Frank Skilbeck

Basically the Chinese government is backing the production of EVs big time and supporting their manufacturers to dominate the world.market. EU and US already looking if their companies are unfairly undercutting domestic manufacturers. Tesla sales falling due to manufacturing disruption as they revamped the Model 3, which is by far their biggest seller.

JD, you could have checked your cars speedo against a GPS, probably more accurate than following another car. Google Maps on an android phone shows your speed, I also have an old Garmin Sat Nav that does the same.

Is this to deter non Tesla users? Is this due to the EU mandating fitment of standard type 2 CCS leads. But yes Tesla were quick to realise that if you wanted to sell EVs then relying on others to provide the charging network wasn't viable. Also neat how they've modulised them so there installation costs are way less than other companies.

Yes on a fuel injected IC car when you coast in gear no fuel is injected until the rpm drops to just above tickover rpm, so yes you get infinite mpg in that phase, but in an electric car you reverse the energy flow. On my 320D automatic when you switch to eco mode it actually coasts in neutral until you touch the brakes then it engages the gearbox and then keeps it engaged (or use the flappy paddles), on the Mini EV you feather the throttle, hold it down a bit it coasts like an IC in neutral, lift off a bit more like an IC in gear, but with some recharge, come off completely and it's like moderate braking with more recharge. It was weird for the first day, now it's natural.

55 mpg on a diesel is roughly around 1.2 miles per kwh based on the energy a gallon of diesel holds. Yes I managed to get over 72,000 miles out of a set of brake pads on my 520D, but even if you keep off the brakes on an IC car the coasting and compressing air still turns kinetic energy into heat, where as an EV (or hybrid) converts some of it back into fuel, so it is a substantial factor in energy efficiency especially in a start/stop environment, unless that is you put your car into neutral every time you slow down and let it coast to a stop that way. (although many regular ICE cars now charge the 12v battery when you slow down, but the effect on overall efficiency is negligible)

Replaced our 2004 Colt with a 71 Mini EV just a few weeks ago, cost an additional £40 for the remaining 7 months, not too bad considering the performance and cost increase. My 2018 320D Touring had gone up by 40% earlier in the year. Mini has full stop regen braking, hardly use the friction brakes, note the brake lights come on with the regen braking. Regen braking is fully proportional great for descents.

A chap I knew at uni had a H1, he used to have two sets of spark plugs, one for round town and a 2nd set for out of town, changed them when he went for a blast out of Manchester. Not the same but I had a piston port YR5 at the time, few weeks in Manchester and I could lay a smoke screen for miles up the M61 when I was going home................

You don't need to go on YouTube there have been several safety recalls for different ICE cars catching fire, sometimes when parked.

Has it been tuned up, many years ago I rode my mates round the car park and didn't have problems at low speed. A road test from the time shows the engine at just under 5000 rpm in 1st at 30mph.

Your stopping distances are interesting, the cars kinetic energy is proportional to the speed squared so at 30mph you have over twice the kinetic energy to absorb so only a 20% reduction suggests the brakes are more effective at higher speeds. The RAC notes the stopping distance should be about 50% https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/learning-to-drive/stopping-distances/

You shouldn't need to.remove the plug, just make sure it's well on the compression stroke. You could always use the ignition sensor and magnet as this will be a few degrees before TDC.

KC, just seen you post, try swapping the channels over and then set the channel direction to make sure the elevators work in the correct sense. Just to confirm on the model, the servos are mirrored, i.e. the servo arms are outboard (or inboard) on each wing? (I assume the servos are the same) You are correct there are no other options on the Dx6i, so it's just a matter of swapping servo channels and setting the servo directions to get the correct result.

When you say it doesn't work does that mean that the servos don't respond to the aileron or elevator control, or the mixing is incorrect? Just to confirm it's in Mode 1, what happens when you plug a servo into channel 1, does the RH stick move the servo?

I have set up elevon models on my mode 2 Dx6i with no problems, the only issue with the elevon mix on the Dx6i is that it gives 50% aileron and elevator input, a work around was to set it up as flapperons and then mix elevator to flap, but that requires the use of channels 1 and 5.

Probably more to the changes between the vehicle aerodynamics with the bikes than the different propulsion, the bikes affected the drag of the Toyota far more than your current EV.

Greener, gas powered generation is about the most thermally efficient, low CO2, fossil fuel power. Currently the UK emissions are running at 149 g/kwhr with a 12 month average of 162 g/kwhr, and a typical electric car can do 4+ miles per kw/hr, so around 40g per mile (25 g/km).

My Astro Hog has an OS55AX up front, lovely combination. Great flier and handles grass strips with aplomb, you can download the plans from Outerzone. Other options, Loaded Dice, Moonglow, Galaxy Models Mystic.

Normally you need to leave the vent open when flying with non pressurised tanks, is that possible with these, thanks

Daughter recently got a 12 month old Corsa E, very pleased with it. After riding in that decide to get a 2nd hand electric Mini to replace our old Colt, what a hoot and currently averaging 4.8 miles per kwh, when we get our smart meter we'll be able to charge up overnight at 7.5p per kwh.

One battery is fine, especially with a magneto ignition 😁

Yep a 2s Life charges up to 7.2v and quickly drops to.around 6.6v and stays there. It does make it difficult for the battery checkers to get an accurate % remaining reading as the main part of the discharge curve is very flat.

Life batteries are the same.voltage as a 5 cell Nimh so you can.use regular servos without a UBEC, with a Lipo you either need HV servos or a UBEC. I'll just put a shoutout for Molicel batteries here, 2s are a great replacement for.a 2s lipo for.ignition or HV servo power supply.

Bear in mind the failsafe has to be set so the model can't fly away and endanger any other aircraft, so the throttle has to be set to bring the model down, note this is a legal requirement. Plus if you manage to set the failsafe to keep the model flying straight and level chances are you'd be very lucky to see it again, as opposed to a short walk to collect the bits.

I'd suspect the battery, friend has QX7 and easily gets a full days flying out of it. Put your battery on a discharge/charge cycle, say 300ma discharge cut off at 6v, 600ma charge, for 2 or 3 cycles and see how the battery performs.

You could run a lead between each receiver from a spare output as additional redundancy, without the signal wire if you are using spare servo channels. Sort of like a ring main. Not sure how Hott rxs work but on MPX receivers if you used the BD port the receivers are then linked together, so also provide signal backup too, check your hott rxs might have a similar function.