The Anything Thread that is Never off subject.

[jonathan.agnew]

The e-car market makes no sense and the reason for that is the extremes of demand.

When demand for new ones started to sharply rise from the start of 2018, the inability of the manufacturers to supply increasingly led to over a year waiting lists and ridiculously high prices for used very recent examples to meet the demand. By 2021 my early 2018 but current model that cost me £26,000 was getting offers of over £21,000 at three years old from WeBuyAnyCar and the like. This was insane given the battery had three years of use and it wasn't known with certainty then if it would reliably exceed 5 years.

But then the market sharply swung against, partly due to increasing news of e-car fires, partly due to the many complaints of inadequate range as people had rushed to buy without researching true year round range. So at four years old the offers had slumped to £10,000, over halved in one year.

That is why the prices at both ends started colliding as you've found. The problem now is that as the new car demand has dropped leaving makers with overstock, the demand for well used ones has risen sharply as so many low mileage users have realised that they can afford an e-car and that their batteries are proving to be very long lived for low range use.

That new low end market consists of the increasing numbers of the non-employed, the increasing numbers of retired, housewives for school runs, kids activities, shopping etc, second cars for such duties, and family pool cars as the number of now adult kids continue to live at home due to house prices and a pool car with today's multi driver insurance rates suits them all.

So I've now got a six year old e-car that isn't worth very much but is increasing in value all the time as it gets older.
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Indeed, and govt policy/incentives, or haphazard lack of it - without off-street parking evs don't make financial sense now (but will, greatly, five years from now after London's become the Venice of the North and starmer reallocate the defence budget for free public charging)

 

[flecc]

and starmer reallocate the defence budget for free public charging

- - - - - for one's e-boat.
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[lenny]

Alien-Looking Species Seen For First Time Ever in Ocean's Darkest Depths

A collection of new species discovered lurking on the seafloor exemplifies exactly how alien this strange world is.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[lenny]

The Mushroom Hunters Can’t Stop Finding Mysterious Fungi | George Magazine

Strange things appear in the forests and chaparral of California after a big rain. Invigorated by the damp, fungi living quietly in the soil sprout fruiting

georgemagazine.com

 

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[lenny]

Campaign collects €30,000 for homeless Amsterdammer who returned lost wallet with €2,000

A crowdfunding campaign for a homeless man in Amsterdam who turned in a cash-filled wallet he found has raised over 30,000 euros in less than a day.

nltimes.nl

 

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[Woosh]

those two examples of movement were based on the precession of gyroscopes.
When you don't touch the gyroscopes, they conserve their energy of angular momentum.
A spinning gyroscope will try to keep its centre where it was. If you push at the top of the gyroscope, your force is transferred to the opposite side of the gyroscope, like a seesaw across its centre.
In the first video, he lifted the gyroscope and let it go. Gravity pushes the gyroscope to the left, the gyroscope reacts by moving the assembly to the right. The gyroscope will wobble (or preceeds) until it uses all its momentum energy.

 

[lenny]