zagatoes30
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Agreed or just ban Wattie and it'll soon drop off. But he will claim that his democratic rights will have been violated...
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Agreed or just ban Wattie and it'll soon drop off. But he will claim that his democratic rights will have been violated...
Yes, that would be good functionality
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Agreed or just ban Wattie and it'll soon drop off. But he will claim that his democratic rights will have been violated...
They'll only come down in price... But a little rich for me at the moment. Give it a couple of yearsMy bro recently acquire an Jag ipace - 8K down and 800 per month for 4 years - 13K miles/year. Does 200 miles to a full charge. Take 14 hours to fully charge on the charger he had installed at home. Says it's costing 7p a mile in electicity. Fine for doing the journey he does - 100 miles each way to work once a week with the ability to charge at work since there are very few other cars competing for the charging points). I'll be interested in his experience when he has to go somehere unknown (eg his daughters forthcoming graduation...) or how it behaves in the depths of winter.
For the moment he's smitten though. 0-60 in under 5 sec. 400bhp and more than 500 torques.
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Harry’s Garage has a new film about Harry travelling to London in an expensive Jaguar iPace.
It’s quite an eye opener. I kept thinking that’s with a brand new car/battery. What will it be like in a few years time?
My first electric toothbrush lasted at least a decade and its replacement is two years old now and really struggles to hold its charge. Technology may be advancing, but products seem to be getting worse.
Built in obsolescence, King Camp Gillette (yep that really was his name) came up with it over 100 years ago.
Hmm interesting. Not sure I'd have called that planned obsolescence. Razor blade marketing, obviously, but that hadn't occurred.
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His version of the safety razor had a very thin blade that couldn’t be sharpened so would wear out quickly and need to be replaced. It was the only blade that could be used with his handle which was expensive so you were tied into Gillette.
Built in obsolescence, King Camp Gillette (yep that really was his name) came up with it over 100 years ago.
The big thing I was surprised about on that video was how dire the charging network is.
Oh yes, I get that. And selling the handles at a loss and making the profit on the blades is the very definition of razor blade marketing. But still doesn't really feel like planned obsolescence. More that they're dealing with the issue of the patents expiring by creating new / better products....
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The way I thought of it, is that he was the first person to specifically design something to fail.