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   Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 01:31:25 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

   Sharing this feels a bit nerdy but it’s the first time I’ve seen a heavy truck driver describe the experience of taking an electric tractor-trailer on a proper long distance journey and you may be as interested as I was. The main trip here is the length of Germany, north to south and the takeaways seem to be that separate layouts of super rapid chargers are urgently needed for trucks (though he shared ok with cars) and some attention..

   https://youtube.com/watch?v=I4b-cybcgkM&si=_RU1fs1akRzXy3fV

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 01:31:23 JST goatsarah

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     @christineburns mountains are where electric vehicles really shine tho. All that potential energy that ICE vehicles just use to heat their brakes up.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 01:37:54 JST goatsarah

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     @jackeric @christineburns Hybrids are pretty shit at it too IME. Rented one in the dolomites. They recover energy like EVs, but into a very small battery, and once that’s full, it has to use its smaller than normal brakes.

     The EV, on the other hand, is fine, as long as you haven’t been a total muppet and charged it to 100% at the top.

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     jack (jackeric@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 01:37:55 JST jack

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     @goatsarah @christineburns fond happy funtimes fun happy fun memories of driving an automatic car through the mountains of Australia without thinking very hard about it, to be viscerally informed of what brake fade is

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     jack (jackeric@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 01:45:10 JST jack

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     @goatsarah @christineburns we've recently bought a small hybrid but thinking a plug-in hybrid would be preferable for the next car - with a larger battery there's more scope for regen

     as to driving trucks the length of Germany... needs an overhead power wire instead of batteries, also steel wheels, on rails... ;)

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