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  • EV Car Sharing

    EV Car Sharing

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I drove an EV from Nyon to Boudry and back. The journey took about 40 percent charge for each direction for a total of 80 percent charge. Keep in mind that this is a fiat 500 with a small battery rather than a large one. I routed the journey from Nyon…

  • Another Electric Car Range Experiment

    Another Electric Car Range Experiment

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTomorrow I have the opportunity to do another range test with the Fiat 500. I know that if I drive at 120 kilometres per hour the range is about 100 km but if I slow down to 100 kilometres per hour then the range is theoretically doubled. The drive I want to…

  • A Linear Walk with Publbike

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI almost always go for walks that are a loop because I don’t like to go back and forth. I prefer to have new sights for the entire walk. Today I thought about how I could go for a walk but rather than come back by a variant of that route I…

  • Fleeting Nine Hundred and Sixty Kilometre Range

    Fleeting Nine Hundred and Sixty Kilometre Range

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute[![960km range — 960km range](/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3360-300×225.jpg){.alignnone}](/richard/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_3360-300×225.jpg) For a brief instance I saw that I had a 960km range with the car. It was brief because as soon as I accelerated above a certain speed the reading went down to a normal reading. It would have been nice to have such a long…

  • Electric Cars and Charge Anxiety

    Electric Cars and Charge Anxiety

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesMany years ago I used an old Beta SP camera with batteries that lasted just ten minutes per charge. I didn’t know if they would last long enough to get the entirety of what I was filming so I needed quite a few batteries. Since then I have used laptops, video cameras…