- Location
- North Norfolk
1st Experience with Electric Car
- Thread starter oldoaktree
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- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
- Location
- Lincolnshire
How can you calculate a PHEV, full charge and run till petrol tank empty or full charge and 25 miles... or some "typical" journey. If you wanted you could claim up to 100k mpg, as long as you recharged every 10 miles
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regardless of how realistic the figures are or were, they do give you a bench mark. A friend of mine used to make sure the gasoline engines for a large, Detroit based motor manufacturer made it through the emissions regs. He said if you drive it like the offical test cycle you will match the offical figures
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
Well, I hope the Luton airport car park fire wasn't an EV self combusting, we'll never hear the last of it!
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Whole level of the car park went up - no way was that just from batteries.
Then Ford being upset at having the goal post moved further away, was them saying that they could not do it then?
We need to be changing sooner rather than later. This just delays the trickle down of second hand ones.
In the end consumers will end up paying more from the delay.
As now car makers can sell us dud ice ones for longer. Which means there ramp up of EV’s will be slower as well. Which means the economies of scale of making EV’s / hybrid’s will start later. Leading to higher consumer prices
it’s bad news all round delaying the sales ban.
It would have been better to try and fail to hit that target than move it now. They could have extended ice sales if and when EV’s were in short supply in 2030.
Fire Chief says it was caused by a diesel engine
- Location
- Westish Suffolk
Thank goodness, nasty smelly things at the best of times.
Hope they are well insured...
Probably wasn't ULEZ compliant so user thought "WTF, It will go out with a bang" ........... but probably not TBH
Seems it was ... little tits off as we're flying from there on sat
This just broke the internet! So many saying electric car caused it…. Oh the truth….
- Location
- Limousin
Range Rover hybrid by the look of it
Is that not a very mild diesel
Hybrid?. So how do they know the lithium battery caused fire? It could easily have been th set of hair straighteners left in the glove box….
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Fire spread down the levels of the car park. That sounds like maybe something liquid was the main fuel to drip down. Wouldn’t think solid batteries would be spreading downward on the ramps.
But let’s wait to see what the fire specialists say once they’ve investigated.
But let’s wait to see what the fire specialists say once they’ve investigated.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Possibly a lot of the cars were petrol or diesel?
Lakesdigger
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To be fair there's plenty on a car which melts burns and drips whether they are ICE or leccy.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Agreed - let’s see what the accident report says.
But there’s a difference between melting to dripping and running down a concrete ramp.
Interesting that I’ve read reports of no sprinklers and the floor’s fire extinguisher being missing. This may not turn out well for the car park owners.