Ashburton Guardian | Motoring | June 7, 2019

Motoring June 7, 2019

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Tesla Model 3

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Ten billion miles of

proven technology

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he first of Tesla’s “affordable” Model 3 electric sedans could arrive in New Zealand in August.

Tesla has begun offering two variants of its Model 3 ev, priced from $73,900 plus on-road costs and a delivery fee.

The US company says deliveries will be prioritised based on reservation date, delivery location and confuguration options.

The four-door sedan has a claimed range of 450kms, and the company says it can accelerate from zero to 100km/h in 5.6 seconds.

However opting for the Performance package increases the price to around $94,200, offering quicker acceleration

(zero to 100km/h in 3.4 seconds).

The Model 3 is Tesla’s smaller, simpler car, which aims to be the world’s first mass-market electric vehicle.

The company says it combines industry-leading powertrain efficiency, aerodynamics and chassis technology to deliver the longest range of any comparable electric sedan.

It says Tesla has proven its technology over more than 10 billion miles of real-word driving across its global fleet of vehicles.

The Model 3 comes with active safety features standard, including Automatic Emergency Braking, Forward Collision Warning and Side Collision Warning.

Model 3, as with other Teslas, would continue to receive over-the-air software

updates which added new features and enhanced functionality over time.

Model 3 came with Autopilot included, which under active driver supervision, enables the car to steer, accelerate and brake automatically for other vehicles and pedestrians within its lane.

Model 3 Standard Range Plus includes 12-way power adjustable heated front seats, premium seat material and trim, upgraded audio – immersive sound, standard maps & navigation, LED fog lamps, centre console with storage, 4 USB ports and docking for two smartphones.

Customers who order Model 3 Performance receive the Premium Interior package. This includes satellite-view maps with live traffic visualisation and navigation, premium audio – 14 speakers,

in-car internet streaming music & media, internet browser, location-aware automatic garage door opener.

In addition to the 12-way power adjustable front and rear heated seats, LED fog lamps, centre console with storage, 4 USB ports and docking for 2 smartphones.

All Model 3 vehicles also come standard with auto dimming, power folding, heated side mirrors, music and media over Bluetooth and custom driver profiles.

All Model 3 customers have access Tesla’s global charging network, reserved specifically for Tesla owners; there are seven Supercharger and over 125 Destination charging locations across New Zealand.

Tesla says there are more coming “shortly”.

World-first cycle helmet crash test

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olvo Cars, a leader in automotive safety, is teaming up with top Swedish sports and safety brand POC for a series of worldfirst crash tests of bike helmets against cars as part of a groundbreaking new research project that aims to further protect cyclists.

Volvo’s New Zealand general manager Coby Duggan says the research is significant as it focuses on the head injuries that can be potentially caused by an impact to various parts of the front of a vehicle.

He says the latest Ministry of Transport statistics found that more than 770 cyclists were injured in New Zealand last year – five fatally – making up around 5 per cent of road accident injuries and 1 per cent of all road fatalities.

“Cyclists are one of the most vulnerable road user groups and yet the traditional methodology for measuring how well a helmet stands up to an impact is to simply drop it from various heights on to a flat surface.

“The new study will explore how head protection responds under a variety of collision scenarios as it impacts with different parts of a moving vehicle,” he says.

Duggan says the results of the research will lead to the design of helmets and vehicles which are better able to protect cyclists in the event of an accident.

New Zealand research suggests that if the number of individuals in New Zealand who cycle increases, the risk profile of cyclists may improve due to a ‘safety in numbers’ effect.

It is also likely that, if as expected, cyclist numbers increase, demand for cycle-friendly road infrastructure will increase as a result.

The partnership is the latest example of Volvo’s leading position in safety development and its ambition to improve road safety for all through a collaboration and knowledge-sharing approach.

The Volvo-POC research project consists of a number of specially designed crash tests at the famous Volvo safety research facilities in Sweden and is part of a wider research project to understand the types of long-term injuries sustained by cyclists.

During these tests, POC bike helmets are worn by crash dummy heads mounted on a testing rig, from where they are launched towards different areas of the hood of a static Volvo car, at different speeds and angles for various measurements.

Current bike helmet testing procedures are fairly rudimentary, involving helmets being dropped from different heights on either a flat or an angled surface, and do not take into account vehicle to bike accidents.

The Volvo-POC project aims to further refine and advance such testing.

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Magnificent Motorola

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ong weekends like the one just past are often an opportunity to do special things.

Consequently they can also become a source of special mem-

ories.

Looking back this writer remembers several significant things which occurred on Queen’s Birthday Weekends past.

One which happened more years ago than one cares to admit was the arrival of my second car.

My sister Judith and her late husband David’s imminent departure to live in Tokyo led to the purchase of their car.

And it was vastly different to my first car.

Its car radio was one of many features which brought much pleasure, possibly because the audio system in this writer’s first car was a transistor radio.

The radio was a prize in an Australia raffle, in which incidentally a local gentleman won a brand new Holden car once and maybe twice.

This writer wasn’t that lucky, but the radio was appreciated, and placed on the ledge behind the back seat of Mervie the Morris Minor provided reasonable sound, somewhat dependent on location and the number of bumps in the road.

So albeit an AM radio the sound system in the second car was a still a real step up and a treat.

Ironically, thinking back about this during last weekend coincided with the arrival of an email from family friends Annette and Michael Monti, who live in Nelson.

They often send interesting emails.

This one documents the history of the car radio.

It goes like this.

One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset.

It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car.

Lear and Wavering liked the idea.

Both men had tinkered with radios (Lear served as a radio operator in the US Navy during World War I) and it wasn’t long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car.

But it wasn’t easy, because automotive electrical systems created interference, making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running.

One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of interference.

When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago.

There they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation.

He made a product called a battery eliminator, a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current.

But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios.

Galvin needed a new product to manufacture.

When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found it.

He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business.

Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin’s factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker.

Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan.

Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he

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had his men install a radio in the banker’s Packard.

Good idea, but it didn’t work.

Half an hour after the installation, the banker’s Packard caught on fire. Needless to say he didn’t get the loan!

Galvin didn’t give up.

He drove his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio Manufacturers’ Association convention.

Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it.

That idea worked – he got enough orders to put the radio into production.

Now he needed a name for his product and the first model was called the 5T71.

Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier.

In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix “ola” for their names – Radiola, contributions to the field of aviation.

A lot of the communications technolColumbiola, and Victrola were three of the He invented radio direction finders ogies that we take for granted today were biggest. for planes, aided in the invention of the born in Motorola labs in the years that Galvin decided to do the same thing, autopilot, designed the first fully autofollowed World War II. and since his radio was intended for use matic aircraft landing system, and in 1963 In 1947 they came out with the first in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it the introduced his most famous invention of television for under $200, then came the Motorola. But even with the name change, all, the Lear Jet, the world’s first mass-proworld’s first pager and in 1969 the radio the radio still had problems. duced, affordable business jet. and television equipment that was used to When the Motorola went on sale in Not bad for a guy who dropped out of televise Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a school! moon. time when you could buy a brand-new car It’s fun to find out how some of the Motorola introduced the world’s first for $650, and the country was sliding into many things we take for granted actually handheld cellular phone, and today is one the Great Depression. came into being! of the largest cell phone manufacturers in In 1930, it took two men several days to Discussing this story with Roger Hart the world. put in a car radio – the dashboard had to led us to reflect upon features now taken And it all started with the car radio. be taken apart to accommodate the receivfor granted which not so long ago were What became of the men who installed er and a single speaker and the ceiling had optional extras, like car heaters, external the first radio in Paul Galvin’s car? to be cut open to install the antenna.

Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended mirrors and heated rear windows.

These early radios ran on their own batAnd of course the radio in this writer’s up taking very different paths in life. teries, not on the car battery, so holes had second car which was an optional extra is a Wavering stayed with Motorola. to be cut into the floorboard to accommofar cry from the incredible sound systems In the 1950s he helped change the autodate them. The installation manual had available today. mobile experience again when his develeight complete diagrams and 28 pages of But at the time it was nothing short of opments enhanced such luxuries as power instructions. the “bee’s knees” and looking back has windows, power seats, and eventually, Selling complicated car radios that cost brought back memories of a memorable air-conditioning.

20 per cent of the price of a brand-new long weekend.

Lear also continued inventing. car wouldn’t have been easy in the best of Emails from Anette and Michael Monti He holds more than 150 patents. times, let alone during the Great Depresare always welcome and are something to His inventions include eight-track tape sion. look forward to as are others of a similar players.

Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled genre.

But what he’s really famous for are his for a couple of years after that.

But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorolas pre-installed at the factory.

Another boost came when Galvin struck a deal with the BF Goodrich tyre company to sell and install them in its chain of tyre stores.

By then the price of the radio, with installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running.

In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios.

In 1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory pre-set to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts. In 1940 he developed a handheld two-way radio for the William Lear went on to develop one of the world’s most prestigious aircraft, the Lear Jet. US Army.

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BELL’S RUN

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he other thing about long weekends are the understandable questions.

The beforehand “what do you have planned” question.

Then afterwards the “what did you do over the long weekend” question.

Last week in response to the beforehand question, Peter and Annette Jacob said: “We’re looking forward to joining others on the Bell’s Queen’s Birthday Run”.

Organised by Vintage Car Club members Robbie and Karen Bell, the destination was Oamaru via some scenic and extremely interesting roads.

This week, in response to the after long weekend question, Pater and Annette Jacob said: “We all had an awesome time, good weather, great company, covered 608 kilometres in total, which included over 300 on the first day via Pleasant Point, Hook, Waimate, Kurow, Peebles and Weston”.

A notable long weekend event; one which has created plenty of pleasant memories.

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“We’re excited to bring two Night Eagle Special Editions to Australian customers, delivering a consistent sleek, urban dark look variant for both Grand Cherokee and Cherokee as well as value with almost 50 per cent customer advantage on the added content,” said Guillaume Drelon, Director, Brand & Product Strategy.

Based on the Grand Cherokee Laredo 4x4, the Grand Cherokee Night Eagle features exclusive 20-inch split 5-stroke black wheels, black 7-slot Jeep grille, body colour lower front and rear fascia, deep tint privacy glass, black roof mouldings and black Jeep badging.

In addition to standard Laredo 4x4 specifications, the Grand Cherokee Night Eagle includes all-black Capri leather seat upholstery with perforated suede inserts and black accent stitching, as well as UConnect 8.4” Navigation with Apple Car Play/ Android Auto and Single-Pane Sunroof as standard.

With exclusive 18-inch black alloy wheels, the Cherokee Night Eagle presents gloss black design features across the 7-slot Jeep grille surrounds, lower front fascia chin insert, roof rails and ‘Jeep’ badging, with matte black Cherokee front door badging with gloss black surround.

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