Green number plates and benefits for electric cars

[patman post]

Well there's another easy scam. Paint a blob or the whole number plate green and off you go. Have a few alternatives and you have access to bus lanes free parking etc. What fun!

Probably not that easy with ANPR — which is used for Congestion and Ulez zones. Primary purpose of Green plates will most likely be to nudge trendy motoring plebs into buying EVs, and help local authority parking attendants quickly decide charges.  Infringements will probably be generated by ANPR...

[T00ts]

Well there's another easy scam. Paint a blob or the whole number plate green and off you go. Have a few alternatives and you have access to bus lanes free parking etc. What fun!

[Barry]

What ever happened to fuel cell?

https://www.hyundai.co.uk/new-cars/nexo">//https://www.hyundai.co.uk/new-cars/nexo

Cars are here, hydrogen fuel stations are few and far between, and the car retails at?

[size=200]£68,856[/size]

[boggart]

What ever happened to fuel cell?

[papasmurf]

That's all very well, but most of us can't afford electric cars. So the rich get the perks while the rest of us carry on struggling.

Quite, our current car cost £1500. I expect the next one to be a similar price.

[Cassie]

That's all very well, but most of us can't afford electric cars. So the rich get the perks while the rest of us carry on struggling.

[Baron von Lotsov]

Samsung are in the process of developing graphene batteries. They are supposed to charge five times as fast and hold 50% more power. The other technology is lithium metal batteries. They have problems at the moment in they deteriorate on recharging, but there are ways around this and it is being worked on. It looks like we could double the energy with lithium metal. There's a very neat trick which has been sussed out at MIT to solve it.



So in the foreseeable future it looks like energy/range could double, but not go much further with lithium because there is a theoretical limit. We do not have a better element than lithium, so other technologies will have to replace it, where two contenders are capacitors and nuclear power. The greens won't like nuclear power and the capacitors are only 1/20 of the power of lead acid, but by using nanotechnology they have equalled lithium ion in research labs, (the current best technology). Whether they can go much further I do not know.



If they can, like if we can get 5 times the energy density, then we can have electric airliners. There's a lot of dosh riding on this, but man can not do the physically impossible.

[papasmurf]

Take up of EVs seems to be rapidly increasing as their performance improves. But the concern over the range of fully electric cars still mars their image...

This was recently shown on Arirang TV (South Korea.) about development in Lithium Ion Batteries:-

[patman post]

Drivers of electric cars across the UK may soon be using special green number plates under new plans.

The aim is to make it possible for local authorities to allow zero-emission vehicles to benefit from incentives such as cheaper parking and being able to use bus lanes.

However, RAC head of roads policy Nicholas Lyes said: "While the sentiment seems right, there are question marks as to whether drivers would see this as a badge of honour or alternatively it could foster resentment among existing drivers of petrol and diesel vehicles."

From:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50122268">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50122268



Take up of EVs seems to be rapidly increasing as their performance improves. But the concern over the range of fully electric cars still mars their image...