Johnnyboxer
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- Location
- Yorkshire
The big green deal
I guess that’s no diesel pickups or commercials under 3.5t
Electric pickup then ?
I guess that’s no diesel pickups or commercials under 3.5t
Electric pickup then ?
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No more new cars or vans in 9 years
- Thread starter Johnnyboxer
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Triple whammy....
Existing petrol and diesel cars will be worth f**k all S/H.
Leccy cars are expensive.
Home leccy chargers will be expensive.
Wasn't so long ago ( 25 years ? ) that diesel was going to be the saviour.
Existing petrol and diesel cars will be worth f**k all S/H.
Leccy cars are expensive.
Home leccy chargers will be expensive.
Wasn't so long ago ( 25 years ? ) that diesel was going to be the saviour.
- Location
- Cirencester
The way it's going, it'll be a horse and cart.
Guess the price of 2nd hand pick-ups will climb as the date becomes closer. I reckon a couple of D-max's put away in the shed would see me out.
Guess the price of 2nd hand pick-ups will climb as the date becomes closer. I reckon a couple of D-max's put away in the shed would see me out.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Surge in demand for wood burning traction engines. Ticks all the boxes.
- Location
- Sedgefield
NFU mush push for farmer exemption
How can you haul a cattle trailer with an electric car
How can you haul a cattle trailer with an electric car
'Mush push farmer exemption ' lol that sounds like a new tag line
An Electric motor in a prime mover will pull at least as well theyve got the potential for huge torque.
Developing all the time.
Just means the little kids of the future won t be making fart noises when playing with their toy tractors
An Electric motor in a prime mover will pull at least as well theyve got the potential for huge torque.
Developing all the time.
Just means the little kids of the future won t be making fart noises when playing with their toy tractors
No mention of any heavy diesel applications or aviation. These use the majority of fuel I’m guessing, so can’t see diesel or kerosene drying up, also the rest of the World will still be refining crude oil.
I’m sure anyone with a small interest in mechanical engineering or physics will be well aware of the huge torque from start of electric motors. The problems are more battery, charge and range of travel.
Development is all that's needed like steam boiller s got forward to internal cylinder combustion.
When an issue is forced or pushed in some way answers come , like engineering and other developments during the WW etc wars .
H200GT
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- Location
- NORTH WALES
I wouldn’t worry about it now, without a huge leap in battery and charging technology, a dozen new power stations and millions of charing points being installed, electric cars it won’t happen.
Hybrids on the other hand can work, but at the moment they are a complete waste of money as most are so inefficient. Plenty of diesel cars have been about for years that can do up to 60mpg, as far as i am aware most petrol electric hybrids are only now just touching that. By the time you offset the carbon footprint of manufacturing the battery, diesel has to be better in my view
Hybrids on the other hand can work, but at the moment they are a complete waste of money as most are so inefficient. Plenty of diesel cars have been about for years that can do up to 60mpg, as far as i am aware most petrol electric hybrids are only now just touching that. By the time you offset the carbon footprint of manufacturing the battery, diesel has to be better in my view
Agreed, but battery technology is probably the stumbling block, well weight of batteries actually. The first person to develop a light weight battery will be minted!
I can see it now, 50 electric twin cabs, all jostling for 2 underpowered chargers at the local Mart...
No arguments with what you say, but do remember you (and most of us here) don't live in London or Bristol or wherever, where the push for this is coming from.
GeorgeK
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- Location
- Leicestershire
Government pledges for the longer term mean nothing. They have no intention of meeting them, just sounds good and removes pressure to bring about the unpopular changes that need to happen right here, right now. It's not rocket science, buy less, travel less, make do and mend, but all this rubbish we don't need is called 'high living standards' and without it the economy would collapse
Underpowered due to lack of electric generation. Can’t see a nuclear power plant being built in 10 years going on current performance!
As an aside, everything rechargeable I've bought over the years has had the lifespan of.........f**k all.
Will leccy cars be any different ?
Will leccy cars be any different ?
There is a fudgeing great big new power station being built actually, at Hinkley Point.
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
It'll make the washing out queue look like a Girl Guides' outing