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  1. SoNic67

    Unintended harm of subsidizing electric cars

    That subsidy goes into your grocery products. Feel free to lobby your representative to increase that price of groceries. Also it goes in the electricity you use at night, when all the solar is down. I guess you don't need A/C at night. If you have three houses connected to one overhead...
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    Nissan introduces engine with 50% thermal efficiency

    No, it is not. The assembly engine/recovery/electric motor might be (but I doubt it will be in reality). Like a combined cycle power generation plant. Heck any combined engine with a electric motor/battery can claim better efficiency if we look it that way. As for the "constant rpm" - that's...
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    Unintended harm of subsidizing electric cars

    Charging an electric vehicle in colder environments can emit more CO2 than driving an equivalent gasoline car. One main reason is that battery charging is less efficient in cold temperatures, with energy losses between 15% and 20% at 19°F. Furthermore, EV heating and cooling is drawn from the...
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    Unintended harm of subsidizing electric cars

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-unintended-harm-of-subsidizing-electric-vehicles-and-charging-stations/ar-AAMbVHn?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX20
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    Bad Experiences with Maxlife ATF?

    My cars stopped at 5 speed auto. And 2011 manufacturing year, it was a good year for cars :p
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    Nissan introduces engine with 50% thermal efficiency

    The direct injected engines are designed to do exactly that lean burn with help of controlled injection pattern. However they have issues with carbon deposits on the valves, so Ford and Toyota added another set of injectors on the back side of the valves (traditional spot for port injected cars)...
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    Bad Experiences with Maxlife ATF?

    I used it in my Toyota RAV4 that asks for WS. The shifts were just a bit different, sluggish. I didn't want to chance it, so I drained and refill two more times with AISIN ATF0WS from Rockauto. Shifts perfectly. AISIN ATF0WS it's only $6/quart, full synthetic (Toyota WS is semi-synthetic), Aisin...
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    ATF fluid color and change observations

    I do three drain/fills, at 100-200 miles apart, to replace most of the fluid.
  9. SoNic67

    Santa Fe Owners-Change your transmission fluid!

    That's a smart move! When I was young and stupid, I had an 1985 Toyota Van (that's the whole name) that had 120k miles when I got it and some shop offered to flush the transmission. I accepted and sure enough, when I drove it away it started to have hard flares from 1st to 2nd. So hard, that the...
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    Santa Fe Owners-Change your transmission fluid!

    You have guessed wrong. Read the owner manual. Hyundai/Kia says that basically any vehicle driven in US urban areas (stop and go, short trips), in ambient temperatures above 90F, is considered used in "hard conditions" and that "lifetime" doesn't apply anymore. In my experience all Asian...
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    Nissan introduces engine with 50% thermal efficiency

    Whaaat? No, what the thermodynamic law says is that ANY cycle (motor) cannot have a better thermal efficiency than a theoretical Carnot cycle that uses the same max and min temperatures. That is: This is a Carnot cycle taking place between a hot reservoir at temperature TH and a cold reservoir...
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    Nissan introduces engine with 50% thermal efficiency

    You don't know what you don't know... that's all I am gonna say.
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    Nissan introduces engine with 50% thermal efficiency

    It's a lie, marketing. That's not thermal efficiency, that e-Power is a thermal motor driving a generator. No real life thermal cycle can be more efficient than Carnot theoretical cycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle
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    Aisin AFW+ or ATF0ws???

    My 2011 didn't really like Maxlife, it shifted differently. I flushed it out of there pronto... with Aisin ATF0W
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    Aisin AFW+ or ATF0ws???

    Truthfully, all their transmissions were designed for the normal viscosity ATF (T-IV) and only after a while they switched to LV fluid WS, like all industry, for fuel economy. Aisin probably knows a thing or two about their transmissions and that's why they can say it would work. That kind of...
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    Aisin AFW+ or ATF0ws???

    Only the ATF0WS is the "WS", low viscosity fluid. The Aisin AFW+ is for the older T-IV fluid, with normal viscosity. It's not "Toyota fluid". Toyota doesn't make transmissions or fluids for that matter. They add the label on them after contracting with Aisin (transmission) and various other...
  17. SoNic67

    ATF Where CHF11SS Required

    You posted in a tread dead from 2019... the OP doesn't even has that car listed in his profile anymore.
  18. SoNic67

    Jatco CVT with a chain

    I had a 2001 Ford Explorer with 4 speed auto that lasted 200k miles commuting, city traffic (rust got to brake lines). I also had a 2001 Mercury Sable with 4 speed auto that lasted 180k miles (totaled by teen driver). However I did keep the maintenance for heavy usage (drain and refill schedule...
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    REUTERS: EU fines Volkswagen, BMW $1 bln for emissions cartel (Daimler gets off fine after blowing whistle on cartel)

    The EU politicians are pi$$ed that their make-believe, imagined, "new clean technologies" are not coming "faster to market". That's like a farmer being upset that his pigs won't fly even after he decreed it so. On teh other hand those manufacturers lied that they can do it and, when they...
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    Valvoline ATF Dexron VI/Mercon LV & Ultra1Plus

    "New" is not always "improved". Knowing the trend to favor gas economy (regardless of increased wear), they might have lowered the viscosity, at the lower limit that the original specs tolerated. PS: They did that with the specs of 75W90. The "new" 75W110 is where the upper limit of 75W90 was...
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