Apparently all new taxis , certainly in Edinburgh , are electric . Mate , fairly traditional (regressive even) , thinks it's the best thing he's ever driven .Don't see why electric cars won't be able to tow equally as well as any other car. Tesla have a car that tows well apparently. Besides, you'll need to tow a trailer full of batteries if you want to go further than a few hundred miles.
...and the electricity charges will be variable depending on the time of day. That is why they are 'forcing' smart meters on us.
Just got back at 18:00 from that dirty labouring job you've been dong all day?
Shame because if you have a shower now (in the peak period) it will cost you 3 times as much in electricity costs compared to what it will cost after 21:00 (for example). That goes for cooking your tea and everything else.
They will have to use price to control the surges for demand as they just can't supply all we will need in the peaks going forward; they can only just do it now.
Electric cars will help level out the supply of electricity,you plug in overnight at the cheaper rate,then during the day a percentage of your stored electric is routed back into the grid when demand is high. The massive amount of stored energy helps to iron out peaks and troughs in demand and will stop rolling blackouts that some countries experience regularly. This will give the supply chain the ability to call up extra power in an instant rather than hooking in a power station somewhere in the system that can take a few minutes to come online,which is often too late resulting in loss of power.
It's not the ones who can afford an electric car I worry for it's those who can't afford to run a cheap diesel car now.
I daresay that would have applied to car ownership of any type just 100 years ago.Less than 1% of cars on uk roads are electric,I reckon that represents the amount of people who are willing to put their money where their mouth is.
Whats a hundred years ago got to do with electric cars.I daresay that would have applied to car ownership of any type just 100 years ago.
Whats a hundred years ago got to do with electric cars.
Well they started about then,many ladies in the USA drove them because they could not crank start a piston engine,but people said they would not take of along with petrol cars,look how many is on the roads now.Whats a hundred years ago got to do with electric cars.
You come across as a crackpot, l hope your not.Nothing, that's why I never suggested it did.
It does have a lot to do with blinkered attitudes though.
Not sure if you're saying electric cars were about 100 years ago and if they were that's where they belong.Well they started about then,many ladies in the USA drove them because they could not crank start a piston engine,but people said they would not take of along with petrol cars,look how many is on the roads now.
It takes time for folk to get used to new tec like it or lump it.
I'd be more worried if I fell in with your limited outlook on life and it's inevitable and continual changes.You come across as a crackpot, l hope your not.
So you are a crackpot, what ev do you own.I'd be more worried if I fell in with your limited outlook on life and it's inevitable and continual changes.
"Not sure" is your speciality.Not sure if you're saying electric cars were about 100 years ago and if they were that's where they belong.
Are you speaking for trev now then."Not sure" is your speciality.
Things change, 100 years ago you'd be the guy jumping on your horse and galloping into the distance spouting off about internal combustion engines having no future.
So you're Amish. What horse do YOU own?So you are a crackpot, what ev do you own.
He's called Prius.So you're Amish. What horse do YOU own?