It just takes me time. When I first saw the T6 comfort dash (owning a T5 at the time), I thought it was a dog's dinner, but now I own one I quite like it. Ditto with the re-design of the forum!
Umm, Spain's largest source of electricity is already wind, second solar, and that with only a tiny fraction of possible production installed...
I’m pretty sad that real instruments are being phased out and being replaced with pictures of instruments on a screen. When it’s switched off the dashboard is boring, just a blank.
I like the dashboard to look like an aircraft cockpit with buttons and dials everywhere! Preferably wood
Classic Jaguar, the most beautiful dashes ever made.
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Presumably the electric fairy will help during dark midwinter nights when the wind is too strong/absent. Long term massive grid storage capacity will eventually solve this awkward reality, until that wonderful day we are stuck with an adult somewhere firing up gas and diesel powered generators to keep us all warm and electric cars actually running.
You lost me at “fairy.” What adults are actually doing is having the conversations to get us through this transition as soon as possible. I already power my house in Barcelona with solar electric, aided by a hefty subsidy from the city. It’s a policy decision, like subsidizing electric cars. Adding the capability to store it and charge a car as well is already on the market. It’s a matter of not looking away and leaving the problem for the next generation to solve. As an adult, what have you done?
From what I've read, VW had originally planned to introduce the electric Buzz (I know) around 2025, but the dieselgate disaster has made them move up the date to 2022, with the Golf replacement ID moved up to 2020. They figure if they can put the vehicles on the market as soon as possible, people would have something other to say about them than which VW exec has just gone to prison. They're serious, VW no longer has any diesel model certified for sale in the U.S. That includes Audi and Porsche.
Conversations will unfortunately not solve the lack of power produced by solar at night, over 17 hours in Scotland during midwinter, or when the wind fails to blow or exceeds the safe speed.
Would be good if it could be retrofitted into older models.
Link?
Pop up kitchen the the Beach, really! if we had wanted a kitchen we would have bought an Ocean. Each to their own, but not for us.
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