Bugger I've gone from hating Walsh to liking him..Bob Seger and Night Moves...my fave Seger track...darn darn darn darn darn...Barrowman...*waves fist*...oops wrong thread...:D
Typical topgear BS, like they wouldnt have researched where the topup points were beforehand for the electric cars.
But surely the point is you shouldn't need to plan your journey to be able to massively go out of your way to hit charging points - especially when whole counties are free of them!!
it highlighted one of the biggest downsides of the electric car.
In that you cant simply drive from a to b like a normal car.
And if you want to go a long distance youll have to make detours via the recharging points and then wait hours for it to be charged up.
I wonder if a way forward might be a battery cassette. When out and about you swap your flat one for a fully charged one - a bit like caravanners do with gas bottles. You "own" the cassette in that you pay an initial charge, but then when you change it you get a different one. It would need agreement on a common design. Or a single company sets up a nationwide scheme based on its own designs
As well as effectively allowing a very quick recharge, this would also allow for the cost of the batteries to be absorbed in the refill cost. When the battery pack no longer accepts a full charge, it gets thrown away or recycled, and a new one is put into the system. Owners would then pay based on usage, and would not need to meet the large replacement cost every X years, they would be "Paying As They Go".
I wonder if a way forward might be a battery cassette. When out and about you swap your flat one for a fully charged one - a bit like caravanners do with gas bottles. You "own" the cassette in that you pay an initial charge, but then when you change it you get a different one. It would need agreement on a common design. Or a single company sets up a nationwide scheme based on its own designs
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Not that simple, for example the Leaf actually contains 48 battery modules, and they're not tiny things. Plus, they're not easily accessible, in the Leaf being in the floor of the car. So maybe if battery tech gets amazingly better someday ...but hopefully hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be a viable alternative by then.
Well I have some good news, this is the last episode in the series.
So, presumably as you do not like the show it simply means you won;t have to avoid trying not to watch a show you don't like and hence don;t watch...there are lots of programmes I don;t like and hence not watch but I don't spend time seeing when a show I don;t watch or like finishes and then hunt out a forum thread about it to announce the fact that it;s the last one...
Of course, you may reply to say you do watch it in which case WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Sheesh....
Not that simple, for example the Leaf actually contains 48 battery modules, and they're not tiny things. Plus, they're not easily accessible, in the Leaf being in the floor of the car. So maybe if battery tech gets amazingly better someday ...but hopefully hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be a viable alternative by then.
The car would have to be designed from scratch with a removable swappable battery, and the leaf (and others) isn't. That doesn't mean it wouldn't work.
The car would have to be designed from scratch with a removable swappable battery, and the leaf (and others) isn't. That doesn't mean it wouldn't work.
With current technology it wouldn't work - not practically anyway.
The batteries used are too large and expensive - it's not the act of physically replacing them that is the problem.
I think the idea of replaceable batteries works in theory, but by the time cars can run on batteries small enough and cheap enough to work that way, a different fuel source will be in place.
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There were hardly any cars in it. Might has well just watch Extreme Engineering on Quest!!!
Aargh!
Clearly it can't have been too personal a legal case.
Wow...hell has frozen over.
it highlighted one of the biggest downsides of the electric car.
In that you cant simply drive from a to b like a normal car.
And if you want to go a long distance youll have to make detours via the recharging points and then wait hours for it to be charged up.
"Romantic novelist":D:D:D
I wonder if a way forward might be a battery cassette. When out and about you swap your flat one for a fully charged one - a bit like caravanners do with gas bottles. You "own" the cassette in that you pay an initial charge, but then when you change it you get a different one. It would need agreement on a common design. Or a single company sets up a nationwide scheme based on its own designs
As well as effectively allowing a very quick recharge, this would also allow for the cost of the batteries to be absorbed in the refill cost. When the battery pack no longer accepts a full charge, it gets thrown away or recycled, and a new one is put into the system. Owners would then pay based on usage, and would not need to meet the large replacement cost every X years, they would be "Paying As They Go".
I liked Hammonds sly comments when Ben Collins was present.
Not that simple, for example the Leaf actually contains 48 battery modules, and they're not tiny things. Plus, they're not easily accessible, in the Leaf being in the floor of the car. So maybe if battery tech gets amazingly better someday ...but hopefully hydrogen fuel cell vehicles will be a viable alternative by then.
So, presumably as you do not like the show it simply means you won;t have to avoid trying not to watch a show you don't like and hence don;t watch...there are lots of programmes I don;t like and hence not watch but I don't spend time seeing when a show I don;t watch or like finishes and then hunt out a forum thread about it to announce the fact that it;s the last one...
Of course, you may reply to say you do watch it in which case WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Sheesh....
With current technology it wouldn't work - not practically anyway.
The batteries used are too large and expensive - it's not the act of physically replacing them that is the problem.
I think the idea of replaceable batteries works in theory, but by the time cars can run on batteries small enough and cheap enough to work that way, a different fuel source will be in place.
Not good
Especially with the (quite moving) last piece about the soldiers hoping to do the Dakar rally