The electric revolution

[hoganscrogan]

An electric car needs a different mind set.
It's a lots and often fill up, just like a smart phone (remember when your old Nokia would last nearly all week on one charge!) and totally different from liquid fuel cars that we are all used to.

I love my cars and petrol but a test drive in the i3 really turned my head, I've got one on order.
For me the i3 will cover 80% of my usage and a petrol car will cover the 100 mile+ journeys. It's a utility car that is forward looking like nothing else on the market bar the exotics.

I know it's not for everyone but it is a great car.

[RossP]

I took my i3 to Curborough sprint circuit today and it was a hoot! When the battery was getting flat I took it home and swapped it for the M3

[RossP]

Stig said:

I stopped at a garage the other day. Took me about 3 mins to fill the tank giving me enough range for a week's worth of driving

In that case, you sound like an ideal candidate for an EV! I just plug my i3 in when I get home (takes about 10 seconds) which gives me enough range for a day's worth of driving, so based on doing that seven days a week, you will save nearly 2 minutes! And I don't need to drive out of my way to go to a petrol station because I'm going home anyway!

[strudel]

I have a lot of faith in electric cars. It'll require a change of thinking but I guess when the horse and cart was popular cars were frowned upon then. However, I don't think petrol stations will disappear at any point soon, for a simple reason: lorries. Their energy requirements are much larger than cars so I suspect diesel will not be going out of fashion soon. What I may think happen for both cars and lorries is the introduction of miniature gas turbine engines to recharge batteries from normal fossil fuels. This to me represents the best of both worlds.

[MarshPhantom]

I think manufacturers want everyone to go electric as they only make sense as brand new cars. Who would want to spend much money on an out of warranty EV?

At present they only make sense for a small number of people.

[McWigglebum4th]

MarshPhantom said:

I think manufacturers want everyone to go electric as they only make sense as brand new cars. Who would want to spend much money on an out of warranty EV?

At present they only make sense for a small number of people.

This man speaks sense

The batteries will be screwed in less then 12 months

I shall buy your i3 off you for the unbeatable offer of £10

[anonymous-user]

MarshPhantom said:

I think manufacturers want everyone to go electric as they only make sense as brand new cars. Who would want to spend much money on an out of warranty EV?

Indeed, i mean spending money on an out of warranty EV, which is mechanically simply, with only a few moving parts in it's powertrain would be mad when you could buy a conventional ICE vehicle out of warranty that has about 10,000 complex moving parts all requiring a huge number of very close tollerance to be maintained to avoid a massively expensive failure! (DSC gearbox anyone..... ;-)

[jeffa]

McWigglebum4th said:

MarshPhantom said:

I think manufacturers want everyone to go electric as they only make sense as brand new cars. Who would want to spend much money on an out of warranty EV?

At present they only make sense for a small number of people.

This man speaks sense

The batteries will be screwed in less then 12 months

I shall buy your i3 off you for the unbeatable offer of £10

I might buy a couple of one year old i3s if they are only £10 each. I could then get rid of my 5 year old I-MiEV which I believe holds the sprint title at Rockingham (114 seconds) and still manages at least 70 mile range - there clearly must be something wrong with the battery.

[c2mike]

MarshPhantom said:

I think manufacturers want everyone to go electric as they only make sense as brand new cars. Who would want to spend much money on an out of warranty EV?

At present they only make sense for a small number of people.

42,000 miles on my Leaf. Still not falling apart - should I complain to Nissan?

[McWigglebum4th]

c2mike said:

42,000 miles on my Leaf. Still not falling apart - should I complain to Nissan?

[Rostfritt]

MarshPhantom said:

I think manufacturers want everyone to go electric as they only make sense as brand new cars. Who would want to spend much money on an out of warranty EV?

At present they only make sense for a small number of people.

Which is why all ten year old Priuses have been scrapped and you never see them driving around and certainly never being used as minicabs.

[TimJMS]

Prius is not an EV.

[Rostfritt]

TimJMS said:

Prius is not an EV.

No but it is a good example of a mass market vehicle with large battery packs which haven't failed as badly as some were expecting.

[TimJMS]

Ah!