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31-07-17, 03:31 PM | #31 |
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Well there'll be a lot of fuel delivery HGV drivers to recruit.
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The nav will tell you how far you can go.if it's a longer trip it route to charge location s. Fast charge from flat ie5%to 89% is 40 mins. If you are unfortunate to run until the car goes flat then the RAC have a fast charge support just for Nissan customer service
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01-08-17, 06:21 AM | #33 |
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To me, Electric vehicles are just not practical. I currrntly own a small Citreon dispatch van that I use as a run around. Trips to builders merchants etc. A passat that gets used for those longer family days out/away and a peugeot C1 tht the wife uses. Add to that my son with a mondao and daughter with a kuga.
So. how about the weight carrying of the van. In goes wood, brick etc. It cost me a grand 4 years ago. What would econonically replace that. the passat does about 3000 a year. mostly on a couple of long trips of about 5-600 miles. ok the c1 is local use only and could be replaced. that cost 7000 1 year old. again economical replacement? The mondao carries the lads tools and goes everywhere so again load capacity especially with a few boxes of tiles/buckets of adhesive etc. The kuga is new. 17 plate and does about 130 miles a day. but she is also a scout leader. The car will need about 300 miles range. There is no charging parked up in the middle of nowhere whilst they camp. but what about charging. 5 vehicles a time. FFS the kids buy their own fuel. how do they get their own electricity supply? What about my 500 mile trips. I fill up. do the trip and fill up when I return. Electric will only be practical when I can instant charge have the range etc. So my prefered solution would still be hydrogen fuel cell. we have the potential for lots of excess electicity from renewables. use that to create hydrogen. I know not exactly efficient. But it is storable.
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01-08-17, 06:33 AM | #34 |
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This now
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review...ix35-fuel-cell Image what you are going to be able ( oil corporation allowing of course) in five years time... Toyota can do it too https://www.toyota.co.uk/new-cars/new-mirai/the-facts
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Now that is nearer the truth............ (Hydrogen can also be made from certain bacteria / chlorophyll working digesting plant material under the right (closed tank in the dark) circumstances, but it would probably mean covering every bit of spare land with tanks that would make poly-tunnels look pretty. The Honda Clarity fuel cell car was running around decades ago in limited quantities, I think infrastructure to supply explosive hydrogen at enormous pressures was the limiting factor.
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01-08-17, 07:52 AM | #36 |
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Yes it's still a problem with about 15 hydrogen filling stations and a lot of them are closed to the public.
But then we do have till 2040 at the earliest to get it in place. Not that's that's going to worry me. If I'm still alive it's a Mobility Scooter for me .
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Not leccy cars, but . .
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02-08-17, 12:17 AM | #38 | |
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Here's what the Air Quality Plan actually says on the matter: "The government will end the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040." So it looks from the word "conventional" that there is not to be a ban on petrol or diesel cars, just a ban on cars which are exclusively petrol or diesel. Hybrids will still be allowed. Another option is dual-fuel. There are already dual-fuel Ford Transits which can burn hydrogen or petrol in their (supercharged) internal combustion engines. |
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This is an issue because petrol and diesel are currently ubiquitous. So I predict there will soon be several competing incompatible technologies created by different manufacturers, creating uncertainty and instability for many years until one finally wins out. And it's not necessarily the best one. Betamax vehicles here we come.
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