, the owner once tossed me the keys to an i8 he was borrowing. The battery was completely loving flat so while it was neat to drive, the performance was underwhelming to say the least. Godzilla07 posted:The big question I have wrt EV adoption is that charging only seems to work for people in single-family housing today, and the dream of a charger in every parking garage space will only work with massive grid upgrades I mean, this depends a bit on the location. Not every spot needs to have a charger, and not every charger needs to be a 100kW+ fast charge station. If you drive 25 miles and then stay there for hours, it doesn't matter how slow the charger is. Absolutely agreed that charging solutions for renters / apartment dwellers is a whole different problem.
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LloydDobler posted:I saw a youtube vid where a guy does a long trip in a Tesla, he basically said realistically it takes 50% longer than gas, and you have to plan the stops ahead of time. He could drive 200 miles in about 3 hours and then have to stop for 50 minutes to charge. He just had meals or rest breaks. I just went looking for it and there's about 100 of them now. Dad did Wisconsin to Key Largo, FL to Pensacola, FL then back to WI with his. He said the key was run it down as low as you can then only charge to ~85%. So he's drive to 5-7% then supercharge back up while he checked email, took a nap or ate then hit the road. Adds time for sure but at least for Teslas the infrastructure is there and it isn't too painful. He's done several WI to TN trips with it now as well. Other EVs it's a little harder with hit-or-miss public charging, lots of reports of broken chargers. My i3 doesn't have the DC fast charge option so I don't plan on road tripping with it for the most part. On the generator trailer I posted... I would imagine 'modern' EVs have a lockout to prevent you from driving away while plugged in. Bet that wouldn't be a simple thing to work around if you planned on using the regular charger port. I guess on something like the i3 REx you could tap into the existing charging circuit but I bet it wouldn't like that either.
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NitroSpazzz posted:On the generator trailer I posted... I would imagine 'modern' EVs have a lockout to prevent you from driving away while plugged in. Bet that wouldn't be a simple thing to work around if you planned on using the regular charger port. I guess on something like the i3 REx you could tap into the existing charging circuit but I bet it wouldn't like that either. Depends on how smart the lockout is. If it's smart enough to know the difference between a charging station and a trailer then no problem. If it just detects charging, then yeah.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Absolutely agreed that charging solutions for renters / apartment dwellers is a whole different problem. The other problem in places where house pricing is through the roof is how common larger households become - kids not moving out of home, shared flats etc. Suddenly a 2 car household can become a 4 car or more one. What happens when they all want to charge off a single standard household supply, which is 60A here?
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I work from home, y'all can keep your EVs, I'll be driving ancient manual petrol cars until they outright make it illegal 
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MomJeans420 posted:Seconding this, my tax guy sucked and told me I could write off graduate school at $41k/year as a business expense during the same year by wife made a ton of money, so years later I got a huge tax bill from the IRS. Told them there was no way I could pay $25k, ended up paying some lump sum then $500/mo for a few years. FWIW, statute of limitations for taxes is three or six years, depending on how much you understated your income (a lot, relative to your income = six years). IOwnCalculus posted:
In NYC, parking garages are putting in chargers but they also charge you an extra $50+/month to park your EV which makes it less worth it. I would guess that this is how most parking garages will end up handling it for monthly parking until EV becomes the vast majority of cars.
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Well, it's been an interesting 14 weeks, but I'm back to vaping again, antipsychotics loving suck. I mean, they're great and I feel so much better, but the nicotine withdrawals never stopped, they just ebbed and flowed over the course of 3 months instead. And slowly, I ramped up to taking hundreds of milligrams of caffeine every day, to the point that I was worried about my heart. My meds' doses got adjusted, but the cravings didn't stop and something had to give At least I'm off the caffeine 
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Oh hey I got more PNG stories.... This one tho? Its short. Someone was caught in a closet with his pants down with a chicken Thats all. Just someone caught trying to gently caress a chicken
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Mar 10, 2020 04:50
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Like... A live chicken?
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KillHour posted:Like... A live chicken? I presume so given it was by the report "objecting"
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 I recall lawnmower chat happened a couple of months back and one of the Ryobi mowers was considered decent enough, does anyone remember which one or have a recommendation for an electric mower to do a small yard? I've got a couple of 18v 4ah batteries and tools but I'm not against going with a different system (as long as it's available in Australia).
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I remember that South Park episode.
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Ephphatha posted:
I used to be a service agent for EGO electric Lawn Mowers. They have a honking big 56V battery which is nice and powerful. BUT the mower has some of the jankiest tiny wiring looms and a big old ceramic load resistor ziptied to one of the motor mounts. Also prepare for about 30 screws to pull the thing apart to fix anything. And the battery likes to fault out with a false positive due to lovely thermocouple monitoring internal 18650 cell temps. But buy one so hopefully I get more cells to gently caress with cos my old work hoards them for me 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Oh hey I got more PNG stories.... License and registration... ...CHICKEN FUCKER!
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bandman posted:License and registration... You can do all the good in the world but gently caress just ONE chicken....... Since I've been doing the oversight of the PNG networks all I can say is some of the poo poo you get to hear and witness is scary, usually I tell the AI'ers in the Slack Chat live as poo poo happens. When I have a bit of time tomorrow I'll retell about the witchdoctor incident. I got a lot of work stories but this one I doubt anyone's gonna top.
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Ephphatha posted:I recall lawnmower chat happened a couple of months back and one of the Ryobi mowers was considered decent enough, does anyone remember which one or have a recommendation for an electric mower to do a small yard? I've got a couple of 18v 4ah batteries and tools but I'm not against going with a different system (as long as it's available in Australia). I bought a 36V ryobi + 4.0 Ah that was misspriced, 400 instead of 600. It performs acceptably for my small amount of lawn (100 m2). Its quiet so no hearing protection, it doesn't enjoy long grass that is damp, and struggles to clear it into the catcher, but since no fuel or oil you can just tip it over onto its side. Its all plastic and the blades might be a bit poo poo compared to others. I wouldn't use it to produce a perfectly manicured lawn but its totally serviceable.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You can do all the good in the world but gently caress just ONE chicken....... Imho, having read a few of these, you should warm up to that one with a few of the others first. Also, I have the EGO mower and in pretty happy with it so far.
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toplitzin posted:Imho, having read a few of these, you should warm up to that one with a few of the others first. Which version? A pro tip is don't just slam closed the handle extension locks. There's a switch in the right section and if you misalign the hole with the peg enough - it shaves down the plastic on the aluminium. This then creates a sloppy connection thus a safety lockout engages and have fun with that.
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Do we have any Melbourne goons? Or is anyone going to the Melbourne Grand Prix this weekend? I’m currently in Adelaide but driving to Melbourne tomorrow. I bought a lovely BA Falcon wagon in Perth and drove through the Nullabor to get here. I’ll be heading up the coast until I hit Brisbane after the race weekend as well if anyone wants to meet up. I probably should have made this post when I got to Perth haha.
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Ephphatha posted:
I've had my Ryobi mower for two years now and it's awesome, if it died today it still would have been worth the $300 I paid for it, but it still keeps chugging along. During the summer months it gets used twice a week on some thick grass that my gas mower would bog down in, this thing just plows right through it. All my yard tools a ryobi now and they all work flawlessly.
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2019 Avalon XSE. Opinions? Mom's coming from a 2003 Avalon XLE. She test drove the '19, has 9k miles, lease return. She's not wild about the wheels or the blacked out grill (she has a thing for shiny stuff), but it's priced well. She also test drove a Camry (hated it, too small) and an ES 350 (hated it, too small). The Genesis G80 also caught her attention - specifically, a 2017 with 27k miles. She has no idea Genesis is a spinoff of Hyundai, and hates Hyundai in general (my grandfather briefly sold Hyundais when they first came to the US... the good ol' Excel that only excelled at making Hyundai famous for lovely cars back then is still fresh in her mind), but she likes the car a lot. It's priced pretty closely to the Avalon. Opinions on the G80? shy boy from chess club posted:Call them asap, they will clean out your bank account if you let that go. They are actually good to work with of you dont stick your head in the sand, trust me Not my first rodeo with them unfortunately. They're definitely willing to work with you on past due taxes so long as you contact them before they reach out and touch your bank account in its no no place. Gonna give them a call Thursday (payday) so I can get back on a payment plan and also make a decent payment. I don't owe a whole lot (a little over $500), but I can't pull $500 out of my rear end right now. Especially after missing a full week of work when I had the flu. My pops has been a CPA since before I was born, and he's had to deal with them plenty (mostly for clients, but a few times for his own taxes, he's been audited a couple of times). I talked to him about my experience with them the first time I had to deal with them, mentioned I was shocked how pleasant they were about it. He said pretty much the same thing, so long as you don't ignore them they're more than willing to work with you, they just want their money. On both of his audits.. they wound up having to give him money, he'd left out the home office deduction because he considers that to be a big red flag to get audited (he went ahead and threw it in when they hit him with the audit, since, well, he's getting audited already). Rhyno posted:Levy what? Your refund? They get mine for one more year. Bank account. I haven't had a refund in years thanks to self employment taxes. I had a $900 refund coming this year until I put in my affordable care act paperwork, then it dropped to $300 because I made more than I thought I would. Then I put in my 1099s and, oh hey, I owe $300 for 2019. Taxes and benefits are the biggest reasons I went back to having a W2 job. I was on a payment plan for my 2018 taxes. I haven't been able to make the full payment for a few months in a row, they got pissed. I just need to call them and set up a more affordable payment plan. I only owe a little over $500 at this point, but I'm getting ready to move. BuckyDoneGun posted:The other problem in places where house pricing is through the roof is how common larger households become - kids not moving out of home, shared flats etc. Suddenly a 2 car household can become a 4 car or more one. What happens when they all want to charge off a single standard household supply, which is 60A here? Most houses in the US have 100 or 200 amp service. I think 100 amp became the norm in the early 80s? The house I'm moving into soon has a weird service setup - 60 amp main breaker at the meter that feeds the main panel in the garage, and a 50 amp breaker (also at the meter) feeding the AC unit. That 50 amp is massive overkill for the AC unit that's there now (~1 year old), but was probably needed with the original 1970s AC. Obviously it should have been changed out to match the new AC, but cheapass landlords will always be cheapass landlords. As for the 2 car household bit.. it's a house with a 1 car garage and driveway. Friend and I work opposite schedules, so Brokeback will usually be in the street. (expected anyway since it leaks everything)
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That sucks. Definitely call asap, they will absolutely work with you. I'm paying $250 a month and the end is finally in sight.
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Rhyno posted:That sucks. Definitely call asap, they will absolutely work with you. I'm paying $250 a month and the end is finally in sight. I am paying the state $350 a month on top of my regular sales tax bc I messed up some credit card reporting a few years ago and got hit with big rear end fines and they calculated missing funds as ridiculous amounts like where I would be making $100k more a year than I was making. I have like 2 more years of this crap to go...
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everdave posted:I am paying the state $350 a month on top of my regular sales tax bc I messed up some credit card reporting a few years ago and got hit with big rear end fines and they calculated missing funds as ridiculous amounts like where I would be making $100k more a year than I was making. I have like 2 more years of this crap to go... I used to sell a lot of poo poo on Amazon and first I was taxed on the full retail value of what I had sold (close to $120K) then we got the corrected amount which was 1/3 that and then my actual take home that was 60% of that. Then it happened again the next year so I got audited and had to go to court over all this poo poo. I ended up owing far more than I should have but they settled and allowed me to make tiny payments since I didn't make much money. Once I got the current job I started paying that poo poo off fast just to be done with it.
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Rhyno posted:I used to sell a lot of poo poo on Amazon and first I was taxed on the full retail value of what I had sold (close to $120K) then we got the corrected amount which was 1/3 that and then my actual take home that was 60% of that. Yeah my screw up of under-reporting which should have cost me about $2500 ended up as $12k, with threats of them padlocking my business it was just too much, I was going through a divorce. If I knew the right person or had a lawyer or something I should have not had to be on this payment plan but it is what it is. Just shows the little guy gets SCREWED trying to do the right thing.
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