Would you have an electric car if you had the money for a new car and were in the market for one?

[the_priest]

In short, yes. My brother has had two of them and they have their uses.

[ZRX61]

Tesla has just asked people in Calizuela not to charge their cars (again)... This after it's come out that 20% of owners switch back to gas/diesel powered vehicles.

[demographic]

Tesla has just asked people in Calizuela not to charge their cars (again)... This after it's come out that 20% of owners switch back to gas/diesel powered vehicles.

If California wised up and got their shit together maybe their rancid pissbucket infrastructure could even benefit from Vehicle To Grid charging which can actually stabilise the grid.
Like fleet vehicles (school buses, Amazon vans yada yada) and I'm not going into the whole Texas ice storm failure debacle.

[Mr. Dazzle]

This after it's come out that 20% of owners switch back to gas/diesel powered vehicles.

So 4/5ths of owners ditch petrol forever? The vast majority think electric is better. By a factor of 4 to 1.

That sounds pretty good

[Mussels]

This after it's come out that 20% of owners switch back to gas/diesel powered vehicles.

So 4/5ths of owners ditch petrol forever? The vast majority think electric is better. By a factor of 4 to 1.

That sounds pretty good

They have blown so much money on it they daren't admit they were so stupid.

[ZRX61]

If California wised up and got their shit together...

That ship has sailed... & sunk. Democrats have a supermajority in the State. The only Republicans in office in Ca are those that represent that areas that produce food for all the useless, clueless fucking parasites in LA & SF.

[Cousin Jack]

That ship has sailed... & sunk. Democrats have a supermajority in the State. The only Republicans in office in Ca are those that represent that areas that produce food for all the useless, clueless fucking parasites in LA & SF.

Remind me where you live again..........

[ZRX61]

Remind me where you live again..........

Over the mountains from LA in a Republican area known as Aerospace Valley. House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy is my congressman:)

Today's view:

[ZRX61]

This may have been mentioned before, possibly by me... but...

What happens when there's a blizzard & we end up with miles of electric cars stuck on the road over night? Come morning when the snowplows get through we'll have 5 miles of cars with no power & they'll ALL have to be towed off the road to get recharged... assuming they won't have to be left there until the coroner shows up to sort out all the people who froze to death.

[Yambo]

There'll be no blizzards when climate change is well advanced.

[Horse]

The Fb page has a link to help.



Links to a form

https://forms.office.com/pages/response ... cySkRSOS4u

[Mr. Dazzle]

I'm hearing alot of stuff about Hydrogen EVs now - so called "HFCEVs", Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. As has been said a few times up there ^^^ hydrogen has the advantage that you can fill up in a few minutes. It has the disadvantage of needing an as yet pretty much non-existent infrastructure, plus it's more costly to move hydrogen about. As I've said a few times, I reckon if/when HFCEVs are a thing they'll actually be hybrids, they'll have fuel cells and batteries. One for long range, the other for short.

One big blocker though is making the tanks and cells at reasonable cost. Which is why i'm now seeing a lot of it - there are a spate of companies and government backed programmes to bring the cost down, like this one which some of my old colleagues are working on:

https://www.nccuk.com/news/uk-consortiu ... and-buses/

[Horse]

The Fb page has a link to help.



Links to a form

https://forms.office.com/pages/response ... cySkRSOS4u

Hmmm

H being a fuckwit, posted not just in the wrong thread but wrong forum ...

[Cousin Jack]

The Fb page has a link to help.



Links to a form

https://forms.office.com/pages/response ... cySkRSOS4u

Hmmm

H being a fuckwit, posted not just in the wrong thread but wrong forum ...

Hmm, I did wonder what you were rabbiting about.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Tesla are making bold claims for their new "Plaid" motor...

https://chargedevs.com/newswire/elon-mu ... r-version/

On the one hand it's good that they're generating enthusiasm around the subject. On the other hand, I do have to laugh - a carbon wrapped motor is NOT a new idea. They've been in series production for a decade at least! They're properly Apple like in the way they claim to have invented stuff that's been around for donkeys In fact they way Tesla do it - wrapping strands around a motor - is actually the lower performance version of the technology.

The carbon sleeve is such a 'revolutionary' idea that my colleagues can afford to ride slightly rude messages on them and give them out as leaving cards.

[Cousin Jack]

They're properly Apple like in the way they claim to have invented stuff that's been around for donkeys

'Twas always thus.

Everyone remembers James Watt and Robert Stephenson for inventing steam engines and steam locomotives.
Except Richard Trevithick invented the high pressure steam engine AND used it in a locomotive.

Everyone remembers Samual Colt for the revolver. He certainly didn't invent it, and didn't even make many. He was however brilliant at marketing.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Everyone remembers James Watt and Robert Stephenson for inventing steam engines and steam locomotives.
Except Richard Trevithick invented the high pressure steam engine AND used it in a locomotive.

Trust a Cornishman to know that

[Horse]

It's a long list.

Didn't Darwin borrow some ideas, then rush to publish?

Edison was supposedly not beyond shady business practices.

The first powered flight took place in England.

[Cousin Jack]

It's a long list.

Yep. Sharp marketing gets remembered.

[Horse]

I'm hearing alot of stuff about Hydrogen EVs now - so called "HFCEVs", Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles.

One big blocker though is making the tanks and cells at reasonable cost. Which is why i'm now seeing a lot of it - there are a spate of companies and government backed programmes to bring the cost down, like this one which some of my old colleagues are working on:

https://www.nccuk.com/news/uk-consortiu ... and-buses/

In the news today:

https://highways-news.com/london-gettin ... e-deckers/


London getting hydrogen double-deckers
Paul Hutton
by Paul Hutton

AIR QUALITY & EMISSIONS, ENVIRONMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT
24 . 06 . 2021

England’s first ever hydrogen double decker buses are being launched in London, marking what the Mayor calls another major step towards making the bus fleet zero-emission and “cleaning up London’s toxic air”.

The 20 new environmentally-friendly buses, the first of their kind to be launched in England, will produce no pollution from their exhausts and join more than 500 electric buses in the core fleet which are already zero-emission. The new hydrogen fuel cell double decker buses are first being introduced on route 7 between East Acton and Oxford Circus.