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Electric vehicle Battery Repair: A Cost-Effective Choice to Replacement?
Published: October 26,2023
A recent case highlights the potential for repairing electric vehicle (EV) batteries instead of automatically replacing them, offering a more economical solution for owners. The incident, documented in a video circulating online, involved an EV with a battery issue that initially appeared to require a full replacement. However,a skilled mechanic identified the problem as a fault within a single cell of the battery pack.
The vehicle’s warranty coverage was initially deemed invalid due to evidence of maintenance performed outside of authorized service centers. The owner’s driving habits, indicated by a remaining range of approximately 20-30 miles (32-48 kilometers) and the use of the heated reserve function, suggested a driver accustomed to operating the vehicle close to its range limit. This practice, while not inherently damaging, can contribute to increased battery stress and potential issues.
Despite the warranty implications, the mechanic’s approach of pinpointing and replacing the faulty cell demonstrates a valuable alternative to the often-expensive full battery replacement. Replacing a single cell is significantly less costly than replacing the entire battery pack,which can range from $5,000 to $20,000 USD depending on the vehicle model and battery capacity.
This case underscores the growing need for specialized EV repair expertise. While manufacturers often prioritize full battery replacements, self-reliant mechanics with the necessary training and equipment can offer viable repair options. The long-term benefits of cell-level repair extend beyond cost savings, perhaps reducing electronic waste and promoting a more sustainable approach to EV ownership.
See the detailed repair process in the video below.
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Megève Summer Auction to Showcase Elite Sport Horses
Megève, France – A new collection of athletic horses, ranging in age from three to nine years, alongside promising foals and embryos from established bloodlines, will be available at the upcoming Megève Summer Auction. Testing opportunities begin July 7th, offering prospective buyers a chance to evaluate horses before bidding commences. The auction provides both on-site and remote participation options.
Testing and Evaluation Opportunities
Starting July 7th, potential buyers can assess horses at the stables of Nicolas Tayol. This provides a valuable prospect to experience each horse
By plunging into the heart of the winter of 1939-1940 in a war between the Soviet giant and Lilliputian Finland, Olivier Norek recounts a forgotten conflict. With “The Winter Warriors”, the former captain of the judicial police abandons the thriller and offers a dazzling historical choral fresco.
At the dawn of the Second World War, Stalin, seeking to secure his borders and protect Leningrad, set out to conquer Finland. For the dictator, it is the story of a few days, a few weeks at most. What will this young nation of three million inhabitants be able to do against the heavily armed Soviet army?
But what he thought would be a simple formality, almost a walk in the park, will become a military nightmare. Because the Finnish army fought with fierce determination, using its knowledge of the terrain, the winter, the forests, to undermine Stalin’s expansionist wishes.
Simo Häyhä, la Mort Blanche
The Finnish army, under-equipped, has a major asset – small in size but great in courage – in the person of Simo Häyhä, nicknamed the White Death. This 31-year-old man, 1.52m tall (the size of his rifle) is a sniper of legendary precision. Single-handedly, he defeats the enemy, sows death and trouble, he, the simple farmer who defended his livestock against bears and wolves and who finds himself defending his country.
I think I’m a very bad inventor and that if I don’t touch, I don’t see, I don’t taste, I would have difficulty finding the right words, the right images. I need to get out into the field.
Olivier Norek, author of “Winter Warriors”
Olivier Norek, before experiencing the story, confesses to not knowing how to write it. Taking up his investigator’s and policeman’s hat again, he leaves for Finland on the trail of these soldiers, these peasants, of Simo Häyhä, exactly the same number of days as the period that this war lasted, that is to say -say 105 days. When he explains what he wants to do, doors open, attics, trunks, libraries, archives. He talks with professors, snipers, weapons experts, enthusiasts who all tell him about their winter war and this conflict which has become, in Finland, a national story.
A pacifist story
Lying in the snow, his head held in a vice by -40 degrees, Olivier Norek thinks of his characters, all real. He met their gazes in photographs, he experienced through them the cold, the hunger, the fear. It narrates the daily life of the Finns in this winter of 1939-1940 when temperatures dropped to -51 degrees. But he also evokes the young Soviet soldiers, poor kids who came from Crimea, Ukraine or another of the twenty-seven ethnic minorities, to die frozen in the ice. This war is not theirs, they who obey imbecile orders from a hierarchy which is more afraid of Stalin than of the enemy.
It is important for me to emphasize that this is not a war book but a pacifist book. He is not pro-Finnish or anti-Russian
Olivier Norek, author of “Winter Warriors”
When reading “The Winter Warriors”, we cannot help but think of current wars, of the fights of small people against great powers. The parallels are never far away, and reading becomes an even more disturbing experience.
A deeply human novel, both epic and intimate, “The Winter Warriors” shows that tenacity and courage can sometimes triumph in the face of much superior forces. All this calls for modesty and celebrates the memory of the 70,000 Finns and 400,000 Soviets who fell in combat in a conflict that would change the course of the Second World War.
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Olivier Norek, “The Winter Warriors”, Michel Lafon, August 2024.
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“Eve” by Amor Towles takes us into the – not always glamorous – film world of the 1930s. Unfortunately, the story does not develop any pull, but turns out to be a somewhat long-winded episodic narrative.
This novel begins almost like a film: An older man and a young woman meet on a train – on the way from New York to Los Angeles. In 1938, it is a journey that takes days. The two eventually start talking quite casually:
Then she held out her hand across the table. “My name is Evelyn Ross.” She had a good grip. “Charlie Granger.” She took a fresh cigarette from the pack and lit it. “And what’s your story, Charlie?” Read sample
As a reader, you get to know Eve in the first third of the book from the perspective of the other characters – including Charlie, a former police officer, and the actress Olivia de Havilland.
Breakthrough with “Gone with the Wind”
When they arrive in Hollywood, Eve and Olivia meet in the bathroom of a restaurant and quickly become friends. Olivia has already landed a few roles, but suffers from the fact that her life is controlled by the bosses of a film studio. She is on her way to becoming a star and is currently filming “Gone with the Wind” with director George Cukor:
“It will probably be one of the biggest films of the year, if not the decade, and Cukor thinks I’m just right for one of the lead roles – a young woman who is lovely and sincere, but also resilient and determined.”
Olivia de Havilland is ultimately nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of Melanie Hamilton.
A blatant attempt at blackmail
So far, so historically true: Amor Towles skillfully mixes fact and fiction here. But his book is still not a “historical novel”. In his story, the actress’s clean, innocent image is threatened with tarnishing. And this is ensured by an envelope that is handed to Olivia by a messenger in her hotel:
In the envelope were two photos and a handwritten note. They were glossy black and white photos and they showed Olivia naked. (…) When Eve read the message – a demand for money and the announcement that a phone call would follow – she felt her face grow hot and her hand begin to shake.
A blatant attempt at blackmail. But Eve takes on the matter and wants to protect her friend from bad headlines.
Confusing, boring plot
This could have been a brisk story in the second part of the novel. But Amor Towles stays true to his style and tells the story from many different perspectives. This makes the plot rather confusing and seems to be artificially drawn out. Every minor character is told in detail. Unfortunately, this is extremely boring. And Eve, as a strong, independent female character, almost gets a little lost. That’s a shame! Especially because Towles can be such a great storyteller – as he showed with his novel “A Gentlemen in Moscow”.
The bottom line is that “Eve” tells of the dark side of the Hollywood dream factory in the 1930s. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t have the pull of blockbuster films, but turns out to be a somewhat long-winded episodic narrative. Less would have been more here.
Eve
by Amor Towles
Number of pages:224 pages Genre:Novel Additional information:Translated from the American by Susanne Höbel Publisher:Hanser Order number:978-3-446-28125-7 Price:24 €
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A brand new chapter of the “legal novel” of Rome: the Gang seems once more. Marcello Colafigli, one of many historic promoters of the Magliana gang, can also be among the many 28 individuals who obtained a precautionary arrest order as a part of an operation within the areas of Rome, Naples, Foggia and Viterbo. The order, which was issued by the investigation decide of Rome, was carried out on the first gentle of day by the carabinieri of the Investigation Unit of the Regional Order of Rome below the coordination of the Anti-Mafia District Directorate. The 28 folks – 11 who obtained the measure of preventive care in jail, 16 of the measure of home arrest and one of many obligation to signal – are accused, for varied causes, of crimes of associations geared toward worldwide drug trafficking , tried theft. in competitors, tried extortion in competitors, receiving stolen items and possession of unlawful weapons, disobeying sentence and aiding and abetting eliminate
The investigations, launched by the Carabinieri Investigative Unit of Rome and led by the DDA of Rome in June 2020, “made it potential to gather necessary case parts relating to the existence of a legal affiliation, with a logical foundation within the capital and dealing within the space of Magliana and the coast of Lazio”, we learn in a observe. On the finish could be Colafigli who, regardless of the semi-liberal regime, “defeated the sale and the acquisition of huge portions of narcotics from overseas (Spain and Colombia), sustaining relations with the exponents of the ‘ndrangheta, the Camorra, the Foggia mafia and with Albanians included within the American narcos cartels Proper”, reads the observe.
Colafigli was acknowledged by Franco Giuseppucci, Enrico De Pedis, Maurizio Abbatino and Nicolino Selis, as one of many promoters of the Banda della Magliana. Sentenced to a number of life sentences, he was convicted, amongst different issues, for the kidnapping and homicide of Duke Massimo Grazioli Lante della Rovere (who thought-about the act with which the Gang started its legal exercise) and for the homicide, as a principal, of “Renatino”. Of Pedis.
Friday 31 Could 2024 at 7.00 pm, the Mitreo Arte Contemporanea presents a significant exhibition on Futurist Aeropainting: Giulio D’Anna and the Italian Aeropainters, curated by Anna Maria Ruta and Maurizio Scudiero, with the assist of the Ministry of the Armed Forces Air, of the Area of Lazio and the Capital of Rome, organized by the cultural associations MICRO and MitreoIside and supported by the Cultural Affiliation FUTUR-ISM, the most important Futurism portal on the earth. The exhibition was born from the assembly of Monica Melani, founder and inventive director of the Mitreo and Salvatore Carbone, inventive director of the cultural affiliation MICRO who for years has been working to unfold the futuristic “phrase” in Italy and overseas, in co- to work with artwork historians and collectors with the final purpose of contributing to the socio-cultural exercise crucial in artwork within the suburbs, and to strengthen the decision of the Mitreo Arte Contemporanea as a stronghold and cultural middle for relationship improvement, social cohesion and cultural liberation. de Corviale, in open communication together with his metropolis. The challenge is a part of a calendar of exhibitions devoted to Futurism that goes from the anthology of the way forward for Baldessari, inaugurated in April in Rovereto, to the exhibition on Giulio D’Anna on the Grabado museum in Spain, to the one on Depero scheduled for the month of July in Viareggio, ending with the good exhibition on Futurism, organized by the Ministry of Tradition, to be held on the Nationwide Gallery of Trendy Artwork in Rome in October.
Within the Mitreum, 70 works by Italian air painters will probably be exhibited: Giulio D’Anna, Giacomo Balla, Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), Crali (Tullio Crali), Gerardo Dottori, Enrico Prampolini, Roberto Marcello Baldessari, Benedetta Cappa, Leandra Angelucci Cominazzini, Marisa Mori, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi, Renato Di Bosso, Angelo Canevari, Nello Voltolina, Fillia (Luigi Colombo), Web site Mino Delle, Adele Gloria, Albino Siviero Verossì, Ballelica (Elica Balla) Umberto Di Lazzaro, Osvaldo Bruschetti, Arturo Ciacelli , Sibò (Pierluigi Bossi), Enzo Benedetto, Cesare Andreoni, Pippo Oriani, Nicolay Diulgheroff, Mario Duse, Renzo Mazzorin, Barbara ‘(Olga Biglieri), Ivanhoe Gambini, Bot (Osvaldo Barbieri), Luigi Martinati, Sepo (Severo Pozzati), Lucio Venna, Magda Falchetto and Fortunato Depero. Nice consideration, inside the exhibition, was given to the presence of the Futurist aerialist artists who distinguished themselves inside the artwork motion, confirming the spirit that animates the founding father of the MitreoIside, in placing again on the coronary heart of each feeling, motion, challenge and relationship, the harmonious union between races – a love settlement made much more crucial by our pressing battle – re- assertion of the place and significance of liberating, valuing and sending feminine power and pressure from Corviale and past, which by nature, fluid and dynamic, know and really feel the way to welcome on, together with, mediating, creating and altering. Within the catalog there are texts by artwork historians referring to the artists who had been current: Maurizio Scudiero, Maria Teresa Ruta, Giancarlo Carpi and Elena Gigli; texts by Advisor for the Tradition of Rome Capital Miguel Gotor, Albertina D’Anna, Claudio Cantella President of the MICRO affiliation, artist Monica Melani and inventive director of Mitreo Modern Artwork and Salvatore Carbone, inventive director of the occasion. However what’s Aeropainting? Maurizio Scudiero exhibits it within the vital textual content: “The primary instant response may point out artistic endeavors, of portray, intrinsically impressed by airplanes, or airplanes, so a creative present of inspiration of airplanes. In truth, whether it is true on the one hand that Aeropittura attracts its first inspiration from flight, it shouldn’t be confused with all the pieces that, with out distinction, has to encourage with flight. On this case it will solely be gender portray. Reasonably, with the intention to be so, Aeropittura’s work have to be inside sure exact operational limits codified in a theoretical and programmatic manifesto by a gaggle of artists who signed it in the direction of the tip of the Twenties. All this as a result of Aeropittura was in follow a subgroup of Futurism, or, to be exact, a metamorphosis of it. And the ensuing works thought of the ever-changing visible views supplied by flight, utterly new and revolutionary in comparison with these on Earth exactly due to this fixed change in notion. compelled the painter to make additional syntheses and modifications. In different phrases, Aeropainting was the results of a brand new visible sensibility. The earth is noticed from above and, what’s much more fascinating, it’s seen dynamically, thus in a continuum of fixing imaginative and prescient. The painter should then pour all this onto the canvas, but additionally add the sense of a brand new religious consciousness on account of the psycho-physical freedom from the heaviness of the earth’s situation”. And as Anna Maria Ruta specifies: «Plane attracts instantly, even whether it is in place, as a result of it permits the synthesis, transformation and engaging multiplication of shapes and colours in an effort glides, turns, removes on the canvas and communicates the concept of the connection of house and time. Nevertheless, it was solely within the early Nineteen Thirties that works and exhibitions grew and the air grew to become a brand new imaginative and prescient of futurist painters, who directed their interpretative and experimental issues in the direction of it with a singular mixture of options: in some, removing of the physique was an important. autonomous mechanics, in others a singular lyricism, which seems on the panorama and the monuments under fairly than on the airplane, principally represented by the mechanical optics with its all spherical quantity and metallic grey itself”.