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Each week I drive our Kia EV9 Earth from Melbourne to Apollo Bay (return 400 kms). With a 100 kWh battery and a 10kW solar system, it takes about 2-3 days to put in 80 kWh of charge necessary for next return trip and that costs $2.40 (80 kWh by 3 cents feed in tariff forgone), or the price of one and a half litres of petrol
thedriven.io/2025/04/14/i-neve

The Driven · I never knew it could be this good! Charging EVs with solar is ridiculously cheapIt costs me just $2.40 to travel the 400 kms from Melbourne to Apollo Bay return in our EV, a Kia EV9 - that's less than half the price of a coffee.

#Car safety experts at #NHTSA, which regulates #Tesla , axed by #DOGE

Job cuts at the US traffic safety #regulator instigated by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency disproportionately hit staff assessing self-driving risks, hampering oversight of technology on which the world’s richest man has staked the future of Tesla.
#Musk #selfdriving #takedown #conflictofinterest #ai

arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/c

A Tesla that crashed into a hardware store
Ars Technica · Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGEBy Financial Times

What the hell off that noise that the #NissanEV makes when reversing?
It's like the Mac power on "chung" being fellated by a door entry buzz...
What is it supposed to sound like?
Game show points removed from some said game contestant's life board as the guillotine gets closer?

I imagine if I owned one I'd have my window down head out yelling "awooga" to cover the noise.
Or disable the noise and shout it anyway
Should be customisable
"GetTaeFuckOotMaWay"
"MotorIsTraversinErsewards"

An Alien Ribcage?..

..or the exhaust pipes of a v12 vintage Bugatti?...

Pt. 5 of a miniseries with shots taken at the French National Automobile Museum in Mulhouse (Collection Schlumpf). https://www.musee-automobile.fr/en/

Pt.4: https://pixelfed.social/p/mustamakkara/815898807954317444

#Nikon z50 II 16.3.25
75mm | f/6 | 1/60s | ISO1000

#car #classiccars #racingcars #vintage #abstraction #design #futuristic #bugatti #racing #mulhouse #museum #carphotography #amateurphotography #carsofpixelfed #carsofmastodon #abstraction #study