Nissan Leaf

Originally Posted by flymo

If that is the case then it begins to remove the financial benefits of these new technologies, you'll benefit in the short term but only as an early/mid term adopter.

Sadly that is going to be the case, you pay extra to get these cars to start with and then later on the tax gets shifted across to EVs/Hydrogen cars or whatever turns out to be the next alternative with longevity as they become the majority. As you say the money has to come from somewhere though so hey ho.

I'd still like an electric SV, 50 mile range would be enough for my commuting, again not as a replacement for my current SV, just to suffice for the commute and regular short mileage trips.

[flymo]

Originally Posted by Brettus

I'd still like an electric SV

but then it wouldnt be an SV would it?

in the future are we going to be comparing number of battery cells instead of cylinders? "dude, I love the slightly higher pitched whistling sound of your 8 cell!"

Originally Posted by flymo

but then it wouldnt be an SV would it?

in the future are we going to be comparing number of battery cells instead of cylinders? "dude, I love the slightly higher pitched whistling sound of your 8 cell!"

No admittedly it wouldn't be an SV anymore, which is a shame, its just I have a curvy sat there and a hankering for electric vehicles now

and that is a scary thought about the number of cells hehe. People would have mp3 players with vtwin noises and a bigass speaker disguised as an exhaust

[flymo]

yeah, you could buy the vtwin soundtrack upgrade or switch to an IL4 soundtrack for the day if you fancy

[keith_d]

Originally Posted by flymo

yeah, you could buy the vtwin soundtrack upgrade or switch to an IL4 soundtrack for the day if you fancy

And when you plug in the new soundtrack the throttle response changes appropriately. So the cool practical joke is to plug a 125cc vespa soundtrack into your mates new 32-cell Harley.


(Note: The new 32-cell harley weighs twice as much and has half the power of a regular bike because they're still using lead-acid batteries!!)

[NTECUK]

Charging a mobile one thing . You should look at the size of our fast charge point . Its a big as a large vending machine , it has 3 cooling fans that go pretty flat out. Our demo leaf is generally slow charged it's better for longer batty life .

[flymo]

Originally Posted by NTECUK

Charging a mobile one thing . You should look at the size of our fast charge point . Its a big as a large vending machine , it has 3 cooling fans that go pretty flat out. Our demo leaf is generally slow charged it's better for longer batty life .

yeah, but thats with todays technology. it wasnt that long ago that computers were bigger than a house.

[NTECUK]

Well fast charge is 400 volts and I'll look at my course notes but it's something like 40 amps =:$.
oh we got a stick to push you off if you fry yourself .

[Viney]

But...but..don't they need a nuclear reaction to create the 1.21 giga watts to power it?

[NTECUK]

No use the mr fusion add on