Electric Vehicles

[ethariel]

The good side of a drastic reduction in the burning of fossil fuels will indeed be 'cleaner air' and a potential to reduce or even in an optimistic view to reverse climate change.

The downside will be to follow-on political instability in nations that rely on the export of Oil and LNG based resources.

It will indeed be interesting times ahead, in more ways that one in all probability

[Seeker]

Everything you wanted know about comparitive costs of electric cars, including battery manufacturing, versus ICE cars.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factchec...climate-change

(it's a long read)

[Calix Lee]

Lately, I feel like a lot of car manufacturers are trying to create e-vehicles.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Calix Lee

Lately, I feel like a lot of car manufacturers are trying to create e-vehicles.

'A lot of' - aren't they all ?!

[DJ123]

Originally Posted by Calix Lee

Lately, I feel like a lot of car manufacturers are trying to create e-vehicles.

one of the (big) reasons (inc hybrid) is they have an overall CO2 output figure they can't be above across their whole range of vehicles.
This is why you are also seeing this from Hyper car companies too who would much prefer not to have to use heavy electrical equipment.

[Luckypants]

Yes, it's the reason Skoda only sold the electric Citigo for 3 months, to get overall emissions down. Now they have the Enyaq EV to do that for them, so dropped the Citigo EV asap.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Yes, it's the reason Skoda only sold the electric Citigo for 3 months, to get overall emissions down. Now they have the Enyaq EV to do that for them, so dropped the Citigo EV asap.

So it's all a bit of a game !

[Luckypants]

Improvements in charging infrastructure for motorways coming

[Seeker]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

Improvements in charging infrastructure for motorways coming

a step in the right direction I suppose. Lincolnshire's only motorway is the M180, it is only 25 miles in length and doesn't even reach the Humber ports. As a comparison, Lincolnshire has 5500 miles of other roads.

I'm 65 and would like an electric car but I suspect my driving time will be over by the time they're affordable.

[Luckypants]

Non-motorway roads are getting better served now BP and Shell are getting behind charging points in a big way. BP have just installed 6 150Kw chargers near J27 M6 on A5206 for instance.

The problem with motorway services has been that Electric Highway has almost a monopoly on non-Tesla chargers. Their chargers are old and basically crap, unable to work with the latest vehicles. This announcement is great news, doubling the capacity at each charger and installing something modern that can be maintained and works. The HPC super fast chargers are still a way off I suspect, but add in the Ionity network and now BP / Shell putting chargers near motorways things do look better.