RE: So much for hybrid cars10 Nov 2018 16:17
Hybrids , or more to the point electric cars make some sense in high population polluted cities. But not in the suberbs.
If you are queuing to get into work? Can that be transferred to home working or shared work hubs nearer home.
Electric cars are a pain to charge. Charging points in Hampshire cost £67k each to install! That us unreasonable fir the poor to subsidise the rich.
Battery tech is not moving that fast. (Greens would say otherwise)
1960 lead acid milk floats
1980 nickel Cadnam
2000 lithium polymer
??? Lithium ion
2012 nickel cobalt aluminium
But the chemicals need mining and recycling
And the range needs extending.
The electric needs generating. The greens claim all thier green cars run on green energy and so do ground source heat pumps and LED lights and trains, etc. As this is new electrical demand , I might argue it's coming from the dirtier end if the spectrum. If you hadn't bought your electric car or train we could have scrapped the coal power station earlier.
I watch our fields and seas being filled with solar panels and wind turbines. But the tech to store that energy is also expensive and in its infancy.
Gas turbines and fracking is actually a quicker, cheaper way to rid us of coal and oil energy. It is also better for balance of payments and less mineral extraction (and as most is imported)
I don't want to travel everywhere in a sky pod at 28mph. I want my own car, my own music, my own clutter. To change route, to explore that country lane. God forbid I want to go when I want to. Not when it's finished charging....
I would have an electric car with a range and power extended by combustion engine, but it has to cost in.
And still have useable space... And I want to do a 600 mile trip with only normal 30 min breaks.
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