Will Caliban start on Monday morning?

[Rolfe]

Now at Cherwell Valley having coffee.

 

[tsedge]

While we still don't know the percentage HV SOC at which the car still charges the 12V battery, my guess is that it is quite small, probably 5%.

The 50% might possibly have been true in very early software releases, but I cannot believe it is true for the vast majority of people or we'd have dozens or hundreds of reports of 12V battery draining.

So, my guess - and it is just a guess so could be wrong - is that this was sorted out early on.

 

[securespark]

Now at Cherwell Valley having coffee.

Are you heading home?

 

[Rolfe]

Are you heading home?

Yes. Now having a (late) light lunch at Trentham Park.

 

[securespark]

Gosh. More memories!

Mrs S moved to Newcastle-u-Lyme when she was 10 and when I met her, her folks still lived there. Have visited there and also Staffs was part of my patch when I was working PAYE.

I think the M6 is my most travelled motorway. And the most travelled bit between J19 and J10. The worst bit, for me, is around the D road, J 15 and 16.

 

[dsimpkins]

The poll is still open for 21 minutes. Wonder how people will vote now?

 

[MG Clive]

The poll is still open for 21 minutes. Wonder how people will vote now?

The poll is now Weetabix or Porridge.

 

[Everest]

Or whether Caliban made it over the Hardknott pass on the way home

 

[Rolfe]

Home now. Had a small hiccup when I left him on a charger at Tebay without realising the charge hadn't properly initiated, and didn't realise until I was sitting down to a plate of lasanga. So I had to go back out into the rain and wind and get it started again. Probably lost about 20 minutes. Then the weather was atrocious most of the way home so I probably lost another ten minutes just going slowly. I identified another car going about the speed I wanted to go and latched on to him with the ACC. This continued for close on 75 miles. He probably thought I was stalking him, until I turned off at Abington and he went on. But it meant that all I had to do was steer to follow him. No hassle keeping to a speed and no need to put lights on full beam at all.

We made it over the Shap and Beattock Summit. That was enough for one evening in this weather.

 

[securespark]

Without giving away your home location, are you N, S E or W?

 

[T1 Terry]

Home now. Had a small hiccup when I left him on a charger at Tebay without realising the charge hadn't properly initiated, and didn't realise until I was sitting down to a plate of lasanga. So I had to go back out into the rain and wind and get it started again. Probably lost about 20 minutes. Then the weather was atrocious most of the way home so I probably lost another ten minutes just going slowly. I identified another car going about the speed I wanted to go and latched on to him with the ACC. This continued for close on 75 miles. He probably thought I was stalking him, until I turned off at Abington and he went on. But it meant that all I had to do was steer to follow him. No hassle keeping to a speed and no need to put lights on full beam at all.

We made it over the Shap and Beattock Summit. That was enough for one evening in this weather.

Probably gave him a thrill, a bonny young lass following close behind him ..... driving through the night in such bad weather, glad you made it home safely .... now I guess you will be sleeping all day, you people certainly have strange sleeping hrs over there

T1 Terry