electric cars.

[exosteve]

Is there something I'm missing?
I work on a relatively posh estate.
And all of a sudden 5/6 houses in a short row have had what appears to be a big circuit box fitted on there house.
Its also got what looks like a wire spool and a 110v looking plug on.

On top of that.I've seen a commercial advertising a hybrid car doing 148mpg.:eek:.
Think its a government free fitting scheme to get people buying electric cars?
Fook that.prices will rocket for power.I stick to veg.

[AlexD333]

Is there something I'm missing?
I work on a relatively posh estate.
And all of a sudden 5/6 houses in a short row have had what appears to be a big circuit box fitted on there house.
Its also got what looks like a wire spool and a 110v looking plug on.

On top of that.I've seen a commercial advertising a hybrid car doing 148mpg.:eek:.
Think its a government free fitting scheme to get people buying electric cars?
Fook that.prices will rocket for power.I stick to veg.

Yeah the rave in Kensington now is the Tesla car, sports looking thing with the worlds biggest screen/dash. 55k to about 110k

Looks cool but meh... :nenau

[perelaar]

Probably charging stations, indeed. The Tesla is nice, as a toy, but not as a daily car (have a look at the maintenance schedule and prices...).

I saw a Tazzari Zero (http://www.tazzari-zero.com/index.html) on the highway today, bloody dangerous. Everyone zipping past at 70 mph, I think it couldn't do more than 40.

[macabethiel]

I have driven a number of Mercedes hybrids and the mpg claims are a joke.The real world mpg is a few mpg only. They are popular as a company vehicle because you pay very little tax as a benefit in kind. The increase in purchase price is offset by the government as a sweetener.

[Fez_uk]

My colleague has just got a electric and it does something proper cheap per mile, But if it needs fixing it won't be a case of taking it to the local garage

[elty001]

:camping:gay is all I can say.

[AlexD333]

:camping:gay is all I can say.

:jesterbg


ZING!

[Barrbeast]

I always thought a diesel-electric 4x4 would be quite useful offroad, diesel engine driving generator driving electric motors like they use in trains and those MASSIVE dump trucks.

Full torque available at all RPM :naughty

Not sure it would do the mpg any good but that's not my point :lol

[Sweety]

Electric cars:roflol::jerkit: they say they are better for the environment & you get great MPG what people forget power station will be using more coal & putting a load more co2 into the air to produce the extra electric to charge the things up :augie sick of hearing about all this green energy rubbish because if the government's around the word were so concerned about it they would get the oil companies to release the info on the good old combustion engines which have been altered to run on water mixed with something else:augie

[Fez_uk]

Electric cars:roflol::jerkit: they say they are better for the environment & you get great MPG what people forget power station will be using more coal & putting a load more co2 into the air to produce the extra electric to charge the things up

While I agree in general you could charge it overnight where consumption is loads less or many houses now have solar panels installed so charging in the day would be powered from them.

I think personally the battery technology is not there. But it's early days. Think how crap cars were when they were first invented :lol

I still prefer my big diesel lumps :)

[jims-terrano]

Nissan charge a monthly hire fee for the batteries fitted to the Leaf. Thats a joke.

[Mobieus_uk]

more electric cars on the road the more diesal left for me to burn

[Ianinessex]

I think Electric is a passing fad, as Sweety says, the fuel used to power the electricity generators is just as bad as using the diesel directly.

I am waiting for a good hydrogen powered engine. Split water into Hydrogen and oxygen, burn it in an engine, waste product is water. Simples :thumbs :thumbs

Ian

[briggie]

hydrogen fuel cells is the way forward :thumb2

[Ianinessex]

hydrogen fuel cells is the way forward :thumb2

Great minds ................:clap:clap

[briggie]

the only by product is water :D

http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/ss/Physics_Illustr_2.htm

[don simon]

Have they sorted out a long enogh extension lead for proper journeys yet? :doh

[jims-terrano]

I would actually have a leaf or something along those lines if they were not so costly and of course the hire fees of the batteries. Suppose I could charge during the day and my solar will will charge it:lol

[Fez_uk]

But to produce the hydrogen you need electric :doh

[Sweety]

Often get stuck behind nissan leaf's:doh on the plus side when you put your foot down in the old dirty oil burner T2 to overtake them it's like driving a 400bhp hot hatch:lol:lol:lol

[rustic]

Have they sorted out a long enogh extension lead for proper journeys yet? :doh

Problem is the voltage drop, and tangled cables... :lol
what they need is a mesh above all motorways, and on the back of the car is a stick that makes contact with the mesh like bumping cars, or like scalectric have slots with electric pick ups each side.

In the old days, say 50-70 years ago.. :augie there were road based electric trolley buses, a bit like trams, but without the rails.
So in all these years, have we really made any progress?:nenau

People have to buy these cars in order for technology to progress, imagine modern computers if Sinclair hadn't invented his first computer, or IBM with the PET computer and I still have a Dragon 64, with software, first written by Micro Soft.

Same with mobile phones.

[AlexD333]

In the old days, say 50-70 years ago..

I know you've had your terrano for a long time but.. :eek:

[elty001]

It's a myth about being greener because the amount of fossil fuel used to make all the extra electricity to charge these things kinda defies the point.

[exosteve]

It's a myth about being greener because the amount of fossil fuel used to make all the extra electricity to charge these things kinda defies the point.

Solar and wind.and alternatives.
I'm doing my Friday collecting tomoz.and will try and take a pic of what's being installed and quiz my customers of there use.

[perelaar]

In the old days, say 50-70 years ago.. :augie there were road based electric trolley buses, a bit like trams, but without the rails.
So in all these years, have we really made any progress?:nenau

These are still being used, for example in Bucharest in Romania. Work fine, and less air pollution in the city.
No solution for longer distances of course, but for a city centre I like them.

[elty001]

Solar and wind.and alternatives.
I'm doing my Friday collecting tomoz.and will try and take a pic of what's being installed and quiz my customers of there use.

wind farms are a myth also.
firstly they where subsidised 7 billion over the last ten years by the uk tax payer and when conditions are no good so the turbines have to be shut down they actually draw power back from the grid to run the basic site power needs.:eek: