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Post by moyanous on Aug 28, 2016 13:27:34 GMT 11
My bad, I thought abs and TC were the same thing.
Anyway those listed are the options you have to increase your driving range. It's up to you to decide which you are prepared to use, whether for safety or convenience reasons. I consider myself to be a careful driver and if you opt for my other suggestions concerning gradual acceleration and braking, I doubt that I'll find myself in a situation where I will need TC in normal, *dry* (that includes no ice) city driving. I'm a believer in careful driving rather than driving excessively and relying on the something to get you out of trouble. There's always a non-zero probability that something unexpexted will happen, but it's up to you to judge whether that possibilty is significant enough for you knowing your driving habbits. The cops keep saying "speed kills" and use that excuse to raise revenue by fining us for going 5km over the limit, when in fact 99.9% of the time it is 'excessive speeds that kill'. We dont always drive under the limits.
It may only make a small difference in range, but if you're normally finding yourself with only a few km to spare, it may mean the difference of getting home or not someday.
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Post by 4wardthinking on Aug 29, 2016 10:04:10 GMT 11
My bad, I thought abs and TC were the same thing. Anyway those listed are the options you have to increase your driving range. It's up to you to decide which you are prepared to use, whether for safety or convenience reasons. I consider myself to be a careful driver and if you opt for my other suggestions concerning gradual acceleration and braking, I doubt that I'll find myself in a situation where I will need TC in normal, *dry* (that includes no ice) city driving. I'm a believer in careful driving rather than driving excessively and relying on the something to get you out of trouble. There's always a non-zero probability that something unexpexted will happen, but it's up to you to judge whether that possibilty is significant enough for you knowing your driving habbits. The cops keep saying "speed kills" and use that excuse to raise revenue by fining us for going 5km over the limit, when in fact 99.9% of the time it is 'excessive speeds that kill'. We dont always drive under the limits. It may only make a small difference in range, but if you're normally finding yourself with only a few km to spare, it may mean the difference of getting home or not someday. Absolutely. I feel that EV ownership and use is probably going to reduce the Police Donut Fund considerably!. It's about a whole change of mind-set. I'm finding, and many more I guess are too that there seems to be a more considerate and analytic driving style works very well, and to add the important part, safer-er-er driving. Maybe insurance cost will drop commensurately?. T.C.S. is a watch-dog service, enabled or not, it only uses data from existing processes to make decisions. It couldn't affect power useage. The button acts as a last level defeat of it coming into operation. In fact, having it in normal will reduce the possibility that the wheels spin without traction, and no forward momentum gained. Which would save other-wise wasted energy. |
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Post by jake on Aug 31, 2016 12:38:14 GMT 11
Stick with what you've got 'til something better comes along. You can get around fine with the Leaf and the Diesel. This, or another option might be to wait for the 2017 Leaf (Gen 3) to be released sometime next year which will allegedly have 300+ km range. Assuming it actually makes it to Oz, I would expect it to cost a bit less than Tesla Model 3 and be available maybe 6 months earlier. Tesla Model 3 drive-away price in Australia will be about $60k for the base model, assuming the average price relativity between USD and AUD prices for Tesla (1.7X, based on current exchange rate and includes GST and stamp duty. LCT does not kick in until $75k). The Civic is fine to drive and great on the highway but can feel a bit lumpy in start stop traffic, but I am very used to driving my Leaf now and it outrates any car I have driven for smoothness. If you like Hondas, go for it. I quite like driving it. |
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Post by southernvolt on Nov 29, 2016 21:59:11 GMT 11
Revisiting this thread after a while sorry. Thanks all for the very good advice. Change of jobs (twice) has made a difference but the biggest factor in the end is the option to do nothing which will remove change over costs and as one post stated - lead to a Tesla that much quicker, or easier, you know what I mean. So it's the Leaf and Diesel as keepers. We're definitely doing more km's on the Diesel than I'd like but still racking up km's on the leaf as well. CBD runs are OK as we can plug in at Fed Square and get a charge so we can even run the AC and Heat and still make it home OK. I need tires so the Leaf is going in for it's second ever service, at 58,000 kms. Do you think the Dealer will give me grief  |
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Post by jacky on Nov 30, 2016 7:08:29 GMT 11
If you need new tyres why not go to tyres shop like Bob Jane?
Do you need 4 new tyres? Bridgestone has "the 4th tyre free" promotion until end of this year.
I would wait to do the service together with the TCU upgrade.
I would also do wheel alignments in the tyres shop.
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Post by stewartm on Dec 11, 2016 18:05:59 GMT 11
Seriously the worst YouTube info segment I have ever seen with the worst most biased commentary since the US election campaign. An absolute attack on a hybrid car by GM that would have exactly the same outcome in a car that outsold them by millions called a Toyota Prius.
Seriously bad on line journalism if you could stretch the rant that far.
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Post by lesmando24 on Dec 12, 2016 21:58:26 GMT 11
I only got half way, the guys voice / tone gets annoying. If he had any good points, there were lost in the fake journalism. One day his nastiness will turn back on him, and his business.
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