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…
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Aug
Aug
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…
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Jul
Jul
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…
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Jul
Jul
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…
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Jun
Jun
#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…
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Jun
Jun
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…
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Jun
Jun
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…
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May
May
So, before we judge whether Greta Thunberg is correct let’s do a little background recap. COP stands for Congress of the Parties. The “parties” being the members of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. This is a complicated business, but the important thing is that COP is the supreme decision-making body of the UNCCC. COP is the business end of the UNCCC stick. Meetings are held once a year.
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May
May
Electric vehicles and recyclable packaging? When did we lose the plot? It’s no use debating that, backward-looking sentiments won’t get us anywhere. But if we look forward, we will see plenty of electric vehicles. I don’t think we’ll ever see electric trolleybuses or milk floats again, but the electric passenger car is here. Recently a…
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Apr
Apr
Welcome to the first blog in a series that will cover everything EV. Mankind is at the beginning of an exciting era and there are constantly new developments and trends. At times we will get tangential and philosophize about matters peripheral to EVs. If you’re not sure what EV stands for, let me get that…
