• ns1@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    Ok but this is actually how the housing market works though

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    Reddit is Trump dick-riding trash. Account is 18 years old. Not even sure what I did because Reddit is operated by fucking dumbass petty Trump pedo protecting dick riding morons.

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    My mom once told me an aunt of hers told her gas prices don’t affect her. She just puts ƒ25 worth of gas in her car, so it always costs the same.

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        I have met multiple people who have said this, at first I thought it was like a common joke… Nope. They put in a 20€ bill and then put in another once the last one has run out. They don’t count in that the same money suddenly lasts for less time. But no, they have not been very frugal people in any other way either, so… And oh, they do reproduce.

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    The first ebike I bought was 200€. You’re telling me two tanks of gas would cost more than my entire main mode of transportation did for the two years or so I used it daily (tbf, I had it maintenanced once for 50€)

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      200€ Ebike?? Was this in 1990? The cheapest I know of is 500€…

      Unrelated side note, I have gone 10000km with mine, 120km for the 625Wh battery. About 0.3€ per kWh. About 15€ in electricity.

      Compared to my diesel VW Passat with diesel 23km/L at lives now of 2€/L is 870€.

      I saved 855€ over the past 3 years by biking to work and the store instead of driving, not to mention health benefits.

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        200€ Ebike?? Was this in 1990? The cheapest I know of is 500€…

        Nah, it was just second hand. It was built in 2011 and I bought it in 2023. Its original sticker price would have been like 2.5k, ebikes were pretty expensive at the time. The original owner actually bought the bike for his wife, who passed away around 2012. So it was barely used and he was very diligent about storing it properly. When I got my 2 years of usage out of it and the batteries started lasting less than 10km each I gave it away for free to a University student (that range is still plenty for small grocery trips). As far as I know, she’s still riding it to this day.

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          Being diligent about storing it properly may have preserved the mechanical parts but hurt the battery. If you store a rechargeable battery long time the second worst thing you can do is keeping the battery fully charged, greatly increasing the rate of detoriation. The only thing even worse would be to leave the battery fully discharched as it would eventually go into a deep discharge destroying it. For long term storage you should keep batteries about 60% charged.

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            ???
            That’s exactly what he did, because that’s what the manual for the bike suggested. Stored the batteries at 60% charge in a cool basement, checked on them and re-charged every 6 months as needed.

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              Sorry, but I’ve just seen way too many people that just keep the charger permanently attached, forcing the battery to stay at 100%, so I assume that happened here, too. Unless you do something harmful to it, the primary limiting factor of a lithium battery is the number of charge cycles, so I assumed something must have happened to the batteries so they degrade to such a minuscule range after being in use for just 2 years.

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      It’s of course still much cheaper than guzzoline, but aren’t you forgetting the price of the elctricity you need for recharging it?

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    They legit believe that if a den democrat was in power things would be worse. I don’t know if there is a floor for them to consider maybe the guy they voted for is actually hurting them