electric cars

bigmitch · Post by **bigmitch** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:52 am

This carry on with the panic buy with petrol made me think about electric cars the
distance they can travel aside, but they way petrol price's are going they are startiing
to look a good idea .This could be what the goverment is pushing us to, I no that could be
classed as a tin foil hat fodder but joking aside they are starting to good to me especially around town.
funny enough the local council use them .

Gaz · Post by **Gaz** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:57 am

the joys of that is then the electric companies will push prices up...

bigmitch · Post by **bigmitch** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:59 am

Gaz wrote:the joys of that is then the electric companies will push prices up...

solar power on the roof of house powers your car, the tec is there it the cost it the problem

Kevwaggy · Post by **Kevwaggy** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:00 am

Hydrogen is the future

rustyarches · Post by **rustyarches** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:03 am

i make my own bio-deisel its messy but its nice to have free fuel from takeaways:-)

Post by **planetc** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:08 am

Electric cars (and decent hybrids) are a long way from practical for average joe. Range aside, the cars are still very expensive with massive 1st owner depreciation and a limited life span due to the cost of replacement batteries. I did a course on hybrid/electric cars and I can't remember the exact figures, but they were such that you would be looking at scrapping the car once the batteries expired. A hybrid toureg for example was something like around £60k, with an expected battery life of no more than ten years tops and a replacement battery module in excess of £7k.

rustyarches · Post by **rustyarches** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:14 am

i drive a eletric fork truck i only do about 2 miles a day in the warehouse and loading lorrys,a charge lasts 3 days.here is a pic of what i drive all day. its 6 bhp and can pick up 1800 kg,and its a 1999 model,

bigmitch · Post by **bigmitch** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:23 am

planetc wrote:Electric cars (and decent hybrids) are a long way from practical for average joe. Range aside, the cars are still very expensive with massive 1st owner depreciation and a limited life span due to the cost of replacement batteries. I did a course on hybrid/electric cars and I can't remember the exact figures, but they were such that you would be looking at scrapping the car once the batteries expired. A hybrid toureg for example was something like around £60k, with an expected battery life of no more than ten years tops and a replacement battery module in excess of £7k.

Thats due to oil companies interfering in the design of the tec, your trying to tell me in last fifty years we can't desgin a battery cheap and last a couple hundred miles and recharge quick yet we have hi-tec computers and phones, we walked on the moon sent
satellites to all the planets in the solar system yet we still use an engine desgined in 1895 ,c£p this is the way they want it

Post by **planetc** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:32 pm

bigmitch wrote:
planetc wrote:Electric cars (and decent hybrids) are a long way from practical for average joe. Range aside, the cars are still very expensive with massive 1st owner depreciation and a limited life span due to the cost of replacement batteries. I did a course on hybrid/electric cars and I can't remember the exact figures, but they were such that you would be looking at scrapping the car once the batteries expired. A hybrid toureg for example was something like around £60k, with an expected battery life of no more than ten years tops and a replacement battery module in excess of £7k.
Thats due to oil companies interfering in the design of the tec, your trying to tell me in last fifty years we can't desgin a battery cheap and last a couple hundred miles and recharge quick yet we have hi-tec computers and phones, we walked on the moon sent
satellites to all the planets in the solar system yet we still use an engine desgined in 1895 ,c£p this is the way they want it

More to do with shipping cost than anything else I think, the lithium comes from some obscure place and is shipped halfway around the world to be made into batteries, then around the other half to be put into cars.

btcctroy · Post by **btcctroy** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:10 pm

The amount of co emissions That come from the Manufacture of batteries is massive. Plus the cost if disposing the batteries.
Stored energy isn't the future and will never be. The best energy converter is the human body.
A Mr fusion is the future

mr v6 · Post by **mr v6** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:50 pm

petrol is the way forward

as every one goes to alternative power units the demand for petrol will rapidly decrease and so will the price!!!

demand is out stripping supply at the moment as every one has a car!and drives it every where all the time!

Squig · Post by **Squig** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:56 pm

Mildly guilty... honestly I think bio-diesel/electric true hybrids are a viable solution. See that Fisker on TG a while back, but replace the poxy petrol lump for a poxier diesel designed to run on plant oil based diesel...

btcctroy · Post by **btcctroy** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:08 pm

Nothing with a battery is a viable solutuon. When the batteries have expelled there life span the cost is massive Your Talking thousands. Hybrids are not the answer ok for the first 3 years then after are not worth a bean

Post by **planetc** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:18 pm

I vote pedals!

bigmitch · Post by **bigmitch** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:24 pm

planetc wrote:I vote pedals!

The way petrol prices are going I thinking about buying shares in halfords

Post by **humbucker** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:20 pm

eh? halfords starting selling petrol?

mr v6 · Post by **mr v6** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:47 pm

sorry not motivated

bigmitch · Post by **bigmitch** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:49 pm

humbucker wrote:eh? halfords starting selling petrol?

No, but they do sell bikes, lots of bikes
One question whats with the pic of mister motivator humbucker

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