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Kicking the oil companies in the rear
20^th Oct, 2015 at 6:07pm

After a long time dreaming of it, I finnaly kicked the oil companies in the rear.

Yep,

I'm drivin' electric now.
Here's my little eletric car soaking up electrons at a fast charging station

I've been driving it for 3 weeks, and I've already made over 500km with 0 CO2 emissions. Bought it used from France and now I'm about to get it a Portuguese license plate.

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Re: Kicking the oil companies in the rear
Reply #2 - 20^th Oct, 2015 at 10:07pm

ruicarlov wrote on 20^th Oct, 2015 at 6:07pm:

After a long time dreaming of it, I finnaly kicked the oil companies in the rear.

Yep, http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0705/9091/products/kyggb_large.jpg

I'm drivin' electric now.
Here's my little eletric car soaking up electrons at a fast charging station
http://i.imgur.com/sy8uSvF.jpg

I've been driving it for 3 weeks, and I've already made over 500km with 0 CO2 emissions. Bought it used from France and now I'm about to get it a Portuguese license plate.

Nice! Did your online earnings pay for that?

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moneymarketing Sub Moderator Offline Posts: 3908 Vancouver, Canada Gender:	Re: Kicking the oil companies in the rear Reply #3 - 20^th Oct, 2015 at 10:08pm you know you're just being silly. Why not hook up a converter that will just allow you to zap the power in with your eyes?
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ruicarlov VIP Member Offline PTCMan! The doodle superhero of the PTC world! Posts: 1479 Portugal Gender:	Re: Kicking the oil companies in the rear Reply #4 - 21^st Oct, 2015 at 12:00am That'd fry the battery. It has only 16kWh, so you can't charge it up that fast or it's a goner in no time. Because of that I must use 50kW fast chargers, whose power output is much lower than my eyes. Just for reference, I could send a Delorean back to the future P.S Happy Back to the Future Day!
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SolidSnake Forum Administrator Offline I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember Posts: 3386 Center of the Universe Gender:	Re: Kicking the oil companies in the rear Reply #5 - 22^nd Oct, 2015 at 4:28pm Cool What's it like to drive a silent car? Must be awkward at least at first.. I recently got mine converted to use Natural Gas and it really half-ed down the costs.. My dad was a MB car mechanic so I'm on a custom built, 91' MB E200 W124.. that was really greedy on the gasoline before the conversion..
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Re: Kicking the oil companies in the rear
Reply #6 - 22^nd Oct, 2015 at 5:54pm

I've driven a silent scooter for three years now. It didn't surprise that much, but my mom and friends certainly did.
When I turned it on with one of my friends, she told me "No way! There's no way this is on!"
Everbody who rides it loves it. As a colleague of mine told me, in the old days you impressed ladies with the noisiest and dirtiest cars with big engines. Now it's the silent, green cars that impress them. Grin

What conversion did your car get? Diesel? Hopefully not the VW kind Roll Eyes

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Re: Kicking the oil companies in the rear
Reply #7 - 23^rd Oct, 2015 at 3:52am

ruicarlov wrote on 22^nd Oct, 2015 at 5:54pm:

I've driven a silent scooter for three years now. It didn't surprise that much, but my mom and friends certainly did.
When I turned it on with one of my friends, she told me "No way! There's no way this is on!"
Everbody who rides it loves it. As a colleague of mine told me, in the old days you impressed ladies with the noisiest and dirtiest cars with big engines. Now it's the silent, green cars that impress them. Grin

I've never been in one so yes.. I'd probably be that surprised as well Cheesy

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What conversion did your car get? Diesel? Hopefully not the VW kind Roll Eyes

Not sure if I get you, but it was running on gasoline before (you know the one that loves to explode with fire..).
Now it's hybrid so it also runs on Natural Gas, but it can also run on gasoline just like before.

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Re: Kicking the oil companies in the rear
Reply #8 - 23^rd Oct, 2015 at 1:38pm

SolidSnake wrote on 23^rd Oct, 2015 at 3:52am:

Not sure if I get you, but it was running on gasoline before (you know the one that loves to explode with fire..).
Now it's hybrid so it also runs on Natural Gas, but it can also run on gasoline just like before.

Oh, ok. I was wondering if you had changed it to diesel or something (since I saw the diesel version of that car was quite popular). The joke was that diesel got a bad rep recently, thanks to the VW scandal.

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