RE: Electric Cars & Solar Panels30 Dec 2019 12:48
1tommo1, good afternoon to you, you say you are an engineer for a leading uk car manufacturer, and are now, along with many other car brands, coming to the conclusion that purely electric vehicles will not be practical(particularly in the uk) for several decades.
The main problem is very simple, space, a huge amount of people in this country are unable to even park outside there own houses, the infrastructure, and investment required to get the number of charge points needed is massive.
Our main design and investment is currently hybrid vehicles.
EVs will be mainstream one day but not for a long time yet.
As you have stated above your thinking is Hybrid is the way forward but you hi-light the lack of parking spaces outside ones home and lack of charging points, if that is the case then the only way the batteries will be charged in a Hybrid is via the internal combustion engine and negating the original concept that the IC engine was to supplement the range/performance of the battery, this charging of the battery via the engine would surely produce just as much pollution/ greenhouse gasses as for just running a conventional car, as stated previously by me a report recently found exactly that scenario where Hybrid cars were being brought and run only via the IC engine and that the charging lead was still in its original wrapping in the boot, as the primary reason of purchase was just to save on vehicle tax. you say EVs will be mainstream one day but not for a long time yet, we would concur with that statement and hope our palladium is used in greater quantities to reduce emissions in Hybrids going forward, this is a serious question is there anything new in the pipeline that you could give us a head's up on, as whatever is in production today will not clean up emissions if used in a way it was not designed for. The Diesel engine is the most fuel-efficient engine ever produced and can be between 40-55% compared to the Petrol Engine with only 20% to 35% efficiency, the recently highlighted particulates being the problem that surely a better cat converter or fuel derivative could overcome, after all, Rudolf Diesel's original engine was fulled on Peanut oil. The Engine that Powers the World. Mark Evans tells the surprising story of the hidden powerhouse behind the globalised world, the diesel engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eelVZGbvvF4
An informative and interesting program.
Thanks in advance 1Tommo1, genuinely interested.
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