When will you own an electric car?
Discussion
Whenever it starts making more sense than a petrol car, i.e. becomes cheaper to own, has a better range, becomes as quick to charge, and is at least as reliable.
As it stands electric vehicles are inferior in all of these areas. I'd like my next car to be better than my current one, not worse.
...Or if the moronic government forces it on people and it becomes physically impossible to buy a petrol car, then I might have to have one.
As it stands electric vehicles are inferior in all of these areas. I'd like my next car to be better than my current one, not worse.
...Or if the moronic government forces it on people and it becomes physically impossible to buy a petrol car, then I might have to have one.
te.....just like diesels.Only when they are reasonably priced on the second hand market with a decent range and can be re-charged in the same time it takes to fill up a petrol or diesel.
No way if charging takes as long as it currently takes and if this isn't possible, absolutely no way if I don't have my own parking space with charger. (live in London so unlikely to happen any time soon...)
No way if charging takes as long as it currently takes and if this isn't possible, absolutely no way if I don't have my own parking space with charger. (live in London so unlikely to happen any time soon...)
LandRoverManiac said:
Personally? Never.
I could rattle off a couple of reasons why not - but I think the most honest one is that I prefer the sight, sound and feel of an ICE to an electric motor any day of the week.
End of story.
I have to echo this, I also feel the same way regarding diesels.I could rattle off a couple of reasons why not - but I think the most honest one is that I prefer the sight, sound and feel of an ICE to an electric motor any day of the week.
End of story.
Not electric, people have to realize that electricity costs will go up due to the loads being put on the grid..
In Japan they are trialing Hydrogen including fueling stations that can generate there own hydrogen,
they are hoping to have the vehicles ready for the Olympics to use to ferry people around.
and before peolpe go on about the hydrogen being dangerous in an accident it is no different than the batteries used in electric cars.,
In Japan they are trialing Hydrogen including fueling stations that can generate there own hydrogen,
they are hoping to have the vehicles ready for the Olympics to use to ferry people around.
and before peolpe go on about the hydrogen being dangerous in an accident it is no different than the batteries used in electric cars.,
A205GTI said:
Not electric, people have to realize that electricity costs will go up due to the loads being put on the grid..
Err, you are aware that for every unit of electricity you need to draw from the grid to charge a battery EV, you need several units to produce the hydrogen to drive a fuel cell vehicle the same distance? If battery EVs will over-load the grid, hydrogen ones will completely destroy it and that for every penny that electricity price increases put on battery EV running costs, they'll put four or five on the running costs of a hydrogen car. Those covalent bonds don't just spring apart on their own.
Edited by kambites on Wednesday 14th February 18:26
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