Petrol/Diesel ban from 2040

[Ian H]

I've been in a Tesla too, round a sprint circuit called Curborough. It was a Model S which I think is the slow one.

It lapped in 28 seconds and my 270bhp Golf was lapping in 30 seconds.

They are insanely fast for a milk float!!

 

[Corgigrouch GTi]

That's the big advantage of electric motors... Naturally the downside is how quickly the batteries run down at warp speeds.. that and how long the recharge time is...

 

[motorbiking]

The obsolescence is a concern. Tesla are still finding their way and aren't yet profitable. About 1/3rd of Tesla models have been discontinued.

 

[Corgigrouch GTi]

Interesting to read that Toyota are looking at using hydrogen fuel cells as they have developed one for automotive use.. obviously the big down side is the production of hydrogen

 

[Alec_t]

Charging at home is damned cheap, and I think they'll force down the commercial charge points so that take up is more acceptable.

That won't last long. The government will be looking for something to replace the income lost from fuel taxes, so you can bet your boots electricity prices will skyrocket.

 

[motorbiking]

I think the charge points charging higher fees are in areas where you'd be paying higher car parking fees. The fee is intended to cover both.

 

[HawkEye244]

I like the idea of being able to charge the car using some DIY nutty professor style method. If a guy can charge his iphone using a piece of fruit (see youtube), I can charge my future electric car using a compost heap. The worry is will they engineer all these system controls to prevent that sort of thing? In which case it sort of flies in the face of what we've been told about trying to be sustainable and less of a burden to the grid.

 

[transam]

Leccy cars were is the noise ? the sound of a V8 , V6 ??

The hailwood hondas , the V twin harleys , MV agusta's .

An Electric Ferrari , maserati, Mustang, Dodge Viper, Bugatti etc etc does not quite cut it imho

dull & boring like noseall dare say we will be hearing about the Russians in a while or some other nonsense he will post up

probably has his hats custom made doubt if any thing off the peg would fit his big ead

 

[Doggit]

The latest Prius has a solar panel on the roof, and that could be extended to the whole surface of the car.

Hydrogen.

As Hydrogen isn't a naturaly occuring gas, you need to produce it from either sea water, or oil; not sure what the waste product would be from the left over oil would be though- nor where it would go. And as you get water vapour out of the exhaust from a Hydrogen car, how long before we get fog filled cities.

Leccy cars were is the noise

I expect there'd soon be a phone apps to give you the sort of engine noise you want.

 

[wobs]

Leccy cars were is the noise ? the sound of a V8 , V6 ??

The hailwood hondas , the V twin harleys , MV agusta's .

An Electric Ferrari , maserati, Mustang, Dodge Viper, Bugatti etc etc does not quite cut it imho

dull & boring like noseall dare say we will be hearing about the Russians in a while or some other nonsense he will post up

probably has his hats custom made doubt if any thing off the peg would fit his big ead

You could always buy a Mclaren P1 if that's your thing. Or something similar.

 

[transam]

Transam - the most repetitive poster on DIYnot considers him/herself interesting.

(Noseall now expects a plethora of nonsense posts from Transam, referring to either boredom, Trump, Russians, washing machines etc, following any posting in any thread on GD and having no relevance to that thread).

YOU are the epitome of dull boyo.

Bit harsh noseall

You need to remember Noseall that I am retarded Something u spotted a good while back prior to me telling u I was retarded and u were right

No flies on u Noseall

 

[transam]

You could always buy a Mclaren P1 if that's your thing. Or something similar.

we worked for a bloke who had 3 of them mcclarens that have 3 seats. & that was only part of his car collection.

Also worked for the bloke who used to own brand hatch ( a good while back) he had an interesting collection of cars .

 

[transam]

What about the tax revenue that goverment gets from petrol/diesel /oil

how is that going to be made up ? specialist car manu's going out of bussiness ? parts manufacturers ? mechanics ?

will developing nations get on board ?

 

[Corgigrouch GTi]

What about the tax revenue that goverment gets from petrol/diesel /oil

how is that going to be made up ? specialist car manu's going out of bussiness ? parts manufacturers ? mechanics ?

will developing nations get on board ?

That's easy to solve.... The Irish have green diesel so that the diesel dippers can check that the right duty is paid... We will have green electricity to alert the customs and excise if we are using the wrong electricity

 

[EFLImpudence]

What about the tax revenue that goverment gets from petrol/diesel /oil
how is that going to be made up ?

Don't worry. They'll find a way.

Is that what smart meters are really for?