The decline of the EV

[Weekendrebuild]

Anyone else love a good noisy engine?

Edited by Weekendrebuild on Friday 4th March 23:49

[SWoll]

Indeed, nothing better than the sound and smell of a 2.0 diesel on a cold morning. Quite why anyone would want to give that experience up is beyond me.

[anonymous-user]

Weekendrebuild said:

Anyone else love a good noisy engine?

Good God no!

Sorry, but a decent steam traction engine is so much better, all that puffing and clanking, you just can't beat it!

(yes, to leave work at 7am i need to get up at 3am, clean out the fire grate, fill the coal bunker, rewater, go round and grease everything, spend an hour polishing the brass, and as it only goes 12 mph it does take a while to get to work, well, about lunchtime actually, and over lunch i obviously need to pop out and make sure the fire has been put down properly and refill the water for the way home, so i leave work at 4, and if traffics good, and it's down hill on the way home so i can go really fast (13mph) so i 'm back for 8pm, then spend a coupel of hours checking and cleaning, and into bed for 10pm. Ah what a life, you can keep your stupid Internal Combustion Engines man :-)

[Weekendrebuild]

Max_Torque said:

Good God no!

Sorry, but a decent steam traction engine is so much better, all that puffing and clanking, you just can't beat it!

(yes, to leave work at 7am i need to get up at 3am, clean out the fire grate, fill the coal bunker, rewater, go round and grease everything, spend an hour polishing the brass, and as it only goes 12 mph it does take a while to get to work, well, about lunchtime actually, and over lunch i obviously need to pop out and make sure the fire has been put down properly and refill the water for the way home, so i leave work at 4, and if traffics good, and it's down hill on the way home so i can go really fast (13mph) so i 'm back for 8pm, then spend a coupel of hours checking and cleaning, and into bed for 10pm. Ah what a life, you can keep your stupid Internal Combustion Engines man :-)

Love it actually 6 traction engines local to me. They head down the Lane with a precession of angry Lycra clad loonies.

[Weekendrebuild]

Weekendrebuild said:

Max_Torque said:

Good God no!

Sorry, but a decent steam traction engine is so much better, all that puffing and clanking, you just can't beat it!

(yes, to leave work at 7am i need to get up at 3am, clean out the fire grate, fill the coal bunker, rewater, go round and grease everything, spend an hour polishing the brass, and as it only goes 12 mph it does take a while to get to work, well, about lunchtime actually, and over lunch i obviously need to pop out and make sure the fire has been put down properly and refill the water for the way home, so i leave work at 4, and if traffics good, and it's down hill on the way home so i can go really fast (13mph) so i 'm back for 8pm, then spend a coupel of hours checking and cleaning, and into bed for 10pm. Ah what a life, you can keep your stupid Internal Combustion Engines man :-)

Love it, actually theirs 6 traction engines local to me. They head down the Lane with a precession of angry Lycra clad loonies.

[TheDeuce]

Weekendrebuild said:

Love it actually 6 traction engines local to me. They head down the Lane with a precession of angry Lycra clad loonies.

One day people will gather around at a show to see a 100 year old fiesta come back to life and marvel at the stench spitting out of exhaust, the squeal of the fan belt and the unbelievable spectacle of it trundling away powered by something as quaint as several thousand explosions of petrol per minute.

Or not

[J__Wood]

TheDeuce said:

One day people will gather around at a show to see a 100 year old fiesta come back to life and marvel at the stench spitting out of exhaust, the squeal of the fan belt and the unbelievable spectacle of it trundling away powered by something as quaint as several thousand explosions of petrol per minute.

Or not

So let me get this right; there are three pedals, the upright lever towards the front in the middle and behind it another lever that goes up/down? The right pedal made it go marginally quicker but to slow down you needed to press the middle one. The left one you stamped on 3/4/5/6 times whilst moving the upright lever to help it go faster or slower.

When starting on a hill you had to press the left pedal all the way down, move the upright lever, slowly release the left pedal whilst pressing the right pedal, release the up/down lever at the right time and with the other hand steer around the car parked in front of you - blimey Grandma, Grandad and all those other old timers had a hard life.

After about 50-75k miles every time you took your foot off the right pedal a puff of blue smoke would come out of a tube at the back, apparently, normally, the tube just let out invisible toxins/particles that were responsible for killing more people than World War two and three combined.

[LukeBrown66]

Ordinary people will not be able to go to the show that this old car is started up at, unless it is in a town centre, because ordinary will be blackmailed onto public transport leaving only cars for the rich with charging points and their own property. it has already started

[DMZ]

I hope it wasn't a freudian slip that the chosen symbol of the superiority of EVs was a milk delivery truck

[TheDeuce]

LukeBrown66 said:

Ordinary people will not be able to go to the show that this old car is started up at, unless it is in a town centre, because ordinary will be blackmailed onto public transport leaving only cars for the rich with charging points and their own property. it has already started

FYI, the world is round. I promise it's true!

[Maracus]

LukeBrown66 said:

Ordinary people will not be able to go to the show that this old car is started up at, unless it is in a town centre, because ordinary will be blackmailed onto public transport leaving only cars for the rich with charging points and their own property. it has already started

Please define 'rich'.

[SWoll]

Maracus said:

LukeBrown66 said:

Ordinary people will not be able to go to the show that this old car is started up at, unless it is in a town centre, because ordinary will be blackmailed onto public transport leaving only cars for the rich with charging points and their own property. it has already started

Please define 'rich'.

We've been around this loop with this poster before, I wouldn't bother. On another thread he's changed his tack from "only for the rich" to "not for the poor" and doesn't appear to be able to clearly define what he means by either term.

[Maracus]

SWoll said:

Maracus said:

LukeBrown66 said:

Ordinary people will not be able to go to the show that this old car is started up at, unless it is in a town centre, because ordinary will be blackmailed onto public transport leaving only cars for the rich with charging points and their own property. it has already started

Please define 'rich'.

We've been around this loop with this poster before, I wouldn't bother. On another thread he's changed his tack from "only for the rich" to "not for the poor" and doesn't appear to be able to clearly define what he means by either term.