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By *an4fun OP Man
over a year ago
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With the recent announcements from Jaguar and Ford that they will only be producing electric vehicles from 2025 and 2030 respectively how do you see things panning out?
I think it's good news but have concerns about the charging network. I think, currently, the fastest charge will take 20mins and there aren't enough of them. I walked past a house local to me that was running an electric cable from the house, across the pavement, to the car outside. Will we be stumbling home d*unk at night tripping over charging cables? Not everyone has a drive and what if you can't park directly outside yuor property  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The national charging infrastructure is a massive gap at the moment. Tesla have played a blinder by investing their own whereas other manufacturers seemed to have just ‘left it for someone else to sort out’.
If they’d all worked in unison with one or more of the existing charging network providers, they could have made more ground by now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An I-Pace currently takes 30hrs on a 3pin 3kw charger to fully charge. I’ll wait a bit until the battery technology is better if I were you take the plunge. Even if you get a 7kw charger installed in your house it’s still going to take 13hrs to fully charge a 90kw battery |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My take-
The world will never be 100% electric well not in our lifetime, the infrastructure isnt there and currently it wont cope.
Diesels will be gone and personally (working within alternative power sector) i think hybrid is the way majority of companies will go.
Diesel has no future and anyone buying a diesel car is pretty foolish, they will be taxed so highly which will force them off the road VAG group, psa, volvo, mercedes are no longer producing diesel engines for the latter half of this year.
Ive been running a bmw i3 for the past 4 years up until last September racking up 200k miles as a commuter from derby to london its been brilliant, managed the 143 mile run in one charge.
the technology is there... unfortunately the world isnt ready |
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When the search for cobalt for batteries turns to trawling the sea bed, it’s the next industrial scale environmental disaster waiting to happen, couple that with the production of the batteries and electricity required to charge a world full of electric cars then we will probably generate more Co2 overall than using conventional petrol engines.
We do get better air quality but for the planet there’s no real benefit so ultimately answer is better public transport and abandonment of individual car ownership... just saying  |
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By *an4fun OP Man
over a year ago
london |
"When the search for cobalt for batteries turns to trawling the sea bed, it’s the next industrial scale environmental disaster waiting to happen, couple that with the production of the batteries and electricity required to charge a world full of electric cars then we will probably generate more Co2 overall than using conventional petrol engines.
We do get better air quality but for the planet there’s no real benefit so ultimately answer is better public transport and abandonment of individual car ownership... just saying "
Living in London I rarely used my car (when I had one. It got stolen), I would mostly use public transport or my legs. But some parts of the UK are not that well served by public transport |
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By *htcMan
over a year ago
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its a big disaster waiting to happen.
the uk cannot generate the amount of power needed for these cars
massive amounts of money will need to be spent on charging units + council planning permission, then comes a big bill for new cabling installed everywhere to handle the power needed.
the next problem will be people who do long journeys, how will people do them. it will be similar with long distance business travel or taxi services.
this should not be allowed until the above problems have been solved and ready.
people will be paying more council tax and higher electric prices to cover these costs.
then with fuel being less used, tax on fuel will be lost, so the government will then slap the tax on electric, you may be more green but your costs will be more. |
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