Tesla magic running low
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Depends if you are on cordial terms with a dictator or tyrant, who will keep you in black gold, for a price you are able and willing to pay.
Imagine being self - sufficient in energy and food, with well - run transport, education, and health services.......
UK has quite a bit of energy that does not come from fossil fuels.
And yet so many on here would rather be wedded to regimes abroad.
Yes, EVs are a bit like the return to the old days when you had to pull over into a coaching inn for a few hours to rest your horses.
The emissions were good for your roses though.
Yeah, it's terrible. Been from Cumbria to Blackpool and back today. Spent a grand total of 5 minutes on a fast charger while I went to get a can from the services...
You still don't really get this "clean" thing, do you?
They can be as "clean" as you like, but still emit CO2...I'm not really 'into' this high tech. stuff bit thought I would run this :
As far as I can make out Nissan's E-Power uses a petrol engine to charge a battery that runs the electric motor that provides the motive power
Is it not possible to delete the battery & have the ICE power the motor, in the same way as they did with diesel-electric on the railway ?
Yes, I am old enough to remember the Deltics when they were in service
To what end? I guess if you wanted to run your engine all the time the electric motor was running, so that you could use more fuel AND still be horrendously inefficient at low engine loads, whilst simultaneously losing even the small amount of zero-emissions range that it had, then yes, I daresay you could...
That's a very messy way of presenting the data! I find this site better:
National Grid: Live
Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network
grid.iamkate.com
Remind me where the precious materials come from for your EV batteries? Remind me where these lovely shiny new slightly less ruinously priced EVs are going to be coming from in ever increasing numbers?
Remind me where the precious materials come from for your EV batteries? Remind me where these lovely shiny new slightly less ruinously priced EVs are going to be coming from in ever increasing numbers?
Ever wondered where the precious metals in your cat come from...?
Ever wondered where the precious metals in your cat come from...?
Great. So we're both a greed that we're all reliant on despots, tyrants and assorted countries with unstable and often dictatorial regimes to build and run our vehicles of choice.
Remind me where the precious materials come from for your EV batteries? Remind me where these lovely shiny new slightly less ruinously priced EVs are going to be coming from in ever increasing numbers?
I won't be buying one once or twice a week though
Er...no...not really. Many EVs contain no rare earth metals. Those that do, certainly don't need them to run, only to build. Most of the world's lithium comes from Australia, which, last time I looked, was definitely not "third world" and definitely a democracy...Great. So we're both a greed that we're all reliant on despots, tyrants and assorted countries with unstable and often dictatorial regimes to build and run our vehicles of choice.
I really liked the yearly generation chart. I knew that there were seasonal variances for wind but that chart helped picture the difference, and the positive relationship between solar and wind, far more clearlyThat's a very messy way of presenting the data! I find this site better:
National Grid: Live
Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network
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