Supposedly by then we will all be in autonomous vehicles anyway so it wont matter!
Oh and there goes another flying pig.
Martin S
Posted 27 July 2017 - 07:42 AM
Supposedly by then we will all be in autonomous vehicles anyway so it wont matter!
Oh and there goes another flying pig.
Martin S
Posted 27 July 2017 - 10:20 AM
Posted 27 July 2017 - 11:38 AM
If cars are charged at home how will they generate all the lost taxes from petrol/diesel, a massive road tax just to use the road network? Doing the green thing is great, but billions of lost revenue for the pot will have to be found from somewhere
Posted 27 July 2017 - 08:17 PM
It might be wrong but someone told me that we would have build another 6 massive power stations to cope with the extra demand for charging millions of cars
Posted 27 July 2017 - 08:35 PM
It might be wrong but someone told me that we would have build another 6 massive power stations to cope with the extra demand for charging millions of cars
I know its impossible without foreign investment, But that would be a great solution. UK money pays for UK power, drivers pay it off. It would then turn the sandy middle east back in to a desert when the oil money stays closer to home.
I'm also going to marry Margot Robbie and live to 224. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
Posted 27 July 2017 - 10:03 PM
fcuk global warming ........what the fcuk about the Japanese power plant that is gonna be a problem for the next 400 years !!!!
Oh no ones talking about that are they?
Just another way to fcuk us get us to spend more money and buy a different mode of transport.
Its not the car driver killing the plant at all !!!!!
makes me so angry
Posted 27 July 2017 - 11:05 PM
Roll on the electric Caterham, i really hope they do one soon
Posted 27 July 2017 - 11:27 PM
Now that would be good !
Edited by Baron Von Scubadaddy, 27 July 2017 - 11:27 PM.
Posted 28 July 2017 - 06:29 AM
As long as you have a petrol wagon and a traitor to get it home when the charge runs out after a couple of laps of hard driving or it would need to weigh the same as a Range Rover with all the batteries 😀Now that would be good !
Posted 30 July 2017 - 10:25 AM
I'm just not sure where the power is going to come for all of this, I admittedly have no idea if electricity is greener to produce then using fossil fuels?
Posted 30 July 2017 - 08:01 PM
Posted 31 July 2017 - 07:34 AM
I'm just not sure where the power is going to come for all of this, I admittedly have no idea if electricity is greener to produce then using fossil fuels?
Electricity has traditionally been produced by burning fossil fuels
Solar/wind/tidal are 'green' but we need to store - hence government's home generation/battery intentions
Nuclear would be the answer, but for the loony left/misguided environmentalists
Posted 31 July 2017 - 08:11 AM
Posted 31 July 2017 - 08:22 AM
I'm just not sure where the power is going to come for all of this, I admittedly have no idea if electricity is greener to produce then using fossil fuels?
There is a school of thought where a fossil fuel power station is easier to control the emissions per KW generated than that of the car.
I'm in two minds about this whole "ban" bull sheets.
On one hand for day to day driving where most people are fucktards, doing the same 10-50mile commute, then bring on the EV and autonomous pilotage, hell even make people car pool more as charging at work will be hard and parking is always a dick.
On the other hand, petrol head!!!!
Now, it could be that for a non "road going" car, the ban wont cover it... in which case wooo hooo, just fuel will be mental money
Posted 31 July 2017 - 08:57 PM
What about nuclear powered cars, no need for lights with that green glow
Posted 01 August 2017 - 08:34 PM
I've been pondering over this for a little while now and did a little digging. The current UK max capacity for electricity generation is around 70 to 75GW. I've taken out wind and solar due to unpredictable nature. Current annual power generation is around 50GW. Based on the current number of cars and the growth over the last 10 years there will be something like 38 million cars on the road. If we take an average mileage of 12k, and utilise a rough charge of 10kw per 100km, the cars will need around 72GW of power to run them. So we barely have the capacity to charge the cars let alone the rest of the countries power requirements. I'm surprised that there haven't been significant strides in hydrogen fuel cells or hydrogen micro beads (which can be used in conventional petrol engines if memory serves) and the only emissions are water.It doesn't necessarily work like that though. Look at peak electricity demand during the day and compare it to the wee hours, and you'll see there is massive change in demand between the two. Its more likely that energy costs will go up as demand (in previously low demand times) will go up. Saying all that, there is a real issue with future generation capacity (generally, but EV's will compound the issue somewhat).26 million cars plugged in every night so better start building the power stations now or turn the coal ones back on
Posted 01 August 2017 - 08:48 PM
Edited by Chris P Duck, 01 August 2017 - 08:49 PM.
Posted 01 August 2017 - 09:53 PM
I worked on "Challenger" where they chucked a huge ass rotrex on a petrol transit and then put hydrogen in there..... yeah petrifying:lol: but it workedI've been pondering over this for a little while now and did a little digging. The current UK max capacity for electricity generation is around 70 to 75GW. I've taken out wind and solar due to unpredictable nature. Current annual power generation is around 50GW. Based on the current number of cars and the growth over the last 10 years there will be something like 38 million cars on the road. If we take an average mileage of 12k, and utilise a rough charge of 10kw per 100km, the cars will need around 72GW of power to run them. So we barely have the capacity to charge the cars let alone the rest of the countries power requirements. I'm surprised that there haven't been significant strides in hydrogen fuel cells or hydrogen micro beads (which can be used in conventional petrol engines if memory serves) and the only emissions are water.It doesn't necessarily work like that though. Look at peak electricity demand during the day and compare it to the wee hours, and you'll see there is massive change in demand between the two. Its more likely that energy costs will go up as demand (in previously low demand times) will go up. Saying all that, there is a real issue with future generation capacity (generally, but EV's will compound the issue somewhat).26 million cars plugged in every night so better start building the power stations now or turn the coal ones back on
Posted 04 August 2017 - 06:28 PM
Posted 04 August 2017 - 06:59 PM
I heard a someone talking a while back on a motor job I did.
They where saying that BMW were up for replacing all the street lighting with new posts with charging points in them.
I still think its crazy charging lots and lots of batteries with electricity provided by the grid??????????????
We seam to hate the wind farm and the solar farm in the UK.
This all sounds too bold a statement to make .............
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