Interested to hear of experiences of Electric Vehicles

[Hyperduck Quack Quack]

I would not want to experience this:-



https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/11-tons-water-and-special-container-used-extinguish-burning-tesla-austria">https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/11-ton ... la-austria">https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/11-tons-water-and-special-container-used-extinguish-burning-tesla-austria

A quick search on Google will find dozens of photos of aluminium-bodied petrol or diesel cars that are equally burnt out or more so - e.g. -



https://www.carscoops.com/2013/08/jaguar-f-type-burns-and-turns-into-blob/">https://www.carscoops.com/2013/08/jagua ... into-blob/">https://www.carscoops.com/2013/08/jaguar-f-type-burns-and-turns-into-blob/    . . .was a Jaguar F-type sports car.

[Baron von Lotsov]

I seriously can't be bothered to drive 250 miles.



I used to drive 200 miles regularly because I had a place in Manchester and also in Buckinghamshire for a fair few years. I was 50/50 on whether to take the train or not, and it often depended on what I needed to carry but in retrospect I favour trains for long distance. I just wish the blighters would work properly and charge a simple cheap rate. They feel like fiddlers from hell these days with their lottery pricing games.



This country needs a modern train network which means you can go from any town to any other efficiently. The dockland's light railway was a good example of the sort of thing we really need.

[Churchill]

They are all right for a round of golf but otherwise Im in favour of diesel

So am I on my second diesel now had a Skoda Estate for 13 years great workhorse, my VW 2.0 does 75 mpg on a run passes the EU emissions test no bother, I need a workhorse that can do over 250 miles with ease without worrying about will the battery last or where can I recharge it and how long will it take



Neighbour of mine bought an all electric Nissan can't remember the model not a cheap one about 2 years ago, stranded twice when he went on holiday flat battery, he got rid of it after less than a year.

[Baron von Lotsov]

Here's another example of an electric bike. This is top spec 210kw and the guy built it himself. This video is especially entertaining because of the presenter, who seems to like electric bikes. They then take it for a race and it's funny watching the guy next to him totally weirded out by a bike without exhaust, noise and a lot of other strange things about it.

I particularly like the idea of no brakes. It cuts down on weight, cost, reliability...



Also nice web monitor of battery levels. I've just built a similar thing myself to give you telemetric information on a web browser. It's the way to go.

[Baron von Lotsov]

What you are mumbling on about has nothing to do with the title of the thread you started.



I posted a video of a chap who built his own. I think that's pretty clever, but you can't see it.

[patman post]

Have you gone around the bend?

Don't follow Credence Clearwater Revival videos...

[Baron von Lotsov]

There are many "useful" inventions on Youtube. Two that spring to mind are generating your own electricity from a speaker magnet, couple of condensers, etc, and powering a car with a water fuel cell...

Have you gone around the bend?

[papasmurf]

I would not want to experience this:-



https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/11-tons-water-and-special-container-used-extinguish-burning-tesla-austria">https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/11-ton ... la-austria">https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/11-tons-water-and-special-container-used-extinguish-burning-tesla-austria

[patman post]

Here's the video of this Canadian chap who built his own. the plans he followed were "open source".



If you like making things in your garage, this is an excellent video of all sorts of useful construction tips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3KymY86z8&lc=">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3KymY86z8&lc=

There are many "useful" inventions on Youtube. Two that spring to mind are generating your own electricity from a speaker magnet, couple of condensers, etc, and powering a car with a water fuel cell...

[papasmurf]

Here's the video of this Canadian chap who built his own. the plans he followed were "open source".

Given weight is a major factor I am surprised steel was used to make the frame.

[GregB]

Given that you demonstrate even less then you should follow your own advice. If you had any then you would understand the logic of my post.

I suspect many miss the logic of your posts. You see you do seem to have an over inflated opinion of yourself.

[Baron von Lotsov]

Here's the video of this Canadian chap who built his own. the plans he followed were "open source".



If you like making things in your garage, this is an excellent video of all sorts of useful construction tips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3KymY86z8&lc=">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD3KymY86z8&lc=

[Baron von Lotsov]

Here's another possibility



They licence the technology off some firm who does batteries. They make the batteries "special".



When the punter comes to replace them, he can only do it with Jaguar batteries.



The punter then gets stuffed.

[Baron von Lotsov]

Well maybe given your business acumen you should give JLR a buzz and make them aware of their folly. I'm sure they'd value your opinion  

Given that you demonstrate even less then you should follow your own advice. If you had any then you would understand the logic of my post.

[GregB]

My guess is 200 miles under normal driving conditions. I do not understand why they are building a battery factory considering they are not players in the battery market. This goes against conventional business reasoning, where those who know about batteries build batteries and those who know about cars build cars. The battery market itself is huge and highly competitive. The countries that are leading are Japan, China and South Korea. To give you an example of how it is in the battery market, a new technology was under development and the company doing the research sold a 10% stake for $10bn. If you do not have that sort of money then best to stay out of it. Of course they might know something that the world's best physicists and chemists do not about batteries, but then if that is the case they will probably make far more from the batteries than any car they intend to build. So it leaves me thinking it is more probable that the batteries will be bad value for money. Batteries need to be manufactured on a huge scale to make them good, cheap and reliable.



I suppose though there will always be those who will buy the car just because it looks smart, is made by Jaguar and is British (ish).

Well maybe given your business acumen you should give JLR a buzz and make them aware of their folly. I'm sure they'd value your opinion