This is why Electric Vehicles are not viable.

[Matt. B]

Plus a 10 different apps for different companys. Nightmare.

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[turbo-tone]

I still maintain that I will only buy an electric vehicle when I can get in it and not worry about where the next charging point is. Worked with a guy a few years back who brought a Nissan Leaf. He had to plan his UK holiday with stops at IKEA just so he could fill up.

Combine the above with the lack of infrastructure and electric vehicles are simply not viable at the moment. If I lived in the centre of a city with a 5 mile drive to work each way they would be great, but I don’t so I will stick with what I have for now

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[coastliner]

An update from the Shmee on Rapid electric charging looks a bit of a Faf to me.

 

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Coastliner

[bobcat]

It’s not doing it for me 🙀😾

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Honorary Member

 

[hocus-pocus]

It’s interesting to hear Iain Duncan Smith’s comments on Hydrogen powered cars as an alternative to electric vehicles and his concerns that the Chinese dominate electric car battery technology.

[rainydays]

It takes a few minutes to tank up a normal car.
When alternative tech will provide the same luxury, we will embrace the tech faster.

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[yorkirs]

Surely the trick is to have a design where you switch the battery pack over instead of re-charging the battery, There was a design concept a while back I believe.  Technically this is  not difficult to do but politically challenging and getting an agreement from manufactures to a common standard on a scale to be financially viable would be a challenge. With different charging set ups it’s another rerun of VHS v Betamax, DVD v laserdisc. Interesting to see how this pans out over the next decade.

 

 

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May the Ford be with you

 

 

[coastliner]

 

This is quite long but stick with it as he talks a lot of sense.

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Coastliner

[Pauly Paul]

If they can put electrics in a window for heated , defrost, surely they got the tec to put a battery pack through the entire window system include a panoramic roof , to charge the car on the move ie solar , only needs daylight, and a dyno to run on night runs , I’m sure they have thought 💭 of it . take care all, 👍☃️🎅🏼🎄🍾🚙🥃

[bobcat]

@coastliner, very interesting, thanks for sharing 👍

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[coastliner]

Solar panel in the glass would make the EV’s cost prohibitive at todays costs.

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Coastliner

[bobcat]

@coastliner, yes it would, a certain company tried doing electric glass/panels wasn’t very successful 😷🤐🤫🤔

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[coastliner]

Worth a read and quite interesting.

 

https://email.bt.com/mail/bin?csrf=tBPqAYvy8u2EfYyOItPKhQ&r=%7B%22method%22%3A%22mail.message.attachment.getPart%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22accountId%22%3A%22%22%2C%22folder%22%3A%22INBOX%22%2C%22uid%22%3A565942%2C%22part%22%3A%221%22%2C%22wantsTranscoding%22%3Afalse%7D%7D

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[bobcat]

@coastliner, whoops the link it won’t open 😿

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[DaveRS3]

Ordered a Skoda Enyaq IV 150kw / 82kw Suite Yesterday as a new company car. Ive always taken the cash previously but with almost zero tax on the electrics and I get free charging its a no brainer. It will basically cost me £350 month from my take home allowance which includes ALL running costs so it should be a cheap motor. I don’t do that many miles so range (which is 320 miles – probably more like 250 in the real world) is fine for me.

I chose the Race Blue paint, Sunroof and 20″ alloys as extras.

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