Electric car

[grog]

my daughter decided today to fill her diesel nissan with ulp. something for me to do on monday.

[Mister Fishfinger]

my daughter decided today to fill her diesel nissan with ulp. something for me to do on monday.

There you go - one more advantage of electric vehicles, you can't fill them with the wrong stuff.

[shanered6]

Daughters do things like that and then run home to daddy .... oh dad can you do it ? 

[Kiwifruit]

My little darling has just returned home. Whats that knocking noise from your engine ?? "Dunno dad, been like that for a while." 
Bless her.

[Bielie45]

I am not anti electric but we are far from it being justified .
Many good points mentioned so far.
Tesla has battery exchance stations on some of the main roads that do just take 2-3min to swap and go.
I would love a electric bike but when its worth it.........not in my life time so I will enjoy my 14 for as long as I live or the 14 lives whom ever expires first.
Good luck with your daughters guys I feel for you, my daughter told me a while ago she has now had enough of adulting and its over rated 😂😂😂😂 I then promptly reminded her of all her rebelian to finish school and move out and do what she wants.......oops all of that cost money and you have to earn it in some way 😂😂😂😂

[Tony Nitrous]

I am quite interested in electric vehicles.

A mate has an all electric bike he commutes to work on, our kids have a Prius hybrid and we have heaps of hybrids at work.


As an all electric vehicle they made great progress for a while, and have now reached a stage that they are justifiable as short distance sprint racers, or city commuters, as well as 'lecky dirt bikes being quiet and not getting neighbours complaining etc.

Outside suburbia not so great.  To quote the move Snatch, in Australia you'd be "proper fucked!".  I can't think of a car or bike that's going to sit with me over a Sunday ride out. Admittedly this is with current tech, but I'm not one to get excited over possibles and maybe's that may never happen.

Who knows what the future will bring?
DVD's were the future over crappy Video cassettes.
Blue-Ray disc's were the future of a normal DVD.
Not everything great has a future.

I do see electric vehicles as being a way forward. Not because they are so great but because of legislation, pollution levels in city's, maybe oil supplies etc.

The goal of no new petrol vehicles after about another 10 years is very questionable here in Australia. Maybe OK on a little Island like the UK but there would have to be some HUGE advances in technology for it to be workable here.

[Tony Nitrous]

Just spotted this.....

[ARH]

I like the idea of electric vehicles and agree it's probably the way forward if the range issue can be solved but... I am a bit old School.  The one thing missing from an electric engine?  Sound... I like to hear a big engine burbling away... electric engines will never replace that.  Mind you... they said that about horses as well in the past!

[grog]

my electric golf cart worked perfectly today. oil companies pretty much rule the world, are they going to die without a fight.

[VladTepes]

The solution to traffic jams is and always has been an internal combustion engine motorcycle.

[Tony Nitrous]

I like the idea of electric vehicles and agree it's probably the way forward if the range issue can be solved but... I am a bit old School.  The one thing missing from an electric engine?  Sound... I like to hear a big engine burbling away... electric engines will never replace that.  Mind you... they said that about horses as well in the past!

The beauty of electric is you can have any sound you like. I've driven heaps of modern cars where the sound inside is not coming from the engine! Lots of manufacturers do fake engine sound and it's getting quite good.

Although...l.

[Andre]

The solution to traffic jams is and always has been an internal combustion engine motorcycle.

Seeing videos about the masses of "bikes" in some Asian areas I doubt it.

There are to many vehicles. And there will be more.

[Mister Fishfinger]

The solution to traffic jams is and always has been an internal combustion engine motorcycle.

Seeing videos about the masses of "bikes" in some Asian areas I doubt it.

There are to many vehicles. And there will be more.

I was in China a few years ago on a business trip and I noticed there were a huge number of electric scooters nipping about. I wondered how they solved the recharging problem and they had a really simple scheme - lots of little old blokes fronting shops and stalls, with stacks of batteries on charge.

When your scooter is running low you pull in, give the bloke your flat battery and a couple of quid (or the local equivalent) and he swaps it for a freshly charged one.

I can only assume they all use the same size battery, or at least a small range of them, but whatever, it seemed to be working fine for them.

Humans are ingenious creatures really.

[Tony Nitrous]

Last time I was in Paris there were lots of charging points in the streets.



It's not a bad idea and cuts down on pollution in built up areas.
I know they want to push this tech in AU but it's got a LONG way to go to be anywhere near useful away from the coast.

[Andre]

Here we would need a shit load of coal/nuclear power plants. That would be a lot of fun getting them build. The Green party would be up in arms. Lots of protest, some violent, just to continue digging for coal or getting a final solution for nuclear waste.

Also lots of resistance against wind power generators.

Not to speak of the infrastructure. Can't even manage adequate Internet access across this country 

Charging points in the streets of our cities The existing ones are often used for parking as that is a big problem already.