Electric cars

itsalwaysme said:
It's all Mr Beans fault apparently :rolleyes:
www.telegraph.co.uk

Rowan Atkinson blamed for poor electric car sales

House of Lords report suggests that the Mr Bean actor was partly at fault for 'damaging' public perceptions of EVs
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That’s appropriate I suppose. Rowan is reportedly a bit of a petrol-head; he owned a Merc E500- same 5l engine as in my car but put into what looked a lot like an ordinary saloon, but tweaked and hand-built by Porsche.
 
4wd said:
Labelling alternative viewpoints as mis-information is the latest trend, I wonder if people pointing out basic problems are also inevitably far-right.
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I don't care what people identify as, if your right then your right
The only other option is the wrong or extreme wrong.
 
4wd said:
Labelling alternative viewpoints as mis-information is the latest trend, I wonder if people pointing out basic problems are also inevitably far-right.
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We live in an age where politicians and the media will label scientific fact as misinformation.
Yes it does happen....
Equally usually their is no acknowledgement or retraction given when its deemed as actually correct and the fecked up big time.
 
Trucking Hell on ch33 now. An artic full of scrap, baled electric cars caught fire on the A1M. No amount of water from the top will put out the fire so they're having to empty the lot onto the road:rolleyes:
 
deere66 said:
Trucking Hell on ch33 now. An artic full of scrap, baled electric cars caught fire on the A1M. No amount of water from the top will put out the fire so they're having to empty the lot onto the road:rolleyes:
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I've missed some of the programme but surely they would take the batteries out before baling, so what is burning :unsure:
 
The irony of a diesel powered generator at the nearest electric car charger, coincidence one thinks not.
I just can't get aroused with the idea of a full electric car /vehicle or get the same enjoyment of using a 40 year old ute that's only option of luxury is a heater with electric fan and wind up windows.
Apparently fuel consumption in vehicles in the last 5 years has increased due to the addition weight of unecessary options , and the germans appear to be the worst offender's.
On average from about 2000 cars have increased 10kg/year.
 
4wd said:
He does explain the problems particularly well.
The main one being insanely expensive to buy, to run, to insure and horrendous depreciation.
Combined with range half what they claim if it's cold.
So quite a list.
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He makes a lot of good points, the battery condition being one major issue when buying used, the recommendations seem to be to charge when it reaches 20% and charge to 80% to prolong battery life (so you have only 60% of the vehicles "range" available) This will have been no concern for those buying/leasing from new, when they know they will only keep it a couple of years, different for the second owner though.
Another issue is the constant promise of better technology. better batteries, longer range, faster charging etc, which will put people off buying today's technology, which could well drop in value like a stone if these "better batteries" appear.
It reminds me off buying the first home computers, where they were virtually out dated when you got them out of the box, something better, faster more memory. cheaper were coming on the market all the time.
 
I bought a new phone last year. As my phones tend to go into battery failure after a couple of years or so, I bought one that had the largest battery capacity possible. Normally it gets down to not less than around 60% by bedtime.

Last week I noticed there is a setting where you can choose to only charge up to 80% instead of full in order to prolong battery life.

It’s currently on 8%, which isn’t uncommon now.

OK- it’s a phone not a car, but I wonder if they are similar. With my phone, a % at the top end seems to be worth several at the bottom end; a bit like a car with a funnel shaped fuel tank😆
 
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