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Post by 25 quid on Feb 18, 2022 10:17:26 GMT
Yes. Well let's see if others travel south for the winter — I've no idea what that means either 😂
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Post by gwyndy on Mar 26, 2022 19:43:30 GMT
Not sure whether it's worth creating a 'pet' thread for, but for those of you interested.
Blackie and Mr. Tiggs went to their new home today.
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Post by 25 quid on Mar 28, 2022 18:54:11 GMT
Off course it's worth it gwyndy
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Post by gerryhatrick on Apr 9, 2022 17:32:58 GMT
I caught part of an interesting program on the radio this afternoon. A chap took a petrol car and an all electric one. With proper sensing gear he drove a set distance in each on a track and then worked out the fuel cost per mile. The electric car saves 10p per mile. Sounds good, but then the bit we know, and he was going to come to this but I had reached my destination so did not hear it. It was to tell us the real saving.
We can work it out. If you do 7000 miles in a year then saving 10p per mile you save £700 in a year. An all electric costs at least £5k but often £10k more than a petrol one. The maths shows us it takes between 7.14 and 14.29 years to recover the extra cost. Most don’t keep a car for 7 years, never mind 10 years so you never recover the fuel saving using electric. Of course road tax needs to be added in.
But then a crunch. The carbon fibre footprint of an electric is twice that of a petrol one. So you never save money and you create more CO2 buying an electric. But in a few years you can’t buy anything other than electric so it will cost us more and create more CO2.
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Post by Duppy on Apr 11, 2022 6:57:38 GMT
I worked that out ages ago. I drive an MG ZS, the cheapest EV version is £12k dearer than the petrol version, it would never pay for the difference between fuel costs and purchase price unless I keep it for a very long time, as I only do about 5k miles per year
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Post by struttg on Apr 11, 2022 8:15:51 GMT
Some one said to me yesterday that there is no new tech as far a car batteries, apart from increasing the amount of cells to increase range. Apparently one Tesla has a battery that weighs over half a tonne.
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Post by gerryhatrick on Apr 11, 2022 8:23:13 GMT
Nissan are developing something for batteries but it’s a big secret. Someone in the USA has developed the technology to fully charge in about 10 minutes and it’s an add on device that can be retrofitted. All it does is warm the battery up and they found doing that enables a fast charge with no degradation. The Israelis developed a method to fast charge a mobile phone in 10 minutes a few years ago but we have heard no more about that. So yes, progress with batteries has stagnated a little but there is always a solution. Finding it is the problem. We will still have EVs being more expensive to have for some time yet never mind their carbon footprint.
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