Electric cars.

[Alastair70]

I know, however, we won'y know until when, when it's too late, like always.

You really couldn’t be more wrong on this.

 

[Agentgonzo]

Public chargers or not, I still maintain that charging over 40 million cars is a lot of electric, and we don't really have a prayer of charging that lot and keeping the lights on

Public fuel stations or not, I still maintain that filling 40 million cars is a lot of petrol, and we don't really have a prayer of distributing that amount of fuel and keeping the trains running.

 

[Alastair70]

Public fuel stations or not, I still maintain that filling 40 million cars is a lot of petrol, and we don't really have a prayer of distributing that amount of fuel and keeping the trains running.

We’ve only got a finite number of prayers available, but I still maintain keeping my performance EV on the road trumps all 3rd World problems.

In other news, ESB have confirmed that there’s no shortage of electrons on the island of Ireland. You lot on the UK mainland may not be so lucky.

 

[Rodcx500z]

so when we all have these lekky thingys, how do the not so well off put a fiver or tenner of juce in

 

[Rodcx500z]

While i at it, if a bev developes a fault on an all lane motorway does it just stop like a dizzy scooter or can it coast to a refuge area, i genuinly don't know the answer to this

 

[Alastair70]

so when we all have these lekky thingys, how do the not so well off put a fiver or tenner of juce in

Same way as they put the decomposing residue of millennium old forests in their ICE’s

While i at it, if a bev developes a fault on an all lane motorway does it just stop like a dizzy scooter or can it coast to a refuge area, i genuinly don't know the answer to this

No. They’re just like normal cars, just with a different power source. There’s no crazy magic involved.

 

[Rodcx500z]

Same way as they put the decomposing residue of millennium old forests in their ICE’s


No. They’re just like normal cars, just with a different power source. There’s no crazy magic involved.

So you can just stick a tenner in, how far will that go

 

[jof]

So you can just stick a tenner in, how far will that go

Well, when your tenners worth of electrons run out, you won't be able to lug the battery a mile to the nearest charging point will you.
So that's another £50-100 a year on breakdown recovery.

 

[Old Fart At Play]

So you can just stick a tenner in, how far will that go

If it could hold that much, my EV would go 588 miles on £10

 

[Alastair70]

Well, when your tenners worth of electrons run out, you won't be able to lug the battery a mile to the nearest charging point will you.
So that's another £50-100 a year on breakdown recovery.

Do you run out of petrol once a year?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

If i have done this right i don't see how people can say you can run a BEV as cheaply as an ICE without home charging £29 is roughly 4 gallon of juice my ICE car would easily do 200+ miles on that much petrol and i wouldn't be wasting 48 minutes waiting for it to charge..

https://www.zap-map.com/tools/public-charging-calculator

 

[Polcho]

I think the US and the UK are miles apart on this.

Elon Musk is in bed with Mr Trump, that makes electric cars in the the US a self-fulfilling prophecy that will happen quite quickly in real terms. Thre it is achievable.

Trump's Mantra of 'drill baby drill' coupled with Musk's ambition to make electric cars the go to is a match made in heaven.

Trump is not about to invest in clean technology when he doesn't believe there is a global warming issue, and when he is sitting on more oil than you can shake a stick at.

I'm not fussed either way, electric or petrol, but I think realistically, when we have a series of governments setting targets without any real hope of achiveing them, it's all a bit of a waste of time.

 

[Rodcx500z]

If we as a country ban ice in 2030 we will be up that famous creek without a paddle