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Re: Bollinger B1: An electric truck with 360HP and up to 200 mile range

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Post by rz2k » Tue, Aug 01, 2017, 6:09 AM UTC

dghughes wrote: post #274

rz2k wrote: post #232

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When skiing with a diesel car, I've had to dump wastepaper bins full of hot water from the motel's shower to get it warm enough to start. The Germans had to light bonfires under their tanks while invading Russia. Most modern tanks use kerosene/jet fuel to power turbine engines. This designer is making a vehicle for upstate New York where winters can be pretty chilly. His frustration with small utility vehicles and a…

I'm in the Canadian Maritimes about 1,000km (400 miles) north east of NY city. Winters here Dec/Jan/Feb/Mar can easily be a static -20C (-4F) my old Dodge diesel truck has no problems starting, I used to use a grill blocker and a block heater but really it isn't needed just use thinner motor oil for the winter. And the ability to travel 1,000km (621m) per 100 liter (26.4US gal.) tank was nice for a large truck the ef…

This was about 20-30 years ago, and I'm sure I had the wrong engine oil for the Lake Tahoe area compared to the warmer weather on the coast. At the same time that the guy from AAA recommended hot water for warming a diesel engine, he said that the water would have been more likely to cause problems with a gasoline engine.

However, starting it did generally involve 5-10 seconds of running the glowplug, even when it was 50°F (10°C) outside. Do more modern diesel engines have high enough compression that they don't need to warm the compression chamber as much before it will combust?

I did like driving a diesel car. It's seemed very utilitarian and was extremely reliable and durable.

Re: Bollinger B1: An electric truck with 360HP and up to 200 mile range

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Post by nunobrito » Wed, Aug 02, 2017, 8:05 PM UTC

jaclaz wrote: post #190

nunobrito wrote: post #102

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In a few European countries (e.g. Germany, Austria, Switzerland) you pay a yearly tax for each car that you own that is meant to fund road maintenance/development. This is about 350 USD in Germany. At some other countries (e.g. Portugal, Italy, France), they have tolls for the highways so only the cars crossing that road pay for the cost. And a new option is automatic tolls, where you don't even stop. They just take…

>At some other countries (e.g. Portugal, Italy, France), they have tolls for the highways so only the cars crossing that road pay for the cost. JFYI in Italy you pay BOTH a "fixed tax" (which is function of the horsepower of the car engine) AND most highways have tolls. You pay with the fixed tax the "general maintenance and development" of ALL roads (excluded toll highways) and you pay the toll on a per use basis, a…

Happy to see you around here. :-)

Thanks for the detail about the road taxes in Italy. I had to stop so often on the road headed towards Milan to pay tolls every couple of kilometres and you still have to pay an yearly cost as resident, great.

Re: Bollinger B1: An electric truck with 360HP and up to 200 mile range

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Post by jaclaz » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 12:12 PM UTC

nunobrito wrote: post #282

jaclaz wrote: post #190

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>At some other countries (e.g. Portugal, Italy, France), they have tolls for the highways so only the cars crossing that road pay for the cost. JFYI in Italy you pay BOTH a "fixed tax" (which is function of the horsepower of the car engine) AND most highways have tolls. You pay with the fixed tax the "general maintenance and development" of ALL roads (excluded toll highways) and you pay the toll on a per use basis, a…

Happy to see you around here. :-) Thanks for the detail about the road taxes in Italy. I had to stop so often on the road headed towards Milan to pay tolls every couple of kilometres and you still have to pay an yearly cost as resident, great.

Well it is a strange road you took.

Normally on highways in Italy you take a ticket when enterng the highway and pay when you exit, the toll boxes every few kilometres is something that was removed everywhere in the 70's (though I cannot exclude that a specific road somewhere in Italy still has them).