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<blockquote data-quote="Scribus" data-source="post: 6744986" data-attributes="member: 117192"><p>This goes to the very crux of the idiocy of the motor manufacturers.</p><p></p><p>Going back a few years there was a tremendous hoo ha about 'disruption' in the the personal transport sector as big tech muscled in on the car business and cars were going to be little more than boxes that we called for on our smartphones and they trundled up autonomously. We don't hear anything more about it nowdays but battery power was one idea they could salvage from the implosion of that little dream and it was to be sold to as being green, well they aint, and not only that motorists just don't want the faffing about with the cables they entailed, indeed, it must have eventually dawned upon the makers that not everyone lived in a nice semi with off road parking while cables hanging from lampposts, as envisaged, were simply not practical or safe. So a further retreat was called for and we now have 'self charging hybrids' which are no more than conventionally powered cars with an electric transmission and a much smaller li-ion battery than pure electric cars. However, so taken were the manufacturers by the brilliance of their dream that they abandoned those nasty smelly diesels which were sooo polluting or so everyone told them, but in fact they are not and even the committee of the great and the good set up the UK government (COMEEP) struggled to damn them altogether, and they have moved on even more since. However, certain manufactures thought they were well ahead by binning all further development of the diesel engine in passenger cars but are now left looking rather silly, Toyota being a leading example.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scribus, post: 6744986, member: 117192"] This goes to the very crux of the idiocy of the motor manufacturers. Going back a few years there was a tremendous hoo ha about 'disruption' in the the personal transport sector as big tech muscled in on the car business and cars were going to be little more than boxes that we called for on our smartphones and they trundled up autonomously. We don't hear anything more about it nowdays but battery power was one idea they could salvage from the implosion of that little dream and it was to be sold to as being green, well they aint, and not only that motorists just don't want the faffing about with the cables they entailed, indeed, it must have eventually dawned upon the makers that not everyone lived in a nice semi with off road parking while cables hanging from lampposts, as envisaged, were simply not practical or safe. So a further retreat was called for and we now have 'self charging hybrids' which are no more than conventionally powered cars with an electric transmission and a much smaller li-ion battery than pure electric cars. However, so taken were the manufacturers by the brilliance of their dream that they abandoned those nasty smelly diesels which were sooo polluting or so everyone told them, but in fact they are not and even the committee of the great and the good set up the UK government (COMEEP) struggled to damn them altogether, and they have moved on even more since. However, certain manufactures thought they were well ahead by binning all further development of the diesel engine in passenger cars but are now left looking rather silly, Toyota being a leading example. [/QUOTE]
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