Have you never been on the Dodgems?I would like to drive an electric car to see what the experience is like.
Don't understand why government pulls out from supporting cars converted on lpg. Clean and cheap fuel
Nothing to like except torque.
I'm wondering what will happen in 20 years with all those batteries how they affect environment. All that electric crap will back to us with hickup.
Don't understand why government pulls out from supporting cars converted on lpg. Clean and cheap fuel
Have driven an electric car for the last 3 years, in truth as a run around it's just about better in every way to an ICE vehicle. I'll admit I was heavily swayed by the BIK on the car, 0% last year, 1% this year, 2% next year. Positives, don't need to go to the petrol station, torque is instant, feels like a go-kart, innovative design (carbon tub). Drawbacks, expensive from the outset, you'll need a ICE vehicle if you want to go any real distance as the infrastructure is woeful. I do wonder if EVs are the future in their current format, maybe it's hydrogen, all I hope is that they still produce fuel because at heart I'm a petrol head.
They should be required to design electric cars to allow the swap out of battery packs easily, like a giant cartridge, that way we won't further pollute the the planet with uneconomical to repair vehicles.
The cost issue is interesting. I think that in the future virtually no-one will buy a new car outright. Most people, even today, do some sort of lease arrangement. It's not in the manufacturers interests to sell someone a new car every decade or so. Once tied into a lease arrangement there is an incentive to consume, ie: buy a new car before you really need to, every 3 - 4 years. More than 40% of cars on UK roads are over 10 years old. Are they breaking down everwhere? No. Where did the obsession with buying new vehicles stem from... the manufacturers. They should be required to design electric cars to allow the swap out of battery packs easily, like a giant cartridge, that way we won't further pollute the the planet with uneconomical to repair vehicles. Imagine you had to install a new petrol/diesel engine every 5 - 8 years..? The average cost for an EV battery replacement £4,5k.
Anyway that's today's rant!
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