Fast Cars + Travelogue

dante · Post by **dante** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:40 am

Not sure what genre this is, I think Ill call it ElectroRock. Came out pretty good.

https://soundcloud.com/hitfoundry/fast-cars

It's about going for a cruise in a nice car with yer lady, probably on the Ocean Road downunder or Pacific Coast Hwy for you Americanos

EDIT: Woops ! Fixed incomplete link !

53E7 · Post by **53E7** » Fri Feb 26, 2016 7:42 pm

I really like this song. It's really fun. My most recent guilty pleasure is watching Jay Leno's car shows on youtube. I don't actually own a car but I really like cars and I love car shows. I guess I'm as much of a car guy as you can really be in New York. Thanks for sharing!

JoPo · Post by **JoPo** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:13 pm

But which one is it ?

53E7 · Post by **53E7** » Sat Feb 27, 2016 7:47 pm

Just scroll down half way down Dante's Soundcloud page. Look below the playlists. The Fast Car song is below the Apple song.

dante · Post by **dante** » Sun Feb 28, 2016 5:41 pm

DOH ! Sorry - correct link is : https://soundcloud.com/hitfoundry/fast-cars

53E7 wrote:I really like this song. It's really fun. My most recent guilty pleasure is watching Jay Leno's car shows on youtube. I don't actually own a car but I really like cars and I love car shows. I guess I'm as much of a car guy as you can really be in New York. Thanks for sharing!

My best car was a new BMW which I had for 10 years before the cost of maintenance overtook its value, the fastest I drove it was 160KM on a Tasmanian highway circa 2003. Good fun ! But I wouldn't do it again on any other road.

I'm a fan of German technology.

JoPo · Post by **JoPo** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:19 am

Since 2 months, I've got an electric car ! It's excellent ! No noise, amazing accelerations but no faster than 140km/h, gadgets everywhere, I'm very happy. And the most nice thing : nomore mecanical afternoon to change oil, brakes, timing belt, etc...! A dream !

53E7 · Post by **53E7** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:39 am

dante wrote:The fastest I drove it was 160KM on a Tasmanian highway circa 2003. Good fun!

Now that's a "Fast Car"! Cool story (awesome car too).

dante · Post by **dante** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 5:47 pm

@JoPo I like the idea of elecrtric cars as well. Its a shame that Aus car manufacturing is going the way of Detroits but GM there recognises Aussie and German talent. Holden will stop manufacturing in Aus but before then they have collaborated with German designers to come up with this 1 litre 3 cylinder turbocharged space aged beast :

: Holden Opal; holden-opal.jpg (57.46 KiB) Viewed 4317 times

REF http://www.news.com.au/national/norther ... 937f3e39ec

53E7 · Post by **53E7** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:04 pm

How about the best of everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddU4tcGIF6k

It can be a hybrid like a Prius (except its a full on race car) but also has a mode so it can run on 100% electric.

JoPo · Post by **JoPo** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:46 am

BMW ! Mac Laren ! Opel ! These are bad small stuff in comparaison with my rocket ! Look at that ! :

dante · Post by **dante** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 2:11 pm

Cool - how long it takes to charge it up ?

JoPo · Post by **JoPo** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 9:13 am

It's complicated : depends temperature ! As we are in winter, it's longer. But it depends also which power supply you plug the cable. I installed a 14A socket at home & at work. And from 10% -> 100%, it mays take up to 8 hours. But there is another cable for much more intensity socket and you need 2 hours. But I know in some city, one can find even more intensity socket and you need 15mn...
When you go slower or even brake, you charge the battery.
Anyway, I use it for going at work (50 km). In winter I can drive for 130 km, in summer, 170. If I had not been able to charge it at work, I wouldn't have buy it...
For the moment, I'm very satisfied. The battery is rented : it's not mine, so when it will start to not hold charge correctly, they'll give me another. The battery is very expensive.
It's funny cause at red light, there is no car that can follow me ! It's the first time I've got such a car !

But I don't drive like crazy...

dante · Post by **dante** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:11 pm

So if you charge it up at an electricity bowser in the city in 15 mins, do you then go and pay at the cash register like regular petrol, or the outlet allows credit card ?

jksuperstar · Post by **jksuperstar** » Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:01 pm

Here in the US the fast charge stations are at dealerships (for free) or at random other places, like a library, which costs $2. Electricity is cheap compared to gas.

Some work locations have them, but outside California, they're rare.

JoPo · Post by **JoPo** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 9:14 am

dante wrote:So if you charge it up at an electricity bowser in the city in 15 mins, do you then go and pay at the cash register like regular petrol, or the outlet allows credit card ?

Depends... The car manufactorer company offers free charge in all there chain store, and you find them even in small towns in France : it's Renault, they are everywhere. But you can also charge the battery for free in almost all supermakets or town hall. And in Paris, I believe you have to buy a kind of credit card but not expensive at all and there is a lot of places there to plug the car because there is a public electric car you can take in Paris with the same power supply "box".

Basically, the battery is rented. And you pay each month. When you buy the car and thus, rent the battery, you have to tell them how many kilometer you're going to drive a year. And in function of that km number, you pay pore or less. I drive a lot : 25 000 km a year. So I pay 120€/month. And it's much less expensive than gas. But you must pay electricity too... I have the chance to charge for free the battery at my work. But for someone like ma who drives 25 000 km a year, the electricity price for charging the battery could be around 45€.

The fact that the battery is rented is an advantage because it's very expensive and after a amount of charges, the battery efficiency becomes less good... To buy a new one would not be possible ! But as it's rented, they'll give me a new one.

dante · Post by **dante** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 6:59 pm

Well, we have had our car for 2 years and its only just done 15,000KM ! So battery license would be cheap for us.

JoPo · Post by **JoPo** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:19 am

7500 km a year ?? In Australia ?? You killed my old dream....

Sure ! You should pay 40 or 50€/month..

I think that if one day, I come in Australia, I'll need a very good car to cross over Autralia in several ways... From est to west and progressively from north to south... A little tour in the outback ! To see the red land ! And Uluru, the holy montain !

Don't you need a good car to go there ? And a lot of kilometers !?

Or crossing over Australia in a road train ! A dream !

dante · Post by **dante** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 12:29 pm

Its 2,300 KM from Melbourne where I live, so I guess we would need a good car to get there

Or fly to Alice Springs and hire a car would be better.

Actually, I've never been there !

So all the KM we have done in car in 2 years would get us there and back 3 times !

Post by **hubird** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:08 pm

Looks like Christo was there...

JoPo · Post by **JoPo** » Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:22 am

Alice Springs !

Just to read the name is magic... Does it looks like this ? :

And since I read "The Dead Heart" I'm even more attracted by that place. But I'll never speak to any girl if I go to Alice Springs...

Is there some kangaroo in your back yard, sometimes ?

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