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I guess if we took the story at face value we'd all be pretty shattered but I wonder what the real story is ?

I haven't seen that, do you have a link ?

I suspect that you are correct, it'll be a hostage situation, though some yanks are still pushing the right to repair barrow I believe. But again ev's dont require the maintenance that ice do and frankly the majority of people nowadays dont have the skills or interest to do their own repairs. I myself detest working on cars, i do do it if required but I'd rather be doing almost anything else. I also work, so I'm better off earning money and paying someone else to do it.

Modern cars of which you don't have, in addition to the fuel gauge have a readout of your range in kms. It constantly recalibrates itself based on your recent driving experience, obviously there must have been range anxiety amongst the intellectual ice drivers out there... And regardless of gauges and warnings of fuel reserves, the driver still needs to observe and heed them. Will the tesla auto pilot commandeer the car to take itself to a chargepoint when low, do we have a tesla pilot here ?

Your car and the ev's do that sure but Lacessit's car obviously doesn't.

If thats YOUR perception, I'd suggest less beans. The owners of ev's that have contributed to this and other treads are very open about their ownership experiences of both vehicles but you and a couple of others not only discount their experience with only one of the types but actively dream up wacky scenarios to prove to yourselves how "right" you are and how "wrong" they are.

but they would be the same types who would ignore an ice fuel gauge. So what is your point apart from some vague outrage that someone drives a differently powered car than you who refuses to try the different tech yourself.

You didnt read the bit you quoted about multiple warnings on charge level ?

and the relevance of what its called up north is...?

Personally, I'd rather spend time with most scorpions than Mr Musk, but from what I've seen he makes a pretty solid car.

Where was the vehicle in question ?

Geez you're a wag... You've whinned on a fair bit about the evils of ev's, spouting numbers where you claim that there isn't enough lithium to make enough batteries to replace all the ice vehicles blah bah. In air quality terms it would be great for everyone to wake in the morning to world with no ice, but that ignores production costs, pollution from production and charging infrastructure as starting points. It makes more sense to upgrade to an ev when you are disposing of your ice vehicle, either because its junked or sold into the second hand market. This means that charging infrastructure can roll out more efficiently for eg. Surely even a hater like you can see that ?

I guess direct or quick connecting flights are everyones wet dream but geez i can't wait to have options again.

It is but I’m not sure if it’s viable as it’s never offered as an option when I search flights whereas Darwin, Melbourne, Bangkok is viable apparently 🙄 Bali also has a small arrivals tax payable. Singapore Airways are still flying Darwin, Singapore, Thailand but there’s no competition on pricing and a minimum 8hr overnight stopover in Singapore. First world problems I guess… 🤷🏼‍♂️

At least this will give me another option to get to Thailand, besides flying Darwin to Melbourne/Sydney to Thailand 🙄 Darwin to Perth to Thailand 🤣

The internationals stopping in Darwin did happen at one time but alas…

They are or they were ? They used to operate Darwin, Singapore, Bangkok/Phuket but haven’t for a couple of years now, sadly.

A Darwin stop would be appreciated.

Should I call myself DudleySquat ? Damn, that’s already taken… 🙄

I remember seeing something similar in Amsterdam back in the mid 90’s. Its one thing to need to go but dripping it down the centre of the road is pretty poor form.

Sometimes I’m filled with pride to be farang… 😢

It clearly stated the autopilot was drunk… 🤣

Anyone who thinks Trump didn’t promote unscientific bulldust (for whatever purpose who knows) really isn’t worthy of having discussions with. Trumpism, qanon, vaccine lies and insurrection all go hand in hand sadly…

We were getting worried about you Owl, unseasonably late you are !

An update on the recharging infrastructure for our yank friends https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2024-will-be-the-year-we-figure-out-ev-charging/ There’s also a couple of further articles at the bottom of the page, one listing USA available models with range and price details. Quite interesting.