Disclaimer: I own an electric car but also a diesel and a petrol vehicle. I use the electric vehicle much more, because it is so much cheaper to run. Currently I mostly charge at home using Eskom power. Carbon dioxide argument Pollution is an undeniable problem. China has been regulating movement of cars due to…
Life Stats is a fun exercise to do if you have a few minutes.
Try it by clicking on the link. Then type in your date of birth, and it will give you interesting statistics about your life so far. For example, I’ve lived 22 000 days…
Too Little too Late When someone says Too Little Too Late it’s the same as saying I told you so. And anyone who has been in any long-time relationship knows, that is just the tip of the mountain of resentment. Yes, South Africans are resentful about the energy crisis in this country. In short, that…
The difference between truth and falsehood is four fingers. This is according to an ancient myth. It sounds mysterious but it is not. If you measure the distance between your ear and the corner of your eye, it is four fingers. It is a poetic way of saying: Seeing is believing, hearing not so much…
Q: What EV do you drive? A: BMW i3 Q: How long have you had it? A: Since 2017 Q: How much did you pay for it? A: 650k Q: What is its range? A: When it is fully charged and set for comfort mode it has a range of 198km. Once you start driving…
In South Africa people are aware of the shift to electromobility consciousness but uncertain how this transition is going to work here. On the one hand the increasing fuel price is having an effect on most people. Driving your own bakkie or taking a taxi is expensive. One huge benefit of electric vehicles is the…
An Idea Whose Time Has Come. I’ve never liked that expression. It’s a bit clumsy. It’s also a bit ‘I told you so’ in tone. But we use it because it says what we want to get across. It seems that the EV is an idea whose time has come. It seems inexorable that EV sales…
#EVrevolution #GetReadySA Earlier this month John Berks, the original shock-jock passed away. On his breakfast show on 702 he affected a ‘Boykie from the South’-persona, saying things such as: “Hey! You betta catch a wake-up” or, “We’re rough and we’re tough and we smoke that stuff”. We loved Boykie, and we’ll miss Berks. Lately, at…
Picture this: on a planet somewhere one species evolves a brain so huge it dominates all other species. At some point, the species gets tired… or bored… of its slow walking speed. It invents technologies that greatly speed up its movement. Suddenly the species can get to places further and faster than ever before. But…
US author Kurt Vonnegut gave this advice to budding writers: Put on your hat before you start writing because you never know where you’ll end up. In 1984 when Wang Chuanfu – the son of peasant farmers in rural China – made it into the chemistry programme at Central South University in Changsha, Hunan, he…
