Electric cars

[Lewis McColl]

Vic those figures are being disputed by some motoring magazines not just the Renault but other marques as well, they say the given figures are only based on a car being driven on relatively flat roads. Not sure what mag I read but the Renault will struggle to acheive over 100 miles, Renault advertise here a range of 400kms which is out and out lies. The Tesla is supposed to be the best of the lot but you would need to rob a bank to buy one.

[John Pruden]

we could build refrigeration plants the size of cities on the north and south poles to re freeze the sea that would help global warming? what happened in the ice age no cars no industrial pollution its just a natural happening to the earth. this morning here shirt sleeves weather its almost November no complaints here? jp

[Captain Kong]

When I was in the Antarctic in 2009 the BAS told me the sea was still freezing. even tho` there are a lot of Volcanoes heating it

[vic mcclymont]

Lewis,the figures Renault quoted was over 220 miles to a full charge. Another organisation challenged the figures and produced the ones that I quoted.
Vic

[Frederick Lacey]

Speaking from experience with battery vehicles I think people could be on a hiding to nothing, when I left the
MN in 1959 after 10 years I got a job for a couple of years as a milkman and we had Electric Milk Floats, they
had large batteries under the floor, and they do deteriorate after a while especially in cold weather, the cells go
kapute and cost a fortune to replace, and there's the question of speed which is OK when they are fully charged
but as the journey goes on they don't reduce suddenly as the charge is used up, but get slower and slower, I wouldn't
be surprised if some of you had been in a convey of cars with a milk float at the head of it, many a time I had to phone
the depot for a tow, and this is only after a few miles around town and the countryside. and there is the weight to be
considered, one person driving will get further than five persons with luggage going on holiday and using low gears if
you have plenty of hills on the way, also there is the question of lights with the dark mornings and evenings and fog lights
front and rear in fog and snow, and what about an RTC on a motorway with a couple of hour hold up, no power to work your
heater or wipers if its freezing, recovery vehicles are going to make a fortune, that's only if there are enough of them available.
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The photo Lewis put on here withe gas bag on top, I remember seeing a few of these during the war, but a bit unfortunate if they got ripped. F.

[John Pruden]

I did a little plan the other week imagine air tanks oxy bottles one full one a vacuum air goes from one to another and a drive in the middle the car would run on fresh air then you fill the oxy bottle back up just a thought crazy I know?? jp

[John Pruden]

Speaking from experience with battery vehicles I think people could be on a hiding to nothing, when I left the
MN in 1959 after 10 years I got a job for a couple of years as a milkman and we had Electric Milk Floats

The photo Lewis put on here withe gas bag on top, I remember seeing a few of these during the war, but a bit unfortunate if they got ripped. F.

fred just a bit of banter did you ever fly on the zeppelins did you know john silver when he had two legs and an egg on his shoulder did you report the dead sea sick? I;m in a good mood today fred?? jp

[Keith Tindell]

I had thoughts along the same line John, hybrid, but the petrol engine runs a compressor when driving, tops up a cylinder, and the engine switches to the cylinder when charged. I know its daft, and every engineer will now be telling us why it won't work, kt

[Lewis McColl]

Or how about this for an idea. https://www.facebook.com/LADbible/vi...2627562117739/

[Keith Tindell]

Has its merits Lewis, i seem to recall many years ago they experimented with sails on a modern merchant ship, i think it was a british ship, and somewhere in among the brain cells i thought it was something to do with guiness, kt

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Here we go, don't know what became of it, kt




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